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You drive one of those Google Street View cars and you see a beatdown right in front of you: Do you stop and call 911 or just keep driving and photographing?
By adamg on Thu, 07/14/2022 - 2:32pm
Over at Boston Reddit, somebody reported finding something interesting on a Google Street View of Pratt Street in Revere, compiled in April: A fight, in which two people beat up a third, as a fourth person, with a leaf blower, just stands there, taking it all in.
In fact, if you start your Street View tour of this otherwise nondescript street a block or so away, in the trailer-park part of the neighborhood, look straight ahead as you "drive" and you can see the fight progress through a series of still images.
And once you get past the fight, turn the view around for more fight action. If you zoom in, you'll see Google blurred out the combatants' faces, but not the fight itself - or the garish bright red plaid pants one of them is wearing (which she paired with bright red sneakers).
The Revere Journal, which runs a voluminous weekly police log, does not show any incidents involving beatings on Pratt Street in April.
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At least 3 other witnesses
in the various shots that car took, including one employee of the federal government!
Maybe they all called 911
It's impossible to tell from the street view shots if anyone did or didn't call 911.
The street view car kept going obviously but I don't think they had a moral obligation to stick around.
If the police arrived and no one was around, they might not have logged it.
There is
The leaf blower guy at one point has his phone in his hand.. he may have called.
Or ...
he's taking pictures to post on Facebook.
The Corolla driver seemed to stop
So they may have alerted authorities.
Doing the lapse, I cannot even figure out who the two sides of the fight are. At one point, the woman and the older man were side by side appearing to talk to the guy with the black pants. Then it looks like the woman is wailing on the old guy as well.
In any event, that's trailer park life.
Hey!
What do you know about trailer park life?
Well
Just what I see on TV.
Autonomous car
Google was experimenting with one of their driverless cars for the Street View vehicle, so there was no actual driver in the car to report this to the police.
That would be interesting
But I don't think autonomous cars have been cleared for use on our wacky roads - I think they still need a person behind the wheel, just in case.
Omerta
It's good to see the old values are still preserved in some neighborhoods.
Forget it, Jake,
it's Reveah.
Revere Scanner
I used to follow an account a while back called @Revere_scanner. Similar to Chelsea_Scanner who listens to the scanner. Not sure if they are still around but..
I tell ya.. they got more calls to that trailer park.. fights, ODs, more fights. Lots of fights.
Trashy people living there.
Sorry folks, hate to call people trashy but... I can't think of a better way to describe these folks.
It really doesn't surprise me this happened.
how about troubled, rather than trashy
Not being judgmental, but those kinds of issues are typically related to one or more issues with money, substances, or mental health, which are all frequently related. Southie and Dorchester had plenty of the same in the old days, now most of the troubled people have been gentrified away.
Odd fashion choice
What’s the deal with people who wear bright red shoes w pants or top to match? Is it some kind of fashion statement? I try to avoid primary colors myself.
I suspect that if Google
drivers pulled over every time they passed something weird or unlawful going on, they'd be stopped most of the time.
Seriously?
Then why aren't there more things like this in the street view?
People have been spotting
unusual things in Google Earth and Google Maps Street View for years.
I can’t track down the address
But I remember Adam throwing in a Google link to an address where a shooting occurred, and street view showed a drug deal going down on the porch.
Irony on full display
Re: The balding guy with the white jacket
If you zoom in, the pattern of his shirt says "True Religion" over and over....