‘Horseboy’ photo on Scottish road becomes latest Google Streetview mystery

He only wanted to find an optician’s to repair his glasses.

But what Russell Moffatt saw on Google StreetView made him question whether he also needed to get his eyes tested.

The bizarre sight, dubbed ‘Horseboy’, has become an unlikely internet sensation after being snapped by one of Google’s cars on an otherwise unremarkable Aberdeen street.
Now, the search is on to unmask the mystery prankster.

Mr Moffatt, a 50-year-old IT manager, spotted Horseboy in Hardgate in Aberdeen.
He said: ‘I needed to get my glasses repaired and was looking for an optician’s shop when I suddenly saw this crazy guy.

‘I thought it was really funny; he obviously spotted the Google car photographing streets in the area, ran to get a horse-head mask and laid in wait for it.

‘I bet he’s been quietly smiling to himself ever since, waiting to be discovered.’

The StreetView site will allow anyone in the world to type in a UK address or postcode and instantly see a 360-degree picture of the street, including close-ups of buildings, cars and people.

Closer observation of the website reveals that the joker can be seen from further down the street pulling on the realistic-looking horse’s head.
But he is so far away from the camera that his face cannot be seen.

Mr Moffatt, a father of one from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, was so amused by his discovery that he wrote about it on social networking site Twitter.

Now, he is appealing for help to identify Horseboy, who is wearing a purple jumper and black jeans in the picture.

But, despite the site being inundated with hits from an army of fans looking at the intriguing photograph, nobody has yet come forward to confess.

The picture joins a list of unusual sights captured on Streetview. The most famous, from Norway, shows two men dressed in full scuba gear chasing a Google car down the road brandishing a harpoon.

That’s right. Saturday Night Lives Pat has been nominated by President Obama to the supreme court. Below is a video of an anti-androgynous protest featuring Pat at the protest. Enjoy. JD

Pat today speaking at an androgynous convention in 2009

I like Earth Day. Its the one day that I can show the rest of the world how much I believe in the environmental nut bags and their fear of their own shadow. This year was no exception, with the environmentally challenged out in force pushing their fear on the rest of society.

Earth Day for me actually started yesterday. See, I like to make sure that on this one day, I pollute more than any other day of the year, and although I am physically fit and go to the gym daily to keep myself from becoming a fat lump of crap that sucks off of the societal tit later in life, yesterday started like this.

I got up and made a chorizo and egg burrito with sausage, bacon, cheese, potato and hot sauce. For lunch I had an In N Out Double Double with animal style fries. For dinner I had steak, bread, salad, baked potato and a blooming onion at Outback Steakhouse.

Why did I eat so much? So that this morning upon awakening from a deep slumber, I could shit out a Buick and flush it out to the Pacific Ocean.

All day long, I drove my car floored from light to light. I was averaging about 12 miles to the gallon in my 30 mile a gallon car. Oh, I plugged the air cleaner up to make it run rich and smoke more too.

I rolled the window down and threw all of my garbage from my car out the window.

I ran the sprinklers front and back all day even though it was raining.

I took all of the half empty spray paint cans out and sprayed them into the atmosphere. I had 11 of them in all. Made a bit of a mess, but who cares? I don’t live in the street.

I sprayed the last of my DDT and Chlordane around the house to kill the bugs . . . um and birds and cats and anything else that comes near the house for the next 6 months.

I changed my oil and let it run into the gutter in front of my neighbors house and buried the oil filter in his front yard. I didn’t want the stain in front of my house. Not to worry. The rain and sprinkler run off did an efficient job of running it down the storm drain that runs to the ocean.

I then took all my old paint cans and dumped them down the toilet where they too were flushed out to the ocean.

I finished the day by going to the gas station to fill my car which was empty from hauling ass all over town today, and decided it would be a nice end to the day if I let a couple of gallons go onto the ground, which was swept down the storm drain and into the ocean.

Of course I didn’t so any of the above and this article is totally farcical, but I thought it was a funny. JD

Cary Feldman was charged for emergency response after being in a car accident.

This is what happens when democrats rule the roost. You end up being taxed for everything, including emergency responses.

If you get into a car accident and 911 is called, you may get billed for the emergency response. Cash-strapped communities are sending out bills to cover the costs of fire trucks responding to crashes. As CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports, often times it does not matter whether you caused the accident or are the victim.

Cary Feldman received one of these bills last summer. He was driving his motor scooter in Chicago Heights when he was struck from behind. He was fine, but someone else called 911, and a fire truck was sent to the scene.

Feldman says it was unnecessary.

“There was no fire, there was no explosion, there was no debris,” Feldman said. “From what I saw, they came, they saw, and they left.”

The fire department then sent him a $200 bill for that fire truck response.

“We’re paying taxes for these services,” said Feldman. “We don’t need to have a second tax.”

Motorists across the country are calling these fees a “crash tax” — alleged strong arm tactics angering many, especially when the accidents they are being billed for are not their fault.

Nine states have created laws banning these fees. Illinois has no ban on these so-called “crash taxes.”

In fact, pending Illinois legislation would allow municipalities to charge up to $250 an hour for an emergency response.

Illinois Representative Karen Yarbrough is working on this issue and wants the pending legislation killed.

“Bad bill, very bad bill,” said Yarbrough. “This is just another way to reach into a consumer’s pocket.”

“I think the State of Illinois needs to take some actions to stop this from happening,” said Feldman.

Aside from the cost, there is concern that people will be afraid to call 911. That’s what happened last month in South Carolina. A couple tried using a hose to put out their house fire in order to avoid being billed by the fire department.

Once you’re billed, as Feldman learned, there is no process to fight it. There is no court date. You just have to pay the fee, or the consequences.

“They’ve been harassing me,” said Feldman who tried to get Chicago Heights officials to drop the bill.

He says that instead, officials were, “sending me letters and they even turned it over to collections without sending a final notice.”

He finally paid the $200 to avoid credit rating problems.

“So this is what I call extortion. This is how they get you to pay it,” Feldman said.

The person who hit Feldman was also billed, but only $100, because he lives in the community. Feldman says insurance would not cover the bill.

Chicago Heights Fire Chief Thomas Martello says they do not charge these extra fees for house fires. The chief also says money is tight and departments are using creative funding methods.

Matteson and Park Forest are examples of two other communities that bill for emergency response.

Naperville and Schaumburg are examples of communities that do not bill extra for fire truck services.

Some communities only bill the offender. And there are communities that only bill non-residents, those who live in other towns, figuring their residents already pay taxes on local services.

“I’m going to call it a scam,” said Feldman. “Just a way to make money instead of helping people.”

larger class sizes mean nothing except that now, perhaps teachers will have to earn their living instead of sitting on their collective dead asses doing little or nothing.

The idea that smaller class size means better education is a myth created by teachers unions. It has been proven here in California, where a huge push by the California Teachers Union to make class size 23 students or less has failed miserably.

Statewide, since making class size smaller, test scores have actually gone down, not up! The problem today is not the students and its not the class size. ITS THE TEACHERS! They have become like all the other public sector employees. Teachers are like pigs feeding at the trough of cash from our wallets. For the teachers, smaller class size equates to less work.

Out here in Los Angeles, the teachers unions have agreed to a SHORTER SCHOOL YEAR to stave off layoffs. The teachers union reps were all over the news telling of how this was a good thing that they were making the school year shorter, but in reality once again their selfishness and greed does nothing but hurt the students, because they are getting twelve less days of education for the next two years.

As far as we are concerned, teachers across America should all be fired and replaced with box boys from every super market in town because they would do a better job than the current teaching staff. JD

You read it here first. Burt Reynolds, who is recovering from heart bypass surgery, had a new helmet of hair surgically screwed into his skull.

That’s right. Reynolds figured while in the hospital for bypass surgery, that he may as well lose the “Coon Skin Cap” look of that old road kill on his head, and instead have a custom made hair helmet installed.

“The hair helmet operation was a complete success” said Dr. James Rosenblat, chief surgeon of hair helmet technology.

Rosenblat said “These new hair helmets serve a dual purpose. They look and feel like real hair and they will protect Mr. Reynolds in the event that he falls like doddering old codgers sometimes do.”

Burt sees his new look as a real woman attractor and hope to get out on the prowl as soon as his heart will allow it.

Its not as if anyone will notice that Burt is an old man, what with his wrinkled up pruned face and his new hair helmet, he will be the new stud of West Palm Beach.

Reynolds also went out and bought some new wheels. It is rumored that Reynolds called “The Scooter Store” and got a super charged scooter to get about town on. Bob

So this is one of the pressing, important issues that faces California today. Whether or not people are cussing. Geez Louise, the state is bankrupt, but the Mamalukes that run the state of California are worried about people cussing.

We have good reason to cuss Damn it. Mostly because you idiots in Sacramento have ruined the state of California with your socialist policy that has turned the state into a mecca for lazy ass people and illegal aliens to come glom off of the welfare system and all the other built in freebies you assholes have created.

Feeling a little salty? Better get it out of your system while you can.

Amid the ongoing — and occasionally tense — debate over how to clean up California’s budget mess, lawmakers have taken time out to tidy something else almost as unmanageable: our language. This morning, the Assembly approved a ceremonial resolution turning the first week of March into “Cuss Free Week.”

Once the Senate follows suit, say good-bye to four-letter words, a few choice compound words and probably certain gestures, too. Not that police officers will be waiting with soap. That’s isn’t the point.

According to sponsors of the measure — inspired by a Southern California teen whose creation of a “no cussing” school club sparked an international movement — it’s more about minding the delicate sensibilities of those around you. Like your grandmother.

“When we’re at our grandmother’s house,” said Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada/Flintridge, “we have respect and decorum.”

Are there more important things on government’s agenda right now? Sure, Portantino concedes. But maybe a little civility is just the prescription to help “break through that log jam.”

To keep folks honest, Portantino is handing out no-cuss jars to all 120 legislative offices in the Capitol — and to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Every time a naughty word slips out, a few coins get dropped in.

How’s that for a deficit-reduction strategy?