Wild times on the Big Island.
Our lives, each, are inextricably tied to technology. We either embrace all the gizmos and gadgets, the smart appliances and next-gen Apple priority recognizing watches, we don’t and plant flags on Mt. Luddite or fall somewhere in between. I am solidly in the hypocritical camp when it comes to computers, phones and their various applications. I know they are all making me dumber and I hate Big Brother peeking at everything I do but also want to know how much traffic I’ll be stuck in, say, so Google Map my brain into mush.
Have you read the studies that relying on GPS is actively destroying our sense of where we are in the world? It is true and, perhaps, truest of all on Hawaii’s Big Island where tourists in rental cars continue driving into the water whilst blindly staring at their digital maps.
The second such incident in under a month occurred days ago at the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor near Kailua-Kona. A fisherman, Drew Solmonson and his son captured the automobile as it sinks, its driver attempting to turn off the windshield wipers with the two screaming at her to save herself.
“We were trying to land the boat and screaming the whole time to get her attention but her GPS had told her to go there so she drove right in,” Solmonson explained.
The world’s greatest surfer, Kelly Slater, preparing to not go the Olympics via El Salvador, commented “So many questions,” on the Instagram clip leaving fans confused as “How did the woman drive into the water?” had just been answered with “We were trying to land the boat and screaming the whole time to get her attention but her GPS had told her to go there so she drove right in.”
Studies on avid social media users and their declining reading comprehension certainly in need.
In any case, Ryan Aguilar, spokesperson with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, told SFGATE that there are no plans to add signage to the harbor. “It’s really clear that it is a ramp and it leads directly into the water,” he said.
More questions, I suppose.
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They’ll put up a sign after they get sued and lose. This is a democrat state. You be surprised how mentally ungrounded the courts are around here.
Good thing they can use some of the fees they are planning on charging tourists to come here. Obviously our legislative and executive branches are equally obtuse.
Beach Grit should change its name to Beach Shit because of the adds covering half of the content for mobile devices and including Kelly Slaters name in 19 out of 20 articles…such shitty practiced. I’ve heard Chaz Smith has tried to ram his nose up Slaters ass but his body guards keep Chaz away. The only time that was close was when Slater was going to take a dump and Chaz stalked him in the next stall over a span slid under the stall walls only to put his head on the toilet seat before Slater sat down with his face up. A quick thinking Slater gave Chaz a face full before sitting down. That was a face full of Taco Tuesday blowout. Slater loves hot sauce and the blowout gave Chaz was quoted ” that shit feels like pepper spray.”
Slater wiped his ass with Chazs shirt and left laughing saying ” it smells like teen spirit.”
If you’ve never seen Michael and Dwight’s GPS driving mishap in The Office, you really haven’t lived !
Do you think giving your toddler an ipad would make them smarter? Humanity is on the slide
Just watched footage of a Japanese tourist trying to pet a buffalo. I think I see a pattern here.
If only she’d been using Weed Maps, she’d be high and dry.
CommanderChuck was my guy
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Def Leppard good album
I just kept watching to make sure my suspicions were correct. Asian female driver.
geish(a)
Here on Big Island, tourons help the economy, so we residents tolerate them. They are also a constant source of entertainment, often doing unbelievably dumb things. There ought to be a reality show devoted to touron fails… it would be comical.
Chas, you need to post a vid of the FIRST incident. Hilarious!
in 70s was walking down Waipio trail with two eyes on the surf. when I woke up was laying on the cobbles. down, but not out. caught a couple of waves. woke up again at the Ahualoa cabin. accident wasn’t drug-related. but getting to the Island from Norcal began as a shroom-fest. and that eight ball the I carried on the plane didn’t last the first night! pre-touron days.
Just when you thought women couldn’t drive any worse.
That’s the problem. I always know they can drive worse.
A few of my exes can’t tell which direction is north. I think thats why they always get lost.
Any idiot knows it’s up./
Google Maps is the Johnny Boy of the highway.
Johhny-Boy Google (JBG)
JJF advanced today in El Sal…to where? I have no idea.
Shortness of breath…
and one day closer to death.
did we hi-jinks him? 4th in his heat on Jun 5 ’23. but that was ISA. will he surf Punta on the 8th?
tourist think ice is same as crack