Sowing chaos

3 years ago by The Picard Maneuver to c/memes

gibmiser 135 points 3 years ago

Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there

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ImplyingImplications 77 points 3 years ago

This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.

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Pelicanen 42 points 3 years ago

The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.

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Sharkwellington 33 points 3 years ago

"Nobody drives down that street anymore, it's too crowded."

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Manifish_Destiny 17 points 3 years ago

Nobody drives anymore. There's too much traffic

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Viking_Hippie 7 points 3 years ago

Actual thing New Yorkers say 😄

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gornar 2 points 3 years ago

Is that a Yogi Berra quote variation? I love it, my dad would always say that

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Sharkwellington 2 points 3 years ago

I couldn't tell you who said the original, I was riffing on a version I read in a joke book where it was a restaurant instead of a road. "Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore..."

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RaivoKulli 13 points 3 years ago

No, as far as we know, it was just an (art) experiment of sorts

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x4740N 45 points 3 years ago

It would be more effective just to have multiple android vms with mock location running and have them each be connected to a free vpn

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eestileib 60 points 3 years ago

Yeah but those people don't appear in news articles.

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SmoothIsFast 4 points 3 years ago

Gotta keep your commute time down by gaming maps it'd the only way lol

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AtomfriedMegaforce 36 points 3 years ago

Probably the funniest thing a german ever did and you can't ruin this for us

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stepanzak 27 points 3 years ago

I love how the title says around 99. When it's not accurate, they could have written around 100 lol.

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dingleberry 79 points 3 years ago

It's "wheeled around", not "around 99".

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stepanzak 15 points 3 years ago

Oh I see I don't know how to read. But what psychopath buys 99 phones to wheel them around and doesn't buy the 100th one?

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kamen 15 points 3 years ago

Someone with reverse OCD?

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Geek_King 8 points 3 years ago

I love the idea of Reverse OCD, thank you stranger.

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0laura 1 point 2 years ago

*ICD, reverse OCD isn't a thing and I could totally see someone doing 99 instead of 100 due to OCD

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ReveredOxygen 3 points 3 years ago

he used the 100th one to take the picture

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Fosheze 1 point 3 years ago

99 phones were in the wagon. They also had their phone in their pocket making 100 total phones.

Alternatively I would be shocked if they bought 100 (presumably used) phones and managed to get all 100 to work properly at once.

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railsdev 8 points 3 years ago

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SpaceNoodle 11 points 3 years ago

It's not really unclear. One does not "wheel" a phone, and "around 99" makes no sense with such a precise value. And it's not even funny misinterpreted so awkwardly.

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troglodytis 2 points 3 years ago

99 neuf balloons....

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StewartGilligan 24 points 3 years ago

The digital Pied Piper of Berlin

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AngryCommieKender 3 points 3 years ago

Kinda the opposite, really. This guy is literally causing the pests (rats, not children) of the modern city to avoid him, not be attracted to him and follow him out of town to The Children's Crusade.

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ApeNo1 23 points 3 years ago

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EdibleFriend 13 points 3 years ago

Cartofucker

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ObviouslyNotBanana 18 points 3 years ago

I feel like a backpack might achieve the same thing

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Cheesus 18 points 3 years ago

It was an art piece so he wanted it to be more visible

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SpaceNoodle 9 points 3 years ago

I'd rather lug 30-40 lbs. of equipment around in a little wagon.

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viperex 9 points 3 years ago

You say that like there's something wrong with a wagon.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 7 points 3 years ago

Don't get me wrong, I love the wagon!

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kaupas24 9 points 3 years ago

I assume Google detects if you're walking with your phone, so that walking people don't mess up the traffic jam feature. And that dolley tricks these phones into thinking they're in a car.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 5 points 3 years ago

I was under the impression that Google made that calculation based on average speed. But there may be something to that. Maybe it's both.

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FunkyMonkey 6 points 3 years ago

I'll take a wild guess that he maybe wanted to build distance between himself and the phones, especially if he does this repeatedly. For a few phones, radiation and tissue heating is not an important consideration but for 100 phones it might be.

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MonsiuerPatEBrown 4 points 3 years ago

we will wait for your assertion to prove itself, then, together.

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AceQuorthon 4 points 3 years ago

What a hero

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