Dead Bodies Showing Up on Street View Brazil

[marcus_br]

Janey,

The guy below the other one making a call, is either a homeless or a drunk guy, possibly both (LOTS of them around here, unfortunately).

It'll be easy to find dozens of them depending on what time the google car takes the pic (early morning is the most common, mainly on fridays, saturdays and sundays).

 

[bin1127]

The drivers deserve a badge of honor for risking their lives to stop their car every 100m to take a picture in those areas.

these are war photographers.

 

[hellwig]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]"Dead Bodies Showing Up on Street View Brazil" want enough of a warning?i question the intelligence of humanity allot and i give them enough credit, but do i give you to much?[/citation]
Considering they had a headline not too long ago something like "Dead Girl Shows up on Google Street View" about a girl who PRETENDED to be dead when the street view car passed by, I was expecting something similar. Luckily I have the images on my browser turned-off.

 

[sviola]

[citation][nom]marokero[/nom]Soon there will be pictures of the Google Maps car driver being jacked. Or Google will have difficulty getting further imagery because people steal the cameras off the cars. For all the progress that Brazil has made in the last 20 years, there still remains MUCH social and political issues to be addressed. I know, I used to live there, lived through hyper inflation, lived through a mugging at age 8, relatives and friends being car jacked, my house being broken into, tourists getting their hands chopped off for their nice watches/jewelry/Nike shoes, etc. Most of it still goes on today.[/citation]

I have been living in Brazil (in Rio de Janeiro), since I moved from England in 85, I have never been subject to any of these issues you talk about. Yes, there is violence, specially here in Rio, but things have been improving a lot in the past years, and is not like countries like US, UK and others do not have violence and crimes.

 

[hellwig]

I should also add that I'm certain more pics will show up. Brazil is a dangerous place and unless they fix that in the next 6 years the 2016 Olympics will be a disaster on epic proportions. We knew the outlash when one old geezer had a heart attack after that explosion at the 1996 olympics in Atlanta, imagine when dozens of tourists are robbed, kidnapped, and murdered every day.

 

[sviola]

[citation][nom]lcsper[/nom]What the hell! Being Brazilian I am a little pissed off about seeing that. I suppose those pictures are from Rio where that kind of stuff is actually common place, but still.[/citation]

Well, if you notice the pictures, the body near the telfone is in Minas Gerais. The one with the Police cars is not in Rio, those are not Rio's Police car. The one that was hit by the car is in Rio, though, but that could ahve happened to anyone, anywhere in the world.

 

[dustcrusher]

[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]The drivers deserve a badge of honor for risking their lives to stop their car every 100m to take a picture in those areas. these are war photographers.[/citation]

I wonder if they have drivers who go through those towns in Mexico with the cartel wars going on. They probably see stuff that makes this look tame.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]alyoshka[/nom]It's the new Google view, cemetery view it's a beta launch..... dead people & dead penguins.Why can't they be there while it's happening or help in catching the people who are doing it??? Why is it that it's always after or before the crime that they turn up???There ought to be better use of gMaps and gSV not just picking on the dead guys or driving into lake, it ought to be able to stop such stuff from happening....Isn't that the whole point of progress??[/citation]
The world is huge and the chances of being there when one random person kills another random person in order to stop them, when you have no prior knowledge of the event is tiny. They were lucky to even get the picture of those people fighting at all really.

 

[znegval]

Brazil is pretty big. Maybe I missed it from TFA but couldn't you be more specific about which city is that? The only clue I have is a soccer team flag from Rio de Janeiro. If that's the case yeah, you gonna run into plenty of dead bodies. Oh, and don't try to get street view of the slums. Really, you don't want to.

 

[f-14]

shoeless joe with the decapitated head should be a time magazine shot for their next world cup in brazil article.

 

[allan_hm]

"These include a crowd of children gathering to wave their native flags at the passing camera"
Actually those people are employees from Google Brazil.
And a few flags are from soccer teams.

 

[robochump]

Come on Google Street View car...more hot female Brazilian asses and less dead bodies!!! Geez!

 

[Guest]

@marokero
Most of this still going on today in Rio de Janeiro...
BUT if u live in another places (which is my case, I dunno live in RJ, thanks God !), Brazil is like a normal place...
Murderes, hijacks and many other bad stuff happens all over the world including USA, Europe and Asia...
In US for example, it happens in many places specially in NY, u know...
It just do not had any pictures taken from Google (or they were deleted before posting them)....

 

[JPHD]

[citation][nom]cp8427[/nom]I never realized how violent it was in brazil... the only brazilian i even knew was blanka, and he seemed pretty crazy.[/citation]

LMAO!! I happen to be brazilian and I had one hell'uva laugh at that comment!

 

[Guest]

Having been to Brazil, I gotta say that these images are shocking. There was crime, to be sure. And I felt that there could have been murders based on the nervousness of my business associates. But the traffic was so bad that I am shocked that one of those Google cars could make its way through the streets at all!

 

[tu_illegalamigo]

As a child I remember Brazil being a much more violent place, especially around
Recife and Belo Horizonte. After the real was introduced, a lot of the problems were slowly solved, this is what`s left of a large populous country where the gap between rich and poor is much wider than in America, and people kill and die for much less. A lot of the favelas dont have real streets and the houses are made out of scraps and cardboard and junk, so of course google cannot go to those. I hope the influx of money helps all Brazilians attain a better life.

 

[marokero]

@Brazils User

I realize violence is not isolated to Brazil, but you have to admit some shocking stuff goes on there. Like the kid that got dragged to death by car jackers, the step mother and father that threw a girl out the window, a Flamengo soccer player who was involved in the macabre death of a former porn actress... yeah, things like that can and will happen everywhere - there's no limit to human cruelty. You have been lucky that you have not yet been touched by violence in Brazil. My god father, who lives in Sao Paulo, was robbed and beaten recently by three armed robbers as he came back home. It's not just Rio de Janeiro that has it bad. And a lot of foreigners that move to Brazil do not get to see the ugly side of Brazilian life because they have friends/relatives/co-workers that provide guidance. The "jeitinho brasileiro" is partly to blame for some of the problems there, but it's also what spices up Brazilian culture.

 

[blurr91]

Google should leave these images up. Maybe they will shame the Brazilians into doing something about the lawlessness.

 

[kingssman]

WHOAAA!!! 2ND PIC!! WTF??? I thought , meh ok somebody passed out cold, but a corpse covered in a tarp with the victim's shoes being used to hold the tarp down, just laying out there, middle of the road,,, nobody within 20ft as normal vehicle traffic drives right on by.

And here i thought the new york ghetto was bad.....

 

[kingssman]

hey i went to the google maps location of the corpse and google took it down. They removed all images of that block