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Giant flying pliers menace West Bromwich

Street View captures transdimensional DIY moment

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 12th March 2010 16:35 GMT

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We're obliged to all those readers who've sent us new Street View sightings gleaned from the pretty-well nationwide coverage now enjoyed by the UK, especially those involving surveillance feedback loops [1].

We'll be doing something on your spots next week, but in the meantime we invite you to ponder the disturbing case of the West Bromwich giant flying pliers [2], submitted by a shaken Craig Keightley:

Giant pliers in the sky on Street View

The gravitational distortion effect around the pliers suggest they've just passed through a transdimensional portal from an alternative universe where perhaps the inhabitants just take their DIY a lot more seriously or, more chillingly, entire solar systems have been subdued by pitiless, Borg-like plier creatures.

Just in case it's the latter, I for one would like to welcome, and so forth... ®

Bootnote

StreetViewFun is calling [3] this piece of strangeness "God's Pliers". Divine provenance? You decide.