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Italian Google Street View: WTF IS THAT?!

December 21, 2009 / dum dum dum!, google maps, hmm, interesting, italy, magic missiles, mystery, picture, sky, smoke, street view, uh-oh, unsolved mysteries, whatever it is it isn't good, wtf is that!, zomg it's the black smoke from lost!!!

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No really, what the f*** is that?!

Google Maps (see for yourself)

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There are Comments

  • it is a branch from a tree.... if u go directly backwards on the road you can see where the tree hangs low enough for the camera on the van to hit it.

  • stuart sloan

    you are right!!!

  • IT´S A BRANCH OF A TREE

    http://javierjanda.blogspot.co...

  • David Jaffit

    btw, it's bird shit...

  • itsmechase

    its a branch from the tree thats directly behind the view of the branch

  • Aliens vs Robots.
    Obviously.

  • Looks like a tree branch to me - might have been kicked up by the car in front of something - tree branch from an evergreen tree RIGHT UP at the lens.

  • Photo bomb.  Go to other views in the area.  No smoke monster.  Saw one view where it was between the camera and a power pole.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?so...

    Looks like a pic of a (failed?) rocket launch.

  • tkbrdly

    the smoke monster from lost.

  • there must  be something on the camera because if you go back a few meters on the street view you can see the strange thing is overlaying the object in the street, meaning it must be closer to the camera then the objects in the street.

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