Posted on 10/3/2010, 12:36:17 PM by epithermal
Whenever Google sends its Street View cameras to a new country, there is always more revealed than was anticipated.
And so is the case with the launch of Google Street View in Brazil.
Just a day after the service launched, up popped a couple of corpses. One, on the Avenida Presidente Vargas in Rio, the other in Belo Horizonte.
The images, which first reportedly surfaced on Gizmodo Brazil are disturbing because of their apparent normality. They are not in deserted areas, but in places where people and cars can be seen, places where city life just goes on.
Google moved swiftly to remove the images, here for the Rio body and here for Belo Horizonte, leaving just a blank screen.
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How about Newark NJ?
Bush’s Fault.
Nah, man-caused global warming is the culprit. Maybe big oil, or “the rich,” or insurance companies, or banks, right-wing extremists... You know, any of the usual boogiemen the socialists use to try to scare the masses and distract them from the real horrors of socialism.
You forgot “big pharma” and “capitalists” - more favorite socialist bogeymen.
How about the south side of Chicago?
Google hasn't deployed an MRAP street view vehicle yet.
Bela Horizonte...beautiful corpse?
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