Police once apprehended a man at a train station in Kyjov (Kiyov), Czech Republic. He was reported to be drunk but they only found him terribly confused. Turns out, he was a Ukrainian trying to return to Kyjev (Kyiv) but a cashier in another town misunderstood and showed him the wrong train.
At least that’s the same continent and not literally on the other side of the world.
He only had a 150km detour. You can’t blame him for thinking “Kyjov” is the Czech spelling of “Київ” as he might not even have known the alphabet.
Kyjov is 1000 km from Kyiv.
Oh that’s not bad then. Like still sucks but not too far
As a Pole i can relate being confused by sudden exposure to Czech language.
The whole thing is an advertisement on a baggage carousel in Austria for a company called Commend that offers intercom systems.
Salzburg airport’s website has no mention of a special desk for those trying to reach Australia. If there were 100 errors per year, that would be 1 every 3 days, providing limited need for a desk.
I think they ment a counter like 1…2…3… Not a counter you approach that seats an employee.
Well now you ruined my day. Thanks.
I don’t know if this is true, but it does make me feel better!
The giveaway here is that it’s Salzburg, not Vienna. International flyers into Austria are almost universally going to end up in Vienna by default. Vienna’s airport sees ~20x the annual passenger count.
Well, I rarely downvote, but disinformation gets it every time. Thanks for clearing that up.
I’m not having a better day, but it pleases me that there are some that are.
Most wholesome comment today, thank you for your service.
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Thanks. It’s gotten a lot better since I got home. Lol.
Let’s just say retail has a way of absolutely shattering any semblence of peace one can feel…
Maybe if your muffins weren’t encrypted you could eat them to lighten up!!
Oh I can still eat them. Problem is, they can’t help but taste a little…hashy.
Hahahaha, that was great 😁
Thanks. Lol. I try.
I don’t normally succeed, but I try. :)
Huh…? Salzburg is pretty small and so is its airport. What route would you have to take that you end up in a small, barely international airport and not realize at your last transfer that you were in the wrong part of the world?
Stupid people who put literally no effort or attention to anything they do, ever. Same kind of people that don’t bother to reserve a rental car ahead of time.
It’s not like reserving a car ahead of time actually does anything, except maybe get you a discount. Not once has the rental company actually had the right car available for me. Usually I get “upgraded” to an SUV or something that costs me 1.5x in gas over the trip.
They know how to take a reservation, they just don’t know how to keep a reservation.
You’d better give me the insurance because I’m going to beat the hell out of that thing.
Hello Jerry
I got “upgraded” to a Hummer H2. Fuck the fuel consumption on that thing. It was a work trip so I didn’t pay, but still.
During COVID lockdowns when the US border was closed, something like 16,000 Americans attempted to go to Canada and were turned back at the border. This was in the news. So I have no trouble believing this.
Trying to get into Canada during a pandemic and booking a flight to a different country because some letters are off on the country name are highly different things though
That doesn’t actually make sense
Most people know of Vienna so there are probably less mistakes
Is there a Salzburg Australia?
The people who fly into Austria don’t know that…
At least Austrasia isn’t a thing anymore.
You fly to cities/airports, not countries. There’s no way people are screwing that up.
I can’t believe that there’s never been anyone that didn’t make that mistake. Probably not enough to justify keeping a counter dedicated to it though…
How would you even get on a plane without a corresponding ticket?
You would buy a ticket to Austria not realizing it was the wrong place. I have a very, very stupid cousin who did exactly that.
Ahh yes “Salzburg, New South Wales”
Mangers daughter and a friend of hers where about to go for season work in Australia and do a bit of travel around and found a very cheap ticket to Sidney, bought it and went off.
Sidney, Canada…
@emilyapps@lemmy.forty-two.sh
You have a bad day when you fly to Austria, but your bags are going to Australia.
Even funnier the Vienna Hbf has Australian flags ourside and not Autrian ones
It doesn’t. (Hbf is short for Hauptbahnhof, the main station)
Are you telling me they removed them? Cause tgat would be sad I laughed for about 5 minutes when I left the station and saw the Australian flag
Maybe there was some Australia-themed event when you were there but they don’t put foreign flags up as a joke. Was the Australian flag the only flag you saw?
no also New Zealand, Ukraine and EU.
What you’re saying truly disappoints me and I will hate the discount germans even more because of it.
Sounds like you just saw a bunch of flags and had a funny thought, no?
There are much better reasons to hate Austrians than not going for, to be honest, not that great of a joke.
Oh I have plenty of reasons to hate em alright but this one was personal
Could they have been EU flags? Still a field of blue with stars like the Australian flag.
No, its true. I had too much time and used Google Street View:
