'Corpse' Is Just Latest Weird Sight on Google Street View

An apparently unconscious young girl lies face down on a sidewalk, her pink flip-flops knocked into the gutter. That disturbing scene was caught on camera last summer by a Google Street View car as it surveyed a quiet residential road in the central English town of Worcester. And when the picture was loaded on to the Internet earlier this year, worried residents contacted the search giant and newspapers, attempting to find out if it was evidence of a murder or hit-and-run accident.But the girl wasn't the victim of an unknown crime; in fact she was simply caught playing a prank on one of her friends. "I didn't know anything about the Google Street View car," Azura Beebeejaun, now 10, told the Daily Mail. "I fell over while I was playing with my friend and thought it would be funny to play dead. I'm quite chuffed I'm on the Internet. It is quite funny and I can't wait to tell my classmates when I go back to school."

Azura's mother, Saira, said she was shocked by the fuss the photo had generated. "A couple of people on the road mentioned to me a few weeks ago that they had seen a picture of a girl lying on the floor on our street," the 43-year-old youth worker said. "I assumed it was my daughter because she is always playing around on the pavement. ... I never really thought one picture would cause such a commotion." Jokingly, she added, "I wish she was that quiet all the time."

Google told local newspaper the Worcester News that it couldn't comment on any individual image, but said that its vehicles -- which take pictures with roof-mounted cameras -- sometimes "inadvertently capture odd or inappropriate moments as they drive past." And the company's camera cars have caught plenty of bizarre goings-on since they started taking panoramic photos of towns and cities in 2007

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Kids do stuff like this. I once found a kid playing dead in what looked like a bicycle accident. Freaked me out.