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16th January 2013, 09:32 #1
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Belgian woman ends up in Zagreb after GPS failure
Belgian Woman’s GPS Leads Her on 900-Mile Detour
Talk about taking a wrong turn. Sabine Moureau, a 67-year old woman living in Wallonia, Belgium, was headed to pick up a friend at a Brussels train station when she programmed her GPS to show her the way there.
Moreau reportedly told the Belgian paper Het Nieuwsblad that she let the navigation system take over, shutting her mind off. “I was absent-minded so I kept on putting my foot down.” It wasn’t until she hit Zagreb, Croatia’s capital — a day later — that she realized something was seriously wrong.
Though Moreau doesn’t seem sure of which countries she passed through, she would have had to go through Germany, Austria and Slovenia to end up in the Central European country. According to the paper, Moureau was forced to fill up her gas tank twice and stopped to sleep for a few hours on the 900-mile journey.
“I switched on the GPS and punched in the address. Then I started out. My GPS seemed a bit wonky. It sent me on several diversions and that’s where it must have gone wrong… I saw tons of different signposts, first in French, later in German, but I kept on driving,” she told the paper. Her original destination should have only taken an hour.
She later was reunited with her family, which had reported her missing, and friend, who managed to find alternate transportation from the train station — but only after Moreau made the journey in reverse.
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16th January 2013, 12:06 #2
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Conveniently they forgot to mention the woman was suffering from alzheimer
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16th January 2013, 12:15 #3
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And that she had an iPhone 5.
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16th January 2013, 18:38 #4
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Originally Posted by henners88Michael Schumacher The Best Ever F1 Driver
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17th January 2013, 07:21 #5
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Originally Posted by ioan
Maybe she's not a bad driver. Looks like police hadn't any reason to stop her during her journey.
I can even accept she was absent-minded ( God only knows how many times I took the subway in the wrong direction :devil .
In my opinion there's something else that's weird. She could quietly continue the "sleep of her mind" until croatian border where the Schengen Space ends. I'm sure she was asked at least for an ID card and she could suspect there's something wrong. However she kept on driving till Zagreb......
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17th January 2013, 22:12 #6
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Something fishy here. Surely she would notice road signs changing and border crossings.
Mind you I once missed Windsor Castle while driving past it. :I still exist and still find the forum occasionally. Busy busy
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17th January 2013, 22:53 #7
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- Honey, where were you yesterday?
- Uhhmmm... the evil GPS made me drive for 900 km! I certainly was not meeting someone in a motel somewhere!
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17th January 2013, 22:56 #8
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17th January 2013, 22:57 #9
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Originally Posted by FormaldehydeMichael Schumacher The Best Ever F1 Driver
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18th January 2013, 09:11 #10
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Originally Posted by ioan
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