Jan 30 2009Google Maps Van Hits Deer, Uploads Pics
A Google Maps van hit a deer while out on the prowl -- and recorded and uploaded the whole damn thing to the live version of Google Maps! WTF!?
The Google employee had to have known that they hit the deer but the more interesting thought is why did they proceed to upload the images? Is Google that determined to be the first to map the roads by street view that they don't care what goes live on their site?
Based on some of the other stuff I've seen on Street View, it's pretty obvious Google doesn't care what goes live -- or dead! Zing!
UPDATE: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived". So yeah, go Bambi! Hit the links to see a couple more graphic pictures if you're a real sicko.
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Google maps car hits a deer, records it all. Oh deer [neowin]
Thanks to Spikey DaPikey, who once thought he ran over a squirrel. In reality, the squirrel passed perfectly under the car, only hitting his head on the tailpipe. In his rearview Spikey saw the squirrel standing there, scratching its melon and wondering "WTF just happened?".
Reader Comments
1. gizmoduck - January 30, 2009 10:51 AM
:(
2. sid - January 30, 2009 10:51 AM
Mmm Dinner 1st omg
3. Timbo - January 30, 2009 10:51 AM
Deer is delicioius
4. sid - January 30, 2009 10:52 AM
omg 1stttt
5. Rachel - January 30, 2009 10:52 AM
Maybe it was only gone when the police arrived because someone didn't want to pass up free venison.
6. pinacolonic - January 30, 2009 10:52 AM
dinner?
7. Lee - January 30, 2009 10:53 AM
What an ass.
8. BOOSH! - January 30, 2009 11:03 AM
I guess I'm a sicko.
Gizmoduck- Jurasic Park?
Where's the goat?
9. Moose Knuckle - January 30, 2009 11:04 AM
Google maps is just keepin' it real, bringin' y'all down to the street level, showin' ya how life really is on the google maps beat...
10. Stan Wingson - January 30, 2009 11:05 AM
If I laugh this hard am I really that much of an asshole?
11. SiGee - January 30, 2009 11:14 AM
That is messed up.
Google is grounded.
12. K4ot1K - January 30, 2009 11:15 AM
That deer got Googled!
13. J.D. - January 30, 2009 11:18 AM
You're not the only sicko, Google street view of the area is shut down due to excessively high viewer volume.
Sickos unite!
I could go for some venison...
14. Thumperchica - January 30, 2009 11:20 AM
10 Nope, I laughed too. But then I stopped because the page is shut down due to high volume.
15. Bloodnose The Pirate - January 30, 2009 11:25 AM
feel no remorse for the deer. deer are like giant forest rats with tasty tasty flesh. this is opposed to normal rats which have a greasy & stringy meat.
16. thatgengirl - January 30, 2009 11:25 AM
Interesting that the street is called "Five Points Road."
17. Daisy - January 30, 2009 11:28 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene int he movie Never Back Down where Max was stuck with Alex P Keaton's dad and Reba McEntyre on a rock outcropping and were being menaced by giant prehistoric worms. They worried about what to eat if they were there for a while but max realized they had well over 100 pounds of bacon there.
18. gizmoduck - January 30, 2009 11:32 AM
@8
you are a sicko but its ok.
cause you are welcome to the circus of dreamsssss
19. Snivellus - January 30, 2009 11:33 AM
Oh deer, what the buck? I bet the driver was all like Homer and went "Doe!" Seriously it would have be-hooved him to stop. Maybe he was in a rut.
20. gizmoduck - January 30, 2009 11:34 AM
@8
gchat?
21. softlicious - January 30, 2009 11:34 AM
I wonder if a certain woman is going to carve out some bras or panties outa that deer? In that case it's all worth it, remember, she's a vegeterian, so she can't just gobble it up, she needs to do something else.
22. GTO--Josh - January 30, 2009 11:38 AM
cant view the link.
"Streetview is currently unavailable at this location due to high demand"
Google is showing terrorists the exact layout of our country, in picture form.
Doomed!
23. I'm a Computer - January 30, 2009 11:40 AM
dumb little goat got his 15 mins of fame. WHERES MINE GOOGLE EARTH? HIT ME WITH YOUR CAR!!
24. softlicious - January 30, 2009 11:44 AM
@22 - This is horrible, Google displays a poor injured deer on their website, I'm appaled! And now even worse, they remove the poor deer from their website to cover the fact that they put it up in the first place. I wonder if the woman is going to forget she's vegeterian for once and Gooble up the deer?
25. Thumperchica - January 30, 2009 12:03 PM
google totally removed the image now.... bastards....
26. BOOSH! - January 30, 2009 12:26 PM
@20 sorry busy with customers..
Yes Please
You patented it and packaged it and slapped it on the side of a plastic lunch box and now you wanna sell it! Your gonna sell it!
27. STINK - January 30, 2009 2:47 PM
Next up: GOOGLE TOILET CAM!
"Because Google owns your ass."
28. Angel Mass - January 30, 2009 3:43 PM
PETA
29. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 30, 2009 5:47 PM
That's just funny.
30. Watch - January 30, 2009 6:08 PM
FAKE!!!!!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job.
You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.This is exactly like that scene in the website Geekologie where Daisy kept making FAKE!!! photoshop comments that are repetitive in every post and makes dumb jokes that use pop culture movie references and the movie Never Back Down as the punch line for each one. Daisy then felt sorry for the deer and tried to adopt it as a pet.
31. Phillip F - January 30, 2009 6:09 PM
you can still see him
32. Phillip F - January 30, 2009 6:09 PM
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=850+five+points+road,+NY&sll=42.953957,-77.663212&sspn=0.007743,0.019312&g=850+five+points+road,+NY&ie=UTF8&ll=42.95358,-77.663255&spn=0.007743,0.019312&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=42.953661,-77.663251&panoid=Tt3UIYMdqLicVdLzt5AsHQ&cbp=12,166.5676549213324,,2,4.936353767326812
33. Eva - January 30, 2009 7:52 PM
It's interesting that the deer was hit in 'Rush,' NY.
34. No Eye Deer - January 30, 2009 10:23 PM
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35. Spam Oogle - January 30, 2009 10:35 PM
spaM elgooG
Google Maps
Stale news :
Employee caught (G)erking off on google CCTV Cams at work. Leads to deer being killed, leads to uploaded file QC Passed actually failed. Leads to some dumb Qunt discovery, leads to loss of employment in Google India. Leads to increase in working (a)rse of colleague, leads to increase of fatigue, increase to less (s)ex with wife, leads to affair with neighbour's deer husband.
Leads to another affair, leads to another divorce, leads to another marriage, leads to the theory of chaos.
God is watching, on Google Spam.
36. Jessie - January 31, 2009 3:36 AM
Fake. When a deer is hit by a car, it doesn't lay on the side of the road with his legs completely straight. That looks like a lawn deer laying on it's side.
37. Megan - February 5, 2009 7:30 AM
I like how google is now barring access to the picture. They say it's due to high traffic, but if you move 1 degree down the street you can still see it.
38. AHAHA - March 6, 2009 4:49 PM
the chances of this being fake are pretty slim actually. i went to high school and lived about 5 minutes away from here for 6-7 years and the deer population is RIDICULOUSLY high. good job google, i hope your van was trashed.
39. Dishy Dishyington - September 17, 2009 3:16 PM
Every time you masturbate, Goggle kills a fawn.
40. Dishy Dishyington - September 17, 2009 3:19 PM
@19, hartless, but punny.
41. Dishy Dishyington - September 17, 2009 3:22 PM
In Panama the driver would have stopped and beaten it to death with a stick. Or maybe a fleshlight.