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Spotted on Google Maps: a kid pointing a gun at a younger kid. (Okay, it's probably a toy gun.) What is it about Chicago? We've already seen a drug deal on the South Side and a girl flashing the camera in Homewood.
So what's with all the Chicago crimespotting? There's no street view for famously crime-ridden Baltimore yet, but what about Brooklyn or L.A.? Somebody please spot something outside of Chicago that's more shocking than a guy falling off a bike.
[Found by Dan Arbaugh]
12:24 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Nick Douglas
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Guns? That's so 1997. Couldn't you guys just settle things over a nice game of pong?
Enough with the google map Chicago bashing already! Acually this is good stuff. SOUSIEEEEEDE!
Where the fuck is your sense of civic responsibility, Google? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Neighborhoods in Brooklyn that have street view:
Dumbo
Brooklyn Heights
Downtown Brooklyn
Cobble Hill
Carol Gardens
Boerum Hill
Gowanus
Fort Greene
PARK SLOPE
I think I saw a stroller double parked.
I bet it's just a water pistol.
too sketchy to snark.
Sweet Home Chicago.
+ Watch video
Because I like to live in a world where things like this don't happen, I choose to believe this is an audition tape.
Think the Google Van's screeched to a halt upon hearing the gunfire erupt, or did Sergey's boys get outta Dodge, - worse yet - choice C?
A) Stopped to help
B) Got outta Dodge
C) went to Ask.com and typed "What should we do in the event of gunfire?" in the search box.
I hate to be that guy, but I gotta ask: If the kids in the photo were white, do you think you still would have assumed the gun is real?
I mean, what are the odds the GoogleCam just happened to catch a toddler-on-toddler shooting? If the kids in the picture were running past a freshly mowed lawn in suburbia, would you be asking this question?
Ok, back to the snark. Julia Alison! Gossip Girls! Memes for all!!
When they did some of the West and South side, did they take the armoured google van?
That gun appears to be white. And extremely small. Real guns don't frequently come in white. So just as the previous and irritating post on the "drug deal" (black man leaning in to talk with someone in a car!), this picture appears to be of a black man pointing something at a young kid on a hot day. Jesus H. Christ, is this ever a terrible time for Susan Sontag to be dead.
Are you fucking kidding me? This picture is clearly not what you're pretending it is.
D) Googled Chicago's policy regarding aiding and abetting
@Choire: It could be a nickel-plated sissy pistol shimmering in the sun.
@Choire: The tits weren't real, either.
@FitnessMadeSimple: Or carved out of wood, like John Malkovich's in In the Line of Fire.
Welcome to the Wild Wild (Mid)West, y'all!
@The Cooler: I agree, to me it looks as though he is calling the kid over to give him he yearly mumps and measles inoculation so that he may be able to attend schooling in the fall.
@Gayyker: They still haven't armored the cars to go into the other neighborhoods yet.
Wondering "what's with stuff" totally rakes in the page views, right? What's with that?
@narnio: Works for Jerry Seinfeld.
Hey just a few blocks from my apartment!
That's a shoe!
Yeah, this is really getting tired.
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