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A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.
Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.
Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.
Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney an oil town of about 5,000 people did he realize his mistake.
The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.
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Posted: 2007-01-02 13:11:10
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Haha nice one
That would be a bugger to happen
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Posted: 2007-01-02 13:13:40
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Superluminova Posts: > 500
I just don't understand how anybody could let this happen!
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Posted: 2007-01-02 19:56:07
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It was done on purpose me thinks.
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Posted: 2007-01-02 19:57:43
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How did he mispell Sydney... Portland?
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Posted: 2007-01-02 20:52:14
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