The 81-year-old man and his car got stuck on the way down, before a crane lifted the car away.
  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    3 days ago

    I’d judge him but I once was forced to rent a car in France because of a strike and drove through what was definitely a total pedestrian/restaurant area because it was on a map as a road. It can happen if you’re an idiot with no sense of direction.

    Also, Google Maps once tried to give me a shortcut through the Manhattan Project site in New Mexico. The security guard asked for ID and I gave him my driver’s license and he said, “Here’s what you’re gonna do. Go to that turnaround right there and never come back.”

    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I remember my moms old Garmin GPS always said “turn left down bike path” when we got close to home. I also one heard it tell her to turn left down a river while we were driving over a bridge.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      I will absolutely judge him anyway because literally everyone with a license should be able to scrounge up enough of a clue to fucking stop instead of driving down a damn staircase!

      • TXL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        There’s a stair going down to a carpark near here that every few years somebody tries to drive up or down.

        Of course it’s usually covered in snow when that happens, though, so you can’t see the steps.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 days ago

      Italy is even worse than France for this kind of thing. More than a few times I’ve found myself on streets that DEFINITELY were not car streets, but Google maps sent me there. Florence was the worst for this. I’ve also found myself on streets in Italy that only very very narrow cars could fit down because of Google maps. I had to reverse down a long alley because it kept narrowing and narrowing until even with the mirrors pulled back it was narrower than my rental car (with a small car in front of me pissed off because I was blocking her).

      Germany also has a lot of pedestrian/restaurant squares that do allow cars but only early in the morning or late at night, but there are no signs saying WHEN those times are. And I needed to drive through those squares to get to my hotels, so that was interesting a couple times.

    • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I did this in Carcassonne. The town square is one-way…not the way I was going. People were honking and yelling. I just pretended I was Clark Griswold and smiled and waved. “Everyone is so friendly around here!”

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      A lot of areas that seem like only pedestrian areas in Europe are still roads. Cars regularly drive on tiny streets, especially in Italy and France, nearly clipping people eating dinner.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      They shouldn’t have, almost all of los almos involved with the Manhattan project are secured but free to access by the public in large part.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I probably should have specified Los Alamos National Laboratory instead. It was definitely not a place I was authorized to be. I was just driving from Bandolier National Monument to Santa Fe. I’ve never been to Oak Ridge, Tennessee but I would hope someone stops me before I get to a transuranic element or something.

        To be honest, I probably shouldn’t be around anything beyond iron. (I’m a star.)

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      No kidding, when I went to renew my license there was an old guy there, accompanied by his son apparently, who couldn’t even understand when they told him to sit.

      He got his license renewed no problem.

  • Scrawny@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Ohhh, stuck as in stuck on the steps. I first read it like it was a “well this is my life now” headline.