Google Maps glitch shows bikini-clad sunbather with her legs on back to front
'That ain't Costa Rica, it's Chernobyl'... Bizarre beach image sparks confusion - and some extremely rude jokes
YOU’VE probably seen holidaymakers getting legless on a sunny beach.
But Google has captured an image of a beautiful bikini-clad woman with her legs on back to front.
The disturbing snap was taken on a beach in Costa Rica and then uploaded to Google Maps.
It was shared on Reddit and Imgur, where it quickly went viral and was viewed by more than 600,000 people.
It is unclear whether the photo was taken by a Google Street View car, which digitises images of roads so they can be explored online, or if it was taken by an ordinary person and loaded into Google Maps.
Luckily, one user stepped in with an explanation which should stop you having nightmares.
“It’s almost definitely the result of her turning over in the middle of someone taking a panoramic shot,” he wrote.
“I have plenty of panoramics and photo spheres where kids were running around and you almost always get some half people or floating limbs when the images are stitched together.”
Predictably, the image of a scantily-clad woman prompted some very pervy comments on Reddit.
One user offered a very rude explanation about the way the picture made him feel.
“All of the boobs and botox gathered on the same side of the woman?” the crude commenter wrote.
“Costa Rica must be the Mexican word for heaven.”
One of this rude chap’s online chums then said he’d “found a new fetish”.
Other people made gentler jokes about the bizarre photo.
“That’s ain’t Costa Rica, that’s Chernobyl”, another quipped.
Google Maps has thrown up a number of weird sights since it was launched in 2005.
Earlier this year, alien hunters claimed to have spotted an extraterrestrial base on the search engine’s mapping service.
But that’s not the weirdest recent sighting.
Some users claimed they’d found a portal to Hell on a street in Brazil, because anyone exploring the road was plunged into a bizarre netherworld where they were stalked by “a demon”.
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