Comments on: Unpossible

By: Cortillaen

Cortillaen — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:42:17 +0000

I’m not sure about whether the gun was real or not, but the whole event is pretty strange. If you zoom all the way out, you can move up and down the street in small increments. Since each “stop” was taken a bit after the other as the camera vehicle moves, it produces a sort of time lapse photography. Thanks to the 360 view and zoom, you can watch the guy walk down the street a bit, then stop (facing the kid), then what is probably him talking to or yelling at the kid, walk over to the curb (I can’t quite tell, but it doesn’t seem like he has the gun in his hand, and the kid is still just standing there), then the infamous image of him with the gun pointed at the kid (who seems to be turning to run), then the gun is down and the kid is turning back to the guy after moving off a couple yards, then (inexplicably) the kid seems to take a couple steps back towards the guy, who moves a bit off the curb. Through the whole thing, people are standing to either side, seemingly unconcerned. Just plain weird…

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:03:11 +0000

Guav:

Heh.

Funny.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:02:07 +0000

What the heck, I fooled with teh gimp one more time. This is the best zoom I was able to get. (123k) I'm getting quite a few hits on the other two. The referrers tell me that they are getting emailed around quite a bit too.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:06:44 +0000

the way the guy is holding it looks quite menacing to me… i would assume it were real if that was the only information i got on it

By: Guav

Guav — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:20:47 +0000

And the next frame.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:42:01 +0000

Next frame.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:26:10 +0000

Update: Word is you should make screen captures of it.

Done. I've zoomed in as much as possible and I can't tell if he's violating rule #3 or not. So this is nowhere near what's needed for court evidence.

By: Rob K

Rob K — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:49:37 +0000

If you go to the street view, you can move up and down the street, rotating the view, and get a sense of what's happening. If you push the view down, you can even see the car that the camera pod is mounted on. You'd have to be big idiot to point a real gun at somebody with that driving by.

By: wizardpc

wizardpc — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:24:12 +0000

I can still see it. Looks like one of those clear plastic airsoft berettas

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:06:01 +0000

And it’s gone.

I took a screen cap as well.

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:03:08 +0000

Tough to tell, but it could be a squirt gun. Or a 9 painted to look like a squirt gun.

Better ban DuraCoat so we can tell if guns on Street View are real or not.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:59:43 +0000

Ya think?

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:44:14 +0000

I took a screen shot of that. I have a feeling that goes down the memory hole soon.

By: 6Kings

6Kings — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:23:27 +0000

Hey, that is in Cook county…handguns are BANNED! Why isn’t he following the law?! Where is Mayor Daley who should be able to explain why his citizens aren’t following the law?

F@#$ you Chicago and all your pussified citizens (Pro gunners excluded)!