'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness

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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Re:who can forget the nightmare of james kim

[circletimessquare]

making fun of the dead and indicating zero empathy has only one meaning for me: you are loudly announcing that you have an inferior set of genes that should rightfully be removed from the population in order to improve humanity. no, i'm not talking eugenics, simple darwinian evolution has led to humans who function as a group during hard times and therefore have a survival advantage over arrogant loners with a god complex: immune from their own stupiditiy, immune from mistakes, immune from accidents that requires the aid of others. yeah, so superior. so its just a matter of time before your defective genes go by the wayside. moron