Environment to Google: Tell world we’re pissed.
This is crazy. Google claims it’s a computer error (do they make those) but everyone in the mid-Atlantic is freaked out because this google maps image of the Chesapake Bay included the enormous, fuzzy green image of a SKULL THE SIZE OF BALTIMORE hovering over the north Bay.
Chikai Ohazama, who oversees mapmaking operations at the Internet giant, said the skull never actually appeared in the water. Instead, he said, it was created by accident on a computer as Google technicians digitally combined two satellite photos of the same area.
Yes. OR the Bay is fucking pissed because decades of neglect have left it gasping for air (literally) and failing to produce the many tens of thousands of delicious and succulent crabs necessary to sustain me over the course of a typical summer. In fairness some measures show that the “Save the Bay” movement is having it’s impacts, but when a massive body of water the size of Rhode Island dials up google in a brilliantly-branded effort to scare the fuck out of Maryland, things can’t be going all that great.
Of course, it could just be a little prank by that fun-loving sea monster Chessie, the serpent-like creature with flippers (awww!) said to haunt the darkest recesses of America’s largest estuary.
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mmmmm crabcakes.
When you see a skull floating in the Hudson it’s usually just a dude’s skull.