Japanese tourists

[ChrisCE]

Hey all , just spotted this one & had to share it:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glancevie...-island.glance
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From 9 News:
Three Japanese tourists found themselves in an embarrassing situation after their GPS led them to drive right into the muddy waters of Moreton Bay.

The trio were trying to get to North Stradbroke Island in Queensland yesterday when they took the wrong turn.

They travelled about 500m through mangrove mud, apparently unaware of the 15km of water separating them from their destination.

Yuzu Noda, 21, said their GPS guide "told us we could drive down there".

[XARATE]

500m through mangrove mud in a getz? SOLID EFFORT!!!!! Good on them

[Yellow_Festiva]

Reminds me of that common cartoon scene where a person is getting chased on the road and they paint centre lines to go into a wall and the person chasing drives into the wall....

Who Framed Roger Rabit has the best one I think....

Oh well.... And I always thought the Japanese to be a pretty astute bunch....

[phil.50thxr6]

AHAHAHA!!! How stupid!

[Ben73]

Our GPS once told us our destination was in the middle of a bridge, But we didn't stop in the middle of bridge and look for the building now did we.

I know GPS's can confuse you sometimes, but from the picture it looks like they tried to drive across the ocean. Shouldn't common sense kick in at some point.

[EDManual]

And worth the $1500 excess for the laugh and photos for friends back home!!

[FreddyDUZ747]

Hire cars go anywhere.

[Miss_XR6]

Bahaha classic!!!!

[rancidpunx]

Pretty funny, although the authority are just going to leave the car there I think.

In an extended news feature I read yesterday the driver said something like "It may well have made it if the car was made in Japan and not Korea".
Genius!

[blackf6]

Turn around now, you have missed the turn. Turn around now, proposed underwater tunnel not built till 2016 turn around now!!

[TheSneakiness]

Have to be a sandwich short of a picnic wouldn't you?

[Danny]

The "Japanese" is irrelevant. Why mainstream media uses labels like this is beyond me.

Japanese are as astute and as dumb as any other world citizen..

[gtfpv]

actually a scientist i know told me that asian people . i dont know which race , have the highest IQ in the world , the white man is in the middle , and the lowest is a tribe , in some remote place .
but i have to laugh at that.

[DJM83]

Good job to get that far

Agreed, hire cars can go places most cars of the same type owned by regular people

[Buntz]

Originally Posted by Ben73

Our GPS once told us our destination was in the middle of a bridge, But we didn't stop in the middle of bridge and look for the building now did we.

I know GPS's can confuse you sometimes, but from the picture it looks like they tried to drive across the ocean. Shouldn't common sense kick in at some point.

Lot's of water doesn't really phase the Japanese.

[AU Mont]

Originally Posted by Danny

The "Japanese" is irrelevant. Why mainstream media uses labels like this is beyond me.

Japanese are as astute and as dumb as any other world citizen..

But we can at least say that on Friday, 16th of March 2012, the japanese took home the trophy.

[Jim Goose]

Picture shows the car AFTER the tide came in... they were driving in the mud at low tide.... (which still shoulda made them think something is wrong here...)

[Bossxr8]

All aboard the fail boat, I mean fail Getz.

Common sense isn't that common it would seem.

[lamborghinifan]

reminds me of the top gear episode where jeremy drove off a landing craft and through shallow water then up the beach. amazing.

[falconnut]

I getz they got what they paid for

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by lamborghinifan

reminds me of the top gear episode where jeremy drove off a landing craft and through shallow water then up the beach. amazing.

I have no idea how he didn't drown the engine in that one, the water was way over the bonnet. Either it had been sealed up or it was a miracle it didn't swallow a gutfull of water.

[InTrail]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

actually a scientist i know told me that asian people . i dont know which race , have the highest IQ in the world , the white man is in the middle , and the lowest is a tribe , in some remote place .
but i have to laugh at that.

Never heard of Collingwood referred to as a remote place before.

[Torment47]

" Hoe kay, i fink this where we board our boat!"

[Resurrection]

The GPS told them repeatedly to turn left - but they did not understand as the Japanese only know reft and right.

[XRGhia]

Reminds me of Swift and Shift...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0DN-yTq24

[Tokyo Geoff]

Maybe they saw a passing whale and wanted to do some "research"?

[burnz]

Originally Posted by Buntz93ED

Lot's of water doesn't really phase the Japanese.

that and fallout.

[Torment47]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Geoff

Maybe they saw a passing whale and wanted to do some "research"?

HAHAHAHA, they knew they had no chance in a Getz

[Lotte]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Geoff

Maybe they saw a passing whale and wanted to do some "research"?

And then we find out they got stuck cuz Sea Shepherd went after them....

[TC200six]

The mass media were slow with this story. This happened yesterday at 11am very close to where I live and it only got attention by Nine News just today.

I only found out about it via the Redlands Times website yesterday afternoon, the report said plans of removing the vehicle were abandoned due to the tide coming in so I tried to find where the car got stuck but I couldn't find it, probably because the tide was in and it might have been completely under water. But it certainly gave the Redlands some national attention.

It's not the first time someone got bogged near there, years ago a guy in a Jeep Cherokee decided to go for a drive in the mudflats at low tide and got bogged. The tide came in and submerged the whole vehicle and they needed 2 tow trucks and an excavator to get it out.