Google street view nightmare places.

Carlos_Ray · 30-04-2011 09:56PM #1

I took a google street view "virtual stroll" around Clarina park, limerick and was absolutely amazed at how bad the place is. It seems a bit clichéd to compare bad areas to war-zones but the comparison seems apt in this case. Every second house looks like it has been hit by a cruise missile. Burnt out cars and rubbish litter the green spaces. Its so bad even when you're taking a virtual tour you feel in danger.

Has anybody come across any worse places in Ireland? Places that are so bad you'd only ever want to see them through street view?

namloc1980 · 30-04-2011 09:59PM

I heard the Google street view vehicle had to get an army escort when it was doing the imaging there.

cosanostra · 30-04-2011 10:20PM

Its weird that you have all the houses smashed up, burned out and completely ruined then a nice house with electric gates nice cars outside it and not a bit of graffiti on it stuck in the middle! I wonder where they get all the money from?

There are a few places like that in Dublin maybe not just as bad prob because of the re-gen projects in the likes of Ballymun, but this problem is all caused by bad planning of putting all the bad eggs in one area and creating a Ghetto!

Redlion · 30-04-2011 10:24PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

I heard the Google street view vehicle had to get an army escort when it was doing the imaging there.

And that the army escort needed UN peacekeepers...

mikemac · 30-04-2011 10:25PM

Thinly veiled Limerick bashing thread

scrapsmac · 30-04-2011 10:28PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

Thinly veiled Limerick bashing thread

lol he's on to us!

go go go

Sierra Oscar · 30-04-2011 10:40PM

Is it me or is there a house missing here? . . .

Clarina Park certainly is not ageing well. :eek:

holystungun9 · 30-04-2011 10:44PM

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Is it me or is there a house missing here? . . .

Clarina Park certainly is not ageing well. :eek:

Jesuz, I've heard of robbing houses but that's taking the mic!

DingChavez · 30-04-2011 10:44PM

Wow, my area doesn't always look the best with bits of rubbish around but its a paradise compared to that. wtf.

southsiderosie · 30-04-2011 10:45PM

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Is it me or is there a house missing here? . . .

Clarina Park certainly is not ageing well. :eek:

Holy crap, that is a depressing street.

3102derek · 30-04-2011 10:46PM

the black Porsche jeep looks well out of place!!!!

holystungun9 · 30-04-2011 10:48PM

3102derek wrote: »

the black Porsche jeep looks well out of place!!!!

Banker or drug dealer? Cast your vote now

scrapsmac · 30-04-2011 10:51PM

holystungun9 wrote: »

Banker or drug dealer? Cast your vote now

Don't ask questions if you know what's good for you!!
:cool:

p.s. It's totes drugs!

namloc1980 · 30-04-2011 10:52PM

****, we've been spotted........RUN!!!!!

Voltex · 30-04-2011 10:55PM

you know things arent good when you need to replace your front door with something that resembles coastal flood defences!!

That place looks like Chernobyl

Teyla Emmagan · 30-04-2011 11:03PM

God, that's grim. What it would do to you to have to live there..

yosemite_sam · 30-04-2011 11:03PM

I had a look at Clarina Park, I'd say there is high unemployment there. They should be made to clean the place up, paint, a few skips and a lawnmower would go a long way

The Scientician · 30-04-2011 11:06PM

I've never seen so many boarded up houses like that in estates around here. It's sad to see. Most of the houses look fine though, nicely painted etc.

mickydoomsux · 30-04-2011 11:08PM

Wow. You can pretty much pick out the dealers houses on street view.

Seriously though, why does this place even exist? Those houses don't look too old or anything. What the **** happened?

Dangerous Man · 30-04-2011 11:29PM

I've lived in some dumps but that's just beyond anything I've ever seen. What the fuck sort of society allows places like that to exist? We have money for banks and bailouts but no money to allow people live with even the smallest modicum of dignity. It's disgusting. It should be razed and decent housing put in it's place.

holystungun9 · 30-04-2011 11:43PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I've lived in some dumps but that's just beyond anything I've ever seen. What the fuck sort of society allows places like that to exist? We have money for banks and bailouts but no money to allow people live with even the smallest modicum of dignity. It's disgusting. It should be razed and decent housing put in it's place.

A minority will wreck the place for the rest anyway? Give them a steel bar and they will break just to be little pr!cks.

Dangerous Man · 30-04-2011 11:53PM

holystungun9 wrote: »

A minority will wreck the place for the rest anyway? Give them a steel bar and they will break just to be little pr!cks.

You are right.

In that case you need a police force who are capable, properly resourced and unafraid to do their jobs. You also need laws that are tough and actually preventative instead of purely reactive. Our police force isn't up to much and our legal system, which seems to have a problem with actually punishing people who break the law, is a joke.

mike65 · 30-04-2011 11:58PM

/off to do some google street slumming.

Ghetto Cornetto · 01-05-2011 12:01AM

Somebody needs to get Noely M a fúcking colouring book.

bonerm · 01-05-2011 12:06AM

Ghetto Cornetto wrote: »

Somebody needs to get Noely M a fúcking colouring book.

Either that or an up to date physics book.

Dangerous Man · 01-05-2011 12:08AM

Actually, it would be fun to see if anybody could come up with a worse street than the one there in Limerick. I've been scanning around Finglas and Neilstown in Dublin and can't find anything that compares.

mike65 · 01-05-2011 12:09AM

Once I ended up in St Marys Park Limerick (just off the N7 by St Johns Castle) when trying to find a shortcut (little did I realise its a dead end peninsula design), I was happy enough to leave. There is no google street view for that estate.

http://www.google.ie/search?q=st+mary%27s+park+limerick&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=n7J&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsm&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5JW8TeXyNYPQhAeDh4i5BQ&ved=0CFQQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=677

JohnathanM · 01-05-2011 12:10AM

Limerick? Pfft. Street View Mogadishu... now that'll be something.

Turtyturd · 01-05-2011 12:11AM

Are the areas where 'The Wire' is set still blocked on street view?

bonerm · 01-05-2011 12:12AM

mike65 wrote: »

Once I ended up in St Marys Park Limerick (just off the N7 by St Johns Castle) when trying to find a shortcut (little did I realise its a dead end peninsula design), I was happy enough to leave. There is no google street view for that estate.

http://www.google.ie/search?q=st+mary%27s+park+limerick&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=n7J&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsm&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5JW8TeXyNYPQhAeDh4i5BQ&ved=0CFQQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=677

Seems charming!

Forgot about the guy in pix 14. We should thank him once more for doing the world a a favour and making himself good.

strobe · 01-05-2011 12:13AM

I actually lived there for two months a couple of years ago. Definite post-zombie apocalypse vibe around the place.

Google street view nightmare places.

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