PAPAMOA UNDER-14 NETBALL BUS STRANDED AT FERRY TERMINAL AFTER GPS BACKS ITSELF
Driver insists the app said 'board vessel'. The vessel had left at 6.40am.
A bus carrying the Papamoa Sharks under-14 netball squad spent ninety minutes idling at a ferry terminal on Saturday morning after the driver's GPS routed them onto a sailing that had departed two hours earlier.
The bus was meant to be in Hamilton by nine. The app told the driver to queue for a vehicular ferry that doesn't service State Highway 29. My Gerald would've used a Wises and been at the courts by half eight.
Driver Lionel told The Daily Yarn he'd followed the app because "the lady on the phone has never let me down before". She has now. The girls were two hours late and one toilet stop short of mutiny.
Sideline mum Donna Petrie, whose daughter plays goal defence, said the WhatsApp chat "absolutely went off". "I said to the coach, where the fuck is my child, and he sent back a photo of a seagull. A seagull, Margaret. I rang my husband and told him to get in the Hilux."
By 9.15am four dads had convoyed out to extract the team. One father told Lionel he was a "useless tosser carrying on like a pork chop about an app". Lionel said the GPS was "having a moment". A wee shit of a defence, frankly.
The Sharks forfeited the first game and won the second 34-12, fuelled by servo pies and pure rage. Lionel is driving the under-12s to Rotorua next Saturday. The app has not been updated.
The bus was meant to be in Hamilton by nine. The app told the driver to queue for a vehicular ferry that doesn't service State Highway 29. My Gerald would've used a Wises and been at the courts by half eight.
Driver Lionel told The Daily Yarn he'd followed the app because "the lady on the phone has never let me down before". She has now. The girls were two hours late and one toilet stop short of mutiny.
Sideline mum Donna Petrie, whose daughter plays goal defence, said the WhatsApp chat "absolutely went off". "I said to the coach, where the fuck is my child, and he sent back a photo of a seagull. A seagull, Margaret. I rang my husband and told him to get in the Hilux."
By 9.15am four dads had convoyed out to extract the team. One father told Lionel he was a "useless tosser carrying on like a pork chop about an app". Lionel said the GPS was "having a moment". A wee shit of a defence, frankly.
The Sharks forfeited the first game and won the second 34-12, fuelled by servo pies and pure rage. Lionel is driving the under-12s to Rotorua next Saturday. The app has not been updated.