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Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

tazo — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:08:06 EDT

Yeah, this is really getting tired.

tazo

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

cog_in_wheel — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:48:20 EDT

That's a shoe!

cog_in_wheel

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

Hythloday — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:45:54 EDT

Hey just a few blocks from my apartment!

Hythloday

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

ShoplifterOfTheWorld — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:02:41 EDT

@narnio: Works for Jerry Seinfeld.

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

narnio — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:34:27 EDT

Wondering "what's with stuff" totally rakes in the page views, right? What's with that?

narnio

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

ViperBorg — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:34:20 EDT

@Gayyker: They still haven't armored the cars to go into the other neighborhoods yet.

ViperBorg

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

BaconCat — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:20:03 EDT

@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.

BaconCat

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

MyCubeHas3Sides — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:20:00 EDT

Welcome to the Wild Wild (Mid)West, y'all!

MyCubeHas3Sides

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

PomPom — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:57:45 EDT

@FitnessMadeSimple: Or carved out of wood, like John Malkovich's in In the Line of Fire.

PomPom

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

KarenUhOh — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:56:49 EDT

@Choire: The tits weren't real, either.

KarenUhOh

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:54:31 EDT

@Choire: It could be a nickel-plated sissy pistol shimmering in the sun.

FitnessMadeSimple

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:52:53 EDT

D) Googled Chicago's policy regarding aiding and abetting

FitnessMadeSimple

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

The Cooler — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:52:24 EDT

Are you fucking kidding me? This picture is clearly not what you're pretending it is.

The Cooler

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

Choire — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:50:46 EDT

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.

Choire

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

IndianSlipper — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:50:41 EDT

When they did some of the West and South side, did they take the armoured google van?

IndianSlipper

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

TheNewBlack — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:42:39 EDT

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!!

TheNewBlack

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

In Other News... — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:41:17 EDT

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.

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Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

MyMuffinTop — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:38:49 EDT

Because I like to live in a world where things like this don't happen, I choose to believe this is an audition tape.

MyMuffinTop

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

belltolls — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:38:36 EDT

Sweet Home Chicago.

belltolls

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

hypocriteoath — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:35:53 EDT

too sketchy to snark.

hypocriteoath

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

we-are-the-801 — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:34:46 EDT

I bet it's just a water pistol.

we-are-the-801

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

Gayyker — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:34:20 EDT

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.

Gayyker

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

FitnessMadeSimple — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:32:31 EDT

Where the fuck is your sense of civic responsibility, Google? You should be ashamed of yourself.

FitnessMadeSimple

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

IndianSlipper — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:32:23 EDT

Enough with the google map Chicago bashing already! Acually this is good stuff. SOUSIEEEEEDE!

IndianSlipper

Google Maps Catches Chicago Kid About To Shoot Someone

mmejanvier — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:31:40 EDT

Guns? That's so 1997. Couldn't you guys just settle things over a nice game of pong?

mmejanvier