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    20 Strange and Hilarious Google Street View Sightings

    1. A Fleet at the Ready

    Take a minute and think about the gargantuan task of photographing every inch of road in the world. Is your mind blown? Now you may understand why Google needs so many cars.

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    Google is ubiquitous in our digital lives. Its algorithms deliver search results, email and YouTube videos to us in the blink of an eye. But there's one task Google executes that is remarkably analog. To collect imagery for Street View in its Maps feature, humans (remember those?) drive automobiles, affixed with a multi-lensed camera on the roof, all over the world.

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    So what are the odds you're doing something zany right when the Google car happens to pass you by? Would you even know it if you saw it? Sometimes the car is clearly labeled, other times it's not. Regardless, now you won't be alarmed when you see a car with a large contraption on its roof, roaming your block. Feel free to photobomb the Internets by doing something silly while the Googlemobile is driving past.

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    Plenty of folks have done it, and the website Streetviewfun.com has become a repository of great images found and submitted by users. We've highlighted our favorites above.

    Have you ever run across something odd or hysterical while browsing Street View? Share the coordinates in the comments below.


    BONUS: Google Map Hilarity


    If you're one of many who still find Google Street View a little creepy, this hilarious video is for you.

    Image courtesy of Flickr, lizzardo.

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

     

    80 comments

    • boston  •  Paramaribo, Suriname  •  2 mths ago
      Just wait until they get drones.
      • Strangelove 2 mths ago
        Agreed.
      • Chris 2 mths ago
        They probably have them already....
      • THINK 2 mths ago
        Ron Paul will repeal!
    • LST  •  Tampa, Florida  •  2 mths ago
      Their satellite images are very badly outdated in most areas, years behind.
      • Tugchug 2 mths ago
        I don't feel like funding that project, do you LST?
      • Ryan 2 mths ago
        It's a private company you fool. You wont be funding #$%$ Unless you use google. Tool, think your tax dollars pay for EVERYTHING!
    • Brian  •  Carlisle, Pennsylvania  •  2 mths ago
      If i know the next time they come by my place, im gonna moon em
      • CJ 2 mths ago
        Is Google big enough for your moon?
    •   •  2 mths ago
      A little comic relief is always nice to when you are slowing watching every civil right that was paid for in blood slips away forever.
      • Strangelove 2 mths ago
        So true.
      • Ragnar 2 mths ago
        SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
      • Sam 2 mths ago
        I know it is totally a constitutional right to have my luddite fears played upon and forbid private businesses from taking pictures in public space

        oh wait, you're an idiot
    • Lon N  •  Charlotte, North Carolina  •  2 mths ago
      Among the many indignities of the modern age, Google Street view "humor" might be hilarious if it weren't also so devastatingly sinister, evil and a harbinger of a future that is absolutely frightening.......
    • Suit of Flames  •  2 mths ago
      Hahahaaha, Google: they are hilarious, until they turn into Big Brother for the US government and turn all over your search results over to them hahahhhahah. Oh.
    • .  •  2 mths ago
      When you get up in the morning, open your blinds and point your middle finger up at the sky just in case google is watching. It's juvenile but fun.
    • OICUR12  •  2 mths ago
      You may think this is funny ....... now.
      • Strangelove 2 mths ago
        Never has been funny and never will be funny in my book.
    • Kozzy  •  2 mths ago
      I found this while cruising the desert: 36.460084° -116.865328° Go to street view and pull into the gas station. xD
    • hydro1  •  2 mths ago
      Bigger brother is watching.
    • Cody  •  2 mths ago
      ugh, so creepy! now my stalker from high school could find me if they wanted to!
    • Dan  •  Stamford, Connecticut  •  2 mths ago
      Google's reported participation with the CIA, DHS, and FBI in establishing the total surveillance and control police state right here in the US is ever so funny. I'm laughing my head off at this innocent fun.
    • Hugh  •  Farmington, Michigan  •  2 mths ago
      On Google Maps my mom and the lady across the street are unloading groceries.
    • Professor X  •  2 mths ago
      Hope they catch which neighbor isn't poop n' scooping ...
    • D  •  Dallas, Texas  •  2 mths ago
      I dont see siht. FAIL NEWS STORY
    • OICUR12  •  2 mths ago
      How can google claim to "respect your privacy when they take pictures of you house without your permission.
    • YsoCiriiius  •  New York, New York  •  2 mths ago
      google is going to become over the years one of the biggest big brother organization that ever existed
    • G  •  2 mths ago
      Don't laugh too much at the video.

      If Google gets their way, with an army of drones walking around with Google's augmented reality headsets (with cameras conveniently sending images back to base), the video could easily become reality.
    • safeinthewoods  •  2 mths ago
      ... eye in the sky ...
    • Douglas  •  2 mths ago
      True story here: I zoomed in on my condo with Google Earth and there was a satellite photo showing my slacker neighbor friend taking a nap in his truck with his elbow hanging out the window, when he should have been at work... I laughed my a*$ off. I know, this is about as funny as the featured video...
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