Switzerland says screw this neutrality BS

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_fe_st/mistaken_invasion_2

Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein
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.

 

I wouldn't want to be the commanding officer of that company.

 

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.

Of course there won't be any repercussions. What's Liechtenstein going to do to retaliate? Poke them with fondue forks?

 

What's the term for Liechtenstein?
Liechtenstinians?

 

Lichtenstein? It's like Wisconsin . . .

 

Maybe like Prarie du Chien alone. I think Wisconsin is slightly larger than Liechtenstein (62 square miles).

 

"Stripes" reference, Jack.

We zip in, we zip out.....

 

Liechtensteiners, if my two years of German class are sticking with me.

 

Having worked in Switzerland, I know the Swiss would yell at them in Schewizerdeutsch--an incomprehsible form of German. It sounds like someone's gargling and throwing up all at the same time.

 

There goes centuries of neutrality.

 

I got my ass kicked in Wisconsin once.

Or was it:

I got the shit kicked out of me in Wisconsin once.

 

Today Lichtenstein.

Tomorrow Vatican City!