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Subject: Re: A costly misspelling Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:39:09 +0000 (UTC)

On Mar 11, 12:25 pm, "tim \(not at home\)"
wrote:
> "Markku Gr=F6nroos" wrote in message
>
> news:MWuBj.309021$ce2.262607@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi...
>
> >A German had a plan to drive to Puttgarden, board a ferry to R=F6dby and =
then
> >drive further in Denmark. She marked a place called Putgarten as a
> >destination on her GPS-plotter. Putgarten is in the Northern shores of
> >Rugen 143 km away from Puttgarden in East. Roadwise the distance is at
> >least 350 kilometers. She was reportedly angry. Angry to herself.......? =
I
> >just wonder - she is a German and she didn't realize that something is
> >wrong until in Putgarten. What a jerk! Perhaps she decided to drive to
> >Sassnitz to catch a ferry to Trelleborg Sweden instead.
>
> Compared to flying to San Jose, Costa Rica instead of California, or Sydne=
y,
> Nova Scotia instead of Australia, this is non event


One of the British papers had an article by a couple who thought they
were going to Salvador, Brazil for Carnival, and wound up in San
Salvador, El Salvador, a city where the McDonald's has armed guards.