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'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-for-death-valley's-seasonal-ferry dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Every year, more and more Americans are dying in deserts and wildernesses because they rely on their GPS units (and, to some degree, their cellphones) to always be accurate. The Sacramento Bee quotes Death Valley wilderness coordinator Charlie Callagan: 'It's what I'm beginning to call death by GPS ... People are renting vehicles with GPS and they have no idea how it works and they are willing to trust the GPS to lead them into the middle of nowhere.'"

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  1. Kill It Before It Dies by jimmerz28 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm all for morons killing themselves. Why is this an assumed problem again?

  2. Re:who can forget the nightmare of james kim by DerekLyons · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim

    this story haunts me. because i could have done this.

    Which means that, like him, you're an idiot.
     

    any of us could

    Um, any of us who are idiots, yes. Those of us smart enough not to make the many idiotic mistakes he did, no.