[lit-ideas] A matter of a typo

     
 
Now THIS is an interesting mistake!  ("I didn't want  to say anything????)
<<BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- 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. 
"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." 
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. 
"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers,"  his 
mother, Sabine, told Reuters. 
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