A couple of days ago someone posted an image of an australian man collapsed on the pavement. Today british newspaper Daily Mail writes that he is furious and was grieving – a friend had died.
Grieving man furious after Google’s StreetView shows him collapsed on pavement
Guy sleeping in the street. Images closer to him has already been removed by Google. Update: First link in comments has a screen shot of the removed image.
License plate visible…
Update: Google have already removed this image, but luckily we have a local copy of the image.
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Near the border of the United States and Mexico, the Street View car crosses a private bridge.
Update: As you can see, the image has been removed now by Google.
Update 2: We now have a local copy of the removed image.
Some images from this area has been removed by Google. The image below show some of the smoke coming out of the house. The burning house is behind the house on this image.
Update: Here’s the scene from another street (thanks Kyle).
The good news:
Along with Google’s Street View update came many new features, including the photoshopping to make the Google car disappear.
The bad news:
Along with this update came the removal of some of the things that made Street View funny sometimes. Things that will no longer be seen in Street View are:
Hi-resolution imagery
People’s faces
Previous Street Views of hi-resolution Street View.
Those things were giving Google lots of trouble, so all imagery is now lower resolution.
The images of the kid who wipes out on bike is the most popular street view on this site. Google have now removed the images, but you can still see screen captures of what happened here.
Now removed by Google. Screen captures:
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Go north from this point (click on the ‘N’ in the image) and watch as the kid wipes out turning in to his driveway as the Google car passes. (thanks Jason O)
This trumps them all. This fellow was getting busted just as the Google-cam drove by…
Update: As you can see Google has removed the image. Luckily we have an exclusive copy of the image:
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Link (Image has been removed by Google down the road where there apparently was a drug deal. If you have the image let us know)
Update
This is one photo still available of the deal:
