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PostPosted: 20-02-2013 14:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
ChrisBoardman wrote:
its just a cyclists helmet.


Thats what they want you to think.
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PostPosted: 20-02-2013 14:58    Post subject: Reply with quote
A cyclist's helmet at the point that the cyclist was run over by the Googlemobile by the look of it.
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PostPosted: 20-02-2013 15:23    Post subject: Reply with quote
it's at the open university and it's the Google cycle cam.
http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20090520/trikerider.jpg
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PostPosted: 20-02-2013 16:30    Post subject: Reply with quote
While it's Yandex Maps, the Russian equivalent of Google Maps, this probably belongs here. Woman finds out boyfriend is cheating on her via streetview.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/cheating-russia-boyfriend-yandex_n_2719638.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
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PostPosted: 20-02-2013 17:39    Post subject: Reply with quote
In Soviet Russia, Google street views you!
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PostPosted: 20-02-2013 23:39    Post subject: Reply with quote
You would have thought Google had invented a riderless bicycle by now.
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PostPosted: 21-02-2013 20:17    Post subject: Reply with quote
ChrisBoardman wrote:
its just a cyclists helmet.

With the new invisibility cloak feature.
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PostPosted: 12-03-2013 14:51    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think the google car was expected.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/grained/google_zpse2feb5eb.jpg
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PostPosted: 12-03-2013 21:39    Post subject: Reply with quote
A pity it never did the rounds back when SM Pride was on... I'm sure the whole world would love to have seen gimps marching around Trafalgar Square.
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PostPosted: 16-04-2013 14:53    Post subject: Reply with quote
supposedly a murder scene...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4889231/Murder-scene-on-Google-maps.html
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PostPosted: 16-04-2013 21:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
Difficult to tell, but I'd say someone went swimming and then lay down on the decking to dry out in the sun. Then they got up and walked along the deck, dripping water everywhere.
If it was blood, I'd say the colour would be darker.
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PostPosted: 17-04-2013 09:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
It could well be blood from a gutted fish.
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PostPosted: 17-04-2013 10:15    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd tend to agree with Myth in that the trails look like water on weather bleached wood to me.

Also, there's something odd about the shadow. The shape does at first instance look like a supine figure, but the shadow looks totally wrong for that - more like one a dog standing in low sunlight might throw in fact. (This shadow also follows through onto the water, to the side of the one thrown by the apparently standing figure - which suggests to me that the shadow is cast by something considerably higher off the ground than a supine body - especially as it is at some distance from the edge of the platform - and that the latter appearance is therefore a simulacra.)
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PostPosted: 17-04-2013 11:27    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's hardly an isolated spot, this place is about a hundred metres away.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/grained/Gateway_zpsaee3c526.jpg
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PostPosted: 19-04-2013 08:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quote:
Google Earth 'killer' who left grisly 'blood trail' on jetty is revealed to be a wet DOG


Link.

I hereby claim my five pounds.
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