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[Balalan]

Deniz, I always find a way to smuggle the 4kilos of hellim I bring back, not to mention the 14kilos everyone else gives us to bring back, then there are the jams of macun (another 24 kilos)..if we ever get caught there will be enough food to feed a small country for a month!

[Balalan]

We are all happy little bombas! Ain't that right Lena?!

[LENA]

We are all happy little bombas! Ain't that right Lena?!

Yes that correct!

[GorillaGal]

everyone's happy today!

[LENA]

For a change!!

[Balalan]

Yes indeedy GorillaGal! And it's Friday!

[GorillaGal]

Thank Goddess for Friday!

[denizaksulu]

Gori is girl.................................did you read in the Turkish press of a TIR driver from Turkey. He entered Gibraltar in his SatNav and ended up in Northern England in a place with the same name. Ofcourse his destination was that small British enclave where Barbary apes flourish, south of Spain. Ole!

Where did he end up then please D?

Found it on the net. Here it is.

Don't trust your sat nav!
A TURKISH driver driving a 32 tonne lorry went on a 1600 mile detour

Kategori : English
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Tarih : 24 Temmuz 2008 16:18




A TURKISH driver driving a 32 tonne lorry went on a 1600 mile detour when his satellite navigation (sat nav) directed him to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire instead of Gibraltar on the Spanish Mediterranean.

Necdet Bakimci was due to travel to Gibraltar with his lorry load of luxury cars from Turkey to Gibraltar when he was directed by his sat nav down a narrow road which led to the North Sea instead.

Astonished birdwatchers at Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire watched Bakimci struggle for an hour to turn his lorry around after getting stuck down the narrow road.

It is thought his sat nav had listed Gibraltar Rock as UK territory when in fact he was directed 1600 miles away to Gibraltar Point.

Bakimci eventually was able to arrange with his firm in Antakya in Turkey to ship the cars to Spain from Birmingham and he began his journey home.

His blunder is by no means an isolated incident with warnings this week that drivers must also use their common sense when using sat navs.

Direct Line’s Maggie Game said “If a sat nav gives you an instruction that is likely to endanger other road users, ignore it. Motorists must realise that while they are a helpful navigational tool, they should not follow their instructions to the detriment of road safety.”

The incident occurs in the week that it was announced that one in ten of the 300,000 sat nav users in the UK turn down roads with no entry signs at their mouth.

One UK driver, Aydin Halil, told the London Turkish Gazette: “I’ve only used a sat nav a few times but I’m not impressed. It is not clear with its directions. It tells you to turn after 200 or 300 metres but how are you meant to judge that while driving. It’s meant that some of my journeys have taken longer.”

Mr Halil also lamented the affect on his concentration while driving and also the fact that the change to the access of certain roads, roadworks and other changes that can affect ones journey had not been recorded on the sat nav software.

Salih Fikri of Enfield was more complimentary in opinion of the benefits of sat nav – noting that it has it decreased his journey times. However he did complain that his sat nav directed him down a dead end road, which led to him reversing into a metallic bell that was not visible in his rear-view mirror.


54321

[SSBubbles]

Gori is girl.................................did you read in the Turkish press of a TIR driver from Turkey. He entered Gibraltar in his SatNav and ended up in Northern England in a place with the same name. Ofcourse his destination was that small British enclave where Barbary apes flourish, south of Spain. Ole!

Where did he end up then please D?

Found it on the net. Here it is.

Don't trust your sat nav!
A TURKISH driver driving a 32 tonne lorry went on a 1600 mile detour

Kategori : English
Yorum Sayısı : 0
Okunma : 28
Tarih : 24 Temmuz 2008 16:18




A TURKISH driver driving a 32 tonne lorry went on a 1600 mile detour when his satellite navigation (sat nav) directed him to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire instead of Gibraltar on the Spanish Mediterranean.

Necdet Bakimci was due to travel to Gibraltar with his lorry load of luxury cars from Turkey to Gibraltar when he was directed by his sat nav down a narrow road which led to the North Sea instead.

Astonished birdwatchers at Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire watched Bakimci struggle for an hour to turn his lorry around after getting stuck down the narrow road.

It is thought his sat nav had listed Gibraltar Rock as UK territory when in fact he was directed 1600 miles away to Gibraltar Point.

Bakimci eventually was able to arrange with his firm in Antakya in Turkey to ship the cars to Spain from Birmingham and he began his journey home.

His blunder is by no means an isolated incident with warnings this week that drivers must also use their common sense when using sat navs.

Direct Line’s Maggie Game said “If a sat nav gives you an instruction that is likely to endanger other road users, ignore it. Motorists must realise that while they are a helpful navigational tool, they should not follow their instructions to the detriment of road safety.”

The incident occurs in the week that it was announced that one in ten of the 300,000 sat nav users in the UK turn down roads with no entry signs at their mouth.

One UK driver, Aydin Halil, told the London Turkish Gazette: “I’ve only used a sat nav a few times but I’m not impressed. It is not clear with its directions. It tells you to turn after 200 or 300 metres but how are you meant to judge that while driving. It’s meant that some of my journeys have taken longer.”

Mr Halil also lamented the affect on his concentration while driving and also the fact that the change to the access of certain roads, roadworks and other changes that can affect ones journey had not been recorded on the sat nav software.

Salih Fikri of Enfield was more complimentary in opinion of the benefits of sat nav – noting that it has it decreased his journey times. However he did complain that his sat nav directed him down a dead end road, which led to him reversing into a metallic bell that was not visible in his rear-view mirror.


54321

The mind boggles

Cheers D!

[denizaksulu]

Gori is girl.................................did you read in the Turkish press of a TIR driver from Turkey. He entered Gibraltar in his SatNav and ended up in Northern England in a place with the same name. Ofcourse his destination was that small British enclave where Barbary apes flourish, south of Spain. Ole!

Where did he end up then please D?

Found it on the net. Here it is.

Don't trust your sat nav!
A TURKISH driver driving a 32 tonne lorry went on a 1600 mile detour

Kategori : English
Yorum Sayısı : 0
Okunma : 28
Tarih : 24 Temmuz 2008 16:18




A TURKISH driver driving a 32 tonne lorry went on a 1600 mile detour when his satellite navigation (sat nav) directed him to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire instead of Gibraltar on the Spanish Mediterranean.

Necdet Bakimci was due to travel to Gibraltar with his lorry load of luxury cars from Turkey to Gibraltar when he was directed by his sat nav down a narrow road which led to the North Sea instead.

Astonished birdwatchers at Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire watched Bakimci struggle for an hour to turn his lorry around after getting stuck down the narrow road.

It is thought his sat nav had listed Gibraltar Rock as UK territory when in fact he was directed 1600 miles away to Gibraltar Point.

Bakimci eventually was able to arrange with his firm in Antakya in Turkey to ship the cars to Spain from Birmingham and he began his journey home.

His blunder is by no means an isolated incident with warnings this week that drivers must also use their common sense when using sat navs.

Direct Line’s Maggie Game said “If a sat nav gives you an instruction that is likely to endanger other road users, ignore it. Motorists must realise that while they are a helpful navigational tool, they should not follow their instructions to the detriment of road safety.”

The incident occurs in the week that it was announced that one in ten of the 300,000 sat nav users in the UK turn down roads with no entry signs at their mouth.

One UK driver, Aydin Halil, told the London Turkish Gazette: “I’ve only used a sat nav a few times but I’m not impressed. It is not clear with its directions. It tells you to turn after 200 or 300 metres but how are you meant to judge that while driving. It’s meant that some of my journeys have taken longer.”

Mr Halil also lamented the affect on his concentration while driving and also the fact that the change to the access of certain roads, roadworks and other changes that can affect ones journey had not been recorded on the sat nav software.

Salih Fikri of Enfield was more complimentary in opinion of the benefits of sat nav – noting that it has it decreased his journey times. However he did complain that his sat nav directed him down a dead end road, which led to him reversing into a metallic bell that was not visible in his rear-view mirror.


54321

The mind boggles

Cheers D!

I checked my satnav. There are two places with the name of Gibraltar in the UK. One in Lincoln and the other in BUCKS somewhere.