Down the hall, to the left.

[freethefly 6]

Just a sidetrack from all the politcal stuff. Funny stuff
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German motorist followed the command "Turn right now!" from his navigation system and crashed into a small toilet hut by the side of the road -- about 30 yards before the crossing he was meant to take.

The overly obedient 53-year-old from Freiburg drove his sport utility vehicle off the road onto a building site, up a stairway and into the small toilet shack, police in the eastern town of Rudolstadt said Sunday.

It caused 2,000 euros ($2,500) worth of damage to the stairway, 100 euros damage to his car, and he was also fined 35 euros.

Earlier this month an 80-year-old motorist also chose to follow his navigation system and ignored a "closed for construction" sign on a Hamburg motorway. He then crashed into a pile of sand but neither he nor his passenger were injured.

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[Gawain 0]

Wow...that's funny. Imagine a mass wave of navigational obedience whilst driving down the Autobahn.

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[Stumpy 284]

The problem is he will probably end up sueing about it!

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[vpozzoli 0]

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The problem is he will probably end up sueing about it!

Nope. He's German, not American

Vale

[jakee 1,595]

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It caused 2,000 euros ($2,500) worth of damage to the stairway, 100 euros damage to his car, and he was also fined 35 euros.

Well thats not fair - after all, he was only obeying orders

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Erroll 80]

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Well thats not fair - after all, he was only obeying orders

Everyone knows that only obeying orders is not a defense.

[mr2mk1g 10]

We've had a couple of similarly funny GPS screw ups in the UK recently.

One tells of a farmer who was complaining because a large number of people were being sent by their GPS up his small farm track as a short cut. Not much of an issue until you find out that the farm track leads to a cliff and a dead-end. The GPS units wanted people to continue straight off the edge of the cliff and onto the road a couple of hundred ft below. The units thought the road was continuous.

Another funny related to a website providing maps and direction services. The website, when asked to provide the shortest rout between two cities avoiding the motorway which directly connected the two, had the driver go a couple of hundred miles in the opposite direction, catch a ferry to Ireland, drive clear across Ireland, catch another ferry all the way to France, drive up the coast of France to the Euro tunnel, then back into England where they still had a couple of hundred mile drive to go.

[Stumpy 284]

Yes and when the AA were quizzed abouttheir website they said "Its a glitch. People should not take this route"

No really??

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[BillyVance 35]

What a bunch of dumbasses!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[freethefly 6]

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drove his sport utility vehicle off the road onto a building site, up a stairway and into the small toilet shack

You would think that he might had thought something wasn't right when he started up the stairs People in everday life are the best form of comedy

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young