It's no secret that the Google Street View cars have picked up some interesting and unexpected images during their various trips to map neighborhoods around the globe. However, the recent launch of Google Street View in Brazil has turned up some unfortunate results.

According to reports, images of dead bodies on Brazil's streets were captured as part of the 360-degree imaging process and, worse yet, displayed on Google Maps for all to view.

Brazilian news site G1 stumbled across the first image of a corpse located on the Avenida Presidente Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. Google has since removed the shot from Google Maps after being notified about the issue by the site. It's unclear whether the shot will go back up in some kind of altered or blurred format, or whether that section of the street will simply remain unavailable for viewing, period.

Cnet News reported about a second body found in Belo Horizonte and, like before, the image has since been excised from Google's Street View service. According to G1, the company has asked users to help self-police Street View by using the "report a problem" feature found within its Google Maps Web app to notify the company of any other problematic images that happen to come up.

Google has been using facial-recognition technology to blur the noggins of those automatically captured and uploaded as part of Google's Street View imaging process. However, that doesn't do much to prevent the aforementioned situation, nor any other strange shots captured during Google's trips through neighborhoods worldwide.

In addition, many have taken up arms against the inherent privacy implications that the Street View capturing process has raised, even going as far to prohibit Google from expanding its digitized territory, as was recently decided by the Czech Republic in response to claims that Google's cameras invaded the privacy of unwilling subjects.

Nevertheless, Google's Street View service now covers locations across all seven continents, as was announced by the company Thursday—yes, even Antarctica.