Stealing your bike made easier

**Assasin** · 4th December 2008, 09:41

Has anyone seen the new google maps you can scan someone’s property out before you go and steel there bike.

http://maps.google.co.nz/?utm_campai...erm=bluebutton

Type in your address to see what they have on your place.

**oldskool** · 4th December 2008, 09:45

Originally Posted by Assasin

Has anyone seen the new google maps you can scan someone’s property out before you go and steel there bike.

Wots yer address buddy?

**MIXONE** · 4th December 2008, 10:02

Bwahahahahah they have got me living in the old folks house next door!
I knew I'd been here for awhile but not quite that long.

**Hemex** · 4th December 2008, 10:41

Originally Posted by Assasin

Has anyone seen the new google maps you can scan someone’s property out before you go and steel there bike.

http://maps.google.co.nz/?utm_campai...erm=bluebutton

Type in your address to see what they have on your place.

Well think about it... If they know your address, they can come have a look for themselves... A real life look and get distances, dimensions, escape routes etc... Way better than a 2 dimensional image...

Agreed we feel like we've lost our privacy.. but hey... if a crook knows your address, thats bad enough...

**oldskool** · 4th December 2008, 10:43

Originally Posted by MXheman

Agreed we feel like we've lost our privacy.. but hey... if a cook knows your address, thats bad enough...

bugger and he was just about to give it to me!!

**Hemex** · 4th December 2008, 10:46

Originally Posted by oldskool

bugger and he was just about to give it to me!!

Shiyte!! Sorry man... take mine down...
Ill ask google to change the image so you wont find your way out

**nodrog:Me** · 4th December 2008, 10:55

http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-1...iew-sightings/

http://www.streetviewfun.com/

**klingon** · 4th December 2008, 11:06

Hopefully people won't have their bikes parked out in front of their place in full view of the street anyway. If they have, I don't know if Google Streetview is adding to their problems - probably more likely that a real passer-by will nick it rather than a virtual passer-by.

**gijoe1313** · 4th December 2008, 11:11

I see they came around on a Friday where I am ... got the recycling and rubbish out!

And also near inorganics time ... got an old tyre still propped up against the tree!

Dizzam, what next, google maps inside your house?

Or google map your own body and see what its like inside?

Hmmmm ... I better go and stalk some more

**Hitcher** · 4th December 2008, 11:21

Originally Posted by Assasin

before you go and steel there bike.

People with plastic bikes beware the demon steelers!

**Sammikins** · 4th December 2008, 11:24

You can't see my bike, you can't even see the room that it is securely locked up in. Chillax, it's just a photo of the front of your house.

**mrchips** · 4th December 2008, 11:27

While i was away on business a guy knocked on our front door early on a week day, said he was from the council & asked if he could "have a look at your garage please".

As my wife was in busy she didn't think twice & let this tugjob have a good ol' snoop around our friggin backyard.

I done my nut when she told me so i rang the council to tell them to feck off & leave us alone, as you do & you guesed it.... it wasn't one of them.

god knows who the feck it was !!!!!!

If your wife, partner, kids, dog is home alone tell them to NOT LET ANY BASTARD ON YOUR PROPERTY, dam it.

**Kflasher** · 4th December 2008, 11:32

Originally Posted by Assasin

Has anyone seen the new google maps you can scan someone’s property out before you go and steel there bike.

http://maps.google.co.nz/?utm_campai...erm=bluebutton

Type in your address to see what they have on your place.

I now wonder if our insurance premiums will take yet another increase.
We all need to take heed of how vulnerable our possessions are and take control of the situation.

**B0000M** · 4th December 2008, 11:33

its not like theyve gone on private property at all , its only a view from the road. even private roads havnt been photoed

**klingon** · 4th December 2008, 11:38

Originally Posted by mrchips

While i was away on business a guy knocked on our front door early on a week day, said he was from the council & asked if he could "have a look at your garage please".

As my wife was in busy she didn't think twice & let this tugjob have a good ol' snoop around our friggin backyard.

I done my nut when she told me so i rang the council to tell them to feck off & leave us alone, as you do & you guesed it.... it wasn't one of them.

god knows who the feck it was !!!!!!

If your wife, partner, kids, dog is home alone tell them to NOT LET ANY BASTARD ON YOUR PROPERTY, dam it.

LOL A guy from the council knocked on my door when I was home alone and asked to have a look around the back yard. I said no. He said he had to have a look so he could do some permit stuff, and anyway it wouldn't take long. I said get lost. He got very grumpy and said he wasn't going to come inside the house - it was only the back yard! I got even grumpier and said we rent the back yard as well you know and if I saw him snooping around I would call the police!

Turned out the landlords were subdividing and had specifically given him permission to go onto the property at 10am on a week day when they obviously thought nobody would be home. I came home another day to find surveyors' marker pegs all around the property.

Blinking landlords messed us about seriously over the next few weeks and when we caused a fuss they gave us minimum notice because "their mother was moving in." LIARS!

Sorry, off topic but still annoys me.