Thursday, November 21, 2013

You've been googled...

I've played around with Google Earth looking for my house and my (various) places of work. It's interesting enough, but limited in the use I normally use for road maps to get from A to B.
That said, I suspect that there are some people in a housing estate in Hoylake, Wirral who would rather Google Earth didn't exist...
Telegraph.
People living on a UK street fear house prices could suffer after Google Earth images showed their estate resembles a giant penis.
Locals on George Road, Edward Road, and Yeoman Cottages in Hoylake, Wirral, fear potential house-hunters wouldn't want to buy a property in the phallic-shaped area.
When viewed from above, the red roofs on the homes – which have an average £200,000 price tag – make the cul-de-sac look like a penis.
AKA Cock and Balls Road.
 I'm sure someone somewhere would have taken an aerial shot at some stage and posted it, but for potential homebuyers, well Google Earth is one of the tools of choice and whoever designed the estate has certainly put a certain je ne sais quoi into the world of real estate blunders.
Definitely a case of caveat emptor...

5 annotations:

Leg-iron said...

I'd live there, and I'd start a vigorous campaign to rename those streets Cock Street and Balls Crescent.

Then I'd let the other residents know they can buy me out for twice what I'd paid for the house.

Might as well profit from the humourless.

Dioclese said...

What's the problem? We've already got a potential Chancellor called Balls...

Sniper said...

Upton on Severn - Minge Lane. I Jest not.

Anonymous said...

I doesn't look like a dick from the ground so why the hell would people not buy a house there? Another stupid bread and circuses article from our obediant MSM.

Bill

StourbridgeRantBoy said...

I've seen adverts for penis development but this is much better!

Laurie -