This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
I couldn't tell you who said the original, I was riffing on a version I read in a joke book where it was a restaurant instead of a road. "Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore..."
It's not really unclear. One does not "wheel" a phone, and "around 99" makes no sense with such a precise value. And it's not even funny misinterpreted so awkwardly.
Kinda the opposite, really. This guy is literally causing the pests (rats, not children) of the modern city to avoid him, not be attracted to him and follow him out of town to The Children's Crusade.
I assume Google detects if you're walking with your phone, so that walking people don't mess up the traffic jam feature. And that dolley tricks these phones into thinking they're in a car.
I'll take a wild guess that he maybe wanted to build distance between himself and the phones, especially if he does this repeatedly.
For a few phones, radiation and tissue heating is not an important consideration but for 100 phones it might be.
36 Comments
gibmiser@lemmy.world · 135 pts · 2y
Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 77 pts · 2y
This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz · 42 pts · 2y
The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one · 33 pts · 2y
"Nobody drives down that street anymore, it's too crowded."
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
Nobody drives anymore. There's too much traffic
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Actual thing New Yorkers say 😄
gornar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Is that a Yogi Berra quote variation? I love it, my dad would always say that
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y
I couldn't tell you who said the original, I was riffing on a version I read in a joke book where it was a restaurant instead of a road. "Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore..."
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
No, as far as we know, it was just an (art) experiment of sorts
x4740N@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 2y
It would be more effective just to have multiple android vms with mock location running and have them each be connected to a free vpn
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 60 pts · 2y
Yeah but those people don't appear in news articles.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com · 4 pts · 2y
Gotta keep your commute time down by gaming maps it'd the only way lol
AtomfriedMegaforce@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y
Probably the funniest thing a german ever did and you can't ruin this for us
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi · 27 pts · 2y
I love how the title says around 99. When it's not accurate, they could have written around 100 lol.
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de · 79 pts · 2y
It's "wheeled around", not "around 99".
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi · 15 pts · 2y
Oh I see I don't know how to read. But what psychopath buys 99 phones to wheel them around and doesn't buy the 100th one?
kamen@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Someone with reverse OCD?
Geek_King@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I love the idea of Reverse OCD, thank you stranger.
0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
*ICD, reverse OCD isn't a thing and I could totally see someone doing 99 instead of 100 due to OCD
ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
he used the 100th one to take the picture
Fosheze@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
99 phones were in the wagon. They also had their phone in their pocket making 100 total phones.
Alternatively I would be shocked if they bought 100 (presumably used) phones and managed to get all 100 to work properly at once.
railsdev@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
It's not really unclear. One does not "wheel" a phone, and "around 99" makes no sense with such a precise value. And it's not even funny misinterpreted so awkwardly.
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
99 neuf balloons....
StewartGilligan@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
The digital Pied Piper of Berlin
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Kinda the opposite, really. This guy is literally causing the pests (rats, not children) of the modern city to avoid him, not be attracted to him and follow him out of town to The Children's Crusade.
ApeNo1@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 2y
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Cartofucker
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
I feel like a backpack might achieve the same thing
Cheesus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
It was an art piece so he wanted it to be more visible
viperex@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
You say that like there's something wrong with a wagon.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Don't get me wrong, I love the wagon!
kaupas24@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
I assume Google detects if you're walking with your phone, so that walking people don't mess up the traffic jam feature. And that dolley tricks these phones into thinking they're in a car.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I was under the impression that Google made that calculation based on average speed. But there may be something to that. Maybe it's both.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
I'd rather lug 30-40 lbs. of equipment around in a little wagon.
FunkyMonkey@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y
I'll take a wild guess that he maybe wanted to build distance between himself and the phones, especially if he does this repeatedly. For a few phones, radiation and tissue heating is not an important consideration but for 100 phones it might be.
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2y
we will wait for your assertion to prove itself, then, together.
AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y
What a hero