Posted: 7/28/2009 7:21:46 PM EDT
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Doh.
GPS Typo Leads Couple 400 Miles Off Course Tuesday , July 28, 2009 AP ROME — Officials say a Swedish couple looking for the pristine waters of the popular island of Capri ended some 400 miles (660 kilometers) away in the northern industrial town of Carpi after misspelling the destination on their car's GPS. Angelo Giovannini, a spokesman for the Carpi town hall, near Modena, said Tuesday the couple drove into the main square last week and asked the local tourist office how to reach Capri's famed Blue Grotto sea cave. Giovannini said "we thought they might mean a restaurant. Capri is an island, they did not even wonder why they didn't cross any bridge or take any boat." He said the couple, who were not identified, arrived from Venice and later set off to their planned destination at the other end of the Italian peninsula. |
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I LOLed. You'd figure they would have at least known what direction it was in relative to where they were... and maybe even saw road signs? BTW, I've been to Capri. It's beautiful. Used to live outside of Naples for a couple years. DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY fucking city, but there was some cool shit around there. |
I've had to drag a decent number of yuppies in pansy faux-SUVs and 4WD minivans ( ) out of the creeks and ditches by our house when they can't take the hint that, despite what their GPS is telling them, our road doesn't keep going up through the woods like it did 40-odd years ago. I guess city folk don't know how to drive on narrow gravel grass-down-the-middle roads with steep drop offs on either side 
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| It amazes me how willing people are to suspend their brains in favor of consumer electronics. I have heard tales of people turning into traffic because the GPS told them to "turn left now", driving hours out of their way because the GPS found the road they wanted, but in the wrong city. I have also heard of people driving the wrong way on one way streets because the GPS told them to go that way. |