Community Terrified By Google Street View Prank

[Tom Goldman]

Community Terrified By Google Street View Prank

A nine-year-old freaked out her entire neighborhood by playing a prank accidentally caught on Google Street View.

When you're getting directions from a friend and he tells you to "turn right at the dead girl," either a prank was caught on Google's Street View or he lives in a really bad neighborhood. Thankfully, this is a case of the former, with a nine-year-old playing dead to scare her friend caught by a Google Street View car.

Google's Street View camera cars perpetually drive through the world's neighborhoods, taking pictures in 360 degrees to help the users of Google Maps find their destinations more accurately. The everyone to see [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/94662-Cute-Robots-Protect-Your-Privacy-on-Street-View].

When residents of the neighborhood saw the image online, they called police who discovered the girl was only playing dead to scare her friend. Thanks to technology, she ended up pranking the entire world instead. Azura says she wasn't aware that the Google car was passing, but kids are pretty savvy these days and I think there's the possibility that it was intentional. She says she "fell over" and "thought it would be funny to play dead." Either way, drivers in Worcester, UK need to make sure they don't use the face-down girl as a driving landmark, because she's since moved.

Source: Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7940937/Google-Street-View-dead-girl-sparks-panic-after-photographed-lying-down.html]


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[Elec0]

I wondered how long it was going to be until Google's cameras or satellites caught something like this. Quite funny, really.

 

[ultimateownage]

It's obviously just a conspiracy, she was actually hit by a car and was reanimated. They're covering up the zombie apocalypse!

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

I would have freaked out too. Sure, it might have been a harmless prank, but nobody likes freaking the fuck out. Especially when they're driving.

 

[Jonluw]

So... Are we going to see a lot of pranks on Google street view from now on?

 

[Furious Styles]

Ha! Awesome.

Now all we need is someone walking along, dragging a rubbish bag leaking blood behind them.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Oh Google street view when don't you have something for me to laugh at.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Wow, imagine finding that randomly. Being a git, I probably would've laughed only slightly less than I did when looking at it now, or perhaps more.

 

[silver wolf009]

Reminds me of that one shot from google maps where the guys getting robbed. Or the one with the house burning down. Kudos for the scare google, kudos.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I'm willing to bet money somebody is going to moon a camera car at some point.

 

[SextusMaximus]

We need a big community to do something like this. Have everyone in one street play dead and people will be scared shitless of going down that street.

 

[Lucifer dern]

We need a big community to do something like this. Have everyone in one street play dead and people will be scared shitless of going down that street.

duuuude im so fed up of people coming down my street with huge cars with huge exhaustse waking me up at 4 a fucking m you could have just solved my problem

 

[Hybridwolf]

Heh, I live in the area, and saw this in the local rag. Strange thing was, the paper said the picture had been taken in 2008?

 

[Jared]

Oh wow...Thats pretty bad, especilly if it becomes something to give directions to!

but..it is a good idea for a general prank, to scare the living daylights outta people!

 

[tsb247]

This is amazing! I approve of this prank!

 

[Robby Foxfur]

hahaha nice, this is why i'm wondering what else googles cameras have caught

 

[ArMartinez02]

hands down to that lil girl lol

 

[SodaDew]

Im actually jealous that I didn't think about doing that lol

 

[MercenaryCanary]

I must meet this girl and shake her hand.

 

[Deathsigna]

There's another good google street view picture somewhere where you can see the before and after of a fight. Because the car keeps taking pictures you can see these two guys staring each other down, and then down the road you can see one of them chasing the other guy who's got blood dripping from his mouth.