A man from Edinburgh, Scotland, jumped into action and murdered his mechanic upon seeing the Google Street View vehicle approaching back in 2012, he then received a visit from the police after someone reported the images.



Garage owner Dan Thompson thought of the gruesome prank for the enjoyment of netizens and grabbed an accomplice from his garage and staged the murder, pickaxe and all.



He told the BBC that officers who visited his garage knew it was a wind-up as one of his customers was a police officer who was already aware of the incident.