Posted on 12/27/2022 4:28:24 PM PST by simpson96
Indianapolis residents saw a bizarre sight on Christmas and it had nothing to do with Santa or his reindeer.
Quite the opposite as the Indianapolis Fire Department revealed a 33 year old woman drove down an embankment and then started driving on a frozen canal. This appears to have gone on for a while as the department said she “continued north on the canal until she came to the dead end at 10th Street, where she turned around [and] headed south.”
Her luck eventually ran out as the vehicle broke through the ice and plunged into the water. The fire department said several bystanders jumped into action and assisted the woman, who waited in the lobby of a nearby hotel after escaping from the vehicle. She was then checked out by medics, before being transported to the hospital.
Needless to say, authorities had plenty of questions and she told firefighters her GPS took her onto the canal. While the frozen waterway does have a road-like look, there appears to have been more going on.
According to CBS 42 and Fox 59, the woman was arrested for drunk driving. There’s no immediate word on how intoxicated the woman was, but she was apparently clueless even after driving down the embankment and onto the canal. The scene shocked onlooker Mason Brauchla, who told the Fox affiliate “I couldn’t believe … the ice was even supporting their car for that long.” He went onto estimate the woman was driving approximately 30 mph.
I’m still against GPS.
Part of the Indianapolis Submarine Service.
They have great chow.
I’m still against drunk driving
Avoid any road with MLK in the name. Trust me.
I remember when M.A.D.D. started: Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Then D.A.M.M. started shortly thereafter: Drunks Against Mad Mothers. ;-)
lol
“WHO should I sue?”
Those ice fragments don’t look to be much more than an inch thick. I wouldn’t have believed a person could walk on that without falling through, much less drive a car.
“I’m still against GPS.”
Why are you against GPS?
“Why are you against GPS?”
I think the day come, maybe very soon thanks to our ‘friends’ in DC, when we find our GPS systems just don’t work anymore, as we quickly found out in Ukraine.
“I’m still against drunk driving”
Me too, I was getting lost too often.
But there was much less traffic on that route.
I use GPS in my vehicles often. But I always have paper maps as backup.
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ALWAYS set “Drive On Frozen Waterways” to No.
“I think the day come, maybe very soon thanks to our ‘friends’ in DC, when we find our GPS systems just don’t work anymore, as we quickly found out in Ukraine.”
LOL! The Russians are using our GPS signals since our GPS/nav units are so cheap.
“I use GPS in my vehicles often. But I always have paper maps as backup.”
I admit to using it a bit, but I also stocked up on AAA maps, since they no longer see a need for paper maps.
Might get fun should people have to start finding their way home from work without GPS, due to the idiots in DC.
My uncle told of a time when he was deer hunting along the Ohio River and saw some guys driving a pickup on the frozen river...on purpose.
With enough of these stories we could have an Indiana Man/Woman category. On Christmas Eve, Rebeca Claus, who had been drinking, exited I-65 into a closed weigh station near Lowell, Indiana. The gate at the scales was open and pointing in her direction. She hit it dead center of the windshield and the end of the gate exited the rear window of her SUV. When police arrived, they found her walking around the wreckage, uninjured.
“I use GPS in my vehicles often. But I always have paper maps as backup.”
They both use the same sources for data.
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