Google Image Shows 'Dead' Girl Lying Face Down on the Street


'Dead' Girl Was a 9-Year-Old Playing a Prank With Her Friend


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July 13, 2010

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It was just a child's innocent prank. But when people in Worcester, England, saw what looked like a dead body in a Google image of their street, they sounded the alarm.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/ht_Google_Map4_100813_mn.jpg Dead-looking girl was a 9-year-old playing a prank with her friend.
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According to the U.K.'s Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7940937/Google-Street-View-dead-girl-sparks-panic-after-photographed-lying-down.html?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=TD_7940937&utm_campaign=tech1308pm), neighbors were so distressed by a picture showing a brown-haired girl lying face down on the sidewalk that they reached out to the tech giant, worried that a crime had been committed.
But it turned out that the dead-looking girl was mischievous 9-year-old Azura Beebeejaun, playing a prank at the exact moment that a Google Street View car happened by, shooting pictures.
''I didn't know anything about the Google Street View car. I fell over while I was playing with my friend and thought it would be funny to play dead," Azura, now 10, told the Telegraph. ''I heard a car go past me but had no idea I was having my picture taken. I was just playing a joke on my friend."
A spokesman for Google said, ''The imagery in Street View represents a snapshot in time of Britain's streets and is no different to what anyone might expect to see for themselves around the country. … Sometimes that means our cars inadvertently capture odd or inappropriate moments as they drive past."
Over the past few years, Google's mapping applications -- Street View, Google Earth and Google Maps -- have generated several odd and entertaining images (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=8166714&page=1).
Take a look at a few more of them below: