Sunday, June 29, 2008
Google Earth Helps UK Teens’ Summertime Craze: Pool Crashing
Google Earth Helps UK Teens’ Summertime Craze: Pool Crashing: "Ah, Google Earth. It’s an amazing technology and service from Google … which inadvertently helped launch UK’s summertime craze: pool crashing!
Teens begin by surfing Google Earth’s satellite images to find houses with swimming pools — or at least paddling pools. Once a target has been identified, sweaty swimmers then use Facebook to arrange an organised, but uninvited, pool-crash. [...]
Owners of several plush poolside properties have already returned home to find teenagers taking a dip in their man-made lakes or their spoor: beer cans, dog-ends and vomit floating atop their once crystal-clear pools."
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