Re: relying on GPS leads to accidents
- From: rhys <rhys@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:24:59 -0500
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:25:02 GMT, Mys Terry
<SteelRedCloud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:20:06 -0500, krj <joyner_k@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Why would someone blindly navigate by GPS in a marked channel and run on
the rocks. If you look at Chart 11468 there are R10 and G11 clearly
marking the channel just east of the point where he crashed into the jetty.
krj
It doesn't sound like the GPS was even slightly at fault in this case.
The kids today have a phrase called "owned". If you screw up a
situation entirely on your own, you are "owned". It may come out of
skateboard culture, where combining physics with cement offers plenty
of these type of opportunities.
Also of late, we have the concept of "The Darwin Awards", the winning
of which involves stupid behaviour that subtracts one from the gene
pool.
I propose, therefore, a new coinage of "Darwowned", which is a shout
one can give when one hears of the foolish meeting the deadly, such as
entering a harbour at speed, at night, via GPS.
I hope the "eye injury" was to the scrotum.
R.
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: relying on GPS leads to accidents
- From: prodigal1
- Re: relying on GPS leads to accidents
- References:
- relying on GPS leads to accidents
- From: krj
- relying on GPS leads to accidents
- Prev by Date: Boatel Islander Built By Bluewater
- Next by Date: Re: RDF (radio direction finding) ... do you ?
- Previous by thread: Re: relying on GPS leads to accidents
- Next by thread: Re: relying on GPS leads to accidents
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
