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		<title>What Kind Of Street Has A Wall Of Tyres?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Broughall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the remote town of Paraburdoo in Western Australia, life is tough. The orange dirt gets in your hair, you&#8217;re miles away from the nearest town and your streets apparently have walls of tyres blocking the way.
Or &#8211; in a hypothetical place a lot closer to reality &#8211; the town is so tough that it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://media.gizmodo.com.au/mt/Streetview%20tyres.png"><img alt="Streetview tyres.png" src="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/assets_c/2008/08/Streetview tyres-thumb-535x247.png" width="535" height="247" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /></a></span>In the remote town of <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=Paraburdoo+WA+6754.&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-23.199201,117.673278&#038;spn=0.003205,0.006496&#038;t=h&#038;z=18&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=-23.200203,117.674373&#038;panoid=wHr8-624si7FbCsfcsIZWA&#038;cbp=1,56.86495176848871,,0,3.697749196141478">Paraburdoo</a> in Western Australia, life is tough. The orange dirt gets in your hair, you&#8217;re miles away from the nearest town and your streets apparently have walls of tyres blocking the way.</p>
<p>Or &#8211; in a hypothetical place a lot closer to reality &#8211; the town is so tough that it gave the Google StreetView car that was photographing its streets a flat tyre. Funnily though, the camera decided to document the experience of getting its tyre replaced, including photographing the workshop that it pulled into for a quick repair job.</p>
<p>While we fully expect the images to be pulled down and some outlets of the media (and privacy groups) jump on this as a <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/08/notes_why_is_streetview_getting_so_much_negative_press.html">gross invasion of privacy</a> into the tyre repairman&#8217;s workshop, I say we should go out of our way to congratulate the workman for helping a StreetView driver in need.</p>
<p>So if you ever happen to be driving through the small town of Paraburdoo in WA, make sure you swing by to get your tyres checked &#8211; let&#8217;s use this as a chance to grow a man&#8217;s business in a small, outback Australian town.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=Paraburdoo+WA+6754.&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-23.199201,117.673278&#038;spn=0.003205,0.006496&#038;t=h&#038;z=18&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=-23.200203,117.674373&#038;panoid=wHr8-624si7FbCsfcsIZWA&#038;cbp=1,56.86495176848871,,0,3.697749196141478">Streetview</a> - <em>Thanks Dale!</em>]<span id="more-301836"></span></p>
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