Two friends spotted an opportunity to do something wild, and have now been immortalized on Google Street View, with thousands joining in on the fun.
Liz Aldridge, 56, and her friend Tina Sheppard, 63, were recently walking together in Bournemouth, southern England, when they spotted a Google Street View car ahead of them on the road.
The vehicle, equipped with a camera system on its roof, has visited all seven continents, capturing images of more than 10 million miles around the world, according to the Google Maps website. While faces are blurred to protect identities, the car has picked everything from the bizarre to the heartbreaking, including images of people who have since passed on, with their families still able to see them walking down the street on Street View.
“We were walking along Alma Road when it passed us the first time, and we jokingly said that we’d missed our opportunity to do something crazy,” Aldridge, from Poole, told Newsweek. “We then turned into Waterloo Road and, after a couple of minutes, realized it was coming toward us again.”
And, determined to do “something crazy” in the hopes the image would be immortalized on Google Maps, the duo turned to each other and began play-fighting, “laughing the whole time.”
The women thought no more of it—until weeks later, when Aldridge checked Google Maps for 16 Waterloo Road, Winton, Bournemouth—and found them there in full fight mode.
An image taken outside a Waitrose grocery store shows the women with their faces blurred and their arms grappling each other—and, to the uninitiated, it looks exactly as if the Street View car captured a brawl between the people on the street.
Aldridge shared the story to the Dull Men’s Club on Facebook, writing: “A few weeks ago I was walking along with a friend and we spotted the Google maps car heading our way.
“We turned to each other and started clowning around before falling about laughing. Welcome to my 15 minutes of fame.”
Fans of the page were in stitches, awarding the photo more than 82,000 likes, as one commenter called it “superb,” and another praising the “outstanding work.”
“Hysterical!” another wrote. “I had to go on Google Maps and find out, brilliant!”
And as one person summed it up: “I’m in tears at this pure work of art.”
Aldridge told Newsweek she posted the photo to Dull Men’s Club “just because I was a bit excited that I had actually found it on Google maps. I honestly was not expecting the reaction it got!
“I kept going into my husband with updates on how many reactions it had had. I let Tina know, and she has told everyone she knows as well.”
In an update on her Facebook post, Aldridge said she was “blown away by the amount of people liking and commenting on this post. I really didn’t think this would happen so thank you. You’ve made an old(ish) lady very happy.
“Oh and if anyone spots it on a YouTube video about crazy things on Google maps please let me know!”
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