Scuba Vikings Assault Google!
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:26 pm
Pitchfork-brandishing Norwegians in scuba gear chase down Google Street View car
If it's Google Street View infamy you seek, why waste your time with a half-hearted wave to that passing Google car when you could make a real, uh, splash, with some scuba gear and pitchforks?
Two people in Bergen, Norway, are enjoying their five minutes of Internet fame this morning after Street View shots emerged of them ambushing a Google Street View car and chasing after it in full diving gear.
As a series of images on Huffington Post show, the pair waited on lawn chairs for the Google car to pass by, then got up and chased after it and the camera while waving a pitchfork in the air. (Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported on the story yesterday, under the awkwardly translated headline, "Who chases Google with desires fork?"
The HuffPo rewrite makes an attempt to relate the stunt to growing anti-Google sentiment in Europe over privacy concerns, but we say, why bother with such high-minded justifications? Let's just enjoy this for what it is: A delightfully goofball stunt which will hopefully elicit many more of its kind.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blog ... w-car.aspx
Hit the link to see the pic. This amused me to no end.
If it's Google Street View infamy you seek, why waste your time with a half-hearted wave to that passing Google car when you could make a real, uh, splash, with some scuba gear and pitchforks?
Two people in Bergen, Norway, are enjoying their five minutes of Internet fame this morning after Street View shots emerged of them ambushing a Google Street View car and chasing after it in full diving gear.
As a series of images on Huffington Post show, the pair waited on lawn chairs for the Google car to pass by, then got up and chased after it and the camera while waving a pitchfork in the air. (Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported on the story yesterday, under the awkwardly translated headline, "Who chases Google with desires fork?"
The HuffPo rewrite makes an attempt to relate the stunt to growing anti-Google sentiment in Europe over privacy concerns, but we say, why bother with such high-minded justifications? Let's just enjoy this for what it is: A delightfully goofball stunt which will hopefully elicit many more of its kind.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blog ... w-car.aspx
Hit the link to see the pic. This amused me to no end.
