Australian officials smashed and buried under concrete nearly 200 commemorative mugs with a misspelling of President Obama's name, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
The 198 mugs, which had an extra "r" in Obama's first name, commemorated a 2010 visit to the continent.
"Due to the sensitivity associated with the mistake that was made with the president's name, the last thing we wanted was for the fragments to be found on a garbage tip somewhere," said Bronwyn Graham, a Parliament House official, according to AP.
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