WTF Dept. — Man enters wrong destination, ends up on wrong continent

Alrighty, here is yet another for the WTF Dept.

This comes from CNN International from Berlin (Guten Tag mein Freunde!). The story is really pretty simple. Tourist (21 yr old) wanted to visit his girlfriend in Sydney Australia. But he ended up in Syndey, Montana in the U.S.

From the story:

A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney — an oil town of about 5,000 people — did he realize his mistake.

The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.

"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

Didn't he realize when he was watching the map on the flight? This gets a huge WTF!