New Money Making Opportunity Just Dropped: Run Outside Naked When The Google Maps Street View Car is Driving By

CTV News – An Argentine captured naked in his yard by a Google Street View camera has been awarded compensation by a court after his bare behind was splashed over the internet for all to see.

The policeman had sought payment from the internet giant for harm to his dignity, arguing he was behind a two-meter (6.6-foot) wall when a Google camera captured him in the buff, from behind, in small-town Argentina in 2017.

His house number and street name were also laid bare, broadcast on Argentine TV covering the story, and shared widely on social media.

The man claimed the invasion exposed him to ridicule at work and among his neighbors.

Another court last year dismissed the man’s claim for damages, ruling he only had himself to blame for “walking around in inappropriate conditions in the garden of his home.”

Google, for its part, claimed the perimeter wall was not high enough.

Appeals judges, however, concluded the man’s dignity had been flagrantly violated, and awarded him an amount in Argentine pesos equivalent to about $12,500, payable by Google.


“This involves an image of a person that was not captured in a public space but within the confines of their home, behind a fence taller than the average-sized person. The invasion of privacy… is blatant,” they wrote.

The judges said “there is no doubt that in this case there was an arbitrary intrusion into another’s life.”

This must be the 100th blog I've written in my three years at Barstool Sports that has to do with some random civilian falling ass-backwards into a pile of quick easy money. I wouldn't say it's my life's ambition to have something like this happen to me, but it would fall somewhere on page 2 or page 3 of my hopes & dreams list. Not this incident specifically. But I'm always on the lookout for new, low-to-zero effort money making maneuvers. Maneuvers of the "unfortunate accident" variety. More specifically, "unfortunate accidents" that can be pinned on major corporations/large government entities with more money than God who are liable to cut a check for millions of dollars to make a small problem go away. Or in this case, a wee bit less than millions of dollars. 

Admittedly, this one is a bit of a high-risk, minor reward maneuver. Worst case, you end up on a list of sex predators and will need a social worker present anytime you see your children until they graduate high school. Best case, you cash in on enough money to pay for half a family vacation to Disney World. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not it's worth the risk.

The end game is simple, be fully naked outside of your home as the Google Maps Street View car comes to photograph your neighborhood. Which according to wikiHow, is roughly once every 1-3 years. That should give you plenty of chances to get this right. 

Step 1: Identify When The Google Maps Street View Car Will Be in Your Area
For this, surprisingly enough, www.google.com/streetview/how-it-works/ has all the information you need. If you're me, and you live in Franklin County, Ohio, simply scroll down to the section of the webpage titled "Where we are mapping this month", select your state (Ohio), and click 'View districts'.

Voila! As you can see, I can expect to the Google Maps Street View car to be passing by sometime between, 'already happened in the past few months' and December 2025. 

Step 2: Get Permission To Work From Home
More likely than not, the car will drive by in the day time. Probably during regular business hours. So you're going to need to work from home if you want any hopes of pulling this off. You can assure your boss that this won't be a permeant thing. You'll only need WFH privileges for the 10-month window of time the Google Maps Street View car is scheduled to appear. Maybe less if it comes early. 

Step 3: Set Up Your WFH Desk In Your Front Window
You're going to need eyes on the street from sun up to sundown. Preferably, you'll have a sightline to both ends of the road. If you have a bay window, or the means to install one, that would be ideal.

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Just be careful your window doesn't come down too low. If it does, be sure work from behind a tall solid desk that extends to the ground. Or else any neighbor who walks by will see you fully naked in the foremost part of your home.

Alternatively, you could set up a camera system that covers both ends of your street. Dealer's choice.

Step 4: Warn The Neighbors, Emergency Action Plan

If this money making caper doesn't pan out, this will be good practice for when you're forced to go door-to-door alerting your neighbors that there's a brand new sex offender in their community. But hopefully it won't come to that. That's why you're doing Step 4 in the first place.

Considering the Google Maps Street View Car doesn't quite give an exact date & time of arrival, you're going to need to establish and emergency action plan. Remember that season of The Office where Ryan Howard creates the social media company Wuphf? Where at the click of a button, a message (i.e. Wuphf) is blasted out to all your followers on every single communication device they own?

The emergency action plan should work something like that. Because when that Google Maps Street View car finally turns down your street, it's going to be of the utmost importance that their children are as far away from any front facing windows as possible. Or else it's list city for you. The second your neighbors receive that Wuphf, assuming you live in a respectable community with responsible parents, they'll undoubtedly spring into action and be sure their children are as far away from the front windows as possible. 

Step 5: Go Outside

Now that the coast is clear, and the only possible person who could catch a glimpse of your gross naked body is the Google Maps Street View Car, it's time to spring into action. But you can't be too obvious about it. If you go outside flapping your arms running penis first at the camera to get its attention, Google is going to flag the image. They'll remove you from the picture entirely. They have that technology. However, if you squat down close to the front of your house and pretend to do some gardening, there's a chance that come time for Google to post their street view images, they'll overlook you entirely. 

Step 6: Profit $$$

Refresh the Google Maps Street View of your street incessantly until the new pictures are uploaded. If you're naked body is online for even a second, as long as you grab the screenshot, then you're laughing all the way to the bank. To the tune of $12,500 USD (minus lawyer fees).

That's six easy steps for a 5-figure pay day. Maybe more if you have and exceptionally small penis, and the right person posts the picture and makes it go viral. You can thank me later.