SatNav Fails Again! Satellite Navigation Device Lands Tourists Shot In Brazil

Navman GPS device. Satellite Navigation, always getting people into trouble.

Three Norwegian tourists attempting to navigate their way though a Rio de Janeiro slum, using a satellite navigation device or SatNav ended up getting shot at by a gang unhappy to see them.

24-year-old Trygve Killingtveit was shot in the shoulder by suspected drug traffickers deep in a Rio shanty town. Trygve and his three travel companions were returning from a beach resort in Buzios north of Rio when they got lost, local media say.

Using a SatNav or Global Positioning System, probably a Navman brand GPS device, it recommended they turn off a main highway as the quickest route back to the airport to drop off the rental car.

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No motive for the attack was given, and no arrests were made.
Killingtveit managed to drive the car to safety despite being wounded. He told family members in Norway that he probably went astray because of a fault in the GPS, Norwegian daily Dagbladet reported.

"As far as I understand, the GPS system in their car showed the wrong information," his brother, Magne Killingtveit, told the paper.
The Norwegian consulate in Rio declined Monday to comment on the incident, saying only that the three had returned to Norway.