Scenes from Google Street View

Re:Scenes from Google Street View by soneca on Sunday October 12, 2014 @03:21PM (#8446278)

First picture (and some others) is in Brazil. Those running are street sales people ("camelôs") running from police because they sell pirate stuff (mostly sunglasses and movie DVDs). Police sometimes do the "rapa", it is like a "sweeping" to aprehend ilegal merchandising. So the camelos run with their merchandising and come back later that or other day to the same place to keep selling.

EDIT: the cardboards they are running with are like this (this one selling CDs with MP3 music): http://i1.r7.com/data/files/2C95/948E/3959/6CE2/0139/59E6/DA...

Pretty common in every brazilian big city.

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Re:Scenes from Google Street View by IkmoIkmo on Sunday October 12, 2014 @04:33PM (#8446505)

> Pretty common in every brazilian big city.

Pretty common in most non-OECD countries! I saw it a lot personally in Africa, carpet full of small items like sunglasses as you say, when the police comes they take the 4 corners of the carpet, turn it into a big sack o' stuff and haul ass! Shopping resumes at another corner :)

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