Woman drives 900 miles wrong way after GPS error

[King Ghidorah]

news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/woman-drives-900-miles-gps-error-181605523.html

Put too much faith in technology and you may wind up in Croatia. A 67-year-old woman from Belgium learned that the hard way after she followed (faulty) directions from her GPS device.

The woman only wanted to go about 90 miles from her hometown of Hainault Erquelinnes, Belgium, to pick up a friend at the Brussels train station. Her GPS device sent her about 900 miles to the south before (during the second day of driving) she realized that something was amiss. It's unclear if she entered the address incorrectly or if the GPS was faulty.

Discovery explains that the driver, Sabine Moreau, stopped twice for gas, slept on the side of the road, and "even suffered a minor car accident" along the way. She told El Mundo that she wasn't paying attention.

I was distracted, so I kept driving. I saw all kinds of traffic signs, first in French, then German and finally in Croatian, but I kept driving because I was distracted. Suddenly I appeared in Zagreb and I realized I wasn't in Belgium anymore.

The lesson here: If you start seeing road signs in (multiple) foreign languages, pull over. You're probably going the wrong way.

[Waffel113]

A Ghidorah thread that isn't macabre or day ruining? PERISH THE THOUGHT!

[kidglov3s]

There was a lot more going on there than a GPS error I imagine.

[willywonka666]

Her thought process is faulty-2 days? How do people find out about this shit anyway? Did she go tell a reporter?

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

DAMMIT GHIDORAH. YOU MONSTER.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

She wanted to travel 90 miles and she only thought something was wrong on the second day of driving. I fear for humanity. Also I want to know what happened with the friend who was left abandoned at the train station?

[h]

Jan 15, 2013 21:21:33 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

She wanted to travel 90 miles and she only thought something was wrong on the second day of driving.

In her defense, she says she was distracted.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Jan 15, 2013 21:24:00 GMT -5 h said:

Jan 15, 2013 21:21:33 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

She wanted to travel 90 miles and she only thought something was wrong on the second day of driving.

In her defense, she says she was distracted.

How are you that distracted that an hour and a half drive requires you to sleep at the side of the road? I just can't even comprehend her stupidity. This is one of the rare stories where I want to see the journalist's sources because I'm not sure I can even believe this.

[Dean-o]

"People are f***ing DUMB" - George Carlin

[xCompackx]

So where's the part where she ended up driving into a school bus?

[Derk!]

Where's the part where she skins a puppy alive and she sticks.... BANNED

[Munkie91087]

*Opens King Ghidorah thread*

[Beets by Schrute]

[Malcolm]

I think Ghidorah left out the part where the car exploded and took out a bus full of children nearby which in turn crashed into a hospital that collapsed upon itself from the impact and everyone inside the hospital died all except for a convicted child molester/rapist who miraculously healthy and molested a child later that day.

[Cela]

...Do European cars not have odometers?

[ToyfareMark]

Jan 15, 2013 22:32:52 GMT -5 Cela said:

...Do European cars not have odometers?

Stupid metric system!

[Cela]

Wait... someone has kidnapped or hacked the account of Ghidorah, WE MUST SAVE OUR DOWNER!

[King Ghidorah]

Cela pls

[Deleted]

Don't worry everyone, she's a long way from home and likely dead now.

[BigBadZ]

Do they even have Country Kitchen Buffet in Europe?