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November 2, 2007
Sat-nav puts lorry driver in tight spot for 3 nights
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Yes, a road atlas, is a good idea. My satnav sent me down a 'motorway exit' that was a sigle-track road reserved for police cars. And then tried to do the same on the return journey. Arrrgh.
Ivor Duarte, Shepperton, UK
I don't know where in New Jersey you live, but definitely if it had happened where I live he'd have been treated the same. Although I don't know if we would've been able to find someone to translate. Once my mom and I went out shopping for a mattress but it wouldn't fit in the car, so two nice guys offered to follow behind us in their pick-up truck all the way home. People are good!
Elizabeth, Michigan, USA
Whatever happened to the Road Atlas and a bit of common sense?
Freda, Gloucestershire, England
I wonder how many other countries would allow a lorry to block a road for so long just because the owner did not want to pay a weekend call out charge!!
Adrian, aldershot, England
It wasn't near a city. It was in some beautiful rural countryside, and I have been welcomed by locals - admittedly not in the same circumstances - all over the USA. Some of your cities may be scary, but there are plenty of places where the people are kind to strangers. We loved one small community so much we bought a home there, but I am not saying where it is, for obvious reasons.
David Shipley, Harpenden, England
Thank heavens for kind hearts. I'm sorry to say that if this had happened near a large city here in "The States," this poor man would have been robbed & had found his truck covered in grafitti & his tires gone, as well as being verbally, & possibly physically accosted for "holding up traffic." On top of those horrors, Mr. Odenhai would have been ridiculed for his lack of using / understanding English. Kindness, such as this fellow enjoyed from the helpful Auburn family , comes far & few between. This simple erroneous situation would have made headlines for becoming a tragedy in most U.S. cities, but was made into something much nicer & beautiful because people took the time to care for another human being. If only everyone were like the Auburns, what a wonderful world this would be.
Kerry, NewJersey, USA