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‘Help’ Message On Google Maps Is Disturbing As Many Struggle To Figure Out The True Meaning Behind It

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‘Help’ Message On Google Maps Is Disturbing As Many Struggle To Figure Out The True Meaning Behind It

Internet users have expressed worry after seeing several examples of the word “Help” written on land in Los Angeles using resources from Google Maps.

After being discovered on Google Maps, the pictures were shared online over the weekend, and in an effort to spread the word, several individuals uploaded updates and information about the messages’ locations.

The words are inscribed on an area of what appears to be waste or storage land, situated between North Mission Road and E Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and the Los Angeles River. The location is adjacent to a shipping container yard and the Union Pacific Railroad.

At least one message appears to say “Traffico,” even if the majority of the words read “help.”

Viewers have expressed concern that the notes may have been written by human trafficking victims due to their location and the appeals themselves.

On Reddit, one user wrote: “I also see the words trafico, federales, LAPD, and FBI, and this looks like a building site. If it’s a joke it is in dangerously poor taste, this sounds like someone or a group of someones are being trafficked and used materials available to them to spell out an SOS. I hope if a random person noticed, authorities noticed as well.”

A worried internet user, known on Twitter as LA Guy, decided to investigate the location more thoroughly and has shared a number of posts about his findings.

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In one video taken from the side of the road, he said, “I honestly don’t know if this is just kids fooling around, or something real, but you can get into the yard through […] a hole in the fence.”

“I just like to believe this is a prank,” he added, pointing out that the area is ‘exposed’.

“If you’re writing that, everybody sees you,” he said. “It seems to me like it’s just a bunch of kids playing a prank.”

In a different video, LA Guy interviewed a man who said he knew the neighborhood and that the comments were scrawled by homeless people. Another local woman concurred, saying that a man named José, who was homeless and in need of “help himself,” was the author of the texts.

“[José’s] the one who puts it (help) all the time,” a second woman told LA Guy. “He writes it everywhere […] it’s been years,” she said, though she made it clear she didn’t know the reason behind why he was writing the messages.

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