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    Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike

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    Image of frigg frigg
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Why do we assume it's the fire truck that made the little old lady fall over? An equally plausible explanation is that Google's face-blurring technology temporarily disoriented her, causing her to lose control of her bike. #googlestreetview
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    Image of LazyPanda LazyPanda
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Ha! This image is no longer available. Did google just censor street view? #googlestreetview
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    Image of shooga shooga
    11/11/09

    @LazyPanda: Hmmm... I think so... I get the same message when stepping forward to be in the intersection. #googlestreetview
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    11/12/09

    @shooga: That's cause you need to put some pants on! #googlestreetview
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    11/12/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Oh god, I left my webcam on again. How embarrassing! #googlestreetview
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    Image of Anrkist Anrkist
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Any word on if Life Alert saved this woman? #googlestreetview
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Or maybe the lady just can't ride a bike? Since the only way the Fire truck would be at fault is if they ran her over which didn't happen. If she hit it on the side...she can't ride a bike and her fault.

    Since when she is on the ground she is STILL NOT where the Fire truck would have been on the road it is apparent she just fell and wasn't hit. But yeah let's just make up shit. #googlestreetview
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    92BuickLeSabre promoted this comment max11221 was starred max11221 was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/11/09

    @max11221: Wow. You're really anti-little-old-lady aren't you? That can't be a popular position most places. Kudos to you though for standing up for what you believe in. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Hunter2458 Hunter2458
    11/11/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I do partly have to agree with his skepticism though, the Bike doesn't appear as if it had been hit, it only looks like she stopped to let it pass and she fell over. #googlestreetview
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    92BuickLeSabre promoted this comment Hunter2458 was starred Hunter2458 was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/11/09

    @Hunter2458: your rational skepticism =/= his flipping one's shit #googlestreetview
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    It's the Netherlands, so 50/50 at least one person in that photo is high. #googlestreetview
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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    11/11/09

    @badhatharry: My money's on the old lady. Next time yield to an emergency response vehicle, grandma! #googlestreetview
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    Image of lucky_you lucky_you
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    I'm sorry.. but .. LOL
    (I'm going to hell) #googlestreetview
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    G.O.B.: Come on! promoted this comment lucky_you was starred lucky_you was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @lucky_you: I'm with you, that made me laugh #googlestreetview
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/11/09

    @lucky_you: I am a terrible person too, because I cant stop laughing. #googlestreetview
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    What's more important, one old lady on a bike, or potentially your computer (and the implied collection of porn and torrented movies therein) that's currently at risk in a serious structure fire?

    That's what I thought.... #googlestreetview
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    Image of Arnold Qin Arnold Qin
    11/11/09

    @met2art: I'm sorry but that old lady is. xD #googlestreetview
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    11/11/09

    @Arnold Qin: Exactly! It was a trick question. She has all of your HDDs in the saddlebags of her bicycle. So, there goes all your porn. Thanks a lot, fire department, you ruined that woman's life, and my weekend! Nice job. #googlestreetview
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    11/11/09

    @met2art: She was also listening to my iTouch, which has all my other por-I mean movies in it. #googlestreetview
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    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    I think she was hit by the Google StreetView Van. They hit the lady and quickly threw it in reverse before they snapped the shot. #googlestreetview
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    jeffk promoted this comment EpiphyteCorp. was starred EpiphyteCorp. was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @EpiphyteCorp.: I concur.

    Gizmodo assumed the lady was in the Googlemobile's *front* view.
    If it was the rear camera, Google has some 'splaining to do! #googlestreetview
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    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike

    Approach the intersection and turn left on Nicolaas Pienemanstraat to see what happens next...

    They buried her! #googlestreetview
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    Image of turin_brake turin_brake
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    In the next frame up, she's actually talking to an old man. It looks like an accident, or were you being sarcastic? I don't even know anymore.
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    spannu approved this comment turin_brake was starred turin_brake was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @turin_brake: Did you ever know to begin with? #googlestreetview
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    Not a hit and run...she is well away from the truck.

    She simply panicked as she saw the big truck, couldn't control herself and ended up on the ground.

    Gizmodo busting a fox news i see. #googlestreetview
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    Image of uncdomination uncdomination
    11/11/09

    @Gundem: You liberals always find out a way to cheap shot Fox News don't you? Shouldn't you be in Greenland with Al Gore to see all the Ice caps "melting"?
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    Image of Norbs Norbs
    11/11/09

    @uncdomination: Uhh wow you have respect for fox news?! #googlestreetview
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    Image of SirDrinksalot SirDrinksalot
    11/11/09

    @Gundem: Yea that person hasn't even entered the intersection yet and are at the same spot they were in the previous screen. It's like they just tipped over like one of those goats that freeze up when they're scared.

    I don't see any evidence that would indicate that any person on truck contact took place. #googlestreetview
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    Image of CheeseGamer CheeseGamer
    11/11/09

    @uncdomination: You conservatives always find a way to ruin your credibility, don't you? Shouldn't you be with our former VP "shooting" lawyers?

    I "love" "putting" verbs in quotes. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Andrew Pollack Andrew Pollack
    11/11/09

    @Gundem: Agreed. As someone who drives a fire truck, I can tell you that bike was not hit by one. Even a glancing tap with the front bumper would have bent the front wheel pretty much in half. Anything more serious and she'd be a grease spot. #googlestreetview
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    11/12/09

    @SirDrinksalot: indeed sir. #googlestreetview
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    11/12/09

    @CheeseGamer: LOL! #googlestreetview
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    Image of iKhaos iKhaos
    11/11/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike
    If I laughed, does it make me a bad person? #googlestreetview
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    11/11/09

    @iKhaos: It's not laughing at the situation that makes you a bad person. It's requiring reassurance from strangers on comment threads in order to allay your own guilty conscience that makes you a bad person.

    Well, that and all the dead hookers buried in your basement... but, that's neither here not there. #googlestreetview
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    Image of DaSazonator DaSazonator
    11/11/09

    @met2art: Stop lying about the hookers. We all know it's you that has them. #googlestreetview
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    met2art promoted this comment DaSazonator was starred DaSazonator was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @DaSazonator: I never said I didn't...

    " They say if you love something, set it free..." Well, I don't exactly love the hooker chained up in my basement, I just like her. #googlestreetview
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    11/11/09

    @DaSazonator: You mean you don't have any? #googlestreetview
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    Image of exoren22 exoren22
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Not to mention that windfarms reduce wind and make the surrounding area heat up as a result. #gizmodoremainders
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    EBone promoted this comment exoren22 was starred exoren22 was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @exoren22: I don't even know how to reply to the stupidity of your statement, other than I hope you forgot your sarcasm tag. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @EBone: Well, considering it's a real world problem, I don't even know how to reply to your ignorance, except to tell you to go to San Francisco in the summer time, when they used to have a cooling wind coming down from the mountains.

    You know we can't get energy for free, right? Hydroelectric power reduces water flow and causes the destruction of wildlife both upstream and downstream. Solar power has local heating problems that CANNOT be fixed, and massive wind farms destroy the natural heat transfer created by wind patterns. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/03/09

    @exoren22: You really believe that the turbine blades take the wind "away"? That the wind doesn't turn the blades and keep on blowing past, over, and around the blades?

    I have no words. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @EBone: I think he's actually right, but he's blowing it way out of proportion. It's more on the same scale of dumping a bottle of filtered water into a lake to change the pH. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @EBone: exoren22 is right though I don't know to what degree. Conservation of energy means there is no free ride and no perpetual motion machines. Just like a hydroelectric dam can slow a river to a trickle, wind farms use the wind to do work, thus depleting some of the kinetic energy in that wind. But once again, I have no idea of the total energy of the wind or how much energy is extracted so I could not testify to the effect.
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    EBone promoted this comment runamok1001 was starred runamok1001 was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @runamok1001: Do yourself a favor and look at an isobar map of the United States. They measure pressure gradients. Wind is generated when air moves from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.

    Isobar front lines are hundreds to thousands of miles long. Wind projects don't even show up on the scale we're talking about here. It would be the equivalent of trying to stop the Mississippi River with a 2x4. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of mnerd mnerd
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The wind farm thing really speaks more to how we really need to upgrade our air traffic control to newer modern technology stat. #gizmodoremainders
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment mnerd was starred mnerd was unstarred
    Image of 70watts 70watts
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Wind turbines really don't kill that many birds in comparison to things like planes, trucks and... trees. That's a common myth.

    Here's the google results for that.
    [www.google.com]
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment Edited by 70watts at 11/03/09 12:40 AM 70watts was starred 70watts was unstarred
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