Japanese tourists

[Ezz]

FUNNY **** that was!

I can see it now... conversation in the car between driver and passangers.

"Wit wey r we going?"

"Follo da computa squeen, it say go strait a-head."

"Ahhh, but no woad?"

"Ehh but computa know wit wey so follo da computa... it will tek us dhere."

"Hey is sum ting wong?"

"Wa yu do yu dum ***, oh no we in water now, were is da button for the heated seats... mi bung is getting cold and wet. Oh no we no going anywehere now, we no move, car is stuck in da mud!"

"oh no... maybe da G.P.S was not up-dated for dis awea. It mut had been an owder map."

[mytgxl]

Originally Posted by Ezz

FUNNY **** that was!

I can see it now... conversation in the car between driver and passangers.

"Wit wey r we going?"

"Follo da computa squeen, it say go strait a-head."

"Ahhh, but no woad?"

"Ehh but computa know wit wey so follo da computa... it will tek us dhere."

"Hey is sum ting wong?"

"Wa yu do yu dum ***, oh no we in water now, were is da button for the heated seats... mi bung is getting cold and wet. Oh no we no going anywehere now, we no move, car is stuck in da mud!"

"oh no... maybe da G.P.S was not up-dated for dis awea. It mut had been an owder map."

Bloody priceless I still have tears in my eyes after reading that

[Kevaclone]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Picture shows the car AFTER the tide came in... they were driving in the mud at low tide.... (which still shoulda made them think something is wrong here...)

where they went onto the flats is a narrow bit of gravel/shell and a hard surface and it was quite a way out before the ground got softer and they stated to sink and the water was a long way out.
Sure it was a bit silly but like they said when asked, In Japan it is very rare for a GPS Nav system to give wrong advice and so they follow their GPS without question. The GPS they had said they could drive to the Island and from where they were it obviously looked like they could

Besides how many of you can claim they drowned a hire car, the most anyone does is thrash it a bit, they buried theirs in a mud flat so they wiln

[Bucknaked]

Reminds me of a story a guy from work was telling me.

When he was in the navy, he was sent over to Pearl Harbour. One day he's walking down the street, his in uniform and some Japanese Tourists stopped him and asked him where can they find the Arizona Memorial, to which he responded, "It's right where you left it"

[some_cs_student]

Originally Posted by XARATE

500m through mangrove mud in a getz? SOLID EFFORT!!!!! Good on them

They must think Australian roads are pretty bad...lol

[TC200six]

This incident made it in #2 in this article of top 8 GPS disasters.

http://theweek.com/article/index/243...-into-disaster

[Moby Vic]

Reminds me of the punchline to an old (politically incorrect) joke:
SUPPLIES!

[Crazy Dazz]

Something very similar happened a few years back in Kununurra (I was working at Argyle at the time.)
The old highway was still a gazetted road “Old Darwin Road” but that area has long since been flooded, and on the town side the road has quite literally been transformed into the launching ramp.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en...12,165.11,,0,0
One night somebody new in town decided to follow their GPS down Old Darwin rd, straight into the lagoon.

[wookie836]

GPS with a mud map?

[smoo]

If every Hyundai sheep driver took a leaf out of their book the roads would be a better place.