Google Maps is an incredibly useful tool that allows us to plan routes for long journeys, test our geographic knowledge, and generally snoop around places.
However, a TikTok user believes he saw people ‘committing a crime’ while surfing the site recently.
The user, known as ‘Discarded Content’, shared a video that appears to show a group in Poland stealing train tracks in broad daylight.
The video explains: “You will not believe what I just found.
“I thought I saw everything.”
The user then zooms in on the map, showing a group of people carrying train tracks on a wheelbarrow on a train line.
The video continues: “But they are literally stealing the train tracks.”
It has been seen thousands of times, with people commenting to share their total disbelief in what appears to be a blatant act of theft.
One user said: “They must have an internal connection at the railway company, normally these tracks are welded together.”
While another trusted the group in the photo more, adding: “Maybe they are helping to replace it.”
13 days agoBut this is not the first time that Google Maps has come across something very strange. Not a long way.
The pair climbed a remote mountain road in western Taiwan in search of an encounter with nature and presumably thought the Google Maps car was the least of their worries – but, unfortunately, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The sighting of the street was shared for the first time on social media along with the caption: “I took a look at Google to see if I would find any animals and, unexpectedly, I came across this wonderful sight!
“Google Maps is the greatest invention of all time – it is bigger than God. Big Brother is watching. You are making babies and now we are watching you.”
They made it a little more sinister than necessary, if you ask me, but hey-ho.