Kid Shooting Other Kid
Monday, 26th May 2008 by Alex Turnbull
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
This post has been around the web several times already, but by popular demand, here's the Street View sighting of a child pointing a gun at another child on the streets of Chicago.
In the next frame we can see that the "intended victim" is still standing, so maybe this was just a couple of kids playing with water pistols, but sooner or later Google will presumably let images of a terrible tragedy slip through into their mapping services.
See our Street View archive for more sights like this.
Originally via Streetviewfun, thanks to Scott, Marc James, Martyn and biauas.
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Perhaps it’s a squirt gun?
I could be mistaken but the gun looks orange to me. Combined with the fact that, if you head south, the other kid stops running and heads back towards the kid with the gun, I’m going with it being a squirt gun.
”playing with a water pistols”?Hmmm..
It looks to my aging eyes like an air pistol. Two boys were using one in the vacant lot next to my house a few years back, shooting at each other. When I told them to knock it off, they claimed that it didn’t hurt and they weren’t going to stop. When the police came, they took off.
Kids are stupid that way, you know?
Thanks Raph, post updated.
Your kidding right? It’s a f’in squirt gun. We all did this as kids and we all know it. A ridiculous amount of coverage for a kid squirting water.
It’s just the relaxed stance of the guy and the setting which makes it look like it could be a gun. I mean a small water pistol like that wouldn’t reach the other kid from there so it’s pretty pointless aiming it. I don’t know, I can see how it would very easily be mistaken for a gun.
Alex you say sooner or later Google might let a tragedy slip into the mapping service. I would say unless some user has already searched every street mapped with streetview, that google may have already let a tragedy slip and it’s out there waiting for someone to find it. Of course as soon as it’s posted here or on streetview fun or one of those other sites Google will delete the images.
Do some people not understand how sarcasm works?
Surely if the person driving the streetview car heard a gunshot, looked around and saw a child wiith a bullet wound, they would make sure that bit of footage was not incorporated into Streetview? The best hope for avoiding the inclusion of tragic images is that the person on the ground recording them will notice and stop the camera.
…surely if the person driving the streetview car heard a gunshot and looked around he would have bumped into another car, which would have made an interesting sequence of images.
By the way, the scene we’re talking about has been removed… Would the people of Google Street View be watching this site?
Well then privacy fans – there is your answer to not being shown on Google Street view – point a gun or get arrested – they’ll remove you straight away.
As far as I can tell the imagery can still be seen.