Google Maps' UK tentacle is today inviting [1] eager virtual travellers to "take a holiday to the Canary Islands" with its all-seeing Street View, and has provided this handy link [2] so you can fly straight to Playa de las Teresitas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife:

Beautiful - although if you rotate the view a bit, you'll get this example of local colour [3]:

We have no doubt that Google operatives will rush with Segway-like speed to erase this latest example of the failure of Street View's public decency algorithm, as they did with the shock cases of the Madrid squatting bladder purge [4] and the Birmingham kiddy-piddler outrage [5]. Enjoy the view while you can. ®

Bootnote

Thanks to Chris Reynolds for the sun-kissed tip-off.

Links

1. http://maps.google.co.uk/
2. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode&q&sll=28.330978,-15.858765&sspn=1.85422,2.798767&ie=UTF8&ll=28.510201,-16.179514&spn=0.006505,0.021865&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=28.510209,-16.17951&panoid=2lpJXrOIM0CK-c98Nma-Rw&cbp=11,248.57,,0,-15.93&utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=mapshpp&utm_source=en-mapshpp-emea-gb-gns-svn
3. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&sll=28.330978,-15.858765&sspn=1.85422,2.798767&ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=28.510209,-16.17951&panoid=2lpJXrOIM0CK-c98Nma-Rw&cbp=12,5.69,,2,14.02&ll=28.510201,-16.179514&spn=0,359.98528&z=16
4. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/30/madrid_street_view/
5. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/23/street_view/

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