I hope you Challenge!rs have recovered from your New Year's carousings and are ready for our first Challenge! of 2001 -- I thought this would be a good time to use this story; just in case any of you need a good resolution (double entendre definitely intended) ;-) Let's all lift our glasses of bicarb and write a rousing theme song for these two hapless fellas --

Crocked Conventioneers Canvassing for Can Confront Comrades in Confusion

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Two drunken Germans, apparently looking for a toilet during a conference at Frankfurt airport, got on a plane by mistake and flew to Moscow.

The 20-year-old men were wandering round the airport when they found themselves on the tarmac and boarded a shuttle bus, which drove to an aircraft bound for the Russian capital.

"They got in and sat in the back of the airplane which then flew to Moscow," said Frankfurt State Prosecutor Job Tilmann. "They weren't even at the airport to fly anywhere. They were at a convention and had been walking around, evidently in a drunken stupor," he told Reuters on Wednesday.

On arrival in Moscow, they noticed it was cold and realized they had no passports, let alone entry visas. Russian police put them on a flight back to Frankfurt where they were met by Federal Border Police who have charged them with joy-riding.

Go For It, Challenge!rs!!

-- Áine