# Okay, what's really going on at this Google Maps location?

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**Created:** [April 15, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784 "2013-04-15T20:22:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/21 "2013-04-19T07:46:32Z")

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How could they possibly have tracked down the one specific dog in the whole of the town that was there the photo was snapped?

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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/22 "2013-04-19T08:14:44Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> How could they possibly have tracked down the one specific dog in the whole of the town that was there the photo was snapped?

The photo and the supposed story behind it received a lot of attention, The Sun sent a reporter to the area to get to the bottom of it, which itself generated a lot of local attention, then the owner of the dog who frequents that park realized it must of been their dog, because:

> [@courtesy of the link above and Google Translate](#):
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> When the 52-year-old Almere Jacquelina Koenen saw the picture, she realized immediately that the figure on the jetty her dog Rama. "I realized that it was my dog. He loves water. He jumps off the jetty, swim a lap around the bridge and then walk back across the scaffold, " says Koenen The Sun. “It’s so hilarious that everyone thought it was a murder. But it’s great that he is now world famous.”

Makes sense that that much water would have had to come from the dog taking multiple laps dripping water all over the place.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/23 "2013-04-19T09:00:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Dutch family]  
“I realized that it was my dog. He loves water.”  
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Oh, he loves water? Well then, it _must_ have been their dog! Just like there’s only one cat in each town that climbs into boxes.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/24 "2013-04-19T11:35:06Z")

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Was it [Fenton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU)?

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