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Here in central San Francisco, it seems there’s a violent drama
unfolding as the Google Street View car passes by. A bit of
friendly rough and tumble, or a more serious altercation? You be
the judge…

Note: For this post, images that are
directly beside each other were captured at exactly the same
moment. All images are posted in chronological order.

As the Google car drives down Shrader Street, we can see that
there’s a guy standing on the sidewalk, wearing a hat and a black
jacket, holding his hands behind his back. There also appears to be
some building work going on.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.773605,-122.452711&cbp=1,155.465809056061,0.595271959243181,3&hl=en&ll=37.781128,-122.453399&spn=0.031612,0.065789&z=15
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In the next frame we can see the black hat dude is currently
talking to a guy in a tan jacket.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.77348,-122.452689&cbp=1,145.67186845367,0.601570301715945,3&hl=en&ll=37.781027,-122.453356&spn=0.031612,0.065789&z=15
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Then all of a sudden, the guy in the tan jacket seems to take a
swing at the guy in the hat!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.773372,-122.452669&cbp=1,127.50744092026,0.615823055155407,3&hl=en&ll=37.780891,-122.453356&spn=0.031612,0.065789&z=15
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In the next frame, the guy in the tan jacket has grasped the hat
guy round the chest, and is on top of him, seemingly pounding into
him! The other guys on site are looking a little shocked.

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By the next frame the scuffle is over, but the two men have
moved quite a long way down the street in a single frame - perhaps
they ran here? It certainly looks like the tan jacket guy is
chasing the other guy.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.7731,-122.45262&cbp=1,117.734738872279,0.615644874599204,2&hl=en&ll=37.784147,-122.450566&spn=0.031611,0.065789&z=15
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The chase continues as the Google car turns the corner into
Hayes Street. Notice that the hat guy is no longer wearing his hat
- it was knocked off in the scuffle. He is looking a
little worried however.

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After that, the tan jacket guy turns back up the street to where
he came from, but he’s stopped on the way by a woman who seems keen
to discuss something with him. Meanwhile, hat guy skulks off down
the street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.773133,-122.452384&cbp=1,97.912435566411,0.582201810288334,3&hl=en&ll=37.784181,-122.450309&spn=0.031611,0.065789&z=15
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Tan jacket guy is still talking to the woman, but judging by his
body language I’d say he isn’t overly keen to continue
that conversation. At this very moment, the Google car passes right
by the hat guy, affording us a pretty good close up of his
profile.

Now you’ll have to decide for yourself, but it looks a lot like
he has a bleeding nose, right? He’s definitely got a sore looking
neck, and is that blood above his ear?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.773168,-122.452126&cbp=1,151.55401279335,0.721229667899419,3&hl=en&ll=37.784215,-122.450051&spn=0.031611,0.065789&z=15
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There’s one more close up shot of the hat guy before the Google
car leaves him too far behind, in which we can again see that he’s
definitely got something on his face…

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.773205,-122.45186&cbp=1,246.450523858965,0.626885023041363,3&hl=en&ll=37.784249,-122.449794&spn=0.031611,0.065789&z=15
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So, can anybody offer any other explanation of what happened
here? Or even better, does anyone recognise any of these
people?

Thanks to http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/topic/55?replies=4 kev
in our forum for this one.

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