Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView

[jakeroot]

How about this?  Seems crazy to me, but I defer to the audience.

Lots to unpack there. The unblurred bloke going southbound certainly strikes me as crazy, given how coocoo Google is with that.

But then there's the guy with the horse. Don't see that too often. Or maybe you do in Colombia.

[kphoger]

How about this?  Seems crazy to me, but I defer to the audience.

Other than what appears to be a fondness of motorcyclists for running red lights, what in particular looks crazy?  People are on the correct side of the road.

[kphoger]

Crazier than Cambodia or Ghana?

[webny99]

Other than what appears to be a fondness of motorcyclists for running red lights, what in particular looks crazy?  People are on the correct side of the road.

People being on the correct side of the road is about the only thing that isn't crazy. The guy with the horse sharing the road with regular cars, as jakeroot mentions. The unbelievable volume of motorcycles (also seen here). The weird ridge in the middle of the road. The buildings. The people. Maybe "crazy" is a high bar, but I'm intrigued by all of it!

Crazier than Cambodia or Ghana?

Uh... no... Well, maybe crazier than Cambodia, but not Ghana. What is even going on there? Looks like a lot to explore when I get a chance.

[kphoger]

Other than what appears to be a fondness of motorcyclists for running red lights, what in particular looks crazy?  People are on the correct side of the road.

People being on the correct side of the road is about the only thing that isn't crazy. The guy with the horse sharing the road with regular cars, as jakeroot mentions. The unbelievable volume of motorcycles (also seen here). The weird ridge in the middle of the road. The buildings. The people. Maybe "crazy" is a high bar, but I'm intrigued by all of it!

meh.

I probably share the road with horse-drawn carts, and even mounted riders, probably every single time I go to Mexico.

And I'm used to things sort of like that ridge both in town and on the highway.

So I guess I have a different baseline for "normal" than most others on here.

If you haven't watched these, then click on the links below for a typical day of driving:

Heading to our ministry location in the Ojo de Agua neighborhood on the south side of town.
(Sorry about the massive amount of dashboard visible)


Heading back again, with a side trip into town.
(The video skips briefly at 8:51, while I parallel parked and ran in to grab a restaurant menu.)

[webny99]

meh.

It's very hard for me to take a post too seriously when this is how it begins. But I will try to get around to watching the videos sometime.

[kphoger]

meh.

It's very hard for me to take a post too seriously when this is how it begins. But I will try to get around to watching the videos sometime.

meh.

[webny99]

meh.

bleh.

[andrepoiy]

Illegal dumping caught in action?


Link: https://goo.gl/maps/DdEB5xTV2kXiHUaF8

[Avalanchez71]

So are they expanding this to a divided highway?
https://www.google.com/maps/@7.0624042,3.7139259,3a,83.5y,16.91h,75.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.03169%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[empirestate]

So are they expanding this to a divided highway?

I don't know, but:
https://www.google.com/maps/@6.4520329,3.3972204,3a,20.5y,189.01h,78.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjvGITC0xn1RnW99wb8OZJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[kphoger]

So are they expanding this to a divided highway?
https://www.google.com/maps/@7.0624042,3.7139259,3a,83.5y,16.91h,75.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DK5r_T9NdBMqb2qTD8Q_wsg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D98.03169%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Uh.  Yeah.  The road is even marked as a divided highway on the Map view.  And it's pretty obvious just a bit up the road.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

This house in Lander, Wyoming is amazing. There are 18 photospheres supposedly showing its inside, but they wildly change between them.

[kphoger]

This house in Lander, Wyoming is amazing. There are 18 photospheres supposedly showing its inside, but they wildly change between them.

Here's my favorite view of the house.

[D-Dey65]

For some reason, WQBQ 1410 AM in Leesburg, Florida is incorrectly located on the north end of the FL 19 bridge over the Cross Florida Barge Canal north of Ocala National Forest.

I've never seen any radio stations there. Maybe the station themselves should complain about it.

[kphoger]

For those of you who use a VPN, let me know if this is normal:

One of the MSOs my company works for has been having trouble with the VPN we use to access their sites.  Because of this, we've been using a different VPN access instead.  Today, while I was connected to that VPN, Google Maps in Chrome (incognito) thought I was in Maryland Heights, MO.  I noticed that my supposed location was several miles north of the MSO's corporate office there, in a retail business district just west of I-270 and Dorsett Road.  I called our KC regional manager and had him check his own computer just for kicks, and Google Maps thought he too was in Maryland Heights rather than North Kansas City.

When I disconnected from the VPN, Google Maps went back to thinking I was only about a quarter-mile from where I'm actually sitting.

[NWI_Irish96]

For those of you who use a VPN, let me know if this is normal:

One of the MSOs my company works for has been having trouble with the VPN we use to access their sites.  Because of this, we've been using a different VPN access instead.  Today, while I was connected to that VPN, Google Maps in Chrome (incognito) thought I was in Maryland Heights, MO.  I noticed that my supposed location was several miles north of the MSO's corporate office there, in a retail business district just west of I-270 and Dorsett Road.  I called our KC regional manager and had him check his own computer just for kicks, and Google Maps thought he too was in Maryland Heights rather than North Kansas City.

When I disconnected from the VPN, Google Maps went back to thinking I was only about a quarter-mile from where I'm actually sitting.

When I am on my work laptop connected via VPN, Google Maps thinks I'm at my office, which is 250ish miles away. My personal laptop thinks I'm pretty close to where I actually am.

As for the several miles difference, the company may have servers in a different location than their offices.

[jmacswimmer]

For those of you who use a VPN, let me know if this is normal:

One of the MSOs my company works for has been having trouble with the VPN we use to access their sites.  Because of this, we've been using a different VPN access instead.  Today, while I was connected to that VPN, Google Maps in Chrome (incognito) thought I was in Maryland Heights, MO.  I noticed that my supposed location was several miles north of the MSO's corporate office there, in a retail business district just west of I-270 and Dorsett Road.  I called our KC regional manager and had him check his own computer just for kicks, and Google Maps thought he too was in Maryland Heights rather than North Kansas City.

When I disconnected from the VPN, Google Maps went back to thinking I was only about a quarter-mile from where I'm actually sitting.

When I am on my work laptop connected via VPN, Google Maps thinks I'm at my office, which is 250ish miles away. My personal laptop thinks I'm pretty close to where I actually am.

As for the several miles difference, the company may have servers in a different location than their offices.

Either when I'm on VPN at home or in the office, Google Maps thinks I'm at the company headquarters (which must be related to how the servers are structured).

[interstatefan990]

There's been times when I used a VPN that Google thought I was in Saudi Arabia. When I opened a new google search and started typing, the characters appeared from right to left, as is with the Arabic language.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

In commemoration of the 11th anniversary of this thread (happening tomorrow), I introduce the true gateway to Hell .

[D-Dey65]

In commemoration of the 11th anniversary of this thread (happening tomorrow), I introduce the true gateway to Hell .

Really? Because that looks like it might be a fun drive.

[Big John]

^^ Read the signs.

[kphoger]

I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.

[hotdogPi]

I'm always amused that people think 666 has anything to do with hell.  It's just a number that refers to a person in the book of Revelation.  Debate all you want what person it refers to, but Satan isn't a person.

Even worse are those who think any number of sixes does. The number is exactly 666, as in 2*3*3*37, which is also the sum of integers from 1 to 36. 6666 and 66666 do not mean anything, nor do three separate sixes in a row (such as June 6, 2006 in shorthand format), and two thirds is right out.

[NWI_Irish96]

True story: my wife and I like to play poker, and Catholic churches often host poker tournaments as fund raisers. The first time we went to one particular church, she got in a hand with the priest where she had pocket aces, he had pocket sixes, and he knocked her out of the tournament after a 6 came on the flop.