Google “Street View” becomes view of man in distress

Written by Pats Papers | Thursday, 10 December 2009 4:37 PM


UPDATE:  DigitalBeat blogger Anthony Ha notes that the image has been removed from Google and got a brief comment from the company.

Original Post: 12:16 pm ET, Dec 10
I can’t be sure that this is legitimate, but it sure looks like the Google Street View image was snapped at a bad time.  A crowd of people gathers around a man who has collapsed at 29th and Park.

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Click to view in Google Maps

See the discussion below in comments and on Twitter re: legitimacy.  I’m inclined to think it is after seeing EPC’s comment below.  Here’s the image he describes from up the block:
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Read more about how Google Street View images are acquired from the Daily Mail.  They seem to send a camera car to drive around a neighborhood.

(h/t to @brianreed on Twitter for posting the link I first saw on this, and to streetviewgallery)

 

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