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Google pulls body from Rio street

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 4th October 2010 10:00 GMT

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Graphic content The good burghers of Brazil were last week welcomed to the wonderful world of Street View, and it didn't take citizens long to spot some local colour, like this dead body in Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Presidente Vargas:

Dead body captured by Street View on Rio Street

Gizmodo's Brazilian tentacle notes that this piece of unpleasantness has now been pulled, as has this lively scene in Belo Horizonte:

Dead body surrounded by police and onlookers in Belo Horizonte

If you want to join the party, though, you can step back a bit and still get this perspective:

The Belo Horizonte scene captured from further down the street

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