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| Breaking News: Switzerland invades Liechtenstein |
| 2007-03-02 |
| Neutrals, my ass! It was all a big diversion... ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein. The way to victory goes through... what's the capital of Liechtenstein? According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back. ...before they faced the wrath of Liechtenstein! A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion. "We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem," Daniel Reist told The Associated Press. Yeah, that's just what they want you to think... Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident. Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something," he said. Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army. Well, then the Swiss were smart to start there in their quest for world conquest. Today Liechtenstein, tomorrow Andorra! |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #20 I like apple + fruit fritters myself. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-02 22:30 |
| #19 Forgive my ignorance but is this the standard training for Euro armies? One with no ammunition invading one with no army and retreating before the counterattack? Well, it might be if we were talking about France. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-03-02 22:10 |
| #18 Liechtenstein doesn't have an army, but it does have a jail. (Don't ask me how I know) |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-03-02 21:06 |
| #17 Lurker, that was pretty funny :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-02 20:53 |
| #16 Hey, Lurker? WTF has happened to your countrymen that they let themselves be pushed around so much by a bunch of raghead bastards? The Dutch used to be tough and stubborn; why are they now rolling over for these Muzzy scumbags? |
| Posted by: mac 2007-03-02 19:00 |
| #15 Back in the days when I was a proud member of the dutch armed forces, a similair thing happened to my platoon, we got lost (reconplatoon for an armored unit :-) on the german side of the line and walked around for half the night shouting things like:" Wir kommen unsere fahrader zuruckholen, und diesen mal habben wir die waffen" (we are here to tack our bycicles back, and this time we have the guns) untill a very pissed of major spotted us and forcemarched us back to the barracks. (Yes, my german still sucks) |
| Posted by: Lurker 2007-03-02 18:32 |
| #14 Any chance the Rhine could be frozen over that high up at this time of year? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-03-02 17:39 |
| #13 Something's fishy here. The border between Liechtenstein and Switzerland is the Rhine River on 3/4 of the border, and a pretty well defined border on the shorter, east-west boundary - also some pretty tall mountains on most of that. Of course, knowing Rhine fog as I do from 10 years in Wiesbaden, it's possible - very possible. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-02 17:21 |
| #12 It's time for the Axis of Weevil (Andorra, Monaco, and Vatican City) to show those uppity Swiss what-for! The Vatican is guarded by a special Swiss unit. Coincidence? I think not. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-03-02 17:01 |
| #11 You know, oddly enough I was in Liechtenstein about two weeks ago (the bus I was on drove between Innerlochen, Switzerland and Innsbruck, Austria). It pretty much looks like any other Swiss Canton or Austrian Providence. You can kind of see how they wouldn't know. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2007-03-02 16:24 |
| #10 "Der Swiss, ze march in here with zere army, und dey leer at der women, und stomp down our streets in ein moral outrage! And dey don't even buy anything, not so much as a struedel before marching aus again!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-03-02 16:22 |
| #9 It's Liechtenstein, they didn't invade Moscow. It's like invading Wisconson. I got the shit kicked out of my in Wisconson. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-03-02 16:20 |
| #8 What about the Duchy of Grand Fenwick? |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-03-02 15:49 |
| #7 "The way to victory goes through... what's the capital of Liechtenstein?" Vaduz |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2007-03-02 14:57 |
| #6 Forgive my ignorance but is this the standard training for Euro armies? One with no ammunition invading one with no army and retreating before the counterattack? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2007-03-02 14:25 |
| #5 It's time for the Axis of Weevil (Andorra, Monaco, and Vatican City) to show those uppity Swiss what-for! |
| Posted by: Dar 2007-03-02 13:48 |
| #4 ...before they faced the wrath of Liechtenstein! Liechtensteiner Verboten! |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-02 13:44 |
| #3 Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-03-02 13:25 |
| #2 What do they need assault rifles for? I've heard the Swiss will get MEDIEVAL on your ass with a corkscrew-tweezers combination from that handy-dandy knife of theirs. Riiiii-co-lllaaaaaa!!! |
| Posted by: Geoffro 2007-03-02 13:19 |
| #1 hey, they gotta start somewhere. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-03-02 13:05 |