Classic, you are certainly on the right track.
The bear statue I posted was also stolen by some kids,
but their Dad found out and made them confess.
...

My pic was of a statue in honor of the man who wrote stories,
and this one was picked up by Disney and made into a well known movie.

Here is a different view of the same statue in the park in Wilsonville, OR.

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Now, my reason for posting is that one day, my wife and I were driving into the park,
and we saw this statue from the back side, as in my original post.
My wife and I turned to one another and said at the same time.

" Did you see that Pissing Bear "

And that's what we have called the statue, the park and the neighborhood ever since.

:lol2:

This should be easy to find because of all the labels I left in there, but where is this?

And for extra bonus points, why on earth did they build the road like this?
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By the way, I just merged the two "Where is this?" threads. It was causing a little confusion (for me) which one was the correct one. The posts still flow almost seamlessly with this merge, and you probably wouldn't have noticed the merge if I hadn't made this post.

Custer State Park SD.

I've been there!

My first guess it has something to do with the "big rigs" meeting one another on the sharp curves to/from the Mt Rushmore campground.

My second is the steeper terrains of the "old road" became impassible in winter, so a bridge was build for a "new road".

Here is an annotated version of the road.
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Traffic joins together in the same direction at one point on the same road to get through this:

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It's a park, so they put a road through the gap instead of just going around the rock outcropping because it's a cool feature to see. But the gap is too narrow for two-way traffic, and there is a blind curve on either side of the gap, so cars don't see each other until it's too late for an inattentive driver to yield to whichever direction has the right of way. So road engineers made an elaborate loop-dee-loop to get all traffic to go through the gap in the same direction.

They could have gone around the gap and saved a lot of effort and money, but in a park, it's about pleasure and scenery, not practicality.

You're right about inattentive drivers, which are far more dangerous than bear, bison or moose. :haha:

Cool.

Whir dis be at? (Braghint: I found it in less than 60 seconds, without cheating.)

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It would be easier if your picture wasn't backwards. :p

I kept coming up with Tehachapi Loop, but that's a clockwise looping under itself loop, and yours is a counterclockwise looping under. But closer inspections shows your picture is backwards. It's Tehachapi Loop in California.

:notworthy

And I learned that the main reason for the loop is just to gain some elevation before going through a pass. I guess there was no other convenient locations to build what is essentially a ramp, so they put that loop in.

Not famous... though I've posted about it before.

OH, your folks place in the country.

Yup, my mom's steps are on Google maps/earth.

That's pretty neat!

Maybe this should also be "What is this ?"

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Marshall Island nuke test sites?

More specifically, Cactus Dome, Enewetak Atoll, RMI

glatt, why do you use question marks in this thread?

you don't have one of those voices that turn up at the end of statements making everything sound like a question, do you?

**snicker**

Yes , with quite a history that was not all made public,
... this specific site is their nuclear waste dump with a cement cap.

The gov't has since declared much of the atoll "completely safe"
for human habitation ... by Pacific Islanders.

Remember, you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.

Like all good rules, there are exceptions. Fukushima Daiichi, for example.

That would be on and around, rather than in.

I was reading back through this thread, looking for something, and I saw my admission above that I cheated and used Google Image Search. I was horrified. I didn't remember ever cheating in this thread. I remembered looking for hours for stuff.

But then I read a little bit more...

Phew. I had used GIS in the other thread that I merged into this one. So I messed myself up when I merged the two threads.

Waht a maroon.

Where is this?

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Looks like the aftermath of the terrorist bombing in Norway.

Close.

Not geographically, but, you know...

That pic is probably as recognizable to those across the pond as the pic of the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Building is to us.

Manchester

On second thoughts, cancel that. I think it's London after the IRA bombed Bishopsgate.

Not Manchester...according to the caption I read, which could be very wrong, I suppose.

I expected you would nail it, btw...I didn't think you would have troubles.

ETA: London it is...Street name, perhaps?

Carruthers gets the win. After a moment of thought, I realized I didn't know the street the Murrah building sat on...

The pic caption said Wormwood St., after an IRA bombing.

Probably Bishopsgate. It's commonly known as the Bishopsgate Bomb.

Close enough I suppose, but for complete accuracy, see Gravdigr's post above.

Thank you Mr G.:thumb:

Per Wikipedia:

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Yay, Carruthers!

Drat, I bombed. :haha:

[announcer voice]

This looks like a job for...Glatt Man!

Glatt, it's time for you to do your thing...

A Thrift Store Find Yields an Astronomical Mystery

Where is this?

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Go, go, Glatt Man!!!

At the link they are working on the assumption the three pictures were taken at approximately the same place and time. looks to me like a different outfit in the third picture. The first two she has that blue dress with a red apron. The last picture the dress looks longer and red, but that may be from the setting Sun. However I don't see the apron.

Re Bishopsgate bombing - I had friends who lived in Waterloo at the time, which is across the river - about two miles away at a guess. They thought someone tried to kick their door in. F went down with a baseball bat.

I don't even think they're the same woman, Bruce. Could be different models on the same shoot, though.

From the article at the link:

Girls. Plural. I guess at least two ladies, then.

Good catch, I didn't notice that. :thumb:

If they are not the same women, what makes them think it's the same location/time? Because Abell found them together at the thrift store? Or they were marked in some way to indicate that? And lastly, why the hell don't you know? :lol2:

It's actually more of a When Is This?, I suppose. They seem to think it's Dockweiler Beach, California near LAX. They want to confirm this, and the time of year, by the position of the moon, and the sunset.

I thought this may be the only way to actually tax Glatt's mastery of WhereIsThisness.

Should be quick. And easy.

Where is this?

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*Huge clue in second pic.

Sooner or later.

:lol2:

Or not.

It's in Seattle, WA, a couple blocks from the Space Needle, which is visible in the background of pic 2.

Where is this?

Either the name of what you're looking at, or where it is, or both.

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With the right phrase, it's surprising easy...

Obviously it's the planet of the 5 suns. :haha:

Yeah, surprisingly easy...

If you type "cove" into GIS, it's the 5th picture. Not this exact picture, but it's the same cove.

Lulworth Cove in the UK.

Where is this?

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And I'll give a hint. You are facing EXACTLY West in this photo.

Winnah, winnah, chicken dinnah!!!

The Garden Of Phallic Symmetry?

That's Referee Gardens. The one in the middle is signaling a touchdown.

It's a border in North America.

Int'l Peace Garden, Dunseith, North Dakoda bordering Manitoba, Canada.


(Followed the Peace Poles)

Smoke my piece pole

Ding ding ding. WTG sexo

Yeah but it's 6 or 7 miles from the border.