Top 10 Street Views, April 2009
Friday, 10th April 2009 by Alex Turnbull
Our all-out assault on Street View continues over on Twitter, and since we still haven't integrated our Twitter posts into the main site anywhere, here's another Friday roundup of the 10 best sights we've found recently.
Lady exposes genitals
At the exact moment that a Spanish Street View car was level with her crotch, this lady foolishly decided to uncross her legs. Which might not have been so bad, but for the fact that she appears to have forgotten to put on any underwear on this particular day.
Camera car commits suicide
This foolish Street View driver forgot he was driving a car with an enormous camera mounted on top, and managed to drive straight into a low bridge - decapitating the camera. The camera kept recording, so rotating the view of the now horizontal images can induce a certain level of nausea.
Unexpected elephant
Given which countries have so far been visited by the Street View team, we never expected to find an elephant in the available images.
Windows XP reborn
Just as the default XP desktop image is about to disappear forever, it's resurrected in Google Street View!
British ability to queue astonishes everyone
I wonder how long these bored-looking people will be waiting at this bus stop?
World's unluckiest van driver
This white-van driver must be incredibly unlucky, as not only has he crashed into a bollard, dislodging it from the concrete pavement and springing open his bonnet, but he managed to do it as the Street View car was recording him!
Serious injury recorded
Has this man collapsed, or was he hit by the driver of the scooter? In another frame we can also see him being loaded into an ambulance, so hopefully he made a full recovery.
The future of online shopping
If breast augmentation could be bought online and delivered, we might see more of these vans.
Tarzan found in San Francisco
Nearly naked man in nothing but a furry loincloth is spotted wandering the streets of San Francisco.
Google driver gets creative with the rules of the road
Lorry blocking a narrow Edinburgh street? No problem, just drive along the pavement!
Also of note, The Sex Police, Creative Tipp-exing, and someone demonstrates how not to engage in extreme sports, as well as hundreds more!
Finally, we also pulled a little April Fools' Day prank with this tweet, which a surprising number of people fell for! (Cue evil laughter)
Undoubtedly, this couple have been caught on Google #streetview having sex. I guess we can all go home now! http://bit.ly/7Dda0
Remember, you don't have to be a Twitter member to read our Twitter posts, and we also provide an RSS feed of the main site posts combined with the Street View ones.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to finding these sights!
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t run into the ridge, as the camera pops back up on the other side… I’m guessing he collapsed it to avoid doing any damage.
I know the XP “Autumn” wallpaper has been located before, but does anyone know where the “Red moon desert” photo was taken?
In the dessert maybe?
The “driving along the pavement” was done by a Google Bike. Same goes for most narrow streets.
Actually this was a car – here’s its reflection only a few metres away.
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=55.948167,-3.188396&z=15&layer=c&cbll=55.94854,-3.189072&cbp=12,350.0867823765021,,1,8.214285714285714
The bike was seen in New York, and Mountain View at Google’s offices, but nowhere in Europe. It’s actually for parks as it happens!
The streetview car was spotted in wicklow, ireland yesterday. Theres a chance my wife will be seen waving like a nutter hahaa
Is that the actual xp desktop location?
Yes, it really is the Windows XP desktop location!
http://www.nextnature.net/?p=3345
Grow up a little, Google Sight Seeing, I hardly doubt that woman was flashing her bits.
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=40.449641,-80.008847&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.450786,-80.009236&cbp=12,227.09935844626068,,2,-0.08127428809355965м
for “British ability to queue astonishes everyone”, is it possible that that sign was graffiti? i cant imagine anyone really being stupid enough to sit in an unused bus stop, but i thought it was more likely, and also funny, that someone spray painted that to try to make people avoid it. funny prank. or really stupid people…
Yeah, I thought it was probably graffiti too.
Just a comment about the first street view: That picture was taken at the “Casa de Campo”, a known point of prostitution of Madrid. The prostitutes stand near the road almost (or fully) naked to attract clients.
That first one doesn’t seem to be there any more not surprisingly – about the bus stop – it is quite conceivable that the people are not actually waiting for a bus but using the stop as a conveinient place to take a rest while walking home from the shops.