Edit: Google has removed these images, but they originally showed a bloke doing his business on an outdoor toilet for the world to see.
You may have seen a Google Street View photo going around of this poor bastard in the last few days. That house is actually within walking distance of my place. My thinking is that if there were photos on the internet of me squeezing out a dump, I’d probably want to know about it… but how do you start that conversation when you knock on someone’s door? “Hi, I’ve just moved into the area, would you like to come to our housewarming next week? Alsoyou’retakingadumpontheinternet.” I guess the poor dude will find out soon enough.
Google does like to argue that Street View only presents photos you’d otherwise be able to see for yourself if you were walking down the street. So there you have it! In Google’s books, lurking around in a dirty back alley in Port Melbourne, slyly peering over fences waiting for dudes to take a dump, is totally okay!
(Via Aussie Stock Forums)
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Two thoughts:
Why is he outside in what appears to be an outhouse? I am fairly certain (though not from personal experience, alas) than Australia, while settled only quite recently, does have indoor plumbing.
Why doesn’t said outhouse HAVE A DOOR?
As backwards as it seems, there’s still a handful of houses in Melbourne’s innermost suburbs with outhouses. Port Melbourne is even built around a network of tiny laneways behind most houses, used by the outhouse-waste-dudes to collect your poop. Classy.
That house looks like it’s being renovated at the moment, so I’m HOPING that’s why they don’t have a door. And considering we’re just about to enter Melbourne’s worst heatwave in 100 years this week, I sure wouldn’t want to be smelling that outhouse.
I should clarify the outhouse-poop-collection process no longer exists today ;)