Spellcheck? Why is it necessary? Hmm... maybe you could avoid an accident like this...

Sometime we feel like this: "Spellcheck? It is a waste of time. Who cares?" However, sometimes missspelling will bring big trouble.

English Translation of a news article in Japan:

Misstyped for invitation letters regarding Emperor family members' visit: "bad emperor" for "bad weather"

Akita prefecture announced that a staff member was fired because of sending invitation letters with missspelling, and that the head of the department the staff belonged to was also reprimanded.

According to the department, what happened was because of misstyping and the staff was in such a letter and he didn't wait for check by his boss. He sent 181 invitation letters to people who would see them off before the Emperor and Empress left for Tokyo. Out of the 18l letters, 21 letters contained the phrase "bad emperor" instead of "bad weather."

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070918-00000141-jij-soci