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You drive one of those Google Street View cars and you see a beatdown right in front of you: Do you stop and call 911 or just keep driving and photographing?

Over at Boston Reddit, somebody reported finding something interesting on a Google Street View of Pratt Street in Revere, compiled in April: A fight, in which two people beat up a third, as a fourth person, with a leaf blower, just stands there, taking it all in.

In fact, if you start your Street View tour of this otherwise nondescript street a block or so away, in the trailer-park part of the neighborhood, look straight ahead as you "drive" and you can see the fight progress through a series of still images.

And once you get past the fight, turn the view around for more fight action. If you zoom in, you'll see Google blurred out the combatants' faces, but not the fight itself - or the garish bright red plaid pants one of them is wearing (which she paired with bright red sneakers).

The Revere Journal, which runs a voluminous weekly police log, does not show any incidents involving beatings on Pratt Street in April.

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in the various shots that car took, including one employee of the federal government!

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It's impossible to tell from the street view shots if anyone did or didn't call 911.

The street view car kept going obviously but I don't think they had a moral obligation to stick around.

If the police arrived and no one was around, they might not have logged it.

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The leaf blower guy at one point has his phone in his hand.. he may have called.

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he's taking pictures to post on Facebook.

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So they may have alerted authorities.

Doing the lapse, I cannot even figure out who the two sides of the fight are. At one point, the woman and the older man were side by side appearing to talk to the guy with the black pants. Then it looks like the woman is wailing on the old guy as well.

In any event, that's trailer park life.

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What do you know about trailer park life?

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Google was experimenting with one of their driverless cars for the Street View vehicle, so there was no actual driver in the car to report this to the police.

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But I don't think autonomous cars have been cleared for use on our wacky roads - I think they still need a person behind the wheel, just in case.

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It's good to see the old values are still preserved in some neighborhoods.

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it's Reveah.

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I used to follow an account a while back called @Revere_scanner. Similar to Chelsea_Scanner who listens to the scanner. Not sure if they are still around but..

I tell ya.. they got more calls to that trailer park.. fights, ODs, more fights. Lots of fights.

Trashy people living there.

Sorry folks, hate to call people trashy but... I can't think of a better way to describe these folks.

It really doesn't surprise me this happened.

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Not being judgmental, but those kinds of issues are typically related to one or more issues with money, substances, or mental health, which are all frequently related. Southie and Dorchester had plenty of the same in the old days, now most of the troubled people have been gentrified away.

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What’s the deal with people who wear bright red shoes w pants or top to match? Is it some kind of fashion statement? I try to avoid primary colors myself.

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drivers pulled over every time they passed something weird or unlawful going on, they'd be stopped most of the time.

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Then why aren't there more things like this in the street view?

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But I remember Adam throwing in a Google link to an address where a shooting occurred, and street view showed a drug deal going down on the porch.

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Re: The balding guy with the white jacket

If you zoom in, the pattern of his shirt says "True Religion" over and over....

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