On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:06:36 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:03:37 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

Whoopsie... :)

The GPS around here takes you through gated communities if that is the
most direct route on the map, even when they are not really through
streets. At my wife's country club the guard turns a few people a week
back who say the Onstar/TomTom/NAV told them that was the way to go
(even though the back gate needs a key)

They used to route people across a little rickety one lane bridge with
a 5000 lb load limit in that same general area.

Heh - yeah. Last year some poor trucker followed his GPS from Rt 171
- the route took him at the I-84/Rt 89 cutoff in Ashford up to Rt 20
in Sturbridge. The only problem is the road cuts directly through
Sturbridge Villiage and the only bridge over the French River wasn't
wide enough for the rig to pass. He had to back up three miles to get
back onto Rt 89.

~~ snerk ~~

Another good one - I-91 in the fog. Driver was looking at his GPS when
he drove right off the side of Goodwin Ridge by Sleeping Giant State
Park. :)