Google “Street View” becomes view of man in distress
Thursday, 10 December 2009 | by Pat's Picks
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.
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:
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)