While snapping photos in Cambridge, England back in August of 2015, Google Street View captured images of a cow crossing the street along the banks of the River Cam. In order to protect its privacy, Google decided it would behoove them to blur out the cow’s face.
An editor at The Guardian discovered the hilarious Google fail, and took a screenshot that he shared on Twitter for his followers.
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Great to see Google takes cow privacy seriously pic.twitter.com/ACTBpDwno6
— David Shariatmadari (@D_Shariatmadari) September 13, 2016
The photo, posted by David Shariatmadari, has since gone viral and recieved over 10k retweets and 13k likes. Many Twitter users have been adding their own punny captions to go with the blurred face of the cow.
@D_Shariatmadari was she asked mooove out of the way or was the pic taken on the hoof?
— Dave smith (@Powys_power_gat) September 13, 2016
@D_Shariatmadari @jonworth Some people think one cow looks much like any udder. Not so!
— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) September 13, 2016
@D_Shariatmadari Google teat view
— Titus Thomson (@TitusJude) September 13, 2016
A spokesperson for Google reached out to BBC to explain that the bovine privacy protection photo was an error due to an automated process that got a little too blur-crazy:
“We thought you were pulling the udder one when we herd the moos, but it’s clear that our automatic face-blurring technology has been a little overzealous…Of course, we don’t begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame.”
For the people who haven’t seen Monty Python and are unfamiliar with popular British-isms, the term “pull the other one” is like saying “you’re pulling my leg.”
Can you come up with any better cow puns than any of these Twitter users?
[H/T NPR]
