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Hilarious chase ensues as tiny dog chases Google Street View car in Kagoshima

Apr 11, 2018 (soranews24.com) - Japanese social media users fall in love as dog chases down Google Street View car many times its size.

Street View, the Google Maps function that allows you to walk around at street level can be incredibly handy, or just fun to wander around places you might never have the chance to in real life from the comfort of your chair. The cars that zip about recording all that footage though have managed to draw attention themselves, whether it’s surprising little old ladies and causing them to cycle into ditches, for goading cheerful looking sumo wrestlers into following them around.

One cute and incredibly brave dog from the town of Kumage, in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, chased off a Google Street View car many, many times its size, a car that for all we know may have been trying to steal the boat the dog was protecting, possibly for the as yet unannounced Google Sea View, or was potentially filming for the hated Cat Street View.

Like all of these amazing finds, equally surprising is that someone was looking up a quiet dead end near the beach on the island of Tanegashima, when they must have chanced across the scene. Though even from the first image in which the dog appears, it has evidently perked up at the sight of the car so you know something cute is about to happen.

With expressions varying from what may be anger to lust to playfulness, but mostly that berserk crazed look that small dogs always have, the dog seems to literally fly as it chases down the car taking its photo. The plucky canine didn’t give up easily either, as following the path the car took on Google Street View reveals quite how far it was pursued.

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