Pictures, Something is burrowing through the desert when a creature pops up through a hole in the dirt. A grey rabbit stands, brushing himself off and looking at his surroundings. That Bugs Bunny statement is a frequently used gag in a number of Warner Brothers cartoons.
But seriously, that is one very specific geographical reference. The road eventually comes up to a junction, and drivers are faced with choices at the intersection of what are now Central Avenue and Rio Grande Boulevard.
John Deeth wrote about this in August The 20th-century has seen rapid urban expansion across the city, spreading into areas covered in desert scrub. The last third option did not show up until the s. In the following , s, , and maps, the intersection of Central Ave. I made the picture above on 7 October He may be clever enough to outwit red-haired cowboys, bald hunters with a speech impediment and even alien conquerors from the planet Mars. But Bugs Bunny sure has a bad sense of direction!
Whenever he travels to far away locations, he burrows through the earth in a attempt to get to his destination. Unfortunately, he keeps on making the same wrong turn in New Mexico…. Geek wisdom : Have you ever gotten lost or gotten so turned around that you have no idea where you are?
Or have you ever gone on a trip and then lost your way? The best thing to do in these situations is to just ask for directions.
We try to figure where we are by backtracking. While this may help out sometimes, we do waste a lot of time doing this. Wiki Targeted Games. The fastest way to get the most Looney Tunes episodes is to purchase the Golden Collection. A number of scenes displaying smoking, alcohol consumptions, harmful substance abuse, and violence were deleted, re-dubbed, or even taken off-air. Honourable mentions:. Why does Bugs Bunny always reference Albuquerque? What beach was Bugs Bunny going to?
Where in California is Pismo Beach? In which state should Bugs Bunny have taken a left turn? When asked by Mario about it, Toad says "I guess I made a wrong turn at that last iceberg! Cast Away. Chuck wound up so far off the beaten path it took him five years to get home, and the search and rescue team was looking for him hundreds of miles away.
The reason the survivors on Lost were on their own: their plane was miles off-course when it crashed. Happens in Stargate SG-1 at least once. With the Stargate itself.
A frequent setup for the survival situations featured in Survivorman and Man vs. Two Thousand Maniacs! Wrong Turn features this trope as the central plot point for the entire film. Stephen King is really fond of the trope: In You Know They Got a Hell of a Band , a family couple lost in Oregon ends up in a strange, s-style town called "Rock and Roll Heaven", which is populated by the ghosts of famous rock and roll musicians.
In Crouch End , another family couple ends up in an unfamiliar district of London populated by Lovecraftian horrors. In Mrs. Todd's Shortcut , the titular Mrs. Todd discovers a mysterious road called "Motorway B", which is not on any roadmap, and the forests around it are inhabited by fantastic creatures.
The Twilight Zone : "The Beacon". This guy was going to the kitchen. Real Life. Happens around Albuquerque more than anyone would care to admit. Turn-by-turn GPS-based navigation systems are designed for car drivers, and do not include information on bridge clearances or mountain passes.
Truckers using them may have to backtrack dozens of miles around a low bridge or narrow pass that the GPS didn't know about, if they're lucky. If they're unlucky , they get stuck and do thousands of dollars' damage to the truck.
Newer models now have "car" and "truck" settings to specifically try and prevent this. Failing to make sure that the destination you think you input is the one the GPS accepted is another source of chaos — the story is told of a truck driver who meant to go to Spain and ended up nearly driving into the North Sea because of a name mixup.
Devices that contain dated map data can also lead the user the wrong way completely. In , Apple launched its own version of Maps, but received a storm of criticism as their maps turned out to be horribly inaccurate.
The Australian police even issued an official warning not to use it to get to the town of Mildura, because the application would leave the user stranded in the Murray-Sunset National Park, 70 kilometers off target and a very dangerous area to be in without proper preparation. In , Jim and Jennifer Stolpa, along with their baby son Clayton, took the wrong turn in Nevada and ended up stranded in the middle of a barren ice desert. The mother stayed with her baby in a cave, keeping him alive by melting snow in her mouth and letting the baby drink it, while the father walked for 50 miles in the freezing cold looking for a road.
This was also the subject of the Neil Patrick Harris film Snowbound. In January , Sabine Moreau had intended to drive to a train station in Brussels, Belgium that was 38 miles away from her home to pick up a friend.
Led along by her supposedly defective TomTom GPS, she eventually ended up miles away from her original destination in Zagreb, Croatia, equating to a two-day trip that involves traveling through five different countries Belgium, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia.
When asked whether or not she thought the journey's length or the change in language of the traffic signs was strange, she replied "Maybe, but I was just preoccupied. Within Cities, it can be even worse, with exits for two or more different streets all exiting in quick succession.
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