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In 300 yards, drive onto the rail tracks and await a passing train

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Originally posted by: Mursilis
This isn't apropos of anything in the story, but did anyone else notice how the skin tone of her face/neck doesn't seem to match up at all with the skin tone of her hands?!? Very odd.
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Jaundice? Scurvy?

 
Originally posted by: Mursilis
This isn't apropos of anything in the story, but did anyone else notice how the skin tone of her face/neck doesn't seem to match up at all with the skin tone of her hands?!? Very odd.
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Perhaps she's a gardener?
 
Originally posted by: luckysnafu
"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it

"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through.

"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me.

"Then I heard this train and I noticed train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing.

"I just stood back and I just watched this train come in front of me."

WHAT?!?!?! Can somebody explain what the hell this gate thing is she is talking about?
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I think its fairly obvious! 😀

 
Science H logic. Surely she would have noticed the 'road surface' comprised of large shingle and railway sleepers, generally not known for their complicit ride when driven on by a car?
 
In Germany, one driver drove around construction barriers and into a 10m tall pile of sand because his sat nav system told him that was the way to go. Another driver turned into a BUILDING 30 feet before the intersection because the sat nav system told him to.

In England, drivers routinely drove down what they call a "tractor path", which can also be called a jeep trail, in everyday cars. IGNORING POSTED SIGNS, because thier sat nav systems told them to go that route. Since then, many systems removed the entire town (Crackpot) from the map.

Faith in humanity FTL!

If people trust a little box on thier dash more than thier own eyes, why in the hell bother with things like windshields? The sand pile certainly wasn't going anywhere, the construction signs were there for a reason, running into a building takes user error to a whole new level. And taking a BMW sedan down a path that can't even be called a road qualifies you for terminally stupid.
 
Wow. They used about a full tub of makeup on her face.

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And for rural areas around here, it's just a stop sign with a yellow sign showing it's tracks. Now flashing, no gates, no nothing.
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: mugs
Does this setup seem retarded to anyone else? 😕
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Yes, but it's in Britian, so that pretty much explains it right there. 😉

- M4H
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You make it sound like she is Canadian or something.

By the way, did anyone else notice how nice her teeth are? Either they're fake or she's not TRULY British.
 
Originally posted by: hanoverphist
A second-year student at Birmingham University, she had borrowed the sat nav from her boyfriend, Tom Finucane, 21.
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mebbe he planned the whole thing... 😛

"I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she said.
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if the train was speeding, give it a ticket! lol

and if you cant see youre turning onto railroad tracks, sat nav is probably a little too much for you anyway. you would have to be a moron to see "turn left now" led onto tracks and not think something was wrong.


and her face/ neck is all makeup, hands are normal pasty.
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makeup? that much? wtf???
 
"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it

"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through.

"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me.
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she never actually says if she saw a green light or not. If it wasn't green, I'm just confused by her stupidity. If it was green, wouldn't the train have had a big headlight and a horn she would have heard when she got out of the car to open the gate?


"I'll never use a sat nav again. You rely on them and if it all goes wrong, you're horribly stuck.
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I fail to see how this was sat nav's fault. It was a perfectly fine route it sounds like. There just happened to be a train crossing. She could have surely found this route by looking at a regular map and would still have had a problem at the crossing...
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: mugs
Does this setup seem retarded to anyone else? 😕
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Yes, but it's in Britian, so that pretty much explains it right there. 😉

- M4H
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You live in Little Britain, except a bunch of you act French. You cannot get more effed up than that! 😉
 
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