Top 10 Unseen Street View Sights
Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 by Alex Turnbull
It's been a whole year since Google first launched their controversial Street View service, and we posted our first Street View sight. Since then we've seen the rate of discovery of the most bizarre and unusual finds increase as Google has added more and more US cities to the roster.
With the service due to launch soon in Canada, Italy, Spain, Australia and Japan, we thought we'd mark the one year anniversary with a roundup of the best 10 Street View discoveries that we haven't already posted to the site.
10) Google camera gets stuck in tree
Yes, this driver forgot he had a giant camera stuck to the top of his car, and drove it into a low-hanging tree.
9) The giant finger of doom
Arrgh! The giant finger of doom! Actually, if you pan round you can see that this is actually an image of a normal-sized man with the world's biggest hand.
8) Working girls, working
Well, not actually in flagrante, but rather hanging around waiting to possibly um... service some customers?
7) Scuba diver on city street
Well he isn't a Scuba diver unless he's in the water. Walking along the road like this just makes him a bit of an idiot.
6) Segway convoy
Rubby ducky rubber ducky, come in, this is ageing geek! We got ourselves a convoy!
5) Usin publik transport: ur doin it rong
Is this the cab's driver, or a passenger in need of some assistance? Perhaps this person has been subjected to a particularly lethal LOLcat attack?
4) Having to explain the enormously suspicious camera on the top of your car to a police officer
"Yes officer that's right, taking photos to put on the internet!" *Click*.
3) Man with giant head stomps all over Street View car
A relative of the man with the world's biggest hand, this man must surely have the largest head on the planet.
2) Post-it attack!
A couple of teenage girls take brilliantly surreal revenge upon somebody, and don't blink as a car passes recording their actions forever…
1) How not to get IN a car
We're stunned, we have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on here. Brilliantly bizarre and a worthy winner of the top spot!
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Brilliant! The #6 entry is a service in Pittsburgh that sponsors Segway tours of the city. It’s a lot of fun, but you get the undeniable feeling that everyone thinks you’re a dweeb. Nonetheless, it’s the best way to tour the city.
This is the only night-time shot (with bizarre stripes, too), that I’ve found on Streetview: here
Anyone knows if there are others?
Haha, the Post-It™ car is about 4 miles from my parents’ house in Tampa. Too funny.
Uri, Times Square and surrounding area of Manhattan has tons of night time Street Views.
Number 4 is an interesting one. That doesn’t seem to be a regular gas station (no building) and the cop is clearly there before the Google car arrives, and after it leaves. I don’t think he got pulled over, it almost looks like he just stopped to chat. Perhaps he needed directions? I’d bet it’s easy to get turned around when you have to drive down every unfamiliar street in the city. Although considering he’s mapping, I would hope that wouldn’t be an issue. Who knows?
I think it would be awesome to see the Google car get pulled over (SV watchers have caught it speeding), but it looks like, from the up/down street context, that the Google driver was just pulling over to ask for directions.
And it looks like the gas pumps were municipal, not for public use — the rock wall by the entrance says “Public Works”.
No joke, a block east of that picture, there’s a place called Raper Park. Uh, stay away.
I think the driver might have been lost…. behind that point, outside Lawson, he makes a U-turn.
this is interesting, google driver asking for directions? you would think such a car should have a GPS on it, wouldn’t you? or couldn’t he look up his position in google maps??
click here and go to north and than all over LastVegasExpy… 🙂
I think the person in number 1 left a candy bar somewhere in the trunk and is desperately trying to get it. Not that (s)he needs it…
I’m a huge fan of #4. I love that he had to stop to get directions. You know he was lost, why else would you be WAY out there? I also love that the street overlay got pulled into the gas station with him. Pretty darn funny.
I’m thinking #1 is installing a stereo. Getting that giant sub to shake their giant… uh… calves…
Parker, you’re right about the #4. The most unusual thing about this gas station is that you can’t see any brand! No Shell, Texaco, Exxon or Mobil logo…
looks like the officer in #4 has a camera in her hand.
in number one…does anyone else think its odd they didn’t park in the driveway, rather bumper to bumper on the street.
as close as the two cars are parked it looks like some sort of partical joke on poor thunderthighs
The diver on #7 is most probaly just returning from a dive and walking to the dive shop Laguna Sea Sports, which is just around the corner.
And there I was, thinking it was a Venice street-walker visiting her friends…
FYI – I just spotted the Google Street View car in Annapolis, MD!
4: She’s a police officer (former) in Excelsior Springs, MO. That’s not a “gas station” its simply a fuel station for the city vehicles, Public Works. That is why there is no brand/signs, etc..
Source: I used to work for that department. We all got a kick out of this when it was posted on google streetview. and yes, there is a Raper Park in town.