The above image may look like a fake but it really is the remains of a horrific plane crash caught on Google Earth. We don’t know what happened next but we’re sure the Google employee was fine… but maybe in need of a new pair of trousers! This rather disturbing image shows a man that appears to be carrying a handgun walking straight towards the Google camera vehicle as it captures his image. Whether it’s an escaped prisoner running down the road or a tiger strolling across a car park, the following are 10 of the most incredible images ever captured by Google Maps. While the majority of the captured photos showed empty streets and quiet neighbourhoods, there were a few photos that can be described as ‘interesting’, to say the least.

In order to collect all the data needed for ‘Street View’ though, Google had to send camera vehicles around the world, collecting images as they went.

Without further ado, here are 36 weird photos captured on Google Street View from Jon Rafman’s collection with a couple of our own finds.Google Maps is an incredible tool, allowing people to see images of pretty much every street, building and neighbourhood in the world, at the simple click of a button. It was tempting to see the images as a neutral and privileged representation of reality-as though the Street Views, wrenched from any social context other than geospatial contiguity, were able to perform true docu-photography, capturing fragments of reality stripped of all cultural intentions.” “With its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities or agendas of a human photographer. “The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of a neutral, unbiased recording, and even the vastness of the project,” said Jon in his interview to Art Fag City. And in doing so, chances for Google street funny photos are aplenty. The original images were taken by an army of Google’s hybrid electric automobiles, each one equipped with nine cameras on a single pole trying to photograph every highway and byway in the world. Montreal based artist Jon Rafman isn’t the original photographer, but instead, he explores the Street View in Google Maps and takes screenshots of the most unusual and funny photos.

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