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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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Rothman

#100
September 10, 2015, 08:22:48 AM  
Quote from: Bruce on September 09, 2015, 07:50:14 PM
On the Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, what looks to be a police exercise in full gear:

https://goo.gl/maps/0g9Vy

Pfft.  It's Evergreen State.  Probably students just getting ready to protest the totalitarian state, oppression of the lower classes and to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.
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slorydn1

#101
September 10, 2015, 11:27:10 PM  
My brother's car in my front yard (he lives 850 miles away) and neither of my cars were home.
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mrsman

#102
September 11, 2015, 12:47:49 PM  
Quote from: Bruce on September 07, 2015, 08:44:33 PM
I don't think this Streetview driver in Portland, OR got permission to be on the unopened busway on the MAX Orange Line:

https://goo.gl/maps/cRRek

Usually if a transit agency allows this, they'd have a crowd of personnel to greet the car.

I'd love to see Google Streetview coverage of busways, subways and railways eventually. Especially Seattle's, which has a few art installations in tunnels that you normally can't see as well as weird stubs and unused segments (especially when the bus tunnel converts to rail-only).

I agree.  It would be great to see public transportation on street view. 

I think it is a good idea to allow for GSV cars to photograph busways.  They can be allowed an exemption and they can go during non-peak hours so as not to disturb commuting traffic.

Bruce

#103
September 15, 2015, 08:12:59 PM  
A Streetview car captured Bertha (the TBM in Seattle that got stuck) during the lift to put its front face back into the recovery pit:

https://goo.gl/maps/xa8yl

yakra

#104
November 04, 2015, 02:09:17 AM  
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

Pete from Boston

#105
November 04, 2015, 08:56:18 AM  
Google car stops for pack of smokes and a turkey & bacon wrap:

https://goo.gl/maps/68r5LXTrNFH2

Pete from Boston

#108
November 05, 2015, 10:01:14 AM  
Looks like someone threw a sweater over the camera.

freebrickproductions

#109
November 05, 2015, 11:40:16 AM  
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

(They/Them)

SignGeek101

#110
November 07, 2015, 12:46:39 AM  

freebrickproductions

#111
November 09, 2015, 05:40:53 PM  
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

(They/Them)

Michael

#112
November 14, 2015, 08:50:21 PM  
The Street View camera is 8 feet high:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.622908,-79.67694,3a,66.8y,178.54h,93.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI1wZysceXYYYTSzioX1ePw!2e0

I found this while playing GeoGuessr earlier.  I started at the intersection of South Perry and West Spring streets, and followed the Truck PA 8 signs.

US 41

#114
December 01, 2015, 02:35:00 PM  
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freebrickproductions

#115
December 03, 2015, 02:30:10 PM  
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

(They/Them)

vtk

#116
December 06, 2015, 12:06:15 AM  
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

CNGL-Leudimin

#117
December 16, 2015, 03:11:20 PM  
One wouldn't expect an ad like this one that was there in January 2014 and was moved to another billboard down the street soon afterwards. It says "I'm Idaira, I'm 19 months old and I'm dying". Not to mention the little girl, who is currently 3 years old and suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, is still alive agaisnt all odds.
Supporter of the construction of several running gags, including I-366 with a speed limit of 85 mph (137 km/h) and the Hypotenuse.

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Zeffy

#118
December 20, 2015, 10:46:02 AM  
Life would be boring if we didn't take an offramp every once in a while

A weird combination of a weather geek, roadgeek, car enthusiast and furry mixed with many anxiety related disorders

Big John

#119
December 20, 2015, 11:08:13 AM  
^^ ATVs running around a culvert flume?

Zeffy

#120
January 08, 2016, 09:18:40 PM  
Life would be boring if we didn't take an offramp every once in a while

A weird combination of a weather geek, roadgeek, car enthusiast and furry mixed with many anxiety related disorders

jeffandnicole

#121
January 09, 2016, 10:26:56 AM  
More Interesting than Crazy:

At one intersection:

Intersection prior to construction:  https://goo.gl/maps/Yd4edk6osL82

Intersection prior to lights installed:  https://goo.gl/maps/bRD9S23vF2N2

Intersection prior to lights turned on:  https://goo.gl/maps/LHwvzDfzNu52

Unfortunately, we may have to wait a while before seeing the GSV of the lights at the intersection in operation.

SSOWorld

#122
January 09, 2016, 10:45:30 AM  
Scott O.

Not all who wander are lost...
Ah, the open skies, wind at my back, warm sun on my... wait, where the hell am I?!
As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
Raise your what?

Wisconsin - out-multiplexing your state since 1918.

vtk

#123
January 11, 2016, 12:34:41 PM  
Quote from: Zeffy on January 08, 2016, 09:18:40 PM
Either a horror scene or the remnants of some roadkill:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.4889953,-86.9182306,3a,53.3y,215.93h,85.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3oPiJh2Mf7__KC08inFjRA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Probably a deer hit.  I see red splashes like that from time to time in Ohio.  Sometimes they're at an angle, which points at a carcass to the side of the road.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

jeffandnicole

#124
January 14, 2016, 09:18:51 AM  
My mother-in-law lives with us.  On Bing's Street View, I can see her on the porch and her dogs in the yard, including one chasing the BSV vehicle (we have a fenced in front yard).  I'm guessing the BSV vehicle came down on a Monday in the spring, as I have some bags of mulch that I would've picked up during the weekend scattered in the front yard, my wife's vehicle is there (she doesn't work most Mondays), and my vehicle is missing, along with 2 vehicles of the guys that carpool with me are parked on the curb.
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