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Top 8 Street View Crimes

James Turnbull — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:51:40 +0000

As more and more street-level imagery keeps getting added, it’s time for another Friday Street View Roundup – and today’s theme is “Crime on Street View”!

8) Indecent Exposure

This woman’s dignity has been saved by a bit of face-blurring! Of course her nipples are exposed for all the world to see. Fail!

7) Antisocial Behaviour

These pesky kids are setting up a trip-wire between two bollards. The youth of today, eh? If only the Street View camera had captured the moment they tripped a passer-by…

6) Blocking the road

Five of Providence’s Police Force have blocked up this road for a bit of a pow-wow. How inconsiderate! Someone should give them a ticket.

5) Having a camera on the roof of your car

The French authorities obviously deemed the large camera on top of the car to be a suspicious device, and pulled the Google driver over for an investigation.

Move south down Rue de la Garde and you’ll experience a thrilling chase scene!

4) Grand Theft Auto

It’s one thing to steal a car, but propping that car up on six-foot stilts in your garden is probably unwise.

3) Grafitti

This the the work of Invader, whose Space Invader themed artworks can be spotted all over Paris. He’s even branched out into Oscar the Grouch artworks¹.

2) Taking Hostages?

Of course this could be any crime really, but if it requires an armed policeman hiding behind a car, you can expect whoever’s inside did more than steal some sweeties.

1) Alien Invasion

Presumably there can be no greater crime than invading our planet in little red UFOs?

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Long-time users of Apple Macs will of course recognise this as the OS 7 trash-can. ↩

Locations: France, Illinois, Japan, Rhode Island / Categories: Street Views

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World’s Largest Bug

James Turnbull — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:20:15 +0000

At 58 feet long and 928 times the size of an actual termite, Nibbles Woodaway (as he was named in a radio competition) is the world’s largest bug.

The giant creepy crawly is attached to the roof of New England Pest Control and is dressed up in seasonal gear for July 4th, Halloween and Christmas.

Ground-level photos, and more information than you could ever care to read, on Quahog.org.

Thanks: Ron Vogel

Locations: Rhode Island / Categories: Structures

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McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket

James Turnbull — Mon, 23 May 2005 22:23:57 +0000

Home to the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox (the Pawtucket Red Sox or “PawSox”) is McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Leo Caisse says

It looks like the photo was taken during a game since the parking lots are full and the exposed bleachers on the third-base side appear to be full.

Locations: Rhode Island / Categories: Crowds, Stadiums and Sport

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Escobar’s Dairy Farm

James Turnbull — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:32:49 +0000

Another corn maze this time at Escobar’s Dairy Farm, Rhode Island. I’ve rotated the maze for the thumbnail and you should be able to make out a lighthouse with “Escobar” in the beam, some rocks and a sailboat (which seems dangerously close to those rocks).

Thanks to David

Locations: Rhode Island / Categories: Large Type, Mazes

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