Google launched their Street View service in Denmark a couple of days ago and there was one photo they enjoyed so much that they leaked it to the press in conjunction with the launch. The Street View van caught a cyclist taking a tumble outside of Vestergade 12 in the centre of the city. Shockingly, he wasn't wearing protective gear on his hands or arms. :-) " It's actually a funny story ", explained the head of Google's Danish office, Peter Friis to DR News . " He was riding along when he spotted the Street View car and he wanted to take a photo with his mobile phone and that's when he toppled over. " He explained that the man on the bicycle is a friend of one of the employees at Google Denmark and that he called his friend afterwards to tell him he was in the photo. " The man himself thinks it's a funny photo ", said Peter Friis. According to Friis it's pure coincedence that the episode was captured on camera. He stresses that t...
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