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Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-your-face-out-there dept.

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!"

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  1. This Gang Warfare Must Stop by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times

    I knew that gang violence had gotten bad in some parts of the world but now even Google vans have become roving death squads spewing bullets. What? Was there a Bing van behind her or something? Forty three shots! How many clips is that and will they be holding Brin and Page accountable?

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    1. Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm picturing a team of Googlers driving by in a black van, holding out their cameras sideways while busting some pictures now. :P

    2. Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 3, Funny

      My thought in response to this new information - "Only 43 times?"

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    3. Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop by ManlySpork · · Score: 3, Informative

      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?

    4. Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop by khallow · · Score: 2, Funny

      I imagine she thought they were just run of the mill gangsters and hoods. You have to for extreme danger. If you see someone start to flash one of these signs, you have half a minute to several minutes before the bullets start flying (depending on the dexterity of the signer). Use that time wisely.

    5. Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop by g0bshiTe · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That's no moon, that's a data center!

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    6. Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop by JWSmythe · · Score: 3, Funny

          That's a strong justification for government mandated gun control. Every bullet should hit its target. The people need to be trained better.

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  2. Update of the classic by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's Waldo? Now Where's Wendy!

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    1. Re:Update of the classic by swb · · Score: 2, Informative

      I think it's "Wenda" not Wendy.

  3. Blocked streets? by topham · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In a country known for the government being big brother they are blocking streets so google can't take pictures? What?

    1. Re:Blocked streets? by Thud457 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Let this be a lesson to you boys and girls. Sure, you might be able to offload a bunch of religulous crazies by shipping them somewhere else. But you run the risk that by some strange fluke, the natives won't murder them in their beds, and pretty soon, you have a whole continent full of religulous crazies with nukes.

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    2. Re:Blocked streets? by dotgain · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Arguing with a cop over the finer points of the law also isn't illegal, but it might as well be.

    3. Re:Blocked streets? by theaveng · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

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  4. This is a new record! by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The breaks the record held by Amadou Diallo, who was shot 41 times... by the NYPD.

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  5. Now they' done it. by sunking2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All her neighbors now know she is the one who isn't cleaning up after her dog.

  6. In case anybody missed it... by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Update of the classic Where’s Waldo

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  7. Followed? I don't think so. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Followed? I don't think so. by clone53421 · · Score: 3, Informative

      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...

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  8. Re:Is that a police car behind google? by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a police car. And “Google Street View Shoots Police Car 43 Times” would be equally amusing, IMHO.

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  9. I know others by nuggz · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  10. Who's walking down the streets of the city by stkpogo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Smiling at everybody she sees

    Everyone Knows It's Wendy

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

  11. Re:Is she hot? by sowth · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know. They didn't use a thermal imaging camera.