You drive a big heavy fire truck. Grandma is approaching from the left, on her bike. Do you C) go forward?
maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl...Posted Nov 11, 2009, 3:17 PM UTC
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To be fair, I think the old lady didn't make contact with the firetruck, but fell over due to fright/surprise.
Aside: when I clicked the UP arrow in Street View, the firetruck seemed to jump to warp for a second.
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She wasn't paying attention because she was distracted by the car with the giant camera setup on top.
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YOU'RE BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL
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There is no fourth wall.
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It must be really windy where you are then
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See, it's been broken.
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whatever you do, don't click on the cross street - they filmed it at a completely different time and there's no continuity at all! old lady on the ground turns into sidewalk construction.
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What kind of crappy fire department is that? They went straight down that road only to go around that block and ended up on the same street they would have been on, if they had turned right at that stop instead of running over the old lady.
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hmm, you do make a good point. I call conspiracy!
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How are you seeing where the firetruck ended up?
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It's not easy turning a large track a sharp right angel.
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Their destination was probably in that short, loop-around section.
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No way I followed that truck all the way. They were just looking for people to run over. I gotta go with the GTA theory.
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How do you know if that road wasn't its destination?
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She was actually distracted by your face looking back at her from the top of the Google car.
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If you hit up again after that and turn around, you see the old lady being helped by someone else on the side of the road. Seems like the Google car stopped to let her by, else how could she have crossed so quickly?
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They might have even stopped and gotten out to help her, because going from one frame to the other would normally only take maybe 3-4 seconds. However she managed to get up from being stuck on her side with the bike, and get all the way over to where you mentioned, so it was probably at least a few minutes between the shots.
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you win the cookie
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and the fire truck has turned into a white van. So very likely there are a few minutes between shots.
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Or the fire truck is a Decepticon and knew it had been found out after it saw its malicious tendencies caught on camera; so it made a sneaky get-away.
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plus the old man who walks with a cane managed to get from a full block away to the street corner between images. either he's booking it or the google-car stopped.
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And by the time that woman in stripper heels and a body rider shows up with the cage full of parakeets, the van is gone too.
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Am I missing something? How would you be able to distinguish between the Google car stopping until the lady crossed in front of it (which would take however long it takes for an old lady to get up from being stuck on her side and get all the way over to where Bartimaeus mentioned), and the Google car getting out and helping her?
The time doesn't make a difference, except to show that the car didn't keep going while she was down.... but under either scenario (stopping and waiting or getting out) the end result (it seems to me) would be the google car proceeding again after the lady was safely on the curb, after which it would take the next picture.
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Actually, if you turn, you can see that that person really just dug a hole on the corner to hide the evidence in.
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And if you look at the ground in the fallen frame it appears another firetruck has attempted to drive into the centre of the earth.
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That's the remains of the firetruck after google terminated it's ass.
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To do that they reversed the polarity on the camera's reflector dish and use it as a phaser.
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And if you move forward again, they're making out.
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The Picard Maneuver.
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There would then appear to be two firetrucks, if I recall correctly.
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Well yeah, but Google's 360-degree cameras aren't that good.
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Look down.
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No, it would APPEAR to be 2, but only then if you're a dumbass Ferengi.
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when I hit the UP arrow, the firetruck got stuck in warp speed...then my browser crashed...
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Same for me. Safari 4 is as unstable as Courtney Love
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Me too, using Safari. I thought that was the joke, "haha i made you crash." I was thinking up with a good lecture as I was reopening all my tabs and logging into 1000 sites that forgot my session info.
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Same here!
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I hit the up arrow but no crash. However I think my Google Maps is broken all of the words are gibberish. Halp!
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Chrome!
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Opera! never crashes, although sometimes refuses to load some pages properly, but never crashes.
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Use Chrome!
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happens to me often in GSV as well. fine this time, but IMAGE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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Well the firetruck came out of a one-way street (that, of course, goes in the other direction :)) so the old lady's surprise is quite understandable.
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You're right about the one-way street and now that you mention it, that means the google car was also traveling in the opposite direction. Bad Google.
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if that is the case, could it actually be that the fire truck was in reality escorting the google van?
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WTF? Go forward and the back of the fire truck is glued to the floor.
This is weird.
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I think they fill in the ground directly below with the image of the "ground" from the previous frame. In the previous frame, the truck was in the location they apparently use for the "ground"
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Yeah, that's true. My friend pointed out to me that not only do they shoot directly up, and to the left, right, front, and back, but the also shoot directly to the ground. I was really confused, until I realized that they just composite the front and back scenes, or whatever.
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For me:
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go forward 1 unit
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pan the image left
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Take a left and you can see two cars in the process of warping to another dimension.
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Your statement is certainly not unfair, but to be fair to the poster, I don't think he or anyone else implied that she got hit-- your assumption was also mine.
I'm not sure whether the upvotes are merely a confirmation that everyone recognized that she didn't get hit (while assuming other people/the poster didn't recognize it), or if they are from people who hadn't thought of it before.
I should note I have no particular agenda in posting this comment, I just wanted to share my observations.
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Go forward twice, then look back at the intersection. She seems ok talking with some old dood.
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Google Maps is a time machine!
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YOU'VE DISCOVERED SOMETHING AMAZING!
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Now now, it's not nice of you to take credit for something mybrainisfull discovered. No matter how AMAZING it is.
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Sigh, you are right...edit.
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Not necessarily - at the spot where she's on the ground, that old dood is still quite a way away, and it's unlikely he ran there, what with the walking stick.
I choose to believe the Google guy got out or at least stopped to check if everything was alright.
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I support this optimism, as it fits my world-view
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the firetruck ahead is long gone as well, replaced by a white van, so a bit of time clearly passed (long enough for the firetruck to be out of sight down that one way street)
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I choose to believe the Google guys also ran her over, and then tried to cover it up by hiring two actors. Unfortunately, this isn't a perfect world.
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so i suppose your theory is that the fire-truck transformed into a white van... perhaps in an effort to disguise itself, thus evading retribution from Grandma and Cane-dood?
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I want to know where the Fire Truck disappeared to. It doesn't look like it stopped to help her.
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Follow her back, she's biking with the old dude for a while, guessing he's her husband. Maybe he knocked her over when he saw the street view car
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Yes. I think that the google bus stopped to help her (seeing how she's on the ground in the one image and then on the ground the next). Good deed of the day done, googlers ;)
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UUDDLRLRAB SELECT START
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You didn't get it right.
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and she changed her shirt!
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May be her, but looks like a different shirt?
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That's a different lady. Check her shirt.
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Same lady if you ask me.
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My bad. She's got an orange vest on when she's on the ground, but you can't see that from the side when she's on her bike. Could be same woman.
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She's fallen, and she can't get up.
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That's like a pre-internet meme, isn't it?
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holy shit, there were memes before the intertubes?!?! :)
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I remember when you had to print your memes on T-shirts. Why, one day, when I was putting on my "Where's The Beef?" T-shirt -- mind you, I was wearing an onion on my belt, cause that was the fashion in those days -- ...
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Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say...
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Go on...
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Pfft, prior to that it was "I can't believe I ate the whoooooooooole thing", and, "Mama mia! That'sa spicey meat-a-ball!"
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Note: the "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" ad seems to have disappeared from the internet machine, and only the 2005 remake remains. At least that's all I could find. :(
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They were much more annoying, too. They were not just the plaything of the young and wired, instead moms and uncles everywhere thought it hilarious to say "where's the beef?!" at every opportunity.
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Hmm, I don't know which is worse- "Where's the Beef" or an old man saying "There's no freak in french fry...there's no freaking french fries, get it? hahaha ". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iom_sYQgAg
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yes
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Give her a chance, she's not a turtle.
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I LIKE TURTLES.
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(and hate myself for typing that....)
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Don't worry. I hate you too.
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I LIKE TOITLES
ftfy.
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Actually, if you go to the next frame and turn around you'll see she is up, fine, and chatting up a stud.
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Take your 90's the fuck out of here, please.
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90's? That came out in the 80's.
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As a product of the 80's, I must agree.
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Then things are worse than I feared...
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You can never escape the 90s.
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That could be the name of a great T.V. show.
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great/fucking awful
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Yeah, let's jump to the 60s! Sock it to me!
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Your comment is very interesting… but shtoopid.
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I like his twist on the thread.
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Say goodnight, Dick.
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I've seen that commercial in the last couple years on late night cable.
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Only the very best commercials get to live on forever. Like that one where the old lady throws a tire through the window of the tire store. I'm pretty sure I've been seeing that one for at least 15 years.
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Haven't you heard? the '90s are the new '80s!
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For those who don't like waiting very long
edit Haha! I'm the sole owner of pic 2! Google and I no longer battle for the fallen woman!
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Thanks. The image (picture 2) has been removed from the map!
This image is no longer available
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Kibitzor,
Helping the archive.
Always.
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Firetruck has the right of way, granny has to wait
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Well, arguably you never have the right way when you're going the wrong way down a one-way street....
But I guess you have to balance this against the fact that it's a goddam firetruck.
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Something about the way I read "it's a goddam firetruck" made me laugh out loud.
... I felt I had to say something, carry on.
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I feel like I've been saying this a lot lately... but anyway... duly noted.
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No actually, it doesn't have its sirens on and granny is coming from the left side. The fire truck should've stopped.
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Wait what, in the Netherlands (and most of Europe for that matter) if you come from the right you have right of way. Not if you come from the left (which would probably be in left-side driving countries).
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lol wait, you're right. Odd how I do this correctly in traffic without thinking about it on a daily basis, yet my brain farts the second I have to do it in theory.
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I'm not so sure about you, but when I drive, the firetruck/ambulance always has the right of way, even if i have to get off the damned road to let it have the right of way.
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Where are you from? In the absence of a stop or a yield sign, people coming from the right have right of way in the Netherlands.
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I'd hit it.
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With a firetruck?
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In a firetruck.
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Firetruck
Biking home from our house christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as fires
But as for me and grandpa, we believe
She'd been drinking too much eggnog
And we'd begged her not to go
But she forgot her medication
And staggered out the door onto her bike
When we found her Christmas morning
At the scene of the attack
She had truck tire marks on her forehead
And incriminating fire jackets on her back
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Ooh, even the syllables fit in most parts!
People don't recognize art when they see it..
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By making me click forward to see the results made me feel like I was partly responsible. Thanks a lot behanger
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When I clicked forward, Safari crashed. Is that the joke?
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Safari is always the Joke.
Ha! I bashed Apple and there'll be absolutely no recours... no you stay away from that down arrow STAY AWAY!
Ah bugger.
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well, you seem to be the authority on the matter, so I'll posit my question to you.
How come youtube/hulu/all flash video sucks on firefox on my MBP? It'll play for a few seconds, the video will freeze (audio continues just fine) then jumps up to where it should be and starts playing fine again (for a few seconds, before the whole things starts again).
This happens pretty much every time I try to watch any flash on firefox. Safari works fine. Is this a problem other people have?
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This will help - it's basically a resource problem though - FireFox is getting a little bloaty.
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I read that it has to do with FF saving your tabs. Supposedly if you lengthen the time in between saves it should solve the problem, however I found that going back to an old version of flash did it for me. Since it works fine in safari for you perhaps it's the saving of tabs issue.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Same here! WTF
I finally got it to work but I thought Safari isolated plugins into their own process/memory space now? (google street view is flash-driven)
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Typical Apple crap.
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For me too, weird!
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hey, same here!
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I had to double-check to make sure this wasn't Fark.
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Not only is it a Fark meme, it's directly copied from a Fark headline. For shame!
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Duke Sucks!
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Yeah, first /b/tard memes everywhere, now fark memes as headlines. I haven't even been here a year and I'm already sick of it.
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Out of curiosity, why do you say that?
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I'm guessing it's because of the ruckus a while back over Drew sneaking "sponsored" links into the rotation without labeling them as such.
Farkers saw the referral id's in teh URL's and starting asking questions. IIRC some code was added that hid the referrals a bit more effectively.
Farkers got real pissed and Drew finally fessed up and started labeling them for what they were.
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the shadowbannings are what make it exciting.
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Shamelessly stolen from http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/a39zz/you_drive_a_big_heavy_fire_truck_grandma_is/c0fnrz8
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I like the blurry dude with the blurry Bob Marley t-shirt not even a block away.
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Amazing, the facial recognition even blurred Bob Marley's face on a tee-shirt. Google should implement tee-shirt recognition technology to override the face blur.
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Krang politely disagrees.
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Then it would miss all those people wearing t-shirt hats.
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I 1/2 live in Amsterdam, and every single person on a bicycle in this country is a raving, antisocial psychopath hell-bent on killing as many pedestrians, cars, trucks, small dogs, and brick walls as they possibly can, angrily ringing their angry little bells while doing so.
When I get on my 3 ton solid pig iron monstrosity of a Dutch bike (recycled from abandoned WWII German tanks), the same happens to me. It's some sort of weird transformation that comes with a healthy dose of smug empowerment.
Granny felt no obligation to yield to the (a) emergency vehicle (b) coming from her right. Unfortunately, she must have only been driving the vastly inferior 2 ton solid pig iron Dutch granny bike model. Occasionally, these have run-ins with basic laws of physics.
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What are you talking about? I live 1/1 in Amsterdam, and we only run down American tourists on the bike lanes after we made them jump with our bells, purely for entertainment and personal satisfaction.
ducks
Not as many points as hitting a grandma with a fire truck though.
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The secret is replacing the angry little bell with an angry big bell. KLANG-BONG. Makes them twitch just that little bit more.
My pet theory about the Dutch bikes? The design was stolen from a Soviet locomotive factory. I think the idea is that the next time the German tanks come to invade, they'll just bury all the bicycles halfway in the ground and stop the krauts dead in their tracks.
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PS: Some other typical Dutch folklore around the corner.. http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=Jordanus+Hoornstraat,+3812+Amersfoort&sll=51.441072,5.473185&sspn=0.006219,0.01649&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Jordanus+Hoornstraat,+3812+Amersfoort,+Utrecht&layer=c&cbll=52.157809,5.375742&panoid=I5masnjKTgUPLXCAx9HfDg&cbp=12,232.82,,0,7.83&t=h&ll=52.157715,5.375891&spn=0.000803,0.002064&z=20
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I love that. It's....Shop!
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Those bicycle suicide terrorists stop at nothing it seems.
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Looks like they will die of old age at this rate though.
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i think the google van stopped after the granny fell down. I cant see any more pic in any direction after that.
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yes it stopped, when you go 2 frames forward, you see the old lady talking with an old man with a cane. one frame before, the old man was really far.
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Correct. She fell over on her own. She also got up on her own and seems to be OK.
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Hm well if you go back from that frame, the firetruck has already gone over the white line some way with no sign of the old lady.
Even if she thought she had right of way at that point, arguing with a firetruck when you're on a bike = fail.
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Regardless of what you're riding; arguing with a firetruck is just silly.
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Unless you're driving the Bagger 288.
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I think I'm going to have nightmares.
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Whoa, thanks for reminding me of that!
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I'm sorry but if a house is burning down and on the way there I spooked an old woman on a bike and she fell down. I'd keep going to the burning house and call for a cop car to check out whether she's alright. Sorry the orphanage burned down along with everyone inside it, but we spooked an old lady on a bike on the way here and we had to stop to see if she was alright.
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A fark headline meme on reddit?
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the lines blur constantly.
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if it comes from fark it's called a cliche, isn't it?
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It's more likely than you think
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google removed the image. wth!
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GTA Firetruck missions are truly rushed, no time to stop and collect money from the people you run over.
Like this?
Was it worth the effort?
I mean, it was to me, but I didn't have to make it. :D
It was worth it, but it would have been better if it was posted 4 hours ago. It's damn near a best of. Not quite, but near.
It was just practice for next time.
It took him three hours to make it.
Funny, it says "246 points 4 hours ago" right now.
412 karma. He's probably half way to becoming a power user.
418 points 14 hours ago
No, like this!
Edit: google maps linking fail.
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thank you, that made my day.
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"This image is no longer available". Well thank you google for ruining the day..
not fail, you press forward to see the action, its like a flip book.
what's the application you have running in your gta?
The only app I had running was a browser pointed to images.google.com
nono, i mean the "main menu" on the left of the pic.
the truck has Russian license plates, I wonder why?
Dutch license plates, rather.
I think this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the mission in GTA2 where you steal a fire truck which you then get modified with the ability to shoot fire out of its turret...
Also an opportune time to remind everyone that GTA 1 and 2 are available for free from Rockstar.
You sir are my hero!
indeed. thats awesum!
I remember that one. That was freakin sweet. I remember there was a way to mod it so that all firetrucks had that ability. It was awesome in multiplayer.
I was kind of hoping the Up arrow would eventually lead to the fire (or the cat in a tree).
How long did you follow it?
Grrr. Everytime I click a link to say some clever little observation, someone already beat me to it.
Touche' Reddit. I am too slow for you.
You are one of an army, my friend. Welcome, welcome to our fold.
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omg! me2! a/s/l?
lol ... did you really ?
seriously? I guess sarcasm is lost on most.