GPS Error Sends Belgian Woman On A 900-Mile Drive Across Europe
It’s not clear if Apple Maps was involved.
67 year-old Sabine Morceau left her home in Hainault Erquelinnes, Belgium on January 12th intending to pick up a friend in Brussels, 90 miles away. After switching on her GPS, Morceau tuned out and followed the machines instructions. Two days later, she found herself in Zagreb, Croatia.
“I was distracted, so I kept driving,” Moreau told Spanish newspaper El Mundo “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.”
3. To put that into perspective, that’s approximately the equivalent of a drive from New York City to Nashville:
5. It’s 200 miles longer than a trip across Great Britain:
6. Slightly shorter than a drive from Brisbane to Melbourne:
7. And a little further than the distance from Winnipeg to Calgary:
8. The only thing that would make this story better is if she spent the trip listening to this song:
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msmcgee82 5 months agoOk, I doubt this is real - BUT, I do have a true story sort of like this. I live in Germany, where it can be really difficult to get anywhere without a GPS. Friends of ours that live here as well did NOT own a GPS. The wife had to take the husband to the airport in Frankfurt. Frankfurt is only an hour away from us. She got him there ok, but when she turned around to drive back home, she took a wrong turn & ended up driving for 14 hours before she finally made it. She just kept driving, thinking she was about to come up on the correct exit. They have since purchased a GPS….though, they always forget it at home (and subsequently always get lost).
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mauser*girl 5 months agoI lived in Europe for years and never got lost. You can buy these cool things at the gas stations in Germany or at book stores called the ADAC Atlas. It’s a map book of Germany. Imagine that, a MAP. To tell you where you’re going.
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mauser*girl 5 months ago
Nobody gets this distracted unless they’re on drugs! I mean, seriously … you’re going to pick your friend up 90 miles away. That should take you like two hours to drive, three if you’re going really slow and/or are driving in traffic. When you’ve been driving for TWO days you’d think you’d notice that, oh, the sun’s going down and coming back up, at some point? I’ve actually driven from Germany (Mannheim) to Croatia (Selce) and that’s a LONG drive. I ended up staying the night in Austria instead of driving it in one day. Especially since you go through a lot of towns with traffic. It’s not like you’re on a highway the whole time. Oh, and, borders. You cross borders. Even within the EU countries where you don’t need a passport, there’s usually a line at the border and/or some signage letting you know there is a border. I don’t know if Slovenia or Croatia are part of the EU now, but when I made that drive, you had to get a little pink card/Visa thing at the Croat border.
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Rivergal14 5 months agoI’m calling bullshit! And if she were truly that distracted, then they should take her license away, cause that’s scary!!!!
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Vashti_Valahloo 5 months agoYou’d have to get gas at least three times in a regular car. How would that not tip a person off? FAKE!
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watch me boogie 5 months ago
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