Russian Troops Nearing Savannah

Posted by John Farrier in Travel & Places on August 9, 2008 at 9:18 pm


Russian invasion of Georgia

The automated features in Google News can be handy, but sometimes misleading, as the amusing screenshot above indicates. Link via DoublePlusUndead


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15 comments to "Russian Troops Nearing Savannah"

  1. Johnny Cat
    August 9th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!"

  2. Neslock
    August 9th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    20 years ago it wouldn't have been too funny of a mistake. Things have really changed.

  3. Thebes
    August 9th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Red Dawn!

    Actually, given McCain wanting to "take on" Russia, Bush putting missiles right next to them, and our military "advisers" in Georgia right now, maybe its just a little prescient.

  4. bean
    August 9th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    I saw this somewhere else, too. If you zoom in on the map, it's centered at Java Ct, Georgia. Googlemaps by default take you to that street when you type in Java, Georgia.

  5. JC
    August 10th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    "And the russians fire another round"

  6. honk
    August 10th, 2008 at 3:16 am

    Russia attacks Georgia and it's neat that Google Maps fucked up.

    Yeah, real neat.

  7. Orjan Morjan
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:08 am

    LOL war

  8. ted
    August 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    That wacky Google.

  9. Majd Taby
    August 10th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Yeah the post totally neglected to recognize the fact that peoples lives are about to get f***** up and their childhood homes distroyed, civilians killed, naive soldiers killed...but it is kinda funny that google maps screwed up, some acknowledgment would've been nice though.

  10. CheeseDuck
    August 10th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Thrust into South with Georgia, Russia~!

  11. Thomas
    August 10th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Russia seriously underestimated how many guns we have down here.

  12. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    I wonder how many Southerners wet themselves...

  13. Thomas
    August 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    The south is home to a huge number of military bases. If a country did hypothetically decide to invade the US, the south is probably the best protected, both in terms of military presence and number of hunters that could and would take to the woods. They sit around and talk about shit like that just in case. I know people with separate plans in case there's a war on American soil, or in case there's a zombie apocalypse. Its all in good fun, but hell, you can't be too sure.

  14. Warenwirtschaft
    August 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am

    lol, if you look at this map you could think, that Russia is invading the US. How funny Google made this big mistake. However I don't think this will never happen in reality. But why can't live people in harmony? What could be the reason to start such war? Aren't there enough other problems in the world which should be solved?

  15. Liz
    August 12th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    "Russia attacks Georgia and it’s neat that Google Maps fucked up.

    Yeah, real neat."

    jesus, somebody call the wahmbulance for this guy.


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