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Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView

Started by rickmastfan67, April 07, 2010, 03:30:00 AM

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kphoger

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Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

Well, technically, I did find a really rough/bumpy stretch of residential street, but the other streets in the neighborhood showed the escort vehicle, so perhaps they just decided that one block was too rough for the escort vehicle.



Edited to add:  Similar situation in Kenya, apparently.
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webny99

Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2020, 02:28:43 PM
Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

I hadn't... but you got me feeling inspired. No escort here or here, but I see what you're talking about for the most part, though.


kphoger

Quote from: webny99 on July 27, 2020, 10:04:20 PM

Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2020, 02:28:43 PM
Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

I hadn't... but you got me feeling inspired. No escort here or here, but I see what you're talking about for the most part, though.

Try again, bud.  Police escort in both cases.



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webny99

Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2020, 01:52:27 PM
Quote from: webny99 on July 27, 2020, 10:04:20 PM

Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2020, 02:28:43 PM
Has anyone spent time looking at GSV in Nigeria?  I can't find a single location at which the Google car wasn't being tailed by an escort vehicle–either a police truck or a civilian-looking SUV–even on city streets.

I hadn't... but you got me feeling inspired. No escort here or here, but I see what you're talking about for the most part, though.

Try again, bud.  Police escort in both cases.

Not close enough to be considered an escort IMO.
Anything could happen with that much distance between them (in both cases), to the point where I question if it's really serving any purpose at all.

jakeroot

Quote from: webny99 on July 28, 2020, 08:28:02 PM
Not close enough to be considered an escort IMO.

Christ, they don't have to ride their bumper for it to be an escort. Point is, it's always the same Toyota Hilux with the same lightbar. And it is very interesting; I've not seen another country with GSV have some form of escort service (not that kind).

webny99

There's actually two different cars. The other is a black Toyota 4-Runner.

I'm not going to argue extensively about whether or not it is, indeed, an escort, but it is quite far away in many cases. The street view car could easily make a few turns and accidentally lose them.

jakeroot

Quote from: webny99 on July 29, 2020, 01:23:13 PM
The street view car could easily make a few turns and accidentally lose them.

And I'm sure they'd be punished for doing so! :-D

Throckmorton

   
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Wreckage from the train derailment sequence in the 1993 film The Fugitive.   
   
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This one may or may not be well known but in a San Francisco apartment building that was one of the locations in the Humphrey Bogart movie, Dark Passage, the occupants of the unit where Lauren Bacall's character lived used to keep a cardboard cutout of Bogart in the window.   
   
It's visible in the pic from 2011.   
   
   
https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A
   
   
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kphoger

Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

jakeroot

Quote from: Throckmorton on August 03, 2020, 07:58:37 PM
   
This one may or may not be well known but in a San Francisco apartment building that was one of the locations in the Humphrey Bogart movie, Dark Passage, the occupants of the unit where Lauren Bacall's character lived used to keep a cardboard cutout of Bogart in the window.   
   
It's visible in the pic from 2011.   
   
   
https://goo.gl/maps/ZoXo4XPCPo8yvcf3A

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Scott5114

Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car.
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TheHighwayMan3561

Quote from: Scott5114 on August 07, 2020, 01:05:26 AM
Google Street View is a great way to experience places you may never get to see otherwise...like the inside of this dude's car.


At least the inside of his car doesn't look like a landfill, like 95% of car interiors you're not meant to see.
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kphoger

Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on August 11, 2020, 06:39:25 AM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

My friends and I grew up playing on this tank.
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STLmapboy

Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on August 11, 2020, 06:39:25 AM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

The locals use it to blow up invasive Priuses.
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hotdogPi

Quote from: STLmapboy on August 11, 2020, 10:10:40 PM
Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on August 11, 2020, 06:39:25 AM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

The locals use it to blow up invasive Priuses.

You know those "speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs? They're doing it with tanks now.
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GreenLanternCorps

Quote from: kphoger on August 11, 2020, 01:58:07 PM
Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on August 11, 2020, 06:39:25 AM
(I simply never expected to see a complete M4 Sherman tank parked in small town by the road.  Even by an American Legion Post)

My friends and I grew up playing on this tank.

Appears to be an M41 Walker Bulldog, cool...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M41_Walker_Bulldog

hotdogPi

Clinched, minus I-93 (I'm missing a few miles and my file is incorrect)

Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

I will be in Burlington VT for the eclipse.

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