# Too weird--the Wonder Of Random Street View **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815 "2023-03-07T01:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/21 "2023-03-07T19:32:07Z")
I got a flying pig, a plastic pig with wings hanging from a tree in somebody’s front yard (don’t remember the place, somewhere in the US). The other interesting features were two statues of what looked like a kneeling Jesus next to a kneeling Mother Mary in front of the tree. Don’t know if they are supposed to worship the flying pig, but it looked like that. ETA: and in a second iteration, it gave me a dog looking like my avatar, behind the wheel of a bus. 😮 He wears no tie, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/22 "2023-03-08T01:53:14Z")
I really have enjoyed this. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/23 "2023-03-08T10:22:58Z")
I got first McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/24 "2023-03-08T11:19:08Z")
Just now I got an underwater shot of a humpback whale off the shore of the Cook Islands, a man in Australia riding a pennyfarthing bike which is towing a smaller bike with a toy monkey riding it, a sculpture of a Quarter Pounder With Cheese outside a McDonald’s in Rapid City, SD, the observation deck of Burj Khalifa, and a truck stop in County Tipperary, Ireland named after Barack Obama. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/25 "2023-03-08T11:52:44Z")
On the beach in Bolivar, Columbia. Several women working on their tans. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/26 "2023-03-08T12:24:20Z")
Pretty cool. Help me out here… There was an app that set you down randomly somewhere (GOOGLE maps) and you needed to try to figure out where it was. You could move and look around was about it if I recall. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/27 "2023-03-08T12:32:16Z")
Maybe geoguesser, mentioned by @MrDibble upthread? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/28 "2023-03-08T12:47:22Z")
Yes, sounds like GeoGuessr ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/29 "2023-03-08T12:48:49Z")
Thanks. I missed that. I think geoguesser. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/30 "2023-03-08T18:11:05Z")
yeah ive seen some of these on the "random"button ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/31 "2023-03-08T19:05:09Z")
I got Mont Blanc with a climber suspended on what looks like a rather melty ice wall. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/32 "2023-03-08T19:27:47Z")
No “e” before the “r”, in case you want to search for it (although Google should still suggest the correct name) ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/33 "2023-03-08T23:45:59Z")
Are they really random? They’re all so well composed. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/34 "2023-03-08T23:56:13Z")
I got a tour boat in Hong Kong filled with hundreds of little panda statues. Cute. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/35 "2023-03-09T00:16:52Z")
I got “Giant Roof Spider” in Mexico City, but I couldn’t see any sign of a spider. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/36 "2023-03-09T00:31:49Z")
It’s behind you! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/37 "2023-03-09T00:40:43Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Are they really random? They’re all so well composed. The randomness isn’t just some Google Street View somewhere, it’s a random image from a collection of known weird and interesting images found on Google Street View. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/38 "2023-03-09T00:43:39Z")
Yes. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/39 "2023-03-09T00:45:20Z")
And I just got a group of people all wearing bird masks staring at the camera in Japan. Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/40 "2023-03-09T14:57:35Z")
Oregon State University football stadium during practice. I never realized that Oregon State (OSU) has pretty much the same colors as Oklahoma State (OSU). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815.md?page=3)