For those Google Earth users out there, check out the following (try it yourself, by going to 48°51'27.83"N  10°12'19.03"E):
 
 

There is photographic evidence that a giant earwig is stampeding through the German countryside in the general direction of the small German hamlet of Arlesberg.

The 'earwig', which must measure a good hundred metres in length and is armed with a set of pincers that could decapitate a blue whale, is clearly visible in the following screen grab from Google Earth:

Tragically, the rampaging behemoth will have reached and consumed the quiet, unassuming residents of Arlesberg by now, so what can you do? Except to wonder how it got there.

A practical joke by the pranksters at Google? The tragic tale of an honest earwig in the wrong place at the wrong time? Demonic space monster? Or just a bug in the system?
 
(Courtesy: the silicon.com Weekly Round-up)