What do you think happened when you see this image?

The tide came in too fast? There was a tsunami? Wrong - the cause of this problem was simply operator error; the car was driven into the sea because the Sat Nav said so.

Evidently, some people seem to be lacking in a little common sense, but this is just ridiculous! I mean, surely when you drove onto the beach, you would realise there was a slight problem with the directions. And let's face it - Sat Nav's aren't exactly reliable! How many times have you become lost because the Sat Nav wasn't doing its job properly?

It was apparent at the time of the incident that the occupants of the Hyundai believed the Sat Nav would direct them to a road, but after 500 metres of attempting to continue they were brought to a halt due to the incoming tide and thick muds making the car sink into the ground.

Thanks for reading! Please answer the poll to the right(:

Japanese tourists blame satnav after being stranded in Australian mangrove swamp at high tide

Poll Update!

Since I started The Box last July, there have been over 500 views from 7 different countries, something which I never thought would happen to such a small blog full of my own rants!


I thought an overview of the poll results since July would be interesting to those of you that voted, and especially for me to see what you all thought!


So, my first post on Smoking on 13th July had lots of feedback;

• 70% disagreeing with smoking 
• 30% undecided

The second on the London Riots in late 2011 spurred a great diversity in feedback;

• 70% of readers saying prison sentences weren't long or tough enough
• 20% thinking they were just right
• and 10% saying that they were too long and tough

My Tram Experience was one of the posts which had the most amount of views and

• 100% agreed that she was not right to express her views

In late December, the two posts on Christmas generated some interesting poll results with 

• 33% thinking Christmas is too commercialised
• 16% thinking Christmas is not too commercialised
• 50% thinking Christmas is maybe too commercialised

The unwanted Christmas present issue also proved that

• 33% got no unwanted Christmas presents
• 66% got 1-3 unwanted Christmas presents
• ...but no voters got a higher amount!

It seems this issue is not currently a big problem!

The New Year's Resolution's poll has proved particularly that none of the voters has kept all of their new years resolutions if they had made any as;

• 33% didn't make any
• 33% didn't keep them
• 33% kept only some of them
• Nobody had kept all of them so far... and this was only January

The last poll on homosexuality definitely proved that 

• Nobody agreed with homosexuality.

To all that voted; thank you for your feedback, it is highly appreciated so keep the votes coming!

Happy New Year!

To all the people who have taken the time to visit and hopefully read my blog; Thank You - I hope you all have a Happy New Year!

This blog was only set up in July and already, we've broken the record of not 100, not 200, but 300 pageviews! This may not seem a lot, but to me it is a great achievement considering I never even thought anyone would bother reading it!

So happy new year, bonne annee, ein gutes neues jahr, feliz ano novo, yeni yılınız kutlu olsun and С Новым Годом!

Let's hope next year is as successful as this one!