An Ontario woman blindly followed her car’s GPS straight into Lake Huron. While it sank, she swam to shore
An Ontario woman blindly followed her car’s GPS straight into Lake Huron. While it sank, she swam to shore
The Canadian Press (Reported by National Post), May 13, 2016
A visitor to the Tobermory area ended up in the city's Little Tub Harbour after accidentally driving down the boat launch, shown in a handout photo. ( THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Ontario Provincial Police)
TOBERMORY, Ont. — Police say following the instructions from a GPS on a foggy night left an Ontario woman taking an unplanned swim in Lake Huron.
Ontario Provincial Police say the 23-year-old woman from Kitchener, Ont., was following a route on her car’s GPS while driving in the dark on Thursday night in Tobermory, Ont.
They say she made a turn that took her straight into Little Tub Harbour on the shores of Lake Huron, where her car sank about 30 metres from shore.
Police say the woman was able to roll down the window and swim to safety in frigid water temperatures of 4 C.
They say she did not suffer any injuries.
OPP say they were able to tow the car out of the water early Friday morning.
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I had such a dilemma as to which Forum category to choose for this article. Here are the possibilities:
World News: It happened in Canada.
Entertainment: You can't tell me you weren't entertained by this story.
Technology: The GPS led her astray.
Sports: A cold swim in 4 degrees centigrade water.
Humour: Was she blond?
OR, The Canada Group so most Americans wouldn't see this article and get a snicker out of it.
What the article doesn't mention is that the GPS was installed and programmed by a man.
A dark night...Didn't she have headlights on the car?
Actually it belongs in all of the above categories.
"RECALCALCULATING"
"GO LEFT AT THE NEXT GUPPY"
''go left at the next guppy''....LMAO
I won't have a GPS in my car. It doesn't tell you abut roads or freeways down to one lane for construction or bridges closed or anything like that. I'm my own GPS. Having one in the car is like having my wife tell me where to turn. I hate a backseat driver! When we picked out our Fiat 500L we basically came down to two that we wanted. We bought the one without the GPS on purpose. Same with our Bug.
This is first incursion, as the "machines" begin the offensive to exterminate mankind.
Beware the GPS, the DVR and most of all the automatic ice maker in the refrigerator
Actually, they mistakenly installed a GPS programmed for a Chris Craft into her car.
"This is first incursion, as the "machines" begin the offensive to exterminate mankind."
I think I once read a science fiction story about that.