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Posted by: Old Salt Posted on: Apr 3^rd, 2009 at 3:35pm	Quote
This thread should probably be in Back to Civilization.

Posted by: azalea Posted on: Apr 3^rd, 2009 at 4:43am	Quote
I suspect most of us who have been exploring the outdoors have at some point followed an inaccurate map a ways before that "ahah" moment hits and we decide maybe we need another plan. It is not so different.

Posted by: Snow_Dog Posted on: Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 11:43pm	Quote
I hope nobody's GPS is even slightly off at the top of Curtain Falls, then...it'd be a horrible waste of a good canoe!

Posted by: solotripper Posted on: Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 11:06pm	Quote
I'm sure as GPS becomes cheaper and offered in more and more vehicles, these stories will get even more prevalent. I'm sure that eventually we'll have some Q/BW paddling stories of people who followed their GPS without question even though the compass and visual cues didn't support what the GPS was telling them

Posted by: Akula Posted on: Apr 2^nd, 2009 at 7:28pm	Quote
http://www.startribune.com/local/42297142.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr

Posted by: Piggyn Posted on: Mar 28^th, 2009 at 12:29am	Quote
There have been similar instances where people drove into a lake because their GPS told them to.

Posted by: solotripper
Posted on: Mar 27^th, 2009 at 9:08pm

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Mad_Mat wrote on Mar 27^th, 2009 at 1:03pm:

he's probably related to that guy in the motorhome who sued GM or whoever it was, because they didn't tell him that cruise control wasn't the same thing as autopilot, and no, he shouldn't get up out of the driver's seat to go in back for a cup of coffee.

Isn't that the guy, who's wife sued GE , because it didn't say in the user manual that DRYING your cat in the micro-wave is a no-no Grin

Posted by: Mad_Mat Posted on: Mar 27^th, 2009 at 1:03pm	Quote
he's probably related to that guy in the motorhome who sued GM or whoever it was, because they didn't tell him that cruise control wasn't the same thing as autopilot, and no, he shouldn't get up out of the driver's seat to go in back for a cup of coffee.

Posted by: marlin55388 Posted on: Mar 27^th, 2009 at 12:52am	Quote
The lights are on but nobody is home

Posted by: solotripper Posted on: Mar 26^th, 2009 at 7:56pm	Quote
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