Google Street View captures man with two heads
The wonders discoverable on Google Street View never cease - after the mysterious Horse Boy, a man with two heads and three legs has been found in Britain.
The two-headed man on Google Street View. Photo: GOOGLE
1:34PM BST 12 Jul 2010
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The appendage-gifted man, apparently a window cleaner, has
been spotted in Hawes, Yorkshire by the Google Sightseeing blog. He can
be seen in all his bicephalic
glory in the embedded Street View below.
There are various theories regarding the provenance of the multi-limbed man.
But the only sensible one is that he is in fact an ordinary man with the
usual number of legs and heads, but that the Google Street View car took two
images of that part of the street and he happened to be caught on the edges
of both.
Horse
Boy, a mysterious horse-headed creature native to Aberdeen, has been
spotted twice around the Scottish city, once with a schoolgirl companion. He
was briefly removed from Street View before being reinstated, with no
explanation.
He has since become an international phenomenon. Stefan Kleen from Germany
said he met horse-boy at a festival: "He only spoke English so we
didn't really talk a lot to him."
Google Street View, which
is expected soon to cover more than 99 per cent of the UK's roads,
stretching to 238,000 miles, has been the subject of some controversy.
The Australian communications minister described the service as "creepy",
saying it was the "single
biggest breach of privacy in history."
