Those Google cars get everywhere, including places that don't usually get high-tech automobiles piling through them. Which is why a lot of concerned citizens assumed that, when they glimpsed a donkey prone on the ground in Botswana (23.527831 24.722652 if you wanna see for yourself), that Google had just run down an innocent creature and left it for dead. But not before snapping its picture for prosperity, of course. The story spread so much that the search engine giant actually had to step in and explain that the donkey was just having a nice lie down when the cameras made their first pass, including additional images - in a blog post hilariously titled "Never ass-ume" - that showed the donkey post dust-bath, wandering around just fine.
16. Shipwrecks
Yes, that's shipwrecks, plural. Don't think the Titanic was so special, just because it had some painted French girls on it or something. In fact so many boats go down that there are loads to be found if you know where to look on Googles Maps and Earth, from the overgrown ruins in Homebush Bay, Sydney (-33.836379, 151.080506) to a more contemporary nautical disaster in Basrah, Iraq (30.541634, 47.825445) and even - rather serendipitously - a capsized cruise liner in South Korea (35.155028,129.147319) in the port of Busan, which was toppled by a typhoon presumably not that long before Google grabbed an image. Bit cheeky. Could've offered a hand instead of just taking photos.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
