Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View
Tuesday, 9th February 2010 by James Turnbull
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it's in Norway where we've now uncovered one of the most utterly bizarre sightings we've ever seen on Street View.
On arrival to this residential street in Bergen, the Google camera car is greeted by two adults, dressed head to toe in SCUBA gear, sitting in a couple of deck chairs. It's a lovely sunny day, but they're prepared for the worst with an umbrella.
The situation gets even weirder when the two men leap from their seats and begin to pursue the car down the road, brandishing harpoons!
Given that the two divers are wearing flippers, they actually manage to keep up for a surprisingly long distance before the Google car leaves them behind, presumably cursing into their masks.
These guys must have known the camera car was coming, but how? In recent days we've seen a group of German people claiming they bugged the streetview car with a GPS device, which makes us wonder if we'll see more and more bizarre protests as the whereabouts of Google's cars become better known?
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Thanks to @prebenlm.
a norwegian online newpaper called Dagbladet, have interviewed these scuba guys. The guys said that they knew the person driving the googlecar so they got hold of the aproximatly time the car was going to be there. They waited outside in the hot july sun in their scubagear 🙂
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/02/09/nyheter/innenriks/google/10321908/
This time was parts of the USA, Canada, southern Norway and Finland, not Sweden. That was last time
Oops, thanks Jorgen – There’s just too much street view these days!
Great work guys. I would like to know when the Google will come to my hometown. I would wear Santa suite too.
I read that Google has to notify towns when it will be recording in their towns so that people can insure their privacy if they wish by removing visible things they choose to from the outside of their homes/offices that they don’t want out on the net. Also there’s a lag time between when the google car’s images hit the net because Google techs have to blur out people’s faces and car’s license plate numbers among other things.