Western Railroad Discussion > Busted by Big Brother!

We all know that the surveillance state is everywhere, but it becomes quite real when you find yourself caught in the act.

This past 1/3/2017, I ventured out to catch a few trains. I found myself in Missouri City, TX along UP's Glidden sub
waiting for a westbound train that was on my ATCSMon.

As I was waiting, I noticed a small car with a strange apparatus on the roof. As it passed by, I saw that it had Google
logos on it. I suspected it might be doing streetview imaging so when I got home that evening I made a note in my calendar to
check Google maps at a later date.

Meanwhile, I busied myself with the arrival of KCS 3952 with yet another Mexico-bound manifest.

#1 & #2: Freshly painted SD70MAC 3952 leads an ES44AC at Missouri City, TX on 1/3/2017

Fast forward to today when my calendar app prompts me to look up the street address of the above images:

1940 US-90 ALT Missouri City,Texas
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1940+US-90+ALT,+Missouri+City,+TX+77489/@29.6166571,-95.5439071,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHRsVkdvDed04mVLz_3rPWQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640e88dee591781:0xc83341c71b64aa94!8m2!3d29.6166719!4d-95.5439331!6m1!1e1

What do I find?

#3: Yours truly in flagrante delicto. Allegedly...

Robert Pierce
Sugar Land, TX
SWRails.com

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Great results. Clean shiny Belles are hard to beat.
Brian Stevens

I second the motion!

Larry

That's like hand in the cookie jar kind of busted

When they got me, they got me from orbit:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,2376709,2376709#msg-2376709

In flagrante delicto requires a second person....

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Awesome post! lol

Hilarious!

They once got our dearly departed dog Pip sitting on our lawn... from Google Earth view back in 2007.

this little black and white Shih-Tzu from space... clear as a belle on our green grass!

thx!

MojaveBill Wrote:
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> In flagrante delicto requires a second person....

Colloquially yes.

Legally no.

Robert Pierce
Sugar Land, TX
SWRails.com

Does that make you a "Google Star?"

BTW, nice catch on the KCS locomotives.

John

The average American commits 3 felonies a day, without even knowing it.

Such as ?????



CajonRat Wrote:
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> The average American commits 3 felonies a day,
> without even knowing it.

Source of the quote is this Wall St journal article back in 2009...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842

I don't subscribe to WSJ but if I had to make a guess, it would be anti free speech laws AKA hate speech. Tick off a snowflake and go to jail.