Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times

Geoffrey.landis writes "Terry Southgate discovered that his wife Wendy appears on the Google Street View of his neighborhood not once or twice but a whopping 43 times. From the article: 'It seems as if the Street View car simply followed the same route as Wendy and Trixie. However, Wendy was a little suspicious that the car was doing something on the "tricksie" side. Several of the Street View shots show Wendy looking with some concern towards the car that was, well, to put it politely, crawling along the curb. "I didn't know what it was doing. It was just driving round very, very slowly," Wendy told the Sun.' The next best thing to being a movie star — a Street View star!"

Comments

Re:Update of the classic

[swb]

I think it's "Wenda" not Wendy.

Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop

[ae1294]

Depends on the handgun but probably 4 clips. Then again it was probably 2 if they used an AR-17 but it could have just been 1 if Google paid for the 100 round mag...

I agree that things must be bad now that Google feels the need to take out Bring users in the middle of the day. What if children had been near by!

Do no evil... right... Maybe Google should think of the children and call off there holly war...

Direct Link

[Anonymous Coward]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Mid+Suffolk,+96+Cross+Street,+United+Kingdom&sll=40.459641,-79.946434&sspn=0.01249,0.013304&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=96+Cross+St,+Elmswell,+IP30+9,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.232307,0.91356&spn=0,0.021479&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.232275,0.913747&panoid=xMXcXyWefCGivDb6qoFlaQ&cbp=12,292.34,,0,18.65

Followed? I don't think so.

[Frosty Piss]

Have a look at the Street View:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=96+cross+st,+mid+suffolk,+united+kingdom&oe=utf8&safe=active&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=96+Cross+St,+Elmswell,+IP30+9,+United+Kingdom&gl=us&ei=Gu7VS82_EpLmswPGtujFCQ&ved=0CAoQ8gEwAA&ll=52.232355,0.913327&spn=0.000941,0.002835&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.232378,0.913198&panoid=mqYHojIBcpgVM_XiBp0gMw&cbp=12,102.99,,0,16.42

Looks to me like she was walking her dog, and the Google Car drove by, passed her, and kept on going.

Re:Followed? I don't think so.

[clone53421]

Yeah. That’s what happened. Nobody followed anybody, their routes just happened to intersect a few times.

I knew it was kind of silly anyway, because Google street view is always going to take half a dozen pictures of the same thing as it drives down the street. 43 seems much, but if it passed her a few times it’s not surprising.

For those interested, it starts with the Street view car approaching her, first sighting her here and driving past, turning onto Cooks Rd. (there’s one step at which she isn’t in the picture because it was filmed when the car returned to film the rest of Cross St.), and she’s still visible from a good distance down Cooks. Then the car turned off to other streets and when it returned to film more of Cooks Rd, there she was; the car turned onto Thedwastre Close and she’s barely still visible but once again the street view car hits some side streets and when it drives past she’s caught up to it again.

I wasn’t counting, and I don’t really care to look through the whole neighbourhood to find out whether she ran into the car a few more times...

Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop

[ManlySpork]

Actually most modern handguns are loaded using magazines. There is an easy way to differentiate between clips and magazines, sadly people, especially the media are most often mistaken. I'm not guaranteeing this method of differentiation has a 100% accuracy, but: If it holds bullets and is used to slide the bullets into the weapon (into it's magazine well). It's a clip. If it hold bullets and is inserted into the weapon, it's a magazine. Some people might say, they both hold bullets, what does it matter? I reply to that with this: RAM, Hard Disk Drives, they both have GB's, what does it matter?

I know others

[nuggz]

Happened to a few people I know, not surprising, the same vehicle drives several nearby streets throughout the day.
If it's a nice day, and you're running around, you're likely to get a few photos taken.

Who's walking down the streets of the city

[stkpogo]

Smiling at everybody she sees

Everyone Knows It's Wendy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NobLudmMRSU

Re:Blocked streets?

[theaveng]

America

Canada

Australia

India

Yeah that planned worked really well for the British. The funny thing is that they never learned their lesson, and just keep pissing-off the colonists.