(Note: For those not privvy to gamespeak, FTW means “for the win”.)

Recently Google Maps was able to get their cameras out here and we are now part of the Street View cities that allow for any user to virtually tour the greater Twin Cities Metro Area. That, in and of itself, is only minimally exciting. But what is interesting is a rather glaring glitch that allows one to virtually travel across the 35W Bridge that fell on August 1, 2007.

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I would think the feds would have some interest in these pictures. Or at least anyone who was interested in some semi-clear pictures of what the structure looked like in months, or even perhaps weeks, before it fell.

(All credit to the brainstorm goes to my wife, Patton. Credit where credit is due.)