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GPS guides tourists into ghetto shoot out
THREE NORWEGIAN tourists were guided into a hail of gunfire when their GPS gadget guided them into one of one of Brazil's most dangerous slums.
One of the tourists Trygve Killingtveit, 24, was shot in the shoulder by suspected drug traffickers who were helping some opium to cross a busy intersection.
Gangs control hundreds of shantytowns in Rio and they are known to shoot first and ask questions such as "what exactly is an Avon lady?" afterwards. The Norwegians were coming back from the beach resort of Buzios, about three hours north of Rio, when they got lost.
The GPS system recommended they turn off a main highway as the quickest route back to the airport to drop off the rental car. This was deep into the Mare slum complex, where their rented car quickly came under fire.
Norwegian daily Dagbladet said that Killingtveit managed to drive the car to safety despite being wounded.
No one has been arrested. Brazilian coppers aren’t dumb enough to enter the Mare to ask if any one shot a Norwegian tourist. Life in the Mare is one of those luxuries few can afford and people usually have to own one on hire purchase.
It is not clear if the rental car agency gave the Norwegian's their insurance deposits back.µ
L'Inq
AP
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Similar thing happen to me when I was in New London, Connecticut and the GPS send us through a place that looks like a ghetto, some of the streets were dirt roads in the middle of the city, and the people were BBQ in the street. The only luck was they didn't have guns or they don't consider use in us. The bottom line is that GPS maps don't have any warnings about the crime level of the places, it will be a nice to have...