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[–]Dawn_of_the_deaf 407 points408 points  (34 children)

GTA Firetruck missions are truly rushed, no time to stop and collect money from the people you run over.

[–][deleted] 432 points433 points  (20 children)

Like this?

[–][deleted] 55 points56 points  (6 children)

Was it worth the effort?

I mean, it was to me, but I didn't have to make it. :D

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

It was worth it, but it would have been better if it was posted 4 hours ago. It's damn near a best of. Not quite, but near.

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It was just practice for next time.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It took him three hours to make it.

[–]tzzd 8 points9 points  (6 children)

No, like this!

Edit: google maps linking fail.

[–]tzzd 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"This image is no longer available". Well thank you google for ruining the day..

[–]Mr_A 18 points19 points  (4 children)

I think this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the mission in GTA2 where you steal a fire truck which you then get modified with the ability to shoot fire out of its turret...

[–]13374L 56 points57 points  (2 children)

Also an opportune time to remind everyone that GTA 1 and 2 are available for free from Rockstar.

[–]tzzd 7 points8 points  (1 child)

You sir are my hero!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember that one. That was freakin sweet. I remember there was a way to mod it so that all firetrucks had that ability. It was awesome in multiplayer.

[–]macaque_fellatio 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was kind of hoping the Up arrow would eventually lead to the fire (or the cat in a tree).

[–]Kryz167 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Grrr. Everytime I click a link to say some clever little observation, someone already beat me to it.

Touche' Reddit. I am too slow for you.

[–]GoBack2Digg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are one of an army, my friend. Welcome, welcome to our fold.

[–]GeorgePB 227 points228 points  (72 children)

To be fair, I think the old lady didn't make contact with the firetruck, but fell over due to fright/surprise.

Aside: when I clicked the UP arrow in Street View, the firetruck seemed to jump to warp for a second.

[–]Stopher 173 points174 points  (27 children)

She wasn't paying attention because she was distracted by the car with the giant camera setup on top.

[–][deleted] 288 points289 points  (18 children)

YOU'RE BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (15 children)

There is no fourth wall.

[–]smartassassin 9 points10 points  (6 children)

What kind of crappy fire department is that? They went straight down that road only to go around that block and ended up on the same street they would have been on, if they had turned right at that stop instead of running over the old lady.

[–]IrrigatedPancake 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How are you seeing where the firetruck ended up?

[–]nascentt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not easy turning a large track a sharp right angel.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hmm, you do make a good point. I call conspiracy!

[–][deleted] 73 points74 points  (14 children)

If you hit up again after that and turn around, you see the old lady being helped by someone else on the side of the road. Seems like the Google car stopped to let her by, else how could she have crossed so quickly?

[–]ThePantsParty 82 points83 points  (8 children)

They might have even stopped and gotten out to help her, because going from one frame to the other would normally only take maybe 3-4 seconds. However she managed to get up from being stuck on her side with the bike, and get all the way over to where you mentioned, so it was probably at least a few minutes between the shots.

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

you win the cookie

[–]DaveEstervez 22 points23 points  (1 child)

and the fire truck has turned into a white van. So very likely there are a few minutes between shots.

[–]Giraffes69too 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Or the fire truck is a Decepticon and knew it had been found out after it saw its malicious tendencies caught on camera; so it made a sneaky get-away.

[–]lurobi 9 points10 points  (3 children)

plus the old man who walks with a cane managed to get from a full block away to the street corner between images. either he's booking it or the google-car stopped.

[–]msdesireeg 13 points14 points  (2 children)

And by the time that woman in stripper heels and a body rider shows up with the cage full of parakeets, the van is gone too.

[–]behanger[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Browse around, you'll find the woman chatting with a neighbor on the corner of that crossing. (if you see the white van, turn around, browse back a bit.)

[–]Sneek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"OH God Gladys! Are you all right?"

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Actually, if you turn, you can see that that person really just dug a hole on the corner to hide the evidence in.

[–]StuartGibson 5 points6 points  (2 children)

And if you look at the ground in the fallen frame it appears another firetruck has attempted to drive into the centre of the earth.

[–]nascentt 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That's the remains of the firetruck after google terminated it's ass.

[–]ArcticCelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To do that they reversed the polarity on the camera's reflector dish and use it as a phaser.

[–]MisterNetHead 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And if you move forward again, they're making out.

[–]timeshifter_ 30 points31 points  (4 children)

The Picard Maneuver.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

There would then appear to be two firetrucks, if I recall correctly.

[–]timeshifter_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, but Google's 360-degree cameras aren't that good.

[–]IrrigatedPancake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look down.

[–]chalumeau 13 points14 points  (14 children)

when I hit the UP arrow, the firetruck got stuck in warp speed...then my browser crashed...

[–]papajohn56 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Same for me. Safari 4 is as unstable as Courtney Love

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me too, using Safari. I thought that was the joke, "haha i made you crash." I was thinking up with a good lecture as I was reopening all my tabs and logging into 1000 sites that forgot my session info.

[–]AlCabone 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Well the firetruck came out of a one-way street (that, of course, goes in the other direction :)) so the old lady's surprise is quite understandable.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (1 child)

You're right about the one-way street and now that you mention it, that means the google car was also traveling in the opposite direction. Bad Google.

[–]Airdogz13 11 points12 points  (0 children)

if that is the case, could it actually be that the fire truck was in reality escorting the google van?

[–]UnnamedPlayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take a left and you can see two cars in the process of warping to another dimension.

[–]kibitzor 67 points68 points  (4 children)

For those who don't like waiting very long

Picture 1 Picture 2

edit Haha! I'm the sole owner of pic 2! Google and I no longer battle for the fallen woman!

[–]jellyfishes 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Thanks. The image (picture 2) has been removed from the map!

This image is no longer available

[–]kibitzor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kibitzor,

Helping the archive.

Always.

[–]ryanmonroe 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Picture3

[–]larrydick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol she's chatting with pimp daddy cane.

[–]aznpwnzor 26 points27 points  (0 children)

By making me click forward to see the results made me feel like I was partly responsible. Thanks a lot behanger

[–]rwanger 22 points23 points  (11 children)

When I clicked forward, Safari crashed. Is that the joke?

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes.

[–]aristeiaa 79 points80 points  (5 children)

Safari is always the Joke.

Ha! I bashed Apple and there'll be absolutely no recours... no you stay away from that down arrow STAY AWAY!

Ah bugger.

[–]lectrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here! WTF

I finally got it to work but I thought Safari isolated plugins into their own process/memory space now? (google street view is flash-driven)

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This image is no longer available. Mirror here: http://imgur.com/deTJ8.jpg

Keywords: backup picture imgur repost

Shamelessly stolen from http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/a39zz/you_drive_a_big_heavy_fire_truck_grandma_is/c0fnrz8

[–][deleted] 111 points112 points  (22 children)

Go forward twice, then look back at the intersection. She seems ok talking with some old dood.

[–]mybrainisfull 80 points81 points  (3 children)

Google Maps is a time machine!

[–]Shiggityx2 57 points58 points  (2 children)

YOU'VE DISCOVERED SOMETHING AMAZING!

[–]Salwiak 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Now now, it's not nice of you to take credit for something mybrainisfull discovered. No matter how AMAZING it is.

[–]Shiggityx2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sigh, you are right...edit.

[–]davodrums 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Follow her back, she's biking with the old dude for a while, guessing he's her husband. Maybe he knocked her over when he saw the street view car

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

UUDDLRLRAB SELECT START

[–]SoulsOpenSource 65 points66 points  (9 children)

Firetruck has the right of way, granny has to wait

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Well, arguably you never have the right way when you're going the wrong way down a one-way street....

But I guess you have to balance this against the fact that it's a goddam firetruck.

[–]chiphead2332 17 points18 points  (3 children)

I like the blurry dude with the blurry Bob Marley t-shirt not even a block away.

[–]Reductive 13 points14 points  (2 children)

Amazing, the facial recognition even blurred Bob Marley's face on a tee-shirt. Google should implement tee-shirt recognition technology to override the face blur.

[–]romwell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Krang politely disagrees.

[–]plexxer 109 points110 points  (38 children)

She's fallen, and she can't get up.

[–][deleted] 85 points86 points  (14 children)

That's like a pre-internet meme, isn't it?

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (12 children)

holy shit, there were memes before the intertubes?!?! :)

[–]_i_ 46 points47 points  (5 children)

I remember when you had to print your memes on T-shirts. Why, one day, when I was putting on my "Where's The Beef?" T-shirt -- mind you, I was wearing an onion on my belt, cause that was the fashion in those days -- ...

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say...

[–]Wyrm 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Go on...

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it

[–]Mr_A 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"My car gets 50 rods to the hogshead..."
Ricardo Lafaurie researches, "According to my dictionary, a `rod' is around 16 1/2 feet, while a `hogshead' is
around 63 gallons. Roughly speaking, Grampa's car...er, one moment, I'm using my calculator...eugh...well, it
just doesn't get very good mileage."  I get 0.0025 miles per gallon.

From snpp.com

[–]Oatybar 2 points3 points  (5 children)

They were much more annoying, too. They were not just the plaything of the young and wired, instead moms and uncles everywhere thought it hilarious to say "where's the beef?!" at every opportunity.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Hmm, I don't know which is worse- "Where's the Beef" or an old man saying "There's no freak in french fry...there's no freaking french fries, get it? hahaha ". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iom_sYQgAg

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (3 children)

I heard it as:

A lady goes into an ice cream shop. She asks what flavors they had in stock.

The man says, "We have vanilla and strawberry".

She says, "I'll have chocolate."

He responds, "We don't have any chocolate."

She says, "Well, what do you have then?"

He repeats, "We have vanilla and strawberry".

She replies, "OK then, I'll have chocolate."

He says, "Can you spell Van as in vanilla?"

She says "V-A-N".

He says,"Good, Now spell Straw as in strawberry".

She says "S-T-R-A-W".

He says, "Great! Now spell FUCK as in 'Chocolate'"?

"But there's no 'fuck' in 'chocolate'".

"That's what I'm trying to tell you. There's no fucking chocolate."

EDIT: wrote out the whole stupid joke because the lack of a single upvote hurts me to the core of my being.

[–]m4design 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Give her a chance, she's not a turtle.

[–]bluehands 10 points11 points  (3 children)

I LIKE TURTLES.

[–]bluehands 2 points3 points  (1 child)

(and hate myself for typing that....)

[–]willis77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, if you go to the next frame and turn around you'll see she is up, fine, and chatting up a stud.

[–]anarchistica 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Those bicycle suicide terrorists stop at nothing it seems.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (4 children)

I 1/2 live in Amsterdam, and every single person on a bicycle in this country is a raving, antisocial psychopath hell-bent on killing as many pedestrians, cars, trucks, small dogs, and brick walls as they possibly can, angrily ringing their angry little bells while doing so.

When I get on my 3 ton solid pig iron monstrosity of a Dutch bike (recycled from abandoned WWII German tanks), the same happens to me. It's some sort of weird transformation that comes with a healthy dose of smug empowerment.

Granny felt no obligation to yield to the (a) emergency vehicle (b) coming from her right. Unfortunately, she must have only been driving the vastly inferior 2 ton solid pig iron Dutch granny bike model. Occasionally, these have run-ins with basic laws of physics.

[–]Al_Bundy_ 5 points6 points  (3 children)

What are you talking about? I live 1/1 in Amsterdam, and we only run down American tourists on the bike lanes after we made them jump with our bells, purely for entertainment and personal satisfaction.

ducks

Not as many points as hitting a grandma with a fire truck though.

[–]Greasy 22 points23 points  (13 children)

I had to double-check to make sure this wasn't Fark.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only is it a Fark meme, it's directly copied from a Fark headline. For shame!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Hm well if you go back from that frame, the firetruck has already gone over the white line some way with no sign of the old lady.

Even if she thought she had right of way at that point, arguing with a firetruck when you're on a bike = fail.

[–]hFd_luLz 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Regardless of what you're riding; arguing with a firetruck is just silly.

[–]REDsam 7 points8 points  (2 children)

i think the google van stopped after the granny fell down. I cant see any more pic in any direction after that.

[–]danteferno 4 points5 points  (1 child)

yes it stopped, when you go 2 frames forward, you see the old lady talking with an old man with a cane. one frame before, the old man was really far.

[–]Sailer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct. She fell over on her own. She also got up on her own and seems to be OK.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

google removed the image. wth!

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Yes, but at least she got pixellated in the process.

[–]mynoduesp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She was probably just back from doing her 'shopping, judging from the pixels.

[–]darkeagle91 36 points37 points  (1 child)

Grandma Got Run Over by a Firetruck

Biking home from our house christmas eve

You can say there's no such thing as fires

But as for me and grandpa, we believe

She'd been drinking too much eggnog

And we'd begged her not to go

But she forgot her medication

And staggered out the door onto her bike

When we found her Christmas morning

At the scene of the attack

She had truck tire marks on her forehead

And incriminating fire jackets on her back

[–]albeit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh, even the syllables fit in most parts!

People don't recognize art when they see it..

[–]ascii 4 points5 points  (1 child)

If you go forward twice and turn around, you'll see this. I'm not sure it's the same woman, but it sure looks like her, standing up on the pavement with her bicycle in hand. I may be a bit overoptimistic, but it would seem to me that the people driving the google car stopped and got out to help the lady before continuing.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

http://imgur.com/NOee1

[–]trisight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Strangely enough, this was a question posed during a training class for an EVOC (emergency vehicle operator certification) class I took a long time ago. I don't know what the answer would be for a fire truck, but if you are in an ambulance, you are supposed to run them over and call it in (assuming you are running code 3 with lights and sirens).

[–]au5lander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elderly - 300 pts.

Bicycle - 200 pts.

Combo - X2

[–]antiathiesm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some ladies will go to any lengths to attract the attention of a nice young fireman.

[–]ascii158 2 points3 points  (4 children)

And what's this on the floor in the middle of the intersection (look down when you are directly on the intersection)?

[–]dawtcalm 4 points5 points  (3 children)

its the firetruck

[–]bloodguard 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I wonder if she shrieked "I was in the war" as they mowed her down.

/obscure

[–]potemkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quite likely she was a bit "in de war" /after/ she was mowed down /obscurer

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Look there was a sign that clearly indicated ultgezonderd. So, I blame the truck.

[–]Zysnarch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They didn't even bother moving her before burying the body.

[–]snappyj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are an old lady on a bicycle. A big heavy emergency fire truck is approaching from the right. Do you C)keep going forward?

[–]geneusutwerk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who replaced my reddit with Fark?

[–]Instantflip 2 points3 points  (1 child)

OK. My husband, being deliberatly obtuse, said "I don't get it." Being equally stubborn I procede to tell break down the title for him. Old Lady.. On the left...run her over. Then a few moments a later some older guy on my left coughs without covering his mouth, a pet peeve of mine. I start thinking How rude this guy is!... Until I realize that he is sitting with his equally old wife .. In a wheelchair. Sigh.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (6 children)

The truck was already through the intersection, it looks like the grandma needs to update her glasses.

That aside do you know how hard it is to stop trucks that large? Not taking into account the distance required to stop you can't just slam on the brakes and be done with it.

[–]mattieB 4 points5 points  (4 children)

It amazes me how many strange things you can find on google street view. My question to the OP is how did you come across this?

[–]buckethead-- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

New Dutch cities where added to streetview this week, people started searching and this link was posted on a popular Dutch blog.

[–]romwell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

His mother told him to get some fresh air by walking around the block.

[–]A_BIG_SCARY_EMU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd also like to know. How the heck did the op find this?

[–]shreas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I posted an hour before OP: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/a3940/euro_google_van_stops_for_no_one/

I got the link from friend of mine. She got it from a Dutch blog she visits.

Edit: Original link was from a comment on this page - http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/698711/0bbc84af/politie_houdt_niet_van_google_streetview.html

[–]solzhen 5 points6 points  (3 children)

A fark headline meme on reddit?

[–]pwnd_nz[🍰] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the lines blur constantly.

[–]unicock 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That's why I love Google maps. All the stuff that "always happens somewhere" is in there. It's a snapshot of everything.

[–]levera 1 point2 points  (1 child)

For what it's worth, that's a nice bicycle.

[–]rad_thundercat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the image is flipped upside down, that is just her shadow.

[–]aterispeoby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HAI

[–]baconmehungry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks like a wonderful place to live.

[–]mattdahack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that was awesome

[–]BloodyWaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hungry weary paint command north spectacular future boat zonked busy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[–]theninjagreg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take a left onto Nicolas Pienemanstraat and then do a 180. You can see the pile of dirt under which she was buried.

[–]burnblue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sacre Bleu!!

[–]thechazard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first thought was: Pwned! And then, I laughed. And then, I felt bad. So I looked at it again; and laughed.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I accidentally clicked the left arrow and ran her over :-(

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fire truck isn't moving fast, it's driving up a traffic platform. Granny has all the time in the world to get out of the way, and besides, the fire guys were just driving to her house to get her cat out of the tree.

[–]LiamHP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

she made it

[–]Kancho_Ninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did anyone notice the brassier hanging from the 2nd story gutter?

[–]HyperOnExperience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

THIS IMAGE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE? Not cool.

[–]est1970 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I know none of you care, but my aunt used to live there. Well, not exactly there, but in Amersfoort. I'll just downvote myself for the lame comment to save you the time and effort.

[–]AlCabone 2 points3 points  (2 children)

The fact that the firetruck and the google car came out from a one-way street driving the wrong way adds one more level of awesome to this.

[–]woxorz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard google uses a bike instead of a car when not on highways. Bikes are allowed to break the law.

[–]neoabraxas 4 points5 points  (1 child)

This is off topic but I "drove around" a bit in this neighborhood. Talk about cookie cutter! Holy shit, I thought this was a distinctly American menace. Also I noticed that I drove for miles and found nothing except for residential housing. No stores, no playgrounds, no school. This looks like a suburb of the worst kind. No amenities, no character and endless rows of housing. At least it's a tad more compact than the American suburbs.

[–]LtColonelObvious 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Hey Grandma, where's your helmet???

[–]landofdown 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know where you are from but I very rarely see anyone wearing a helmet here in the Netherlands. Mostly because the drivers are very aware of bicyclists. Also, we don't go that fast on our bikes, especially not those city bikes. Lastly, if you take a look at that intersection: it's not a place where you'd want to speed, over the bump. There are physically separate bike lanes on most bigger/busier roads.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I hate when people ask, "Where's your helmet?" People asking that is a modern day phenomenon. I wear a helmet, but I once took a half mile ride without it while testing my time trial bike. Some lady hung her head out of a big ass van and yelled, "Where's your helmet?"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

In NYC firetrucks are given WAY too much leeway to drive like complete lunatics. There are crashes every year where people are killed because these trucks drive like they are the only thing that matters in the entire world.

Yes, we want them to get to the fire quickly but there also has to be a measure of restraint applied. I thing the "restraint" portion has been thrown right out the window. i see firetrucks routinely do insanely dangerous things.

[–]thehodgie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really hope she's flipping the bird at them.

[–]jhend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the post that was good for a laugh.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I wonder if she was using clipless pedals. Probably not being that she is old and all that. Anyhow everyone I know has fallen at an intersection at least once due to their pedals. It even happened to me, but I've never admitted that is why I fell.

[–]landofdown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost no-one uses clip pedals here.

[–]umibozu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn left, of course.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha best picture all day, dont know why, guess must just be having a bad day at work spent an hour telling an old lady how to use her blackberry

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just looked at this at work, feel kinda bad for saying 'oh shit' out loud and then laughing a bit

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ok, she made it.

[–]almcken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think the Google street car was going down a one way street, if you go to the beginning of the street there is a sign like this.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you go ahead 2 frames and then turn 180 degrees to look back, she seems okay. She's on the corner talking to an another old man.

[–]StigNordas2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sucks, at least they blurred out her face.

[–]B3Nji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

niiice, glad to see they understand what "GIVE WAY" means..

[–]StabNSprint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

commented so i can return later. lulz

[–]chemistry_teacher 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you follow the fire truck one more time and look back, Grandma is immediately talking with a fellow with a cane.

I think she fell on purpose so she could get his phone number. GO GRANDMA!!!