The Swiss invaded Liechtenstein
 

Opps!

From Yahoo News

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.

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.

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.

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.

oh snap

they wont like that pretty unique situation Liechtenstein has - lotsa ppl go there since its low on tax and taxfree on some parts

I hate Lichtenstein !

I got twice a speeding ticket now from there tttz tzz

and going through that country from CH to AT is like 30 mins or less

lol yeah its more like a town filled with shops with rum and cigs

whats the other one again in Austria, been there LONG ago, in the mountains - taxfree as well

At first I was going to say that if they went a mile then they went all the way through it, but I was thinking about San Marino.

Anyway, Liechtenstein is not much bigger than that.

Somehow, without planning, I managed to go through both of them on a month-long drive around Europe.

Boah, thats scandalous :-)

AH now I remember Sankt Vit was the other taxfree one

San Marino is pretty small as well yes - good to fill up gas and buy booz :thumbsup

Tsk, fake neutrality
:P

Tsk, fake neutrality
:P

I think you mean Samnaun
http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/swissi...133 530606000

That was to get them off guard for the next one.