Bambi meets Street View

Posted on January 30, 2009, 12:40 pm, by admin, under Web Mapping.

Google's Street View camera car hits a baby deer on Five Points Road near Rush, New York. Photograph: The Daily What 

 

Tragedy has struck though. In upstate New York, a street view car hit a baby deer on Five Points Road – and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. Nobody noticed until, well, someone noticed, prompting a Daily What blog post, floods of traffic, and then a sequence of five street-level pictures being removed from the site.

Here is the story and Google’s response.

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  1. Phil Bridges says:
    January 30, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    oh dear…. :-)

  2. Google überfährt Bambi - und macht Fotos davon | blogoperium.de says:
    February 4, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    [...] nachdem Google jetzt schon selbst drüber geschrieben hat, ist die Sache natürlich kaum mehr geheim, manche Meinungen sind aber wirklich witzig und es gibt in diesem wild verlinkten Satz hier auch [...]

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