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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by WhoMikeJames, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. Poloshirtbandit

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    Yeah, I can see my house on it now. The pics look kinda old though. Doesn't look like anyone was at home when they passed by.
     
  2. Christopher

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    They have the Aussie version up now and they are done so much of Sydney...its mind blowing!

    Took at look at my place....only house with the bins still out, so now the world knows I'm a lazy b*stard!

    You cant zoom in too much that its creepy and you cant make out my cars number plate which is good.
     
  3. meggoleggo

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    I can see my parents back yard (along the main street in our neighborhood) but I can't see the front of the house. Streetview has only done half of the neighborhood so far.
     
  4. Storm Surge

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    wow I see my house, crazy stuff.
     
  5. across110thstreet

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    they just added the side street where I park my car.

    and there's my car, sitting in its parking spot.


    creepy.
     
  6. A_3PO

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    They took a picture of my wife in the garage last December. The combination of Google Earth with Google Street View is creepy.
     
  7. Astro101

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    My house is like, just on a tiny off road off the main neighborhood street, so I can't see my house :(

    Wish I coulda seen the Google van!
     
  8. Creepy Crawl

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    I saw my house, it was taken in December sometime because my Christmas decorations were only half way done, and I remember that was around December 12th-15th. Crazy stuff .
     
  9. SwoLy-D

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    Maybe it was JULY when you still hadn't taken them DOWN. ;)

    Errr... "hispanic?" ;)

    Mine has the Christmas ornaments, as well. It was a sunny day in December.
     
  10. Creepy Crawl

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    I only leave the lights up ................ :D :cool:
     
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    [​IMG]

    Google's Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home


    Last updated at 21:16pm on 11.08.08


    A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet.

    He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi.

    As he slept off his excesses, a car-mounted video camera passed by to record pictures of the street for Google's StreetView website.

    Within days a photographic record of the neighbourhood and its unusual presence was available for worldwide viewing.

    The new Google service has been at the centre of controversy over claims it represents a breach of privacy.

    But the latest victim, who gave his name only as 'Bill', is not planning an official complaint.

    'I'm not too happy about it' said Bill.

    'I mean, I wouldn't have been there in the state that I was in, but I wasn't really thinking there would be someone driving by with a video camera on the roof filming me, either,' Bill, 36, said from northern Australia, where he is working with a fishing company.

    'What do you do when you lose a mate like that?' he said of his pal, with whom he had been planning a motorbike holiday around the island of Tasmania.

    'I know what he would have done if I left - he would have partied, too. That's what I would've wanted him to do so that's what I did with some friends.'

    Bill said he accepted he could not expect to have complete privacy in a public street, but he questioned whether his embarrassing moment should be broadcast over the internet.

    Street View was launched in Australia last week and since then there have been a number of complaints about what has been captured on the video camera.

    One woman who wrote to a Sydney newspaper said she was mortified after logging onto the site.

    'Both my parents were pictured outside their house, but my dad passed away a month ago,' said Janice Creenaune.

    'While recognising that Google-time is never real-time, the image renews the raw loss,' she said.

    Another letter writer, Elizabeth Maher was, however, delighted.

    'While others may have legitimate complaints about Google publishing pictures of their house, I was delighted to view ours, with me pictured hard at work in the garden, complete with broom and bucket, thereby dispelling any uncertainty as to who is the gardener in the family.'

    A spokesman for Google Australia, Mr Rob Shilkin, said the company had taken significant steps to protect the privacy of individuals, including face-blurring and tools for people to flag sensitive imagery for removal.

    Since Bill's case became known to Google Australia, his embarrassing sleep-in has been removed from the site.

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...ussie+keeled+over+outside+his+home/article.do
     
  13. smoove shoez

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    what does the google van look like?
     
  14. WhoMikeJames

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    My house... Crazy.
     
  15. Faos

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    I found my house...it looks like it was taken around the Christmas holiday season because my neighbors decorations were up.
     
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    Got a few shots of my car parked out front.

    :cool:
     
  17. SwoLy-D

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    It's a Beetle. I saw car with a camera on top of it (on Clay Road in Katy) and it looked somewhat like that laser-shooting thing Luke Skywalker trained with, but in black.

    Or maybe it was a TOYOTA MODEL... I was moving FAST :D :
    [​IMG]
     
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