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Shock News: Man Sleeps in Street
In an utterly shocking turn of events, a very-probably homeless/alcoholic/drug addicted1 man has quite clearly passed-out in a doorway here in Philadelphia! This piece of shocking privacy-invasion follows the discovery of a similar image last week in which a young…
The Demise of Bennie the Smoking Dinosaur
Long-time GSS readers may recall the story of Bennie the Dinosaur, who we originally spotted way back in February 2006. Bennie was originally employed as the mascot for a now-defunct chain of cigarette shops and in his lifetime had moved…
Google’s Street View Welcome Party
As the Street View car passed Google's California head offices, the Googleplex, hundreds and hundreds of Google Employees came out to form a huge welcoming committee for the passing camera car. There's loads of things to see, as many employees…
Erratic Boulders
An erratic boulder is, simply enough, a piece of rock that doesn't originate from the place where it is found. When these errant boulders are the size of houses however, they take a little more explaining. The city of White…
Shot Towers
The Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore was erected in 1828 and stands at 71.3m, which at that time made it the tallest structure in the United States, as well as the world's largest free-standing masonry tower1. The shot tower was…
Millions and millions of tyres
Within the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona, is one of the largest stockpiles of discarded vehicle tyres1 in the US - perhaps as many as 10 million individual tyres. Despite being just south of a town called Goodyear, this is…
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