Would you drive off a cliff if you sat nav told you to?
A Polish driver had such belief in the satellite navigation system installed in his minivan that he drove into a lake completely ignoring the road closed, due to flooded lake signs.
Polish police received a desperate call from the man yelling that this passengers were drowning.
“A man phoned in panic from his mobile phone. He managed to say that he had driven into a lake and he was sinking fast,” said Polish police spokesperson, Marcin Guzenda in Glubczyce.
Police, fire and emergency services were dispatched to the scene, to find the three travelling companions perched on the roof of their sinking minivan.
The sat nav had not been updated to reflect that a water company had flooded a former road to create a lake, one year prior.
Police sources said it was a huge lake and it was hard to understand why the Polish man had driven into it, when it was clearly a lake. What’s Polish for idiot?
Would you drive off a cliff if you sat nav told you to?
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invisible1
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Oct 28 @ 6:38AM
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Do I feel another polish joke coming on????? 
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malexand
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Oct 28 @ 6:42AM
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Does that make him a Pol-loch?
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misschief
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Oct 28 @ 8:16AM
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 Classic.
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SweetNapaGuy
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Oct 28 @ 9:47AM
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Elderly Germans tend to follow their satnavs to the letter. Look up how many of them have had accidents.
My satnav has steered me wrong twice. It likes to send me the wrong way down one-way streets. So I don't trust it quite as much as I used to...
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lazareth
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Oct 28 @ 9:57AM
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it's good thing my husband and I know the route thoroughly between here and NC..several times our GPS tried to steer us wrong..... and ya just can't make the bytch shut up when you don't listen to her
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kywonder
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Oct 28 @ 12:57PM
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Poor guy. I would suggest that he rip the thing out of his van. Going to cost him a heck of a lot for that mistake, that is if it can be fixed. Wonder if his insurance will cover the damages?
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lostinmesaaz
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Oct 29 @ 2:43AM
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He'll probably take the people who made the thing to court and win.
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ohtayicu
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Oct 29 @ 3:15AM
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why buy one,,, iffin you ain't gonna use it? just saying. 
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