Funny things about some devices, esp. locators.

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Map Quest has a cow path in my town that is a named road. Not sure what century that was a deadend road with an actual name. But it was on mapquest when I researched a nearby road. My husband and I printed it out, tried to find the road and only found this dirt path fit for cows or a high farm tractor, but not a car. So if someone wants to know where I live, is insistant and I think it's none of his/her business, I give the person a number between 1 and 10 with cow path's name. I'll have to check to see if it's still on there after the Census, it might be gone. So handy that cow path. Some people were going to NY State from VT State by ferry. Their car GPS (I don't know if it was a Tom Tom or what) kept telling them "Turn back! Turn back! You're entering a lake!" Apparently, the machine doesn't know there is a ferry there. They found that very amusing and told us all about it during training. After 9/11, Google Earth put my address on top of a Mountain in VT for a while. I think that is because I'm a few miles from the Canadian Border in NY. Nice place on top of that mountain in VT, though. Think it was a ski lodge. I was hoping it was the Van Trapp's. I don't think it is. So what amusing things have happened with your locators? If you haven't found anything amusing, do you use location devices and which ones? What would you do if you found a road that wasn't really a road in your area, a locator told you not to drive into a lake despite going on a ferry or maybe you're actually in a boat or a car-boat, or your house suddenly became a ski lodge in another state?