男嬰竟成徵兵對象英語美文

德軍鬧笑話 4星期大男嬰竟成徵兵對象

German army drafts four-week-old baby

The German army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, before realising it had blundered.

德國軍隊前不久鬧出了一個不大不小的笑話，他們竟然給一個名叫盧西奧的男嬰寄去了一份徵兵通知，命令這個4周大的小傢伙必須在10天內趕到軍營去服兵役，不過軍方很快就意識到了自己所犯的錯誤。

A spokesman for the army said the notice had been sent erroneously because a clerk typed in the wrong date of birth for the boy from Aubstadt, in southern Germany.

據路透社4月10日報道，德國軍隊的一位發言人表示，這名男嬰目前居住在該國南部的.奧博施塔特市，而那份徵兵通知之所以會陰錯陽差的寄到他家，主要是因為一個軍方工作人員在打印其出生日期時犯了錯誤。

"It was an accident," an army spokesman told Reuters. "Somebody entered the wrong number into a computer. There was no harm done. We realised the error the same day and called up the family to tell them to throw the notice away when it arrived."

一位軍方發言人在接受記者採訪時説：“這的確是個意外事件，有人向計算機內輸入了錯誤的數字。不過此事並未給任何人造成傷害。我們在事發當天便意識到所犯的錯誤，並馬上給那家人打去了電話，告訴他們一旦接到了那份徵兵通知，只要將它隨手扔掉就可以了。”