Within the next 8 days, Google will be taking down a satellite picture showing a police car and officers surrounding the body of a shot teenager, near railway lines in Richmond, CA.
So… is it just me sick enough to go racing to gmaps to try and find it tonight?
Next there will be an app so you can poke it with a virtual stick.
Not just you. It took me about 5 minutes to research and find it.
Good God, no, it’s not difficult at all and even the poor kid’s posture is easy to identify.
If they remove the satellite image, how will anyone find the body?
wish wish wish there was a " like" button
yeah- pretty easy to find:
Only had 5 mins, but I failed (hence starting the thread!)
Thank you! I was on the outskirts of town, wrong railroad entirely.
If there was any way to guarantee that a huge number of people see (and rehost) an image of something a grieving family wanted removed from the internet, writing a news article about it would be right at the top of the list.
True - the news articles really should come out after the image was scrubbed. By giving enough clues (a police car by the railroad tracks in a fairly small town) and a time line (8 days) makes it an irresitable scavenger hunt to find.
+1
Yes, it is sick to go looking for that.
The “Streisand Effect” strikes again…
Why the hell does it take 8 days to remove the image anyway? Did google hire the Obamacare website team or something?
Replace it, not remove it. My WAG is that they are trying to find/get a new satellite image.
This gives me a very high altitude view of Richmond. Is it gone already?
Sick minds like mine wanna know.
I can see why it would take time to get a new satellite image, and maybe I’m underestimating the difficulty of doing this, but it seems like they could somehow blur it or maybe make it impossible to zoom in that far at that specific spot. Of course, the image is going to be everywhere now no matter what.
What I can’t figure out is how exactly this hit the news. This story says that a local TV news station “notified” the father about the image on Friday. If a normal person had seen that and known the dad, the normal, human way to go about fixing would have been to contact Google first, rather than make it international news. From the same article:
This suggests he doesn’t have a very firm grasp on exactly how Google Images works.
Just highlight it in photoshop and content aware fill it. Or just black it out.
The article makes me wish Google would stop calling the overhead view “satellite.” Maybe it just sounds more exciting than “airplane.”
Originally, they were pretty much all satellite images. The airplane shots at higher zoom levels are a relatively recent addition.
Still there for me - zoom in?