Can you even believe someone would do this ?

[brightspark]

satnav sending drivers into dangerous places even debating it lemmings springs to mind

 

[zzr1200]

I've seen stupidity done with a full blown 53' semi truck & trailer......

How about this SatNav fail...... or the drivers just a Plum....

 

[addjunkie]

There's a gated road near us which snakes through a farm yard, people have been known to try and drive through as an alternative route.

We have a few gated roads round here. Our drive an old railway line isnt a road. But if you look at a map and you are really really thick one might think it the quickest way to the next hamlet.
One night I was out along the end next to the next hamlet looking for foxy. Sees some lights coming along, through three gates to where there is no track left only grass……a Police Ford Ranger, I enquired where they were trying to get too….The next hamlet he says, but we are not from round here! God help us if its an emergency!

 

[bricol]

We have a few gated roads round here. Our drive an old railway line isnt a road. But if you look at a map and you are really really thick one might think it the quickest way to the next hamlet.
One night I was out along the end next to the next hamlet looking for foxy. Sees some lights coming along, through three gates to where there is no track left only grass……a Police Ford Ranger, I enquired where they were trying to get too….The next hamlet he says, but we are not from round here! God help us if its an emergency!

Occur with all emergency services. My ex is a midwife - first community call out she needed an ambulance to get mum to be to hospital ASAP. If she had loaded up her in her car, she could have been there 10mins tops at that time of night/morning.

40 mins of waiting for the ambulance "on its way". Then once they arrive, 30 mins of slow, narrow backroads, then squeezing between parked cars in small villages - as sat-nav said it was the shortest, quickest route. Which it is in a narrower, nimbler vehicle and you know the way. But the crew was from out of the area.

We have surprisingly few emergency service people on duty over night, so they have to cover a massive area, especially up in N. Yorks.

 

[addjunkie]

We have surprisingly few emergency service people on duty over night, so they have to cover a massive area, especially up in N. Yorks.

Think thats the same everywhere to be honest, and as ambulance, police and fire stations get bigger and more centralised less local knowledge.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Having been called out to rescue the same kite surfer 3 times in a day- yes I can believe some people can be that thick

 

[addjunkie]

Having been called out to rescue the same kite surfer 3 times in a day- yes I can believe some people can be that thick

Should bill idiots like that for the service, and I include the yacht fraternity who call for a lifeboat tow truck in that too, sails work even when the engine doesnt!

 

[julianf]

I reckon that driver had been bollocked in the past for "using his initiative" and told to obey the computer or else...

I suspect they knew full well what they were doing.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Should bill idiots like that for the service, and I include the yacht fraternity who call for a lifeboat tow truck in that too, sails work even when the engine doesnt!

We cut his lines the last time for “our safety” on suggestion from the coppers who’d also turned up to have a word when he made it ashore. Turned out he was teaching himself and didn’t want to pay for training at the kite surfing school about 5 mile down the coast. Kept dropping his kite and couldn’t get it up again

 

[addjunkie]

We cut his lines the last time for “our safety” on suggestion from the coppers who’d also turned up to have a word when he made it ashore. Turned out he was teaching himself and didn’t want to pay for training at the kite surfing school about 5 mile down the coast. Kept dropping his kite and couldn’t get it up again

Self learning is one thing, but stupidity another, a kite buggy might have made more sense. I leant to kite surf in Cuba, with an instructor in a very safe location, you could wade out chest deep for nearly 1/2 a mile. Even in perfect conditions it was easy to get in a mess. Good fun though when you are bored on holiday!

 

[cheb]

I'd chuck those who'd plug an unknown USB stick into their computer, and to a certain level those who blindly click links and scan QR codes.

I mean, it's common sense isn't it. Isn't it?

 

[finyuk2005]

Think thats the same everywhere to be honest, and as ambulance, police and fire stations get bigger and more centralised less local knowledge.

there is a place in Orkney called "Twatt" (settle down now!!) there is also a Twatt in Shetland, ambulances have been know to get sent to the wrong one! its only 100 miles by sea...

 

[cheb]

I know an ambulance driver who was threatened with a disciplinary when he refused to attend a call out 25 miles away. There was the small matter that 20 or so miles of that was the sea.