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Since its launch in 2007, cameras mounted atop Google’s Street View vehicles have captured many mundane moments in neighborhoods across the world.

But they’ve also snapped freeze-frames that encapsulate the crazy, haunting, beautiful, and ecstatic life that ever moves around us.

Here are nine memorable moments from streets around the world:

(Google has blurred any faces to protect privacy.)

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Man in red cape in front of Roman building
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Skateboarding boy races on his back down a seaside slope
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White robed figure sits on chair on busy sidewalk
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Boy hiding behind trash bins
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Baby crawling alone in front of Gucci store
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Dog wriggling through a fence
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Blitzen on the loose along a seaside highway

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