Saturday, October 18, 2008

There are no kangaroos here

Imagine you land in an airport equipped with your camera, get into a taxi in a haste and ask the driver to take you to the nearest park, where you can film or photo those beautiful kangaroos. And then the taxi driver tells that you are in the wrong continent... But don't get embarrassed, because this is almost the same mistake that George W. Bush, and recently one mystery nation in UN did.

According to Reuters, during a vote for 10 non-permanent UN Security Council memberships "Vienna was lucky that only one country appeared to have confused the small Alpine nation with Australia." One mystery nation voted for Australia instead of Austria, even though the former was not even on the ballot!

"So many people confuse Australia and Austria -- Oesterreich in German -- that tourist shops across the mountainous central European state sell T-shirts and other souvenirs sporting the slogan 'there are no kangaroos in Austria' " - report continues.


Photo from Wikipedia

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