Crazy things you've found in Google StreetView

[kphoger]

Is it bad that I couldn't detect the sarcasm until I was most of the way through?

[STLmapboy]

Signal being opened up in Virginia.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I wonder how photospheres clearly taken in land get placed in the middle of the sea.

[ErmineNotyours]

Signal being opened up in Virginia.

Near your link: Being followed by another camera car.

[Scott5114]

I wonder how photospheres clearly taken in land get placed in the middle of the sea.

It was the freakin' mermaids again.

[thspfc]

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9825546,-78.7714579,3a,75y,277.74h,93.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slMaTS46HxrsV_oStWlYEQQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Truck in the left lane right next to a "left lane no trucks" sign

[kkt]

   
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
   
   

Cool!  I like that movie a lot, never knew the occupants put up a cutout of Bogart but it's a very S.F. thing to do.

[Mr. Matté]

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9825546,-78.7714579,3a,75y,277.74h,93.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slMaTS46HxrsV_oStWlYEQQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Truck in the left lane right next to a "left lane no trucks" sign

No parking {bike lane, any time, loading zone, tow away zone}

[STLmapboy]

Here's another swollen river on GSV. This time it's the Sulphur, below I-30 near Texarkana.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The Very Large Array. I noticed something weird in the middle of New Mexico on OpenStreetMap (three railways radiating from a common origin), and thus I had to search what was going in the area.

[ethanhopkin14]

The Very Large Array. I noticed something weird in the middle of New Mexico on OpenStreetMap (three railways radiating from a common origin), and thus I had to search what was going in the area.

Yes, I just recently learned that the VLA moves on a pair of parallel standard gauge railroad tracks that actually have an at grade crossing!  I don't know why, but I had always envisioned them to use a specialized rail design.  I still haven't made it out there.

[STLmapboy]

The Very Large Array. I noticed something weird in the middle of New Mexico on OpenStreetMap (three railways radiating from a common origin), and thus I had to search what was going in the area.

I can see lots of thought went into naming that.

[CoreySamson]

Here's a pickup truck towing a pickup truck towing a pickup truck.

[STLmapboy]

Here's an unblurred license plate on I-78 in Newark.

[STLmapboy]

Anyone wanna call this random LA number for $99 Hawaii airfare?

[ethanhopkin14]

Very rudimentary state line labeling.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0008111,-123.5352408,3a,73.7y,137.89h,70.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stIkAITfc9HLmz7WQHnDk2w!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

[empirestate]

Hang loose.

(In middle school, the authorities thought that was an obscene gesture and forbade its use.)

When I was young that was known as the 'bullshit' sign. Obviously the meaning has changed.

Not changed, just a different sign. The sign seen here, on its own, can be taken to mean "rock on"; and in combination with the other hand, it forms the "bull" part of "bullshit" in ASL.

"Hang loose", on the other (figurative) hand, uses the thumb rather than the index finger. So that's just a misconstruction (and one that it would not be surprising to learn was made by some middle school authorities at some point in history).

[dlsterner]

Anyone wanna call this random LA number for $99 Hawaii airfare?

Never mind the cheap air fare ... take a look at the gasoline prices at the 76 gas station across the street!

One of many reasons I am happy to not live in Los Angeles.

[zachary_amaryllis]

When I was a kid, I was told it represented Satan's horns.

i always understood it as 'surf naked' when i lived in VA...

[zachary_amaryllis]

Never mind the cheap air fare ... take a look at the gasoline prices at the 76 gas station across the street!

One of many reasons I am happy to not live in Los Angeles.

it'd almost be cheaper to run your car on cigarettes...

[hotdogPi]

The average cost to drive a car is 59¢ per mile, and most of this is maintenance and depreciation. A $1 increase in gasoline costs results in a 4¢ increase per mile. In addition, this particular station is gouging by about $1.50 per gallon; the average price in LA at the time was in the high $3.xx range.

[kphoger]

The average cost to drive a car is 59¢ per mile, and most of this is maintenance and depreciation. A $1 increase in gasoline costs results in a 4¢ increase per mile. In addition, this particular station is gouging by about $1.50 per gallon; the average price in LA at the time was in the high $3.xx range.

In February 2020 GSV, the next 76 station down the road was selling Regular for $1.07 less per gallon than that one was.  Insane!

[webny99]

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View?

[jakeroot]

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View?

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).

[kphoger]

Just posted this in another thread and figured I might as well throw it in here as well:
Who needs red light cameras when you've got Street View?

Judging by how quickly that Escape is blowing by the GSV car, I'm thinking he only snuck in barely after the yellow (maybe like a quarter second or something).

Though I know you're only joking, I would be cautious to assume guilt entirely through Street View, as there typically isn't enough imagery to tell whether someone entered on yellow or not (even in states where you are required to stop on yellow, it's still not illegal per se to enter on yellow).

The light turned red at about 2-3 car lengths.

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