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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:52 PM
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GPS Warning
My GPS somehow malfunctioned when I went to Ohio, and I ended up in Mexico City.

This is a WARNING to anyone using a GPS system: If you sense that you are several thousand miles from your planned destination, or you sense that you have driven to an entirely different country, shut off your GPS immediately and ask for directions at a gas station.
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:53 PM
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1. How did you figure out you were in the wrong place?
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:54 PM
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2. I couldn't read the road signs.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:05 PM
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10. How do you know it wasn't Canada?
:hide:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:08 PM
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12. I could tell by the restaurant food.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:54 PM
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3. My GPS actually did malfunction today
it has the map with my little car and apparantly I was driving in a river (if it were to be believed). Fortunately after about 15 minutes of me guessing the right direction it finally realized I wasn't passing any fish.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:56 PM
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5. I never look at the map...
My eyes are not the best, so I have to take my eyes off the road too long to look at the map. I use the second screen that has the trip statistics, and then just follow the voice commands.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:02 PM
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8. Well I usually follow the voice prompts
but it was telling me to make rights and lefts were there were no roads
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:07 PM
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11. When I went to Altoona, PA, my GPS had a breakdown...
It was doing the same thing... it totally lost its mind.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 05:51 PM
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25. I read some where that the GPS sats were badly neglected by
Bush and company
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:54 PM
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4. "ask for directions"
:rofl:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:56 PM
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6. Try doing that when you can't even speak the language!
:D
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:01 PM
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7. I was formally a tour guide back in the 70's
;-)
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:05 PM
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9. I was fomerly a salesman for men's formel wear.
:D
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:27 PM
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19. "formelwear" is one word.
Didn't mean to take the wind out of your sails, man.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:29 PM
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20. Shit. That's probably why I didn't sell anything.
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3.14158675309 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:34 PM
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21. I hope that you weren't working in a commissionary position
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 04:34 PM by 3.14158675309
Did you get laid off?
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:41 PM
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24. Laid off...thrown out...same thing.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:08 PM
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13. don't ever ignore your GPS' commands
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 04:08 PM by charlie and algernon
a buddy and I did that, purposely turning in the opposite direction, to see if the GPS could adjust. We must've pissed it off 'cause it told us to take an immediate left... into the side of a hill. :rofl:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:10 PM
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14. I was driving into DC from NoVA a few months back, and the
GPS didn't like the way I was going, and after telling me to turn around and go another way, it gave up telling me, I was not listening to it, and shut itself down!


:wtf:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:11 PM
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16. I tell mine to STFU.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:14 PM
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17. That's what the "mute" button is for!!
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:23 PM
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18. Mine doesn't have a mute button. I just throw a beer bottle at it.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:10 PM
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15. Yep, those GPSs can be vindictive!
:rofl:
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:37 PM
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22. Your GPS must have locked onto this rogue satellite then...
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/034230/Satellite-Glitch-Rekindles-GPS-Concerns

Apparently the USAF are having problems with their first "new generation" GPS satellite.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:41 PM
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23. Bookmarked to read later...thanks...
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