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Traveling Couple Misspells Destination in GPS and Ends Up in Wrong Place

Last July the BBC news reported on how a couple from Sweden typed Carpi into their GPS when they meant Capri. Their GPS did what it was suppose to and took them 400 miles off course. A tourism official in Carpi said, "Capri is an island. They did not even wonder why they didn’t cross a bridge or take any boat. Once they realized their mistake, the couple got back in their car and headed south."1

1http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8173308.stm accessed November 5, 2009

It confirms the sin present since Genesis 3 and affirms our own choices to, as Isaiah says, "go astray" like sheep wandering off.

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