TIFU: Accidentally snuck onto a US military base thanks to confusing Apple Maps directions

Once upon a time (or about one hour ago to be specific), Apple maps tried to get my, my sisters and our friends Canadian asses unalived, or at the very least detained and deported, on what was supposed to be a very innocent roadtrip through the southern United States. 😅

We had planned a quick stop at the Armed Forces Museum outside of Gulfport, MS on our way to New Orleans from our starting point in Nashville. Turns out by following Apple's suspiciously nonsensical GPS directions, we unknowingly snuck onto the Camp Shelby military base. 🙃 We were eventually stopped partway through our browse through the museum by an armed constable who was simultaneously mindblown and amused AF at how we managed to even get onto base undetected, much less into the museum that was coincidentally open for the first time in several weeks. Thankfully, he was very understanding when he had us walk him through how Apple Maps managed to give us directions that somehow bypassed their visitors center and security checkpoints and every set of eyes on the way to the museum in the middle of the Base. Apparently, they had officers looking everywhere for us before they realized we were just a bunch of bumbling, clueless Canadians perusing the museum. Cue an armed escort back to the security checkpoint, where they ran our IDs and did background checks, and we were subsequently informed by our new friend that the US Government had closed its bases to the public and any non-military US citizens because of the Ukraine-Russia conflict because allowing civilians and foreigh nationals on base is a potential threat to national security. Then he sent us back to Gulfport with some lovely lunch spot restaurant reccomentadions, namely one called Slap Your Mama, and said he almost couldn't even fathom how we were able to accomplish what we did. VERY fortunately for us, the same constable was on duty a few weeks ago when another guy using Google maps was accidentally directed around the security checkpoint to the location of an old security gate that had been defunct since about the mid-1960's. From what I understand, that guy never managed to actually make it onto the base and only down a shut down service road where he was caught very suspiciously, but he was also able to prove that his GPS was trying to have him offed. By the grace of God, that afforded us some much needed credibility to what probably sounded like a pretty fn ridiculous story. My cortisol and adrenaline levels are so high right now that I'm not even sure whether to laugh, cry, or vomit. Happy to be sitting in the rental car en route to lunch instead of waiting in handcuffs for a transfer to a military detainment center for deportation.

TL;DR: Apple maps gave three Canadian tourists directions to inadvertently/unknowingly sneak onto a US military base undetected and received an armed escort off base after ID verification proving we were only clueless museum-goers.