Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/19/loch_ness_stig/
Loch Ness Stig blurred into oblivion
Mere pixellation inadequate, Street View decides
Posted in Bootnotes, 19th March 2010 09:27 GMT
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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 [1] on Street View close to Scotland's famous body of water. It took the Great Satan of Mountain View about a week to address [2] the matter, but it has now decided that mere pixellation is inadequate [3].
As you can see, it's a case of going...
...going...
...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 [4] visitors to the Shetland Islands:
Well done sir. We couldn't have put it better ourselves. ®
Links
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/26/street_view_stig/
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/stig_pixellated/
- http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=57+13'33.82N+4+34'19.81W&sll=57.47745,-4.201562&sspn=0.008433,0.021479&ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=57.226109,-4.572287&panoid=ApPA1rwguy7D-Kl8q6i0bw&cbp=12,127.23,,2,11.82&ll=57.226253,-4.572029&spn=0.013149,0.029397&z=15
- http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=nederdale+lerwick+shetland&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=22.646847,46.977539&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nederdale,+Lerwick,+Shetland,+Shetland+Islands+ZE1,+United+Kingdom&layer=c&cbll=60.144664,-1.165932&panoid=pN2qWBOP2uMHoWl8ywKGkQ&cbp=12,328.77,,2,3.5&ll=60.144792,-1.166455&spn=0.000684,0.004823&z=18