Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:43 PM

pokerfan (25,401 posts)

Tourists following GPS drive rental car into Moreton Bay, Australia

Sometimes I think we're all just a little too plugged-in these days...

Yuzu Noda, 21, said she was listening to the GPS and "it told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate us to a road. We got stuck . . . there's lots of mud."

Yuzu and and her travel friends Tomonari Saeki, 22, and Keita Osada, 21, were all looking forward to a day trip to the island, but headed back to the Gold Coast courtesy of a lift from the RACQ tow truck driver who was called to the stranded car.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/travel-news/taking-the-most-direct-route-to-straddie-20120315-1v85m.html

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21 replies	Author	Time	Post
Tourists following GPS drive rental car into Moreton Bay, Australia (Original post)	pokerfan	Mar 2012	OP
Good grief!	HappyMe	Mar 2012	#1
how, I mean, how in the hell do they not look out their window beforehand?	charlie and algernon	Mar 2012	#2
I don't know	pokerfan	Mar 2012	#3
lol!	HappyMe	Mar 2012	#5
Remember the girl who fell into an open manhole while texting?	csziggy	Mar 2012	#16
Yikes	pokerfan	Mar 2012	#17
You can't place them everywhere	jakeXT	Mar 2012	#4
Reminds me of a Family Guy aside.	RiffRandell	Mar 2012	#6
If the GPS said jump off a cliff, some people would follow the instructions	liberal N proud	Mar 2012	#7
But the machine thinks we can make it!	pokerfan	Mar 2012	#15
I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albequerque ...	zbdent	Mar 2012	#8
Maybe the Australian slang was too confusing:	LeftinOH	Mar 2012	#9
That's confusing to me..and I'm Australian.	SwissTony	Mar 2012	#10
Make up your mind!	OriginalGeek	Mar 2012	#13
I'm also Glaswegian!!!! Howz about dat???? nt	SwissTony	Mar 2012	#14
lol	OriginalGeek	Mar 2012	#21
Brain by WHAMO!	Safetykitten	Mar 2012	#11
The machine knows!	demmiblue	Mar 2012	#12
Happens all too often.	bluedigger	Mar 2012	#18
Recalculating...	Major Nikon	Mar 2012	#19
Well, I understand their thinking..	dixiegrrrrl	Mar 2012	#20

Response to pokerfan (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:46 PM

HappyMe (11,754 posts)

1. Good grief!

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Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:50 PM

charlie and algernon (12,486 posts)

2. how, I mean, how in the hell do they not look out their window beforehand?

Last edited Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:51 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Were they just staring at the GPS screen on their dash? Did they think a road would magically appear ouf the water just because the GPS told them to turn there?

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Response to charlie and algernon (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:53 PM

pokerfan (25,401 posts)

3. I don't know

but I have seen people walk into doors while staring at their phone.

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Response to pokerfan (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:56 PM

HappyMe (11,754 posts)

5. lol!

And walk into fountains!

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Response to pokerfan (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 05:30 PM

csziggy (14,199 posts)

16. Remember the girl who fell into an open manhole while texting?

Girl Falls Into Manhole While Texting, Parents Sue
By Charlie Sorrel
July 13, 2009

It’s hard to decide who are the biggest morons in this story: parents or daughter. 15 year-old Alexa Longueira was walking along Victory Boulevard in Staten Island when she fell into an open manhole.

Why didn’t she see it? You’re ahead of me here. She was too intent on tapping out a text message to notice the gaping gap in the sidewalk and just dropped straight on in. Idiotic, yes, but now Alexa’s parents are trying to blame someone else for their daughter’s stupidity while making a little money into the bargain. They’re suing the city.

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In this case, though, it appears that the girl isn’t so dumb. Here’s the erudite sentence she gave of the Department of Environmental Protection workmen’s apology after they helped her out of the hole: “They were just, like, ‘I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

And yes, her parents are also witty masters of the English language. The mother, Kim Longueira, speaking to MSNBC: “Oh my God, it was putrid. One of her sneakers is still down there”

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/girl-falls-into-manhole-while-texting-parents-sue/

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Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:05 PM

pokerfan (25,401 posts)