Comments on: Pranksters (?) hood a Google Street View cam with a plastic bag http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 03:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Splendor http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182789 Splendor Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182789 Ummm....the bag could have blown onto the camera without any help from pranksters. Ummm….the bag could have blown onto the camera without any help from pranksters.

]]> By: sirspocksalot http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182810 sirspocksalot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182810 Here's the McDonalds Gordon was talking about: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5j2923 It looks like they've fixed it, unfortunately. Here’s the McDonalds Gordon was talking about:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5j2923

It looks like they’ve fixed it, unfortunately.

]]> By: stuiethegod http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182817 stuiethegod Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182817 haha... I didn't know they streetview mapped anywhere in Alaska yet. I wonder if this means they might get around to finally getting the roads to match up to the satellite photos around my home town. I'll have to pester my friends that go to UAF... see if they know anything about it. I really wouldn't put it past those college kids, there's not a whole lot to do up in F-banks. Plus, it looks a little to securely placed around the camera too. After looking at it, it doesn't really just "magically" appear while the car was going along at full speed. It first appears on 4th which is some side road behind a strip mall sort of complex. I bet some kids slipped it on while the driver stopped to get some food, but it also makes me wonder what sort of shady things are going on out side of that mall. haha… I didn’t know they streetview mapped anywhere in Alaska yet. I wonder if this means they might get around to finally getting the roads to match up to the satellite photos around my home town.

I’ll have to pester my friends that go to UAF… see if they know anything about it. I really wouldn’t put it past those college kids, there’s not a whole lot to do up in F-banks. Plus, it looks a little to securely placed around the camera too.

After looking at it, it doesn’t really just “magically” appear while the car was going along at full speed. It first appears on 4th which is some side road behind a strip mall sort of complex. I bet some kids slipped it on while the driver stopped to get some food, but it also makes me wonder what sort of shady things are going on out side of that mall.

]]> By: kcmulticast http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182832 kcmulticast Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182832 Doesn't it make more sense that the bag just blew on top of the camera? Doesn’t it make more sense that the bag just blew on top of the camera?

]]> By: Jake0748 http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182847 Jake0748 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182847 @ #5 and #8 - To quote the 4th line at the top of the intro: "Of course, maybe the bag just blew over the cameras". @ #5 and #8 – To quote the 4th line at the top of the intro: “Of course, maybe the bag just blew over the cameras”.

]]> By: chicagojohn http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182867 chicagojohn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182867 I saw what I thought was a google van in Chicago over a year ago... (regular looking SUV with a small tripod on the roof, with about 6 cameras sticking out of it) I keep telling myself to get a sign with "robots.txt" instructions on it and keep it with me. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/google-maps-is-spyin.html I saw what I thought was a google van in Chicago over a year ago… (regular looking SUV with a small tripod on the roof, with about 6 cameras sticking out of it)

I keep telling myself to get a sign with “robots.txt” instructions on it and keep it with me.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/google-maps-is-spyin.html

]]> By: schmod http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182882 schmod Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182882 Probably blew on top of the car by the wind. You'd notice if somebody ran up to your car and put something on top of it. For one, Fairbanks isn't exactly brimming with people, and the speed limits on College Road are pretty high. Of course, I'm more interested as to why on earth Google were even in Fairbanks to begin with. Some of the locations they photographed there were downright bizarre (read: extremely isolated). Sounds to me like the street-view photo car got hopelessly lost, and took a 3,000 mile detour! Probably blew on top of the car by the wind.

You’d notice if somebody ran up to your car and put something on top of it. For one, Fairbanks isn’t exactly brimming with people, and the speed limits on College Road are pretty high.

Of course, I’m more interested as to why on earth Google were even in Fairbanks to begin with. Some of the locations they photographed there were downright bizarre (read: extremely isolated).

Sounds to me like the street-view photo car got hopelessly lost, and took a 3,000 mile detour!

]]> By: yzmik1 http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-183420 yzmik1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-183420 I think the bag was accidently left on the camera by the driver of the car. I know someone who drives a streetviewer (lucky guy) and I've seen him put bags like this on to protect the camera from rain. Just forgot to take it off. I think the bag was accidently left on the camera by the driver of the car. I know someone who drives a streetviewer (lucky guy) and I’ve seen him put bags like this on to protect the camera from rain. Just forgot to take it off.

]]> By: nikhilnarayanan http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182678 nikhilnarayanan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182678 Don't tell me this is another form of advertising now!! (had the logo been clear) Don’t tell me this is another form of advertising now!! (had the logo been clear)

]]> By: mastercontroller http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182714 mastercontroller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182714 It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

]]> By: Gordon Kane http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182717 Gordon Kane Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182717 In the North Dallas area (on the StreetView of northbound Midway Rd [north of Trinity Mills Rd]), the mapping of Midway takes a detour and drives around the local McDonalds restaurant. Obviously in the rush to map the areas, no one is doublechecking the quality. In the North Dallas area (on the StreetView of northbound Midway Rd [north of Trinity Mills Rd]), the mapping of Midway takes a detour and drives around the local McDonalds restaurant.

Obviously in the rush to map the areas, no one is doublechecking the quality.

]]> By: geekbruin http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182973 geekbruin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182973 the artist here is clearly commenting on the state of our post-industrial world. google, the apparently benevolent yet omnipresent herald of our future, may come to the relatively pristine and wild state of alaska. but with google comes malevolent and omnipresent products of that society--plastic bags, a symbol of our own hubris--which will choke our wily inventions and destroy us with mindless simplicity. how was that? did anyone buy that? the artist here is clearly commenting on the state of our post-industrial world. google, the apparently benevolent yet omnipresent herald of our future, may come to the relatively pristine and wild state of alaska. but with google comes malevolent and omnipresent products of that society–plastic bags, a symbol of our own hubris–which will choke our wily inventions and destroy us with mindless simplicity.

how was that? did anyone buy that?

]]> By: ThreeFJeff http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182990 ThreeFJeff Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182990 Here's a good way to pull this off. It takes two people. Alice is walking along the street and flags down the google camera car and asks for directions. She also strikes up a conversation with the driver about the google street view gig. (You know, what's it like, do you just drive around? Is the pay good? &c.) Meanwhile, Bob sneaks up on the car and secures the hood to the cameras. Here’s a good way to pull this off. It takes two people. Alice is walking along the street and flags down the google camera car and asks for directions. She also strikes up a conversation with the driver about the google street view gig. (You know, what’s it like, do you just drive around? Is the pay good? &c.)

Meanwhile, Bob sneaks up on the car and secures the hood to the cameras.

]]> By: Dustin Driver http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-183011 Dustin Driver Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-183011 How can I get a gig as a streetviewer? How can I get a gig as a streetviewer?

]]> By: Falcon_Seven http://boingboing.net/2008/05/08/pranksters-hood-a-go.html#comment-182758 Falcon_Seven Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-182758 Coming soon, 'Google Bags'â„¢. Coming soon, ‘Google Bags’â„¢.

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