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Tourist Trap

Not everyone who arranges and provides our means of travel has our best interests at heart, as these tales amply demonstrate. Equally, demanding, clueless passengers can make even the best travel agent's life hell.

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        Green bullet = true
        Red bullet = false
        Multiple status bullet = multiple truth values
        Yellow bullet = undetermined
        White bullet = unclassifiable veracity

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White bullet Railway apology letter is marred by attached instructions to send customer the standard grovel.*

Red bullet List of howlers proves members of Congress are hopelessly lost when it comes to geography.

Green bullet Some people have eschewed retirement homes in favor of living on cruise ships.

Red bullet A Florida company offers "euthanasia cruises" on which terminally ill and suicidal passengers end their lives by jumping overboard.

Yellow bullet Woman mistakes hotel room safe for microwave.

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