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Missing New Jersey family members found alive in Virginia
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 12/29/2106 | AP

Posted on 12/29/2016 9:09:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A New Jersey woman and her 5-year-old great-granddaughter have been found alive in secluded woods in rural Virginia, apparently stranded there for days after disappearing on a holiday road trip, authorities said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: gps; grandma; lost; missing; nj; richmond; va; virginia
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Christmas Vacation!


21 posted on 12/29/2016 9:44:37 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: sheana

I always plan my trips online and use a map program to print out the detailed directions/instructions/timeline/route #s/street names and a main overall map along with blow ups of problem/complicated areas.

WAY better than typical “road maps”. I have done this for YEARS. Not a new idea.

If you get lost or end up in the wrong place using this method ..... turn in your drivers license.


22 posted on 12/29/2016 9:48:15 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: faucetman

I absolutely hate the GPS yammering at me, find it more of a distraction than a help in unfamiliar territory. I guess I’m just too old school, I generally rely on an actual map with GPS for backup.


23 posted on 12/29/2016 9:55:39 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Getting lost easily can be an early sign of dementia.

One of my mom's aunts became increasingly confused after she got into her eighties, but she was an independent cuss and kept driving her big old boat of a car (which handled like an aircraft carrier) until she once set out for a beauty shop just outside of her small Iowa town and ended up finally asking for directions from a state trooper well into Minnesota. Her rambling days came to an end shortly after that trip.

Not too long ago, a woman died about 25 miles from us after her car was hit by a train; it was supposedly all due to a bit of alcohol and a GPS that essentially stuck her in a cul-de-sac that was made all the more confusing by darkness.

Mr. niteowl77

24 posted on 12/29/2016 9:57:05 AM PST by niteowl77 (Don't need no Bushes. Don't need no Clintons. Don't need no fooling around.)
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To: dp0622

“-——if you miss an entrance to a highway. Even if it’s 10 yards back!! “


Would you actually back up 10 yards on an Interatate? I wouldn’t,even if I was a young whippersnapper like you. :-)

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25 posted on 12/29/2016 9:59:23 AM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

Maybe :)

On a regular street, definitely.

But I guess that’s not true because I didn’t and this only happened last month.

I’m getting old!! Or worse yet, sensible!!

It will crush my nephews and nieces!!

How are you? :)


26 posted on 12/29/2016 10:28:45 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ConsCA
the evidence points to Briley having pulled onto a dirt road, which she then followed a short distance into the woods in Dinwiddie County. There she drove over a small tree and got stuck in a remote area of the property

The family claims she doesn't have any problems. Hmm, better have her re-evaluated. It takes some kind of stupid to pull off what she did.

Agree with carrying maps. I have a box full of county maps that show every little back road. Made up boxes for the kids when they left home. The first time their cell phones quit working, what then? GPS around here always points you in the direction of water.

27 posted on 12/29/2016 10:43:25 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: FreedomNotSafety

You ever see the Chevy Chase movie “Nothing But Trouble”? Shows what happens when you leave the interstate in NJ.


28 posted on 12/29/2016 10:43:31 AM PST by fredhead (Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

It’s Christmas so egg nog and a bottle of whiskey.


29 posted on 12/29/2016 10:44:58 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Last summer I took a trip to see family in middle TN. Been travelling there ever since I was born, but hadn’t been in over a dozen years. That being said, I used my memory, even got off I-40 at the right exit. But the road leading down to US-70 changed and I used my GPS. Darn thing turned me onto one of those little country roads, that looped me back to the road I turned off of about a mile further down.


30 posted on 12/29/2016 10:48:52 AM PST by fredhead (Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
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To: faucetman

Too many times online maps are wrong.


31 posted on 12/29/2016 11:05:21 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: fredhead

Haven’t seen that one but my family took a 1974 Ford Galaxy 500 station wagon with a pop up tent trailer in tow with a loaded luggage rack (not grandma) right through the hood in Detroit (the area near the Friendship Bridge) on a hot summer night in the middle of some “tension”. We we insulted, hooted at, and the car patted for 4 blocks. I swore Chevy Chase ripped that Family Vacation scene from us.


32 posted on 12/29/2016 12:00:38 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: sheana

I had a GPS 8 years ago. Never again. I love to study a map before I get behind the wheel. I can usually get there faster than the hogs with a ring in their nose being led by the GPS robot voice. GPS is just another dumbing down device.


33 posted on 12/29/2016 12:33:56 PM PST by Combat_Liberalism
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I think the poor woman has gone senile and that’s why they got lost and she couldn’t figure out who follow her GPS.


34 posted on 12/29/2016 1:19:16 PM PST by stellaluna
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To: Combat_Liberalism

I like my gps. It gives me a heads up of which lane to be in and how far I am from my exit. If you look at a map beforehand and then use the gps for guidance it’s great.


35 posted on 12/29/2016 3:07:21 PM PST by sheana
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To: dp0622

Or the safest. One time it sent us into a bad neighborhood.


36 posted on 12/29/2016 3:11:48 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: dp0622

“How are you? :)”


Great.

A perfect Christmas——and a very Happy New Year to you.

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37 posted on 12/29/2016 5:41:18 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

I am glad and happy New Years to you too!


38 posted on 12/29/2016 9:10:44 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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