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!"

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This Gang Warfare Must Stop

[eldavojohn]

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?

Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop

[Arancaytar]

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

Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop

[Andy Dodd]

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

Re:This Gang Warfare Must Stop

[JWSmythe]

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

Blocked streets?

[topham]

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

This is a new record!

[Locke2005]

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

Now they' done it.

[sunking2]

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

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...