Port Pirie woman Karen Davis wins instant fame after flashing Google street-mapping car

A PORT Pirie woman who has become a local celebrity after baring her breasts on Google Street view says she is just getting started.

Karen Davis gives the Google street-mapping car an eyeful. Pic: Google Maps

A PORT Pirie woman who has become something of a local celebrity after baring her breasts on Google Street view says she is just getting started - next year she plans to skydive topless for her 40th birthday.

Karen Davis, 38 has got locals in a lather after she was captured by a Google camera car about two months ago enthusiastically baring her chest in a photo that has since turned up on the company’s popular Street View service.

Google’s camera cars, which roam streets in towns and cities all over the world to capture 360-degree images for Street View, have notoriously captured all kinds lurid acts — from public urination to robbery.

But Ms Davis says she was just looking to have a bit of fun and that making it to Google Maps had been an item on her ‘bucket list’.

She told The Advertiser she pursued the car into Barry St and flashed her breasts as the car drove past.

“I flashed as he went past and then he came back and did another one, I’m assuming to make sure he got the shot.”

She was confident the shot would be uploaded to the site, but was only sure of it last weekend, when a friend discovered the photo on Street View.

Ms Davis’ exploits made the homepage of The Port Pirie Recorder’s website and have divided public opinion in comments on the paper’s Facebook page.

“It’s very mixed,” she told The Advertiser.

“I’m getting ‘bad mum’, ‘feral’, ‘disgusting filth’ — I thought that was quite funny”.

But she’d also received support from people “that aren’t jealous of big boobies”.

She said she had been attacked for revealing that several young men had since tried to contact her via Facebook.

“People are saying I’m disgusting and filthy for that, but I’m an honest person — probably too honest — but I haven’t accepted any of them (as Facebook friends).

“I’ve just been like delete, delete, delete.”

She wasn’t embarrassed by the reaction and hoped Google wouldn’t remove the image.

“I would hope not because it’s a bit like freedom of speech.

“I’m hoping Google will give me a T-shirt.

“I used to be ashamed of my bust size and now I’ve accepted it and I embrace it.
“It’s a set of boobs and they show them on TV, you know what I mean?”

She said some people have suggested she might be charged for her public display but she contacted local police who told her “not at this stage, they have no concerns”.

Next year she plans to skydive topless for her 40th birthday.