Girl Flashes Chest at Street View Car
Friday, 16th May 2008 by Rob
It was inevitable. As people became aware of the Google Street View Camera Car, people were going to use it to get their five minutes of fame - now we have the girl who will forever be known as the first person to flash her chest at the Google Street View car.
Thankfully for her, the main event was not captured, proving that even the most shameless behaviour still requires good timing!
In the past, we have had more opportunity-grabbing clowns, such as those who have been caught relieving themselves, people who attempt to perform complex bicycle stunts, and the man who made himself famous for giving the Google crew the finger. Perhaps an extension of their new face blurring technology is needed to curb these miscreants?
About the author
Where’s the sodding play button!
It’s funny… seems like no one wants to comment on this one… No wise cracks or anything.
.. ok, i admitt… i hoped the photo was taken 3 second after the real shot.. shit.. XD
Ok I have a comment – a question: Can anyone enlighten me to the real objectives, declared on non declared, of Google, in putting their resourses into creating Street View?
They have the money and they just wanted to spend it.
Ben… they have an awfull lot of money and spare time. Answer your question?
Ben… simple really. The more features they have (such as streetview), the more people who will visit their website to use it. As a result, more of those people will use them as a search engine. The more popular they are, the more people there are who will see and click the GoogleAds which are ultimately their main revenue stream.
Sorry, where you expecting something more sinister?
I just wanted to chime in here as to the why of streetviews. It can also be used , for instance you are thinking of moving to a new area and want to see what the place looks like.
All this about being able to see how places look like from ground level I think is just an excuse for the geeks at google to spy on girls. I mean, how often does it happen to you that you’re walking on the street or driving in your car and a girl is flashing her chest at you?
More than that… Google Guys are paid very well and they wanted to show off (as Geeks) to girls how the houses look… and also check out how their bosses’ properties look. It’s using this project as an excuse to capture properties information.
wtf is with those links?
What links chris?
The link to the face blurring post comes up as: ‘The page you’ve linked to has either been moved or deleted!’
Yeh, I’m having the same error message on links to older posts.
Here is a thought…. Say the girl was underage. And say the camera actually caught the act at it’s climax. Could Google or the drivers of the Google Car be prosecuted for transmitting child pornography?
>>I mean, how often does it happen to you that you’re walking on the street or driving in your car and a girl is flashing her chest at you?<<
This doesn’t happen to you? 😉
@chris, nova: Thanks, we’ve fixed the links.
Street View is immensely helpful to a truck driver like myself. Not only can you see where you’re going to on Google Earth you can see what landmarks are around your destination before you get there. This is the power of private industry. Instead of debating why to do something or what the purpose of it will be, Google just goes out and does it and the uses and purposes will follow.
Did anyone else notice that it appears the Google camera car/van may have just dropped off these girls, perhaps as hitchhikers? Assuming the vehicle was travelling NW up May St., prior to arriving at the intersection of Delta Rd., you’ll notice that the girls are nowhere to be seen, and the center line of the vehicle is to the right momentarily (perhaps letting them out of the car at the curb?). Then it continues NW where one of them flashes. Curious.
@Steve – Might it also be possible the car was travelling NW up May St and then turned right on Delta?
Once that street is imaged, the camera is turned off (or the imagery discarded later) and loops back to the May/Delta intersection to resume taking pictures heading NW.
They then stitch the images together so that the web surfer can choose whether to take the right or continue on May.
I thought nothing cool happened in my town. I guess I was wrong 🙂
Ya know… it’s gonna happen, I’d moon ’em. In all seriousness, it’s a neat tool. When I look up directions I can see the place I am going to, makes it easier to recongize. MSN’s “birds eye” can show someone’s car in a driveway. Give it a rest. The pictures are of a public street, from a public street. Sorry if people are somewhere they should not be.
The picture has been removed from street view.
More intrusion, now all the criminals have to do is cruise google and save locations of property, bikes, cars, boats, etc. This should have been outlawed before it began.
Huh? Criminals can find the location of my house by cruising the phone book. Imagery is months to years old so if I haven’t put my bike away that was sitting on the front lawn six months ago, I’ve probably got other criminals to worry about beyond the ones cruising Streetview.
I am not talking about your imported pedal bike. It is not bad to have an animated street view but to actually scope out a sportscar or motorbike in someones driveway is obscene. Not to mention seeing the person in the yard or on the sidewalk. Stalkers and creeps will rejoice at this………….how many jealous people will get bent over seeing a strange vehicle at a friends home………..Just more intrusion up our personal exit pipe…………… I hope they get sued for liability.
You do realize that the Streetview imagery is not real time? (It is often months or greater old.)
Are you also aware that Google automatically blurs out faces?
What information will these stalkers and creeps get from Streetview that they would not be able to get by, say, driving down your street? That way they’d not only get a better look, but could see that sportscar today and not what it was last year.
It simply refines the methods. As for real time true, but it is still a snapshot into someones personal property and who may be there at that given moment. Now imagine some creep who knows what car a person drives but does not know where they live. Now they can browse the streets at leisure until they spot the vehicle at home or at the work place. While browsing it would seem to me that the people I saw were not blured out enough to make it impossible to recognize someone. In no way can I see the benefits being worth more than the detriments. Every method has been used for property buglaries over the last few years, the latest being cell phones, now they have another tool to utilize, as in trying to case possible home entry points for example how to get to a second story window. It would be much easier to study this at home versus a casual driveby.
“Now imagine some creep who knows what car a person drives but does not know where they live. Now they can browse the streets at leisure until they spot the vehicle at home or at the work place.”
So, if I were to tell you that someone of interest drives a new, grey Mercedes Benze sedan and lives somewhere in Stratford, Connecticut, you could simply find out where they happen to live (or at least where they parked their car about a year or more ago)? I can tell you they’ve left the second story window open and you could step right in once you climbed up to the front porch overhang.
Can you provide some cites to reports where Google Streetview has been used by a creep, pervert or other criminal to plan their illegal acts?
I’ve used it to check out cities I’m planning to visit (is the hotel in an attractive location? what’s the park like? how walkable is the surrounding area?) or to re-visit places I’ve been years ago (I remember walking down that street, seeing that view, etc).
Never thought of nefarious purposes nor do I really see how it could be used efficiently should I have such thoughts in mind.
On the flip side, appears Streetview does some documented good:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=Google+streetview+crime&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
It will, I see no point in kicking this around any longer………if you live in a gated community or some utopia great……..many people do not.
Why oh why am I just hearing about this now??? Wish it captured the whole thing…
K heres a problem? How do we see the picture?