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Student Who Mistook New Jersey For British Island Namesake Gets Free Trip Student Who Mistook New Jersey For British Island Namesake Gets Free Trip
Student Who Mistook New Jersey For British Island Namesake Gets Free Trip New Jersey, USA and the island off the coast of France are totally the same thing, right? Wrong, biology major at the University of Massachusetts found that out the hard way... err, maybe it was the easy way? Joe Hill didn't know the difference between the Garden State and the British Channel Island until recently, when he went on a free trip to the island -- paid for by Jersey residents through, the Boston Globe reports. It started when Hill joined Facebook group "Good or Bad Jersey Businesses" thinking it was for New Jersey, USA. He posted a comment that garnered 1,500 likes i…