Google Maps is a very useful tool but like any apple website sometimes there will be glitches
and mistakes but with something as important and widely used as google maps sometimes these
mistakes have big consequences from an assassin sent to the wrong house thanks to google maps
to a country being invaded because of a google maps error desert disaster in 2017 one woman
named amber van heck was traveling to the grand canyon she was driving down a long desert road
and that's when she realized she only had enough gas left for 70 more miles according to google
maps she was only 35 miles from the nearest gas station but it turned out that this was
not the case at all google maps directed amber to turn onto a road which did not exist after
driving down this deserted road for many miles her car finally gave out there was nothing around
her for miles but empty arizona desert thankfully amber thought fast using stones she built a large
help sign for passing aircraft she also had food and water that she'd brought with her
after five days no one had come to help her she had used up all of her supplies and she
feared that she may not make it she recorded goodbye videos for her family and friends in
case she was not found in time to chase down a truck but they didn't see me in their rear view
i'm okay on the fifth day she left a note behind explaining her situation she then hiked for 22
miles until she finally found some reception she called 9-1-1 but lost service halfway through
the call however thankfully authorities had enough information to dispatch a helicopter to rescue her
she was airlifted to a hospital which cost her a lot of money but did save her life invasion
calero island sits between nicaragua and costa rica in 1897 it was recognized as part of costa
rica but ever since then there have been many land disputes about its sovereignty
in 2010 nicaraguan troops invaded the island they spent several nights camping on the island
and even replaced the costa rican flag with a nicaraguan flag the nicaraguan commander eden
pastora had invaded because he checked google maps according to pastora google had clearly
placed the island within nicaragua's border and for him this was enough to justify an invasion
in response costa rica deployed hundreds of soldiers to the island but thankfully no
conflict broke out google also fixed the mistake and they said that militaries should not use them
as a reference on the other hand being actually did place the island in the correct borders
so maybe this is one example where being is actually better than google
demolition glitch in 2015 rowlet texas was hit by a tornado this caused massive damage to over 1 000
homes one of the people affected was lindsey diaz the entire roof of her house was totally blown
off by the tornado thankfully her house was not affected too badly and all she had to do was fix
the roof she got her insurance claim and she had plans to rebuild the roof but on march 22nd 2016
she returned to her property to find it torn down it turned out that a demolition crew had
destroyed it the demolition company said that they had been given a permit to demolish two buildings
7601 and 7603 coastal drive bird diaz and neighbor lived at 7601 and 7603 calypso drive
this was just one block away a google maps glitch had sent the demolition crew to the wrong street
and when they saw the damage to diaz's property they assumed that they'd found the right place
thankfully the demolition company apologized and paid two hundred thousand dollars to build diaz a
new house secret military bases you may think that google maps allows you to see anywhere on earth
this is partially true but governments can opt for google to censor certain areas which they
deem sensitive this is often done to prisons oil refineries and military bases but in 2019
google maps came out with a new feature they provided a 3d map for four taiwanese cities
but one thing google did not realize was this meant that the city of new taipei was in 3d and
in new taipei is one of taiwan's most secret military bases and just like that the exact
location and structures of the classified patriot military defense space were exposed
anyone could clearly see the launchers and even the missiles stored there you could
also see the defense systems of two of taiwan's military offices this would be very dangerous
and sensitive intel for any military to release in any country but because tensions with taiwan and
china are building all the time this made it even more dangerous china's president xi jinping says
taiwan's unification with china is inevitable according to many it's a question of when not if
let's hope that google's mistake did not help china in this situation
assassin in 2010 eric cooler went to his parents house when he went inside he found his parents
dennis and mirna were not alive despite his lawyer saying that there was no forensic evidence saying
eric did it he was sentenced for this but that's when his parents next door neighbor came forward
with some stunning information just days before they were assassinated their next-door neighbor
steve burgess was sent a threatening letter steve burgess is the president at a local bank
it's believed an assassin may have been trying to target him but because of a mistake his address
actually goes to eric kohler's parents house on google maps this led cbs news to theorize that
maybe an assassin was trying to take out dennis kohler's parent's neighbor to this
day it's still a mystery and eric still says he had nothing to do with his parents passing from
behind bars favela fail in 2017 some tourists from argentina and spain were traveling in rio
de janeiro brazil they were following google maps trying to find the christ the redeemer statue but
that's when google maps led them into the moro dos proseras favela this is the most dangerous
slum in all of brazil it only took a few minutes for the tourist's car to come under heavy gunfire
they barely escaped alive brazilian favelas used to not be on google maps this is because they're
very dense and unregulated making them hard to map but ever since google started including them
many have said this is very dangerous that's because just like in this situation it could
cause tourists to wander unwittingly into very dangerous areas street view affair in 2018
one man from peru was browsing google maps he was looking for a route to a popular bridge in lima
but while he was using the street view mode he noticed a woman wearing very familiar clothing the
woman was wearing an outfit his wife would often wear when the man looked closer his jaw dropped he
realized that it was in fact his wife with another man resting romantically on her lap that man was
not him meaning that his wife was having an affair his wife's face was blurred so just in case it was
a coincidence he confronted her with the photos and that's when his wife confessed that she had
been cheating on him the photos had been taken by a google street camera car back in 2013. the
woman had no idea that five years later this would end her relationship highway route back in 2010
google maps was testing out walking directions this meant that the walking directions would not
always be accurate they put a warning saying this on their website but apparently this warning did
not show up on blackberry phones lauren rosenberg did not realize this she had been walking at night
through park city utah that's when google directed her across a four-lane highway this highway had no
sidewalks rosenberg tried to cross the road but was hit by a very fast car this caused multiple
bone fractures she went on to sue google for one hundred thousand dollars but in 2011 the case was
dismissed with google winning now it's time to make your voice heard comment below which was the
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