How lost can you get!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13856024

A young emperor penguin, normally found in the Antarctic, has turned up on a New Zealand beach.
It is a rare event, the first confirmed sighting of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand in 44 years.
"I saw this glistening white thing standing up and I thought I was seeing things," said Christine Wilton, who found it while walking her dog.
The department of conservation is baffled by how it arrived, saying it may have taken a wrong turn.

The worst I got lost was when driving through Luxembourg, I turned left instead of right and ended up in Germany instead of France. :pac:

effluent

I remember reading someone ended up driving into a pond because their Sat Nav lead them there.

That's prett bad

sbsquarepants

First time driving in Europe, going sking many years ago, i took a "shortcut" on a map (this was pre sat nav kidddies) and ended up going over the Pyrenees instead of through the tunnels. This was in pitch darkness from about midnight till about 4 in the morning, absolutely terrified by the sheer unprotected drops, the bloody steering wheel on the wrong side and the ice and snow and also, the literally thousands, of frogs (the small green hoppy things, not native frenchies) that were, for some reason, out for a stroll hop.
So yeah, i can see how poor old pingu ended up where he did.

HazDanz

Made me think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI3u7g8PPEA

mstan

effluent wrote: »

I remember reading someone ended up driving into a pond because her Sat Nav lead her there.

That's prett bad

FYP

Luxie

dolanbaker wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13856024


The worst I got lost was when driving through Luxembourg, I turned left instead of right and ended up in Germany instead of France. :pac:

Someone stopped and asked me for directions to Belgium in Luxembourg once, but I realised afterwards I had probably sent them to France.

Easy enough mistake to make.

Shivers26

Had a meeting in Sandyford one day, printed off lovely walking direction from Luas stop in Sandyford to my destination. Turns our 'bear left' is not the same as 'turn left' so took a wrong turn and ended up wandering around the Stillorgan dual carriageway before I eventually gave in and got in a taxi. The driver laughed at me

ScumLord

I was extremely lost the first time I entered a roundabout in Valencia, it was pure chaos. I was trying to get into the science Museum on the other side of the roundabout and ended up on the motorway to Madrid, then in the Valencian ghetto.

CrazyRabbit

Every time I go out to buy bread in the local Spar, I keep taking a wrong turn and getting lost. For some inexplicable reason, I keep ending up in a pub.

Duckworth_Luas

effluent wrote: »

I remember seeing on the US Office where Michael Scott ended up driving into a pond because his Sat Nav lead him there.

That's prett bad

mstan wrote: »

FYP

FYFYP

Where To

I've never been lost!:pac:

Cianos

I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.

I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver's full of sh*t, man.

number10a

effluent wrote: »

I remember reading someone ended up driving into a pond because their Sat Nav lead them there.

That's prett bad

A friend of mine in Germany put some place in Switzerland into her SatNav one day and it guided her to a train station on the German side of the border and told her to take the train the rest of the way.

Dunjohn

In fairness to the penguin, it's easy enough to take a wrong turn in a place as badly signposted as the ocean.

Kevin Duffy

A friend of mine set off from Dublin heading to Clare and ended up in Westport. I dunno either.

Very very lost.. Old man directed me down this road which led to the backarse of a backarse of nowhere place in Southern Vietnam. Always remember it as the day I drove for about 10 hours and made it about 70km. Good fun but always gets worrying towards dusk and no one understands your map or language.

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/2907/p1020152a.jpg

InTheTrees

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=24.180574,121.312033&spn=0.003548,0.007623&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=24.180595,121.312145&panoid=5xU1LMgV2XP3cgUAqOguVw&cbp=12,126.5,,0,-6.33