Google Maps Prank: Young Man “Attacks” His Friend with Hammer

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Gideon Futerman says he was on the North of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland when the pair played the prank. They spotted the mapping camera and decided to create a “masterpiece”. The camera caught him pretending to hit his friend with “a geological hammer”.
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In the end, they like Google Maps. Link

Alleged secret ice door found in Antarctica on Google Maps

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And as always, another curious image is found on Google Maps, but very different: a “secret door” was found in Antarctica by Google Maps users!

This information appeared on a Reddit profile that published this image and after that, it stirred the imagination of all internet users. Located southeast of Showa Station, monitored by Japan, the structure recorded via satellite is a rectangular block of ice, whose effect on the accumulation of snow generates a curious trail. Posted on forums dedicated to conspiracies, the find gained fame as being a secret door to something, perhaps “alien”. Source

What is the solution to this mystery?

Evidence that it’s just ice isn’t hard to find — Just northwest of the supposed icy threshold, other similar blocks of ice can be seen, making the same pattern of snow and shadows as their famous sibling.

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After looking at the coordinates on Google Earth Pro and looking at historical imagery, Bethan Davies, a professor of glaciology at Newcastle University, told the publication that the mysterious door “is in an area of fast sea ice… close to the coast” that is dotted with “a series of islands” where there is shallow water.“This is an iceberg that has become grounded and is now stuck and melting [in place],” Davies explained. “You can see many other icebergs in the area.”Professor Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, agreed with Davies, telling the outlet: “This is simply an ice flow around a solid subglacial obstacle, influenced also by melting and refreezing of the ice and by katabatic winds. Source NY Post

Among the theories that this poet is some kind of extraterrestrial, the most likely is that she is just a block of ice – and nothing more 😉

Google Street View camera captured ghost in Lucknow, India

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The following story shows the existence of life after death, captured by Google Maps cameras in India. A spirit was spotted on top of this house, according to a story about the place, reported by a Reddit user.

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While passing by a house today my mom told me this house is haunted, I asked her the story and it was shocking as fu**, it dates back to year 2001 where a doctor couple was murdered in the wee hours, their house looted and I did found a news article on it.

Surprisingly I just went to see the google street view and found something standing on 3rd floor of this stranded house!

News article by The Times of India in 2001
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Google Maps solves case of missing elderly woman in Belgium

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Paulette Landrieux’s case was about to be closed until a copper decided to look for her house on Google Maps. A chill went down his spine when he discovered an image of the pensioner walking away from her Belgium home and ultimately to her death.

By “creepy” coincidence, the Google Maps team had been out that day taking pictures. The image allowed police to retrace the mother-of-four’s footsteps, leading to the discovery of her body just yards away.

Source: DailyStar UK

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TV TAROBÁ on Google Maps & celebrating 45 years

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A brief history of TV Tarobá

TV Tarobá was born brave, like a warrior and ready to act on the front line! Audacious, full of courage. On February 1, 1979, TV Tarobá, the largest broadcaster in the interior of Paraná, began airing, beginning a new chapter in the history of one of the most thriving regions in Brazil and Latin America.

Source – Tarobá News

TV TAROBÁ on Google Maps

Check out some moments when TV Tarobá ended up on Google Maps (some of which have already been posted here on StreetViewFun) and a report about a robbery that took place in March 2023 by Google and shown by Tarobá!

1 – TV TAROBÁ team going to the university to report and Google records the moment.

2 – Report from TV Tarobá shows an unusual event that occurred in March 2023 and had repercussions in Jun. 2023 – a robbery was recorded on Google Maps in the city of Londrina PR.

3 – TV Tarobá vehicle and an employee saying ‘hello’ to the Google Maps vehicle that was passing by at that moment, in front of the largest supermarket chain in Paraná, Super Muffato.

4 – Arrest in the act at the brazilian federal police station. TV TAROBÁ and Google Maps were at the time of the incident in 2011!

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Note: his image was already posted here in 2021.

5 – In front of a school in Cascavel, TV Tarobá was reporting. Link to post at Streetviewfun.

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Google Street View catches attempted robbery LIVE in the city of Londrina

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A man on a motorcycle tried to steal the purse of an elderly woman who was at the scene and, coincidentally, the Google Street View car was passing by at the exact moment of the assault.

The case took place on March 16, 2023, at Cinco Conjuntos, in the North Zone of Londrina. In the following sequence of images, you will notice that the assailant takes off riding his motorcycle and flees the scene on a nearby detour.

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Already here, the same old woman who was robbed appears in front of this condominium, being supported by another woman.

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Image goes viral and becomes regional repercussions

Several users shared the images of the theft on social networks. Then, some television stations in Londrina and the state of Paraná reported the record of the robbery made by Google.

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