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Police: GPS may have told couple to drive off Cline Avenue bridge (East Chicago)
NWITimes.com ^
| 28MAR2015
| Joseph S. Pete
Posted on 04/05/2015 5:28:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:30:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Jack Hydrazine
it warns to be careful. it isn’t exact and you have to use common sense.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:33:56 PM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( Church/Caboose in 2016)
To: Jack Hydrazine
large wood signs stating ROAD CLOSED with orange striped markings
“Here’s yer sign!”
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:34:45 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Remember when your mom used prove a point by invoking the reductio-ad-absurdum argument: "If someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?!"
The world sure has reductio-ad-absurdium'ed since then.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:35:27 PM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Jack Hydrazine
This is why men don’t ask for directions.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:35:40 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
That should be GWB, not GPS. The cause of all problems.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:37:17 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
To: All
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:37:47 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Jack Hydrazine
He drives past barriers and warning signs yet the news story blames his GPS????? I guess common sense really isn’t so common anymore.
RIP for his wife but he brought this tragedy on himself.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:38:33 PM PDT
by
Bob
(Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
There is a road near me that always is wrongly shown on GPS. I have owned maybe 7 or 8 units in the last 15 years and everyone of them gets it wrong.
I just updated my current one only a month or so ago and it still shows it wrong.
This particular highway had a zig zag maybe 50 years ago. It was straightened out so long ago that there is just the tiniest hint of the old route still showing. If you didn’t purposely look, you would never even see the old highway.
Still every time I drive over it which is at least weekly, it still shows the old road. You drive along with the arrow following the highway when suddenly, you are driving over the woods. One would think that aerial views would have resulted in them changing it eventually.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:38:40 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Needed a GPS with free updating and have updated it.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:41:52 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:42:54 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Must've been the same bridge.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:44:35 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Jack Hydrazine
First of all, why is this bridge even standing?
Secondly, nobody in their right mind would drive ahead under those conditions. GPS plots a good path for you and in most cases is fine. I’ve used google maps on my phone to travel to all sorts of bizarre places, both in the US and abroad. (Built in automobile GPS systems are often less reliable.) However, anything can be wrong, and you have to keep your wits about you.
A family member recently got a new car with all sorts of lane control, de-acceleration, etc. features...and a little prompt appears at the start telling you that the driver is still responsible for controlling the car! I thought it was funny, but maybe not.
Prayers for this unfortunate couple. They should have been more vigilant, but also the city should not have left that bridge up in such a condition. I sense a (justifiable) lawsuit comng.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:45:47 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Jack Hydrazine
To: Jack Hydrazine
I've driven Cline avenue numerous times.
I don't care what the GPS might say, its kinda hard to miss the cones, barricades and sign that says "road closed".
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:49:55 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: Jack Hydrazine; NoCmpromiz; null and void; Slings and Arrows; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; ...
Usual suspects ping.
“Is this home depot?”
“But my GPS said...”
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:53:10 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
“Her husband, Iftikhar Hussain,.....”
Ah, there is the problem .... didn’t have the proper language “Siri” on his phone.....was all infidel to him.
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:58:36 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The Obama administration is the most corrupt edging out the administrations of FDR and Grant.)
To: mountn man
Looks like Google Maps' Street View wants to
disagree.
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posted on
04/05/2015 6:01:07 PM PDT
by
setha
(It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Out of all the things that can kill you in East Chicago.
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posted on
04/05/2015 6:02:51 PM PDT
by
rey
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