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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
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)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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pokerfan
(27,677 posts)but I have seen people walk into doors while staring at their phone.
And walk into fountains!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)By Charlie Sorrel
July 13, 2009
Its 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 didnt she see it? Youre 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 Alexas parents are trying to blame someone else for their daughters stupidity while making a little money into the bargain. Theyre suing the city.
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In this case, though, it appears that the girl isnt so dumb. Heres the erudite sentence she gave of the Department of Environmental Protection workmens apology after they helped her out of the hole: They were just, like, Im sorry! Im 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/
Here's a woman falling while texting on the evening news:
Situational awareness, people!
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Which I will not post, because it will be alerted on. Fucking hysterical, though.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)They are a guide to help you find things, they are not supposed to drive your car.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)LeftinOH
(5,357 posts)"Up the ballyroo a mite, jerry a linger to the gobbo and head straight on."
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Maybe that's Kiwi-talk
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Australian SwissTony!
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)that's awesome - that's how that is.
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I mean, that big boat made it, so why couldn't their car make it?