OK, it was yet ANOTHER international incident, but you can't really blame MiddleFingerMom THIS time.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[MiddleFingerMom]

1. Went to West Berlin in the mid-70's (LONG before The Wall came down)...

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...and was told by my company clerks that a dress uniform was no longer required
if I wanted to cross over into East Berlin -- just as long as I had "East Berlin"
specified on my leave paperwork.
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Got to Checkpoint Charlie (a little tollbooth-like shack) and the PFC at the window
is filling out my paperwork when this old grizzled sergeant steps up and looks over
his shoulder.
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"WTF are you doin'?"
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Turns out you DID still need to wear a uniform and that the East Germans would have
recognized me for a soldier right away and arrested me as a spy.
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Damn. Never did get to cross -- just observe from viewpoints. Was awfully glad at
the time, but later kinda pissed. They would have detained me for 24-48 hours as
an embarrassment for the U.S. and let me go.
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How cool a story would THAT have been to tell?
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"Yep... arrested as an international spy in the 70's."
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[charlie and algernon]

2. LOL, yup, I was the guy that started World War III

You don't understand, East Germany makes the BEST brats!

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Nah... happened on a pretty regular basis -- on BOTH sides.

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Best example when I was there were the two drunken old sergeants who
took their Jeep JUST over the border line and were arrested by the
East German Border Guards (La Migra... La Migra!!!!).
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THAT made bigtime news and you can bet their careers were over.
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Nurnberg makes the best brats!!!
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Li'l bitty ones -- three to a Kaiser roll.
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[Demoiselle]

4. ..and at first I thought you were talking about childrearing gone wrong!

[davsand]

5. An earlier incident in Germany led up to the events in Japan

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