But IMAGINE the battle that might have insued!
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.
I wonder how a Swiss-Lichenstein war would play out....probably not wery well. How do you cause damage with cheese and watches against assault rifles?
If the Swiss start World War III, I'm moving to Mars.
But the Swiss are the neutral guys!
But that what makes it worse
Hmm...
World War I - Austrian prince assassinated
World War II - Hitler's declaration of war against world
World War III - Swiss army getting lost
Yeah, that'd be interesting.
World War IV - Iran invents the purple tic-tac
Ummm... You do know why it's not a good idea to pick a fight with Switzerland, right?
They have a standing militia in the way that the US' Right to Bear Arms was originally intended. Their weapons're practically impossible to all impound and/or disable. Cuckoo clocks're the least of your worries.
In all seriousness, I have to agree with Sam. History shows that the Swiss haven't been invaded in half a millennium because even if they had just sticks and stones as weapons, they kick ass but good.
Wasn't it the Swiss that told Hitler, "Go ahead and invade, if you can stand to an army of a whole population." or something to that effect?
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In all seriousness, I have to agree with Sam. History shows that the Swiss haven't been invaded in half a millennium because even if they had just sticks and stones as weapons, they kick ass but good.
Not just that, they have army knives, dudes. Army friggin' KNIVES!!! Ohnoes!
Hmmm. I'd forgotten all about the Swiss militia.
