Google Maps often catches people as they go about their daily lives – but it doesn’t always photograph them looking their best.
Google has captured a man enjoying a view on a large balcony surrounded by other tourists.
But quite how the man can see the vista is a mystery because rather than having eyes, a nose and a mouth he has an arm growing out of his face.
The back of his head seems completely normal, and he’s clearly wearing a baseball hat, but his neck morphs straight into the arm.
What’s more, the arm begins halfway up the bicep and is bending into a fist at the elbow.
It almost looks a bit like the tourist has a trunk, just like an elephant, as he has no discernible facial features at all.
However, if you look closely, it becomes clear that not all is as it seems.
Not only is highly unlikely the man would have an arm growing out of his face but other people behind him also look out-of-the-ordinary.
One man to his right, for instance, in a white T-shirt, has no legs past his upper thighs and appears to hover in mid-air.
To his left, a man’s brightly coloured shorts appear in two places, as though the owner has an identically dressed twin.
Obviously, something has gone wrong with Google Maps itself to produces such bizarre images.
What has actually happened in this image is that a technological glitch with the Google cameras has occurred.
The photography splicing has caused the problem due to the way the images are assembled.
When taking the photo, the 360-degree cameras shoot multiple pictures to create the seamless image.
This is done by knitting the images together to make it seem realistic.
However, moving objects often ruin the scene as they shift when the photos are taken.
This is far from the first time this has happened on Google Maps. Recently a woman was spotted looking rather unusual in the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, in Dubai.
Her upper back seems to be stretched out to almost double its normal size, with her head sitting on the right-hand side.
Furthermore, it looks as though her foot is growing out of the arm of her grey T-shirt. If that wasn’t enough, she doesn’t seem to have a neck, with her head appearing to be squashed onto her torso.
On closer inspection of the image, however, the strange shot is due to a technological glitch just as with the man with an arm seemingly on his face.
