Google Street View car pureed at Spanish tomato-throwing festival
by Stephen Burgen in Barcelona from Technology | The Guardian on (#JKQ8)
Tomatina festivalgoers wreck vehicle sent in to film pitched battle between juice-drenched fruit flingers, breaking windows, mirrors and cameras
When Google sent a Street View car into the Tomatina festival the plan was to capture "the magic and colour" of the messy event from all angles, but instead it ended up with footage of tomato-drenched revellers trashing the car.
Google dedicated a special doodle to the 70th anniversary of the event that is held on the last Wednesday in August in Bunol in eastern Spain.
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