"D Murphy" wrote in message
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Cliff wrote in
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:11 GMT, DaveG wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01...an_stereotype/


American Stereotype™ walks Google's mean Street View

Gun? Check. Liquor? Check

We're fully aware that some of our UK readers have pretty well decided
that the average American wears a baseball cap, Harley-Davidson
sweatshirt, jeans and cowboy boots and walks the mean streets of the
Land of the Free with a hunting rifle while swigging from a bottle of
hard liquor.

Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth, as this snap from
Google's Street View shows: see link above for image

Splendid. Doubtless our US friend is on his way to a fellow NRA
member's trailer park home to watch the baseball while washing down
pork rinds with a coupla six-packs, as is the local custom.

Good point.

Shocking. A guy carrying a rifle outside of the "Dakota Angler and
Outfitter" in the "mean" streets of Rapid City SD.

Can't wait to see all the stabbings captured on film when streetview comes
to the UK this spring.
That's a scene in South Dakota would be unlikely here in Illinois. Instead
we have this
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&geoc...,0.014591&z=16