Comments on: Kid Shooting Other Kid

By: nova72

nova72 — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:40 +0000

As far as I can tell the imagery can still be seen.

By: Tim Young

Tim Young — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:48:16 +0000

Well then privacy fans – there is your answer to not being shown on Google Street view – point a gun or get arrested – they’ll remove you straight away.

By: dr.R.

dr.R. — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:05:14 +0000

…surely if the person driving the streetview car heard a gunshot and looked around he would have bumped into another car, which would have made an interesting sequence of images.

By the way, the scene we’re talking about has been removed… Would the people of Google Street View be watching this site?

By: Paul B-G

Paul B-G — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:49 +0000

Surely if the person driving the streetview car heard a gunshot, looked around and saw a child wiith a bullet wound, they would make sure that bit of footage was not incorporated into Streetview?
The best hope for avoiding the inclusion of tragic images is that the person on the ground recording them will notice and stop the camera.

By: nova72

nova72 — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:56:27 +0000

Alex you say sooner or later Google might let a tragedy slip into the mapping service. I would say unless some user has already searched every street mapped with streetview, that google may have already let a tragedy slip and it’s out there waiting for someone to find it. Of course as soon as it’s posted here or on streetview fun or one of those other sites Google will delete the images.

Do some people not understand how sarcasm works?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:13:16 +0000

It’s just the relaxed stance of the guy and the setting which makes it look like it could be a gun. I mean a small water pistol like that wouldn’t reach the other kid from there so it’s pretty pointless aiming it. I don’t know, I can see how it would very easily be mistaken for a gun.

By: weenii

weenii — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:14:35 +0000

Your kidding right? It’s a f’in squirt gun. We all did this as kids and we all know it. A ridiculous amount of coverage for a kid squirting water.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:28:33 +0000

Thanks Raph, post updated.

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:42:13 +0000

It looks to my aging eyes like an air pistol. Two boys were using one in the vacant lot next to my house a few years back, shooting at each other. When I told them to knock it off, they claimed that it didn’t hurt and they weren’t going to stop. When the police came, they took off.

Kids are stupid that way, you know?

By: raph

raph — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:40:14 +0000

”playing with a water pistols”?Hmmm..