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Iceman 14-01-2013 09:20 PM
Woman Drives To Croatia By Mistake
 
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A Belgian woman accidentally drove to Croatia after relying too heavily on her GPS system.

The woman, 67-year-old Sabine Moureau, wanted to drive to Brussels but ended up in Zagreb, Croatia, reports flandersnews.be.

She ended up 1,450km from her home without realising that the journey, which should have taken her an hour, had gone wrong.

Moureau said: "I was absent-minded so I kept putting my foot down.

"I switched on the GPS and punched in the address. Then I started out. My GPS seemed a bit wonky. It sent me on diversions and that's where it must have gone wrong."

The woman had to fill up her car twice and stopped to sleep for a few hours.

She claimed she did not realise she was heading in the wrong direction.
Would never happen a man tbh :idc:

Marcus. 14-01-2013 09:23 PM
oh that was cleaver like

Livia 14-01-2013 09:28 PM
Surely going through the borders would have given her a clue.

Iceman 14-01-2013 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5760820)
Surely going through the borders would have given her a clue.
Was thinking this as well haha

LemonJam 14-01-2013 09:29 PM
My dad once drove from Bath trying to get to Weymouth and ended up in Birmingham

Me. I Am Salman 14-01-2013 09:34 PM
fake +gay

Livia 14-01-2013 09:39 PM
I know someone who went home on leave to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, got on the coach, fell asleep and ended up in St Ives, Cornwall. Doofus.

Marc 14-01-2013 09:39 PM
We've all done it

Livia 14-01-2013 09:43 PM
I have ended up at Upminster a few times after falling asleep on the District Line.

King Gizzard 14-01-2013 10:05 PM
What did you do today Patricia? Oh just drove to Croatia by mistake, thought I was going to Genk

Jake. 14-01-2013 11:28 PM
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Woman Drives To Croatia By Mistake
Done.

Ramsay 14-01-2013 11:29 PM
Silly woman drivers

Jake. 14-01-2013 11:32 PM
Bet it was Niamh again

KingBilly 14-01-2013 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Salman! (Post 5760838)
fake +gay
spilled tea.

Shaun 15-01-2013 12:10 AM
-trying to work out if you'd be able to pass EU country borders without a passport-

going through germany, then austria, then italy should work... and they're all EU... I'm just not sure if this is a myth I've been told or not

Ammi 15-01-2013 03:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 5760859)
We've all done it
..yeah exactly..let's not pretend that we haven't...what a thread full of people living in denial...

Livia 15-01-2013 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by JH95 (Post 5761371)
Done.
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Originally Posted by Karl (Post 5761372)
Silly woman drivers
You two... veeeery cheeky.

I challenge you both to a parallel parking and map reading competition. Bring your own motors though, you're not driving mine...

Niamh. 15-01-2013 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Iceman (Post 5760779)
Would never happen a man tbh :idc:
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Originally Posted by LemonJam (Post 5760824)
My dad once drove from Bath trying to get to Weymouth and ended up in Birmingham
:idc:

Vanessa 15-01-2013 10:42 AM
:joker::joker::joker::joker:

Scarlett. 15-01-2013 11:18 AM
Something like this happened to me once, I caught a bus into town and ended up in Tehran.

Niamh. 15-01-2013 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Chewy (Post 5762106)
Something like this happened to me once, I caught a bus into town and ended up in Tehran.
Could happen to anyone tbf Chewy

Niall 15-01-2013 11:35 AM
Surely she would've seen a sign or something? Or at least noticed the language changing abruptly?

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5760820)
Surely going through the borders would have given her a clue.
I thought that too but isn't Croatia part of the EU? I swear EU members don't have conventional borders? You can just pass on through without stopping? :suspect:

Niamh. 15-01-2013 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Niall (Post 5762156)
Surely she would've seen a sign or something? Or at least noticed the language changing abruptly?



I thought that too but isn't Croatia part of the EU? I swear EU members don't have conventional borders? You can just pass on through without stopping? :suspect:
Not sure what it's like there, but we drove through France and into Spain once, not everyone gets stopped and checked but there was a border with border police there

Niall 15-01-2013 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 5762165)
Not sure what it's like there, but we drove through France and into Spain once, not everyone gets stopped and checked but there was a border with border police there
Hm. I remember reading about it somewhere (Wikipedia I think), and it was about EU border agreement and the German/Austrian border was represented by nothing more than a sign. :suspect:

Livia 15-01-2013 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Niall (Post 5762156)
I thought that too but isn't Croatia part of the EU? I swear EU members don't have conventional borders? You can just pass on through without stopping? :suspect:
But there are still borders. If someone wasn't braindead, it would be obvious they were at a border. If this story is true the woman needs her licence taking off her and from now on she should travel on a bus with an escort.

Marc 15-01-2013 12:12 PM
Exactly! The colour of the country is different, surely they'd realise the different coloured ground!

Jesus. 15-01-2013 12:16 PM
It's not really been mentioned, but she was only trying to reverse park.


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