{"id":9212,"date":"2021-09-20T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesmartlocal.com\/vietnam\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T03:57:11","slug":"man-travel-permit-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmartlocal.com\/vietnam\/man-travel-permit-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"85-Year-Old Man Gets Travel Permit With “Pregnancy Checkup” As Reason, Turns Out It\u2019s An Editing Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

85-year-old man gets travel permit that says his reason was a \u201cpregnancy checkup\u201d<\/h2>\n
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To contain the heavy Covid-19 outbreak in Vietnam currently, many cities and provinces are put under travel restrictions, where citizens must have travel permits with valid reasons approved by authorities to be able to go out.<\/p>\n

As necessary as it is, the practice has led to a sudden spike in the amount of paperwork needed. Understandably, some hiccups are inevitable.<\/p>\n

In a particularly hilarious paperwork fail, an 85-year-old man<\/strong> receives a travel permit<\/strong> listing his reason to go out as \u201cgoing for a pregnancy checkup\u201d<\/strong>. Of course, this was later confirmed to be a mistake.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the story plays out.<\/p>\n

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The travel permit listed the elderly man\u2019s reason for going out as \u201cpregnancy checkup\u201d<\/h3>\n
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\nThe travel permit lists the man’s reason to go out as “to go for a pregnancy checkup”
\nImage credit: Tu\u1ed5i Tr\u1ebb<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Last weekend, a picture of a travel permit in the southern Ti\u1ec1n Giang Province started circulating on the Internet due to the bizarre information it contained.<\/p>\n

Issued on 18th September, the paper listed the traveler as a man born in 1936. It had all the required information, including the man\u2019s name, address, ID card number, and there was a seal and a signature from the local People\u2019s Committee\u2019s representative. In short, everything appeared to be in order.<\/p>\n

That is, save for the man\u2019s reason to go out, which said, \u201cgoing for a pregnancy checkup at Ti\u1ec1n Giang General Hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, this particular part was a mistake.<\/p>\n

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The document was caused by an editing error<\/h3>\n
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\nA police officer checking a citizen\u2019s travel permit<\/em>
\nImage credit: C\u00f4ng An Nh\u00e2n D\u00e2n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Mdm. Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb Nga, chairwoman of the People\u2019s Committee responsible for issuing the paper, later explained the reason for this to Tu\u1ed5i Tr\u1ebb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, earlier on the same day, two pregnant women had come to the office to apply for their travel permits to go for their pregnancy checkups. Then, when the elderly man came to ask for his travel permit, the office workers used the same document format to print his paper permit.<\/p>\n

However, it would seem they only changed the applicant\u2019s personal information, but forgot to edit the reason.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s be understanding toward government workers<\/h3>\n
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As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, we understand that authorities are also facing great pressure to keep us safe. Minor mistakes are only to be expected.<\/p>\n

In this case, the office workers\u2019 fumble didn\u2019t lead to any bad consequences. If anything, it gave us a quirky story to have a good laugh over, which is hard to come by in these hard times.<\/p>\n

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