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Wally found on Street View

Sod Wally, where's the toilet?

By Christopher Williams

Posted in Bootnotes, 20th March 2009 10:45 GMT

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On releasing Street View UK this week, Google set users the challenge of finding "Wally", the elusive, bespectacled children's cartoon character, somewhere in the UK.

Within hours he was clocked: here he is loitering outside the O2 shop on Putney High Street [1]:

Bit easy that, Googlers, although a mildly diverting distraction from the serious business of using Street View to expose the Real Britain™.

For example, here we are in a lower profile location, the wonderfully-named Slade Road in Birmingham [2], just round the corner from the picturesque Aston Expressway. Our hero appears to have been caught short waiting for the bus, and opted to do the civic-spirited thing by fertilising one of the second city's verdant grass verges:

Note the discarded plastic bag, which adds a strong note of authenticity to the scene:

It's good to see a British attack on Spanish dominance [3] of Street View public micturition.

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