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Adventurer
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 Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake |
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Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake
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Fri Oct 24, 2:17 PM
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WARSAW (AFP) - A Polish driver who was too sure of his GPS road navigation device ended up neck-deep in a lake after ignoring road signs warning of a dead-end ahead, Polish police said Friday.
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"The man took a road that was closed a year ago when the area was flooded to make an artificial lake serving as a water reservoir -- he ignored three road signs warning of a dead-end," Piotr Smolen, police spokesman in Glubczyce, southern Poland, told AFP Friday.
"It was still night time and he didn't notice the road led into the lake. His GPS told him to drive straight ahead and he did," Smolen said, adding the driver had not been under the influence of alcohol.
The road ran straight downhill into the lake. The Mercedes mini-van was nearly entirely submerged and was unable to back out on its own after being inundated with water.
The driver and two passengers escaped unharmed from the submerged vehicle and waited on its roof for police and fire rescue crews.
The driver placed the first call to emergency services while still inside the sinking van.
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newteacher
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes stereotypes prove themselves true. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| Sometimes stereotypes prove themselves true. |
I knew someone would make such a comment, but it's not really worse than someone who created a fuss when someone wouldn't give him change for a million dollar bill in the U.S., right? Of course, it's hard not to think of jokes about Poles when you read such a story. |
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newteacher
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| newteacher wrote: |
| Sometimes stereotypes prove themselves true. |
I knew someone would make such a comment, but it's not really worse than someone who created a fuss when someone wouldn't give him change for a million dollar bill in the U.S., right? Of course, it's hard not to think of jokes about Poles when you read such a story. |
Well your thread title is "Polish Driver Follows GPS Directions into Lake", so I don't think I'm the only one making that comment. Only difference is I was a little more direct. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| The Office did it. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| people who use GPS instead of their eyes, ears, and brain deserve to die. |
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Bigfeet
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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I hear this happens in the UK a lot, with washed out roads and the like.
You should be listening to the navigation device most of the time. Only glance at the screen for a second or two, not continually stare at it. |
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