• What country got a Google Street View driver shot at?
What happens if you want Street View to show you something that isn't a street...
or even on Earth?
Here are 15 more of the craziest and coolest things you can find on Google Street View.
15 – Confidential Cow • A couple years ago, Google responded to
privacy concerns with its Street View cars by adding a function that automatically blurs
out peoples' faces.
• It clearly isn't too picky about what kinds of people.
But at least this cow doesn't have to worry about its privacy.
14 – A Man and His Alpaca • What?
You've never seen a guy hang out on a street corner with an alpaca before?
• Clearly you've never been to Tazmania, where this sort of thing happens at least
one time.
13 – A Giant Dead Chicken • This is one of many setups by Ben Kinsley's
Street with a View project.
• Basically, he installed some weird stuff all up and down Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh,
just in time for the Google Street View car to roll by and capture it all.
• This is honestly one of the least strange things in that project.
We'll talk more about this later.
12 – The Yellow Pin Guy • When you zoom on a Google data center,
you get a view of a guy – presumably a Google employee – dressed as the yellow marker
you use to pin a spot.
• But if you look very closely, you can see there's a slight difference.
The guy in the photo doesn't have legs that disappear into a sharp point.
11 – Best Seagull Friend • In case you didn't know, seagulls are
jerks.
They'll steal your food right out of your hands, poop on you, and scream at you incessantly
at all other times.
• Or, in this case, they'll just ruin a perfectly good map photograph by photobombing
it.
• It probably thought the camera was something it could eat.
10 – Meanwhile, in Tennessee • Bears aren't as common in Tennessee as
they are further north.
• But if this teaches us anything, it's that if a bear does show up, it will be promptly
chased away by a shirtless man holding a small wooden club.
• That'll teach you to mess around on County Highway 365, bear.
9 – The Large Hadron Collider • If you've ever been curious about the
Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research facility in Switzerland, Google has it all
mapped out for you.
• Literally.
• You can explore the facility, including the inside of the Large Hadron Collider itself.
It kind of just looks like a big tunnel.
8 – Shot at in Colombia • Note to Google – sometimes people don't
like being on camera.
• We don't know why this guy in Colombia pulled a gun on the street view car.
Maybe he was doing something he didn't want caught on camera.
• Or maybe he knew the guy in the car.
If that's it, they're probably not friends.
7 – The Stig • The anonymous race car driver known as
the Stig is a recurring character on Top Gear.
• And here he is, just standing off to the side of the road at Loch Ness.
• Yes, THAT Loch Ness.
• Google has taken the photo down, but apparently those who saw it when it was up say he was
only there for one shot.
Click up or down the road, and he simply disappears.
6 – This...
Thing • If you zoom out from this, you see a perfectly
normal street with perfectly normal people and nothing strange going on.
• Even though it looks like some sort of psychological torture chamber, it's most likely
just a camera glitch.
• Still, what the hell kind of camera glitch causes this to happen?
What are you hiding, Oceanport, New Jersey?
5 – Laser Experiment • Obviously, this one isn't at random.
There is way too much going on here for it to have just been coincidentally grabbed by
the Street View camera.
• But still, that does nothing to answer questions about this.
• Who are these people?
Where did they get that laser weapon?
Is it supposed to be killing them, or is it like a Cupid laser, and that's why they have
heart-shaped eyeballs?
• And is that Doc Brown from Back to the Future?
4 – Scuba Chasers • Supposedly, these guys are friends of
the Google Street View car driver, and waited outside in scuba gear because they thought
it would be funny.
• If this is what passes for funny in Norway, then never change, Norway.
3 – Bird Poop Explosion • It kind of looks like this building went
up in a huge comic-book explosion of... something?
• But no worries, it's just poop.
And it's not an explosion.
A bird pooped on the camera lens, and it's just pure coincidence that it happened at
this building.
• It's also incredible aim by the bird, if you think about it.
2 – The Battle • Another staging by the Street with a View
project put a pair of swordsmen in a duel to the death as the car rolled by.
• Google has taken all these photos down, as apparently they hate it when people stage
events for the Street View car.
• And fun.
They obviously also hate fun.
1 – The International Space Station • Well, it isn't exactly a “street,”
but Google now allows you to take a tour of the International Space Station as though
it were in Street View.
• Good luck navigating it, though – it gets confusing seeing everything in zero gravity.
Normally up is the sky, and down is the street.
Here, up and down might be different rooms.
• But hey, if exploring the streets are too boring for you, now you can explore the
streets of space.