Admin cock-up = Danish army sending snowplough+mowers to Iraq.......

[Pert_UK]

I mean COME ON! None of the guys/girls boxing and sending this crap ever stopped and went "Hang orn....There eees noo snoo eeen Eeraq!"

Apologies for the Danish accent.....

:evilgrin:

"Denmark's troops in Iraq may dream of the frost of a Scandinavian winter on days when the temperature rises to a blistering 46 degrees.
But many may have been wondering if the military back home really had to rub it in when a recent supply shipment turned up a snowplough and a stock of salt for icy roads...

Baking in the heat and dust outside Basra, the 380-odd Danes could have been forgiven for thinking the lawnmowers also included in the cargo were a mirage.

"We admit that there were some mistakes made in the shipment of materiel," a military spokesman, Major Jan Brinck, told the AFP news agency. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3054625.stm

P.

[Maple]

1. I dunno how

these things ever happen...like you say, someone should have twigged that it was odd and said something.

I remember an old MASH episode where they got mosquito netting and suntan oil in the middle of winter.

[starroute]

2. I showed the article to my husband

He said, "I don't think you can send snowploughs to Iraq by mistake. I think it was someone's idea of an ironic comment."