In the not-so-distant past, suspicious lovers had to rely on old-school tools to bust their significant others. Now, bad break-ups have a new friend: Street View, or at least the Russian equivalent.
Marina Voinova, a 24-year-old woman in Perm, Russia, recently discovered her fiance cheated on her after she stumbled upon his image on "Yandex (http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=37.617671,55.720128&spn=0.988770,0.682128&z=10&l=map) Panorama," the Russian version of Google Map's Street View tool, which offers 360-degree views of locations around the world.
She told Russia's Life News she'd used Yandex intending to find the location (http://lifenews.ru/news/110771) of a building. As she navigated digitally down the street, however, Voinova spotted someone who looked familiar.
It was apparently Marina's boyfriend, Alexander, walking arm-in-arm with another woman -- his ex-girlfriend. Confronted by Marina, Alexander acknowledged his infidelity and was promptly dumped.
A similar incident happened in 2009, after a British woman stumbled upon her husband's Range Rover (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2350771/Cheating-husband-caught-on-Google-Street-View.html) on Street View outside a friend's home. The Sun reports she confirmed her husband's identity not because of his appearance (unlike "Yandex," Google's Street View blurs out people's faces) but by the flashy rims on his vehicle.
[H/T Gawker (http://gawker.com/5985400/woman-breaks-up-with-fiance-after-finding-him-with-another-girl-on-russian-google-maps)]
Via: HuffingtonPost