Saying this as an American, my first thought was it had to be an American tourist.
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.”
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.
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!
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.
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.
Spain can get pretty tight too.
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!”
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.
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.
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.)
Oh yeah there’s still active labs there.
if those steps are so spanish the why are they in rome?
On holiday
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Dude watched too much action movies.
Or used Apple maps to navigate.
Apple Maps has had its share of mishaps too. There was one instance where someone was hosting a party at a farmhouse, and everyone who used Apple Maps to navigate to the address ended up on an airport runway.
IIRC, this was shortly after their big breakup with Google Maps, so Apple fell back to using outdated maps.
That’s the joke. Iirc, there were lots of news of seemingly insane driving by people blindly following the navigation in Apple devices some years ago. (Might be quite a few years now)
When I was in Australia, this happened…
Saw a Jason Bourne movie, didn’t use the right car.
Specifically Mission: Impossible.
I’m sure there’s at least a couple others that do the same thing.
The Italian Job (1969)
Should have been driving a Mini.
81 year old.
Yeah, and he said he was heading to work.
Retiring would be a step down for that guy.
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.
His mistake was not driving a Mini Cooper.
Or a Fiat 500
Ohhh, stuck as in stuck on the steps. I first read it like it was a “well this is my life now” headline.
You are not alone.
one hopes that he’s learnt his lesson and takes appropriate steps hereon.
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I got berated once by an officer for trying to sit down on those steps.
They were looking out for you, you could get ran over.
I have nightmares about stuff like this
