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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2013, 02:30:59 PM »

Wasn't there a controversy recently where street view showed a body at a murder scene?
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2013, 02:39:42 PM »

[color="not purple"]mods, please merge with https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2648[/color]
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #27 on: January 04, 2014, 02:27:21 PM »

Found this...thing on Google Streetview in Camden, NJ.

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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #28 on: January 04, 2014, 11:44:43 PM »

Probably a leaf on the windshield camera lens.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2014, 12:21:23 AM »

Probably a leaf on the windshield.

Didn't think about that. It happens when you move north once as well, but then is gone after that.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #31 on: January 09, 2014, 06:47:13 PM »

Found this...thing on Google Streetview in Camden, NJ.

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That definitely looks like a leaf.  The leaf looks huge!
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2014, 10:19:53 PM »

The craziest thing that I didn't find was myself. A friend of mine was looking for a mutual friend of ours' house address, and this friend happens to live on my same street. She used Street View to look for the other friend's house since she would recognize the house from a distinctive door, but went in the opposite direction toward where I live, and found me instead. My 10th grade self is immortalized on Google Maps forever, walking home from the bus stop with my backpack on and carrying my lunchbox.

I graduated high school in 2008 and I'm still there.  :-|
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2014, 02:24:11 PM »

I've seen spraypainted stuff on roadways before, but not across 3 lanes (plus a decel lane) on an interstate highway.

http://goo.gl/maps/Mczt9

(My guess: Rutgers University, Class of 2011...spraypainted near an exit for rival College of New Jersey)
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #36 on: March 11, 2014, 06:08:40 PM »

I've seen spraypainted stuff on roadways before, but not across 3 lanes (plus a decel lane) on an interstate highway.

http://goo.gl/maps/Mczt9

(My guess: Rutgers University, Class of 2011...spraypainted near an exit for rival College of New Jersey)

Or it could be Rider University as it's only a block south of here on 206.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2015, 12:48:15 PM »

Reviving... because

http://goo.gl/maps/fMDGm

Didn't expect that. Not really crazy, but still very cool.

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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2015, 02:32:15 PM »

Go to US 1 & 9 in Rahway, NJ and you will find that at the CR 514 partial interchange that the image goes from post construction to during construction and back to post construction of that interchange that was built in the mid to late 2000's as you move along SB US 1 & 9.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2015, 10:42:24 AM »

How about a knocked down crossing signal?
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2bp0y3z1ox861z34qzjdz2u
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2015, 01:09:05 PM »

Here's something pretty interesting, just browse around the area on street view for a while:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2d4m5iz1r8wvuz1pkzmxz5p

Okay, I give up.  What's so crazy there?
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #42 on: February 02, 2015, 02:00:46 PM »

Here's something pretty interesting, just browse around the area on street view for a while:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2d4m5iz1r8wvuz1pkzmxz5p

Okay, I give up.  What's so crazy there?

Mostly the fact that it's where a tsunami hit. It's just surreal, especially the mostly abandoned city nearby.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #43 on: February 02, 2015, 02:30:04 PM »

A tsunami hit Huntsville, Alabama?
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #45 on: February 02, 2015, 07:34:01 PM »

A tsunami hit Huntsville, Alabama?
It's a mostly deserted place in Japan. Because of that earthquake and tsunami a couple of years back.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #46 on: February 02, 2015, 07:38:32 PM »

Try clicking your link, thick.
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« Reply #47 on: February 02, 2015, 07:43:12 PM »

Try clicking your link, thick.
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #48 on: February 02, 2015, 08:28:51 PM »

It's gone now, but the all-time greatest one was the one with the two guys swordfighting in Pittsburgh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000873/Google-Street-View-spots-Samurai-warriors-duelling-Pittsburgh.html

If you put it in the right spot, you can still see those guys:

http://goo.gl/maps/Gui45


Somewhere there was an image of a guy taking a dump in an outhouse with the door open, I think somewhere in Australia on a very hot day. I do not remember where I saw that image.

Click the arrow to the right, and the buildings demolish those two guys! (Images updated in 2014)
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Re: Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView
« Reply #49 on: February 02, 2015, 10:30:49 PM »

Try clicking your link, thick.
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