Robbers Mistake Funeral Home For a Bank

Police are searching for a pair of suspects who tried to rob a funeral home that they mistook for a bank. The men assaulted a worker before another employee informed them that they weren't in a bank. It appears the pair learned from their mistake, as they are believed to have successfully robbed a nearby bank later.

the simurgh

[the simurgh]

once again gps technology fails another customer.

Stupid NaviBitch

[dov_0]

I recently used a GPS unit when visiting some mates in Sydney. Never again! Half the time the Navman (or NaviBitch as we called it) completely ignored streets being one way only, didn't recognise median strips etc. and street numbers? Sheesh. Most suburban streets only seemed to go up to 20 or 30 in the NaviBitch's distorted memory (especially those where our friends lived at 86 or so) requiring us to make long detours in Sydney's winding one-way streets to actually get to where we wanted (after turning the

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[dov_0]

The thing that gets me is that I can buy a book of maps for about $40 (far less than the NaviBitch) that already has all of the information on roads I require, several search options and almost perfect accuracy. The maps are readily available. Why don't the NaviBitch creators use the same government/private sources as the street directory publishers? As much as the map issues were annoying, the stupid tendency the machine had to take one around the block once, twice or even more while it decided where the

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[Neil Hodges]

I wouldn't depend on that map in all cases, though. There may [wikipedia.org] be some [wikipedia.org] false information [wikipedia.org] on it.

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[dov_0]

In Australia people pretty much swear by street directories put out by Ausway. They produce the Melway (Melbourne), Sidway (Sydney) and Brisway (Brisbane) street directories. The directories are so good and so popular that the grid references (at least in Melbourne) have become a standard way of telling people where you live or where your shop, place of worship, location of special event etc is. Eg. most wedding invites I receive have a Melways reference on them. The books also include public transport info

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[clone53421]

Hah. I can top that.

This map [google.com] has since been fixed, but a while back when I needed to drive that route Google simply told me “turn left”. Yeah. Off the bridge.

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[Fotograf]

"I recently used a GPS unit when visiting some mates in Sydney" your screen was probably upside down? did you tried it to rotate it?

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[dov_0]

No, we leave things upside-down here, because we all hang upside down too. git...

What?

[rmushkatblat]

How on earth could you mistake anything else for a bank?

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[jayme0227]

Stick em up! This is a robbery. You there, where's the vault?

Well, I see a solution

[clone53421]

Just lock ’em in the cooler for a while. That should calm them down.

“The vault? Right this way, sir.”