Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping CrimeS
Usually when we hear Google Street View news, it's over kitty-
cat privacy issues or people peeing in the street. But this time
around, the mayhem monitor actually helped solve the kidnapping
of a young girl.  Police in Massachusetts were trying to track
down a missing 9-year-old girl who had allegedly been kidnapped
by her grandmother. They had managed to find the girl's
cellphone coordinates and traced it to an intersection in
Virginia.  Since they were nowhere near Virginia, the policemen
turned to Google Street View to help them round up possible
hiding-out locations. They identified a building that looked
like a motel, confirmed it was one with a subsequent Google
search and then called the Virginia State Police, who visited
the motel and found the grandmother and the girl.  The moral of
this story is: Police know how to Google now. Be afraid. Be very
afraid.