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Google Blurs Face Of Cow For Privacy

While snapping photos in Cambridge, England back in August of 2015, Google Street View captured […]

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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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.

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]