Just took a screen shot from Google Maps Street View -- does anything look amiss to you?

[InternalDialogue]

Small-town life, I guess. :shrug:

[Sanity Claws]

1. I don't find anything amiss.

Did I miss something? Or am I supposed to look for Waldo?

[InternalDialogue]

4. Unless the man is delivering those canes to someone else...

it looks like a bad place for him to be walking.

[elana i am]

11. how the hell can you tell that's a blind man with a cane!?!?!

i could see he had a stick of some kind but it's bent. you must have superhero eyesight!

[InternalDialogue]

13. One of the canes has the traditional curve in it.

The other one is a white one with a red tip.

The blind part of it I'm just inferring, but I found it interesting.

:hi: (superhero wave)

[elana i am]

2. i'm not seeing it. ???

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I don't get it - looks normal to me.

[sakabatou]

5. No real sidewalks?

:shrug:

[InternalDialogue]

6. That's part of the problem, especially for the man walking in the street.

[Xithras]

7. That's pretty much standard in small towns.

Sidewalks are a luxury ejoyed by urban dwellers, suburbanites, and visitors to rural downtowns. Rural small town residential areas over 20 years old typically don't have them, and only a portion of the newer ones do.

I didn't live in a house with a sidewalk out front until I was 17.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. The blind man with the white cane --

walking in the middle of the street?

Yikes!

[InternalDialogue]

10. Yay! That's what I saw too.

Originally I was looking way down the street, but I noticed him and zoomed over to where he was walking.

I hope it's the kind of thing where everyone knows he walks in the middle of the street and just gives him room.

[hobbit709]

9. Shadows are different

Look at length of the shadow of the man walking compared to the cars and tree

[targetpractice]

17. That's distortion from the Street View cameras...

Google stitches together multiple images and maps them onto the inside of a sphere... to allow the user to pan around and look up and down. Notice how everything is distored along the edges.

[hobbit709]

18. Then the objects causing the shadows should have the same distortion

as the shadows. The images stitched together must have been taken at different times of day.

[targetpractice]

19. Same time of day...

Here's the Google Maps link for that locations... Play with Street View and see what you think...

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=lakeview+dr,+nederland,+co&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=cpKVSu_9EZKzlAe1koSwDQ&ll=39.960601,-105.509799&spn=0.002331,0.003406&z=18&layer=c&cbll=39.960602,-105.509798&panoid=tYRtj-wION0GERsnvcxpOw&cbp=11,256.9,,0,4.43

Actually that link get you close... Travel east on Lakeview Dr with Street View... You'll see the blind guy.

[arcadian]

12. Is that Manitou Springs?

[InternalDialogue]

14. Nederland

[Bombero1956]

15. you mean the figure on the ground on the lower left?

Looks like a robed figure...could it be Jesus?

[krispos42]

16. He's walking against the flow of traffic.

Must be a blind Aussie or Brit!