Friday Funny: Drunk Caught on Google Streetview

Google Streetview is slowly taking pictures of every street in the world, and capturing unexpected vignettes along the way like an Australian man passed out on his front lawn.

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August 15, 2008, 1:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

"Heh. Google Maps Streetview is still showing us funny things. We've already had a supposed drug deal, a boob flash, a bicycle accident, and a maybe pretend shooting that were all caught by the little VW Bug with the magic camera on its roof. Oh, and Valleywag shows us that they also caught a house fire! It's a sprawling portrait of the daily drama."

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