Online Sleuths Find Bizarre Images on Google Maps

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[deleted][deleted]luxury_boxOP
May 25, 2008, 12:18 PM

It is Google Maps' Street View, a feature that captures on-the-spot images of streets and landmarks along your driving route, and some of those chance images are odd enough that they have developed a cult following of their own online.

Some of the incredible and bizarre pictures, compiled on sites like Street View Gallery, include a car burning at the side of the road, a man running down the street in scuba gear, a jet flying close overhead and

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357981,00.html

http://streetviewgallery.corank.com/tech/framed/caught_2
http://streetviewgallery.corank.com/tech/framed/bikini-Clad-Girls-Advertising-Car-Wash

More here:

http://streetviewgallery.corank.com/

azfinfanmangazfinfanmangluxury_box
May 25, 2008, 12:20 PM

I had a GOOGLE map "Get Directions"..that had a scenario going from...I think the Boston to England..it gave directions down several streets, headed directly for a pier then said "Swim across the Atlantic".....

I think working at Google would be the ideal job

[deleted][deleted]luxury_box
May 25, 2008, 12:27 PM

"azfinfanmang wrote:

I had a GOOGLE map "Get Directions"..that had a scenario going from...I think the Boston to England..it gave directions down several streets, headed directly for a pier then said "Swim across the Atlantic".....

I think working at Google would be the ideal job

:sidelol: That is funny stuff, Kenny

ALalen1New Member
May 25, 2008, 12:34 PM

I know this idea may sound crazy but I wonder if this would help cops keep track of neighborhoods. For example the picture listed above, if a cop was searching through this in their area and they saw that, they could save the little kids life. (assuming its a real gun)

[deleted][deleted]luxury_box
May 25, 2008, 03:06 PM

"alen1 wrote:

I know this idea may sound crazy but I wonder if this would help cops keep track of neighborhoods. For example the picture listed above, if a cop was searching through this in their area and they saw that, they could save the little kids life. (assuming its a real gun)

I am pretty sure that some of these are staged and then uploaded to Google as a joke. :lol:

ALalen1New Member
May 25, 2008, 05:28 PM

"Celtkin wrote:

I am pretty sure that some of these are staged and then uploaded to Google as a joke. :lol:

Oh....I knew that :shifty:. I was just testing you guys....

:escape:

SamphinSamphinNew Member
May 25, 2008, 05:42 PM

Yeah anyone can add these I think. But I want to go ahead and curse celtkin now for giving me something new to be addicted too. :pity:

TEtexasPHINSfanNew Member
May 27, 2008, 01:57 PM

"Celtkin wrote:

I am pretty sure that some of these are staged and then uploaded to Google as a joke. :lol:

without being too racist, i don't think the people in that picture would have the technical know-how or wherewithall to stage a joke like that, and then upload it to google maps. :up:

that scenario is entirely plausible and pathetic at the same time.

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opfinisticopfinisticNew Member
May 27, 2008, 02:17 PM

:lol:

Section126Section126luxury_box
May 27, 2008, 03:23 PM

"texasPHINSfan wrote:

without being too racist, i don't think the people in that picture would have the technical know-how or wherewithall to stage a joke like that, and then upload it to google maps. :up:

that scenario is entirely plausible and pathetic at the same time.

:sidelol:

Damn..I wonder what you would have posted if you WANTED to be racist!

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ALalen1New Member
May 27, 2008, 03:28 PM

"azfinfanmang wrote:

I had a GOOGLE map "Get Directions"..that had a scenario going from...I think the Boston to England..it gave directions down several streets, headed directly for a pier then said "Swim across the Atlantic".....

I think working at Google would be the ideal job

:lol:

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