---
title: "Drive Wire for July 6, 2016: Oakland Man Arrested for Torching Google Street View Car"
description: "Man claimed he believed Google was watching him."
date: "2016-07-06"
modified: "2016-07-06"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/4294/drive-wire-for-july-6-2016-oakland-man-arrested-for-torching-google-street-view-car"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Google"
---

# Drive Wire for July 6, 2016: Oakland Man Arrested for Torching Google Street View Car

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In today's installment of Drive Wire, *The Drive* delves into news from California that a man has been arrested for setting a Google Street View car on fire. According to police, an Oakland man was arrested on the Google campus in Mountain View, California; when questioned, he admitted to officers that he had been setting cars on fire and shooting out the windows of empty buildings, in response to his belief that Google had been watching him. Thankfully, no one is believed to have been injured in the crime wave.

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