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On a tangent, the list of Liechtenstein-Switzerland military conflicts on Wikipedia is hilarious and kind of cute. For example: > On 26 August 1976, just befo
by eatonphil 5y ago
On a tangent, the list of Liechtenstein-Switzerland military conflicts on Wikipedia is hilarious and kind of cute.
For example:
> On 26 August 1976, just before midnight, 75 members of the Swiss Army and a number of packhorses mistakenly took a wrong turn and ended up 500 metres into Liechtenstein at Iradug, in Balzers. The Liechtensteiners reportedly offered drinks to the Swiss soldiers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerland_relations#Incidents_involving_the_Swiss_military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein%E2%80%93Switzerl...
- panick21_ 5y agoThere is actually a joke in the Swiss military that they Switzerland invades Lichtenstein every year because some of the army somewhow ends up going into it.
- martopix 5y agoIt happens all the time between Italy and San Marino too.
- throaway46546 5y agoWell if you know you are going to get free drinks why not?
- xhevahir 5y agoI like the story of how the foreign minister of the Bavarian Socialist Republic declared war on Switzerland and Württemberg for declining his request for sixty locomotives.
- nix23 5y ago>On 3 March 2007, a company of 171 Swiss soldiers mistakenly entered Liechtenstein That was my company :) BTW: I think a year or two later the same happened but with France (was a bit a bigger "outcry") EDIT: The wikipedia story is not the full one, two pretty nice police guy's stopped us and told us where the swiss border is.