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The Doclopedia #1,910

State Secrets: Massachusetts – Lost In Boston

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Many people from outside the Boston area are less than impressed with driving in that city. The layout of the streets in the Greater Boston area can be quite challenging and confusing. But for some poor souls, always Boston natives, driving can get really confusing.

What happens is simple: you are driving somewhere and you turn down a street and suddenly you are on a street you’ve never been on, possibly several miles from where you were. You might make a turn in Roxbury and find yourself in South Boston. Another turn and you’re in Mission Hill. This keep happening over and over until you are about to panic. It’s no use trying to follow a map on your phone, because it changes as soon as your location does.

The secret is to pull over, turn off the car and sit for a couple of minutes. Try to calm down. Suddenly, you’ll find yourself where you started and from there you can drive normally, unless you are too wicked scared to try.
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The Doclopedia #1,911

State Secrets: Michigan – The Critter In The Road

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It has happened many times since the first automobiles came to Michigan. Somebody is out driving and suddenly, there is some animal in the road. It might be a little dog, a cow, a deer or even a bear, but whatever it is, it makes you stop.

After a few seconds, the critter vanishes like a ghost. Once you continue on, you come to a situation where, if you had been at this spota few seconds earlier, you would have been hurt or killed. Might be a fallen tree, might be a jackknifed big rig, might be downed power lines, might be something even worse, but that critter saved you from it.

This phenomenon has been studied by the FBI Special X Unit, but because it is always helpful, they do not try and stop it.