Loch Ness Stig blurred into oblivion
Mere pixellation inadequate, Street View decides
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The curious case of the Loch Ness Stig just got a lot curioser, and the conspiracy thoeorists among you would do well to don your tinfoil hats and keep a sharp eye out for approaching black helicopters.
Back in January, the Top Gear wheelsman was spotted on Street View close to Scotland's famous body of water. It took the Great Satan of Mountain View about a week to address the matter, but it has now decided that mere pixellation is inadequate.
As you can see, it's a case of going...

...going...
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...gone:

Spooky stuff. Quite why a perfectly inoffensive Stig deserves to be blurbrushed from history remains a mystery, especially when this bare-chested Scottish welcome is this morning still greeting visitors to the Shetland Islands:

Well done sir. We couldn't have put it better ourselves. ®
COMMENTS
That's not pixellation
That's a result of the image reacting to the approach of Easter.
It's Stigmata.
Some say...
...that he has the power to pixellate himeself...
..and that he is the only person who can defeat Google.
All we know, is that he's called the Stig.
cant possibly be copyright
the photo was taken in a public place,
but i am wondering who made the complaint..... i was looking forward to the inevitable clarkson "i have been surfing the interwebs again," and watching hammond and may groan again.....

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