GPS leads woman off beaten track
Submitted: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 11:46
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GPS leads woman off beaten track
Nick Sheridan
May 8, 2007 - 11:17AM
A
Melbourne woman who relied on her car's computerised navigation system to direct her to
Port Campbell had to be towed by a local farmer after getting bogged on a bush track 30 kilometres from her destination.
A farmer rescued the woman with his tractor about 30 minutes drive outside of the south-west Victorian town of Carpendeit, according to Victoria Police.
"She was following her GPS but it took her down a road which turned into a muddy four wheel drive track," Senior Constable Scott Thompson from
Port Campbell said.
The woman called 000 just before 8pm last night, but was unable to tell police her exact whereabouts, so officers at the Warrnambool communications centre coordinated a number of cars to search the general area.
A farmer who had seen the woman's car near his property heard of the search over his police scanner and alerted police to the woman's whereabouts.
The farmer then met the police on Horans Road, where the woman was stranded, and towed her out of the mud with his tractor.
"She was just a bit concerned that she was a bit lost in an area that she wasn't familiar with" Senior Constable Thompson said.
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Reply By: Member - John (Vic) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 11:53
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 11:53
Maybe lessons in how to use the thing should have been part of the deal when she bought it??
Then again why should we be surprised? Most women can't read a paper map let alone an electronic one :-) (Now I'm ducking for cover)
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Follow Up By: Member - stefan P (NSW) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 19:00
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 19:00
you are a very brave or (silly) man!!! ;)
Stefan
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Follow Up By: Hairy - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 19:34
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 19:34
"Maybe lessons in how to use the thing should have been part of the deal when she bought it??"
Or dont sell them to Victorians?? LOL
Maybe she should take her EPIRB next time she goes shopping!
Cheers
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Reply By: The Landy - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 12:06
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 12:06
The risk with GPS is that it is often followed blindly without any cross-reference check..........
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Reply By: Member - Troll 81 (QLD) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 12:18
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 12:18
What happened to common sense if your car is 2 inches of the ground then obviously turn around and find another way
Some people
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Reply By: Member - Toytruck (SA) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 12:49
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 12:49
Toooo busy watching the GPS and didn't see the conditions of the track in front.
Some people place a lot of faith in the computer thingy on the dash and good ole CDF goes out the window.
Toytruck
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Reply By: Member -Signman - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 13:02
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 13:02
Now the litigation will start..
"The GPS told me I could go down that road etc etc...now I'm stressed, can't sleep and my sex life has been compomised..."
Sue the manufacturers for a couple of $mil.
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Reply By: Michael ( Moss Vale NSW) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 14:14
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 14:14
It says she could not give the police her exact whereabouts. If she couldnt even find the coordinates on the GPS, how much did she really know about it to start with??? Michael.
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 17:52
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 17:52
do all navigators show co-ordinates...remember a navigator is not neccessarly a gps...
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Follow Up By: Pajman Pete (SA) - Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 10:02
Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 10:02
We were driving around
lake Eildon a couple of years ago when just on dusk we found a small car shiny side down on the Jameson road about 20k from Eildon in Vic. The occupants were shaken but OK and asked us if we could contact someone in Eildon to get them out.
No phone coverage so we headed of to town. It was after 6 when we arrived and almost everything was closed. We found the cop
shop but it was unoccupied but did have an emergency call button that put us through to Police Ops in
Melbourne.
"Where is it?" they ask.
"I can give you a GPS waypoint." I reply.
The bloke tehn told me that they could not use a Lat/Long (this was Jan 2006), so I had to convert it into
grid for him.
Pete
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Reply By: Time - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 14:21
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 14:21
Blonde ?
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 15:47
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 15:47
Victorian?
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Follow Up By: Member - Karl - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 16:09
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 16:09
A blonde Victorian - OMG!!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Luke (SA) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 18:23
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 18:23
Was she driving a Volvo??
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 15:17
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 15:17
There is a little village in England with the same problem.
The street navigation systems use this little lane that often floods as a bypass to the village. They can have hundreds of people a week caught.
Ended up putting a
sign up at
the entrance to the lane.
Only a few people a week ignore the
sign now.
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Reply By: Member -Dodger - Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 17:02
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 17:02
It was probably a navigator type of GPS not a real gps that shows Lats n Longs etc.
One should always carry paper maps to be sure.
Ans she probably did not know to zoom out so that she could see where she was on the screen.
Then again a blonde victorian fem fatal????????
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