Updated on September 1, 2016
MOTORIST WITH U.S. MAP TATTOO MISTAKES HER OWN BELLYBUTTON FOR GRAND CANYON
“I should have checked a real map, I guess,” said Oregon resident after following her own map tattoo to Illinois.
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| Oregon resident Bubbles Boing explains how she mistook her navel for the Grand Canyon |
An Oregon woman with a U.S. map tattooed on her stomach mistook her navel for the Grand Canyon and drove her 2001 Ford Windstar minivan more than 1,100 miles in an attempt to visit the monument.
“I’m really bad at geography. I saw a deep hole on my tattoo and just assumed it was the Grand Canyon,” declared 42-year-old Bubbles Boing of Agness, Oregon.
After following the map for 1,108 miles, Boing wound up in Millersburg, Illinois.
“”I stopped at a Huck’s Food and Fuel station and asked the clerk which road to take to get to the Grand Canyon,” said Boing. “He said he thought it was somewhere in Arizona. That’s when I discovered that what I thought was the Grand Canyon was actually my bellybutton.”
“If I had an ‘outie’ instead of an ‘innie’, this never would have happened,” said the downtrodden Boing.
