Typo sends German to Sidney, Montana instead of Sydney, Australia
A German bought a plane ticket to visit his girlfriend in Sydney Australia, but due to a typo, ended up buying a ticket to frigid Sidney, Montana, 13,000 kilometers away. He figured out his mistake somewhere around Billings, and spend three days freezing his nuts off in the airport waiting for his parents to wire him the dough for a ticket to Australia.I once tried to buy a ticket to Chapel Hill, NC International airport, completely stymied by the absence of commercial airlines that flew into it. Turns out it's a freight airport that you can only get yourself to via a giant FedEx box. (For the record, the closest airport is Raleigh-Durham, RDU).
Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.Link (via Digg)Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.
"I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."
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