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This truck got stuck in Britain. (source)
The Daily Mail recently reported on an unfortunate truck driver whose reliance on his satellite navigation system ended up getting him wedged in a backroad in Britain. (It’s not as sexy as it sounds) In its story, the Mail refers to the driver as “Slovakian,” which is odd given the fact that their picture above shows:
1) A Slovenian plate; LJ being short for Ljubljana.
2) The words “VOLVO SLOVENIJA” over the windshield.
Reader plavtrg wrote to the Daily Mail to point out their mistake, but so far they haven’t bothered fixing it. But don’t despair just yet! Reader Kris notes that the BBC got it right. So cheers to them! (And cheers to both of them for alerting me to this story)
The final question: would a sat-nav system have helped The Daily Mail get the story right? My guess: Probably not.
(Thanks plavtrg and Kris!)
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Ah, the BBC aren’t usually that hot, surprisingly.
I had to e-mail enough times during Wimbledon when they insisted on calling Katarina Srebotnik ‘the Slovak’ or Croatian. She was knocked out by a real Slovak, of course.
Thanks for sharing. They’ve already corrected the nationality of my fellow sense-of-directionless co-citizen.
I wonder how many trucks’d be getting stuck in picturesque Slovene villages if we decided to put up text signs as was the case in this story. For example, “pozor: ogromna vozila se bodo zagozdila”.
Should help the local bars. A lot. Humm…
Oh yikes that’s what I get for having click-happy fingers. The error hasn’t been corrected yet. I opened the BBC page… ooops. I could probably still get a job at the Daily Mail, though
My guess is that the author of the article was distracted by his dreams of becoming a paperback writer. He’s working for the Daily Mail, it’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer.
Paperback writer.
Slightly OT: I’ve got a rather positive experience with the Beebs. Just before Slovene adoption of the euro their website ran an article about it, claiming that the transition period would take six months. I mailed website’s editor and they dully corrected the error.
Re: Lorry driver: Well, on such a narrow road, he at least didn’t have any worries about driving on the right (that is left) side of the road
czech truck driver did something similar on jezersko pass. he said: road looks straight on map… on map of europe of course.
You may be wrong this time. There are quite a lot of Slovakian drivers working for Slovene companies. So, the report may be correct.
BTW: Did anyone notice that comments on the Daily Mail webpage are mostly about SatNav (majority) rather than about the plain error the driver has made (minority)..
It funny - at least to me. I’m sure that a British driver who got lost in Slovenia would find little sympathy if he blamed his sattelite navigation system for his blunder…
…now, if he had lost his mobile phone, that’s another story, right?
How precisely does a Slovene truck get to Britain? Does it drive to France, load a boat, and get shipped across the channel to continue, or what?
Mhm, friend’s father does it quite often.
There’s this fancy newfangled thing, called “Le Tunnel”.