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.”
Same here... I am intelligent enough I will never need a car to do my thinking for me. Only those too lazy to think for themselves use GPS.
The word “Dumbass” comes immediately to mind…
....against drunk driving....
Me, too.
Never drink while driving.
You might hit a pothole and spill your drink.
I’m not gonna drink any more this new year.
I’m not gonna drink any less, either.
All great until the battery is dead or you drop it to its death. Also, I’m pretty sure our civilization is on the verge of collapse. Paper maps an a magnetic compass will sill survive that.
“The GPS in my iPhone has taken me many times to where the intended destination was not located”
GPS only provides your location. It doesn’t take you anywhere.
But, they don’t use the same maps or the same address databases. That is where they lead you astray.
You know good and well know what I mean. You are just being you. ;-D One of my favorites at FR.
lol. people won’t believe their own lying eyes, but will rush to do anything a computer says.
You’re my kind of girl.
GPS?
If she had been using WAZE, it would have told her, ‘frozen lake ahead, avoid it!’. ;)
So you aren’t interested in the New Year’s midnight party at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X (right by the Islamic Center) in Dallas? Maybe park near the Muhammed Mosque and walk the last 3 blocks. You’ll probably be OK on a Saturday night.
I was really good at dead-reckoning like you. I’d be with people who had zero sense of direction which amazed me.
Even hiking lots of places I would know the boundaries around me — peaks, mountain ranges, valleys, rivers, oceans, bays, highways, roads, towns, etc and knew which way to walk to get back to civilization. Of course, that doesn’t work in very remote areas, but it works in most of the places I typically hike.
“I love paper maps
no GPS for me”
I was visiting CA last month and we wanted to go to In-N-Out Burger.
I pressed the voice button and asked to be routed to nearest In-N-Out Burger. A few seconds later the route was up and directions being given.
That’s a classic.
An obvious idiot and it’s amazing how many people will do exactly what the GPS tells them.
I’ve told my wife and kids..KNOW where you’re going and then GPS can help but don’t rely on it.
“All great until the battery is dead or you drop it to its death. Also, I’m pretty sure our civilization is on the verge of collapse. Paper maps an a magnetic compass will sill survive that.”
Or if you listen to it... We have around ten a year die out here in the desert summer from extremely inaccurate deadly GPS directions. Even maps pulled up on your phone is better than GPS.
“You know good and well know what I mean.”
Words have meaning.
” We have around ten a year die out here in the desert summer from extremely inaccurate deadly GPS directions”
GPS only gives you your location. No directions.
Please cite those deaths.
“Same here... I am intelligent enough I will never need a car to do my thinking for me. Only those too lazy to think for themselves use GPS.”
Using my nav system allows me to concentrate on my driving safety. Only a dummy would not use a nav system.
Back around 2012 I once didn’t use my old reliable habit of calling for directions to the customer, but let the built-in GPS lead to a delivery point in Chicago’s southside.
It took me down the wrong street: a deadend that I couldn’t turn the rig around in. Backing wasn’t a problem. It was not being able to back up FAST. Easy for nere do wells to jump on the steps and point guns at you.
I made it out without trouble, but didn’t make that mistake again.
I had also used satellite views religiously after they introduced Google Earth, but didn’t that time. Sometimes a driver isn’t comfortable going near a dot scale, and the sat view can show what alternative routes might offer for hazzards.
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