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Drug smuggler busted by GPS error [GPS routed him into Canada]
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| 2010-02-25
| Neil Bowen
Posted on 02/25/2010 8:55:58 AM PST by Clive
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posted on
02/25/2010 8:55:58 AM PST
by
Clive
To: exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
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posted on
02/25/2010 8:56:29 AM PST
by
Clive
(No, Galileo, I won't look though your telescope)
To: Clive
Dumb ass. Couldn’t read the street signs huh?
To: Clive
"In due course, he will be deported," Stoesser said. Our Canadian friends can keep him. I'm willing to bet he isn't legally in the United States either.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:04:20 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Clive
Jesus says: “Dios mio! Que pasa?”
....and who are the guys in the red jackets and funny pants?
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:05:22 AM PST
by
Palladin
("We are the loyal opposition"~~Sarah Palin)
To: goseminoles
You’d be amazed how many people blindly follow GPS systems. On a divided highway near our plant, there is a giant exit posted with our street name. at least 2-3 times per week, I get a call from some delivery driver wanting directions because he passed right by it because his GPS system was telling him to do so.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:06:47 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Palladin
LOL—why is there brown gravy on my fries?
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:07:02 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Clive
Options>Settings>Route Settings>Warn of Border Crossings?>Yes>Done
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:07:47 AM PST
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: goseminoles
Once out of the desert here in Texas, all those trees can get confusing, they all look the same......as you said, Dumb Ass.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:08:20 AM PST
by
sniper63
(Bang,Bang, Maxwell's Silver hammer........)
To: Clive
headline should read:
“Incredibly bright Drug smuggler busted by GPS error [GPS routed him into Canada]”
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:10:58 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Palladin
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:14:00 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Clive
Last year I was trying to go from a town in northwestern Vermont to one in the northeastern part of the state.Surprisingly,my GPS routed me through Quebec.Fortunately I had my passport card with me so it wasn't a problem.When I got to the Canadian immigration guy he asked me the reason for my visit and I told him it because the GPS told me to go that way.It appeared that he didn't believe me and seemed ready to deny me entry (although he never said so).He let me in,however.
To: Vigilanteman
The GPS may not be entirely to blame. The quickest route from either Detroit or Flint to upstate New York or Vermont is Highway 401 acrosss Ontario with a branch to the Queen Elizabeth Way for Buffalo or to the Thousand Islands bridge for Syracuse or Vermont.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:15:36 AM PST
by
Clive
(No, Galileo, I won't look though your telescope)
To: Clive
...and must provide local police with a DNA sample. Nice little tag line at the end of the article. I don't think any of us will like where that is taking us.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:24:30 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
To: Clive
The link to the original story wouldn’t load. But note this line from the post:
“The federal jail system can consider sending Fontanez-Medina home to serve the sentence.”
Which really raises the question - where is his home? He is referred to as a “Texas man”, but we know there is a not insubstantial chance that a Texas resident may be an illegal immigrant. So, is Canada willing to let him serve in Mexico?
To: Clive
GPS are designed to suggest the shortest route. People with brains have the capacity not to follow said advice.
In general, I've found that a few minutes spent studying a highway map prior to a trip to an unfamiliar location pays off many times in gas and time saved getting there.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:27:11 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Clive
The GPS may not be entirely to blame. The quickest route from either Detroit or Flint to upstate New York or Vermont is Highway 401 across Ontario... I've read that the Michigan,Ohio and Pennsylvania legislatures are trying to force GPS makers to change that because it denies the armed tax collectors of their state police forces the opportunity to get some "quality" stops. ;-)
To: Vigilanteman
GPS’s take you through the skanky section of town, every time, without fail.
There ought to be an option to avoid them, just like avoiding highways.
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:35:17 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Vigilanteman
GPS are designed to suggest the shortest route. Mine can be programmed to give the shortest distance or the quickest trip.It can also be programmed to avoid toll roads.I don't know if it can be programmed to avoid national borders but if it can it must default to "don't avoid borders" because of what I described above.
To: Clive
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posted on
02/25/2010 9:37:01 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
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