Put Your Hands Behind Your Head!
Friday, 11th April 2008 by Rob
Reaffirming my belief that the most interesting things happen when the Street-view car is around, today we can see a man getting arrested in Tampa, Florida, or at least having his back pockets searched in a rather heated way.
The cause of the arrest is unknown, but seated behind the patrol car are two white sacks which clearly weren't there when the police officers arrived!
Sadly the word 'SWAG' is not visible on either, so we may have to discount bank robbery in this case. Nevertheless, this alleged crime must have been serious enough to warrant a full shake-down by the (frankly rather unfit looking) cop duo. Which might explain why they seem to have called backup to help deal with this particular miscreant...
In the past, the street-view car has captured what looks like breaking and entering and even a drug deal in action.
Thanks to streetviewfun.
Update: Google has since removed this imagery.
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Now we now at least why so many Americans end up in jail.
I don’t really think that 1% of the population constitutes “So many Americans”
The fitness standards for cops in the US, especially in southern states it seems, must be so low. I’m a fit 23 year old guy and its hard to get into the Edmonton Police force or the RCMP because their standards are so high!
Hmmm, could this be his partner in crime making a sharp exit?
http://maps.google.com/maps?cbp=2,262.845797106733,,2,3.362303322398481&cbll=27.881403,-82.850407&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=27.884391,-82.849928&spn=0.005965,0.017767&z=17
Obviously checking for concealed Krispy Kremes 😀
“In the past, the street-view car has captured what looks like breaking and entering and even a drug deal in action.”
don’t forget the fight: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/2007/06/16/street-fight/
Well, if you look at the international comparison on page 34 of the report here: http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/One%20in%20100.pdf you’ll find that 1% of the population in jail DOES constitute a whole lot. The closest western democracy on that list is England and Wales which has A FIFTH of that number …
Maybe he’s stolen something from the Crystal Connection across the street.
@Aaron: How could I forget? In fact, I remember writing “Best Google thing ever?” on that particular story! 😉
I, for one, and glad we jail our hoodlums here in America. Too many of them running loose as it is… lets go for 2%!
Well now it looks like Google found out about this and removed the photos. Damn!
@Perks: Thanks for that, I’ve updated the post.
Pointless now that the imagery has been removed, but this is on the wrong side of Tampa Bay to be Tampa. The photos were taken in the Pinellas County city of Indian Rocks Beach, but Tampa is in Hillsborough County on the west side of Tampa Bay.