Google Maps still shows giant graffiti penis graffiti at schools many years after they were drawn

THESE pranks sure have lasted the test of time. These schools have been haunted by graffiti visible from space for a very long time.

Will these cock-ups ever go away?

YOU know what they say about the internet. Once something goes online, it’s there forever.

Like these massive penises that were burned into the ovals of these Australian and New Zealand schools years and years ago.

Long after they have (presumably) vanished, these high schools still bear the unfortunate, manhood-shaped graffiti of students past when viewed on Google Maps.

Year 12 students at Koonung Secondary College in Melbourne burned this trio of pornographic crop circles into the school lawn in 2008, back when MySpace was popular.

And what do you know? As of May 2014, the peckers are still staring Google users in the face.

You can see this on Google Maps right now. The principal must be delighted. Picture: Google Maps

The oval looks very different on an alternative search engine. Picture: Bing

Likewise, those searching the GPS service for Fairfield College in New Zealand are still greeted with elaborate artwork of a man’s most prized possession.

If you were sitting in the International Space Station you would have been able to at least see the one in the courtyard, below.

Still there: This prank turned out larger than many of Fairfield College’s buildings. Picture: Google

But when you zoom in, a whole mosaic of inappropriateness is revealed.

Zoomed in ... Fairfield College was plagued by a baker’s dozen of the appendages. Picture: Google

These aren’t isolated incidents. A generously sized willy was scrawled on the roof of a posh school in the UK in 2006 (it’s gone now). And another UK student did some renos on his parents’ joint by painting a big one on his roof.

Even the quiet streets of Bendigo haven’t gone unscathed. Someone drew a green set of genitalia on Google’s StreetView camera there.

This was first noticed in 2011, but it’s still with us today. Picture: Street View

So why can’t Google get rid of its deflowered maps?

According to a company spokesman, the search colossus updates its maps when it receives new imagery from its satellite providers.

But tech expert Trevor Long said that doesn’t happen often. “It’s pretty infrequent”, he said. “It’s not like when you’re watching 24 and they zoom in.”

Google cobbles together its maps from various satellite services. “You might have one suburb where their photo was taken in 2004, the next one they might have one from 2008,” Mr Long said.

“You might have an outback town where you can’t even zoom in on the town because it’s a really cheap satellite.”

But this all raises another question that is still unanswered. Why are so many teenage boys obsessed with graffitiing penises everywhere?