Dana Hudson saw her chance, and she took it.
When the Vernon woman was walking from her East Hill home to the nearby Peanut Pool last summer, wearing her bathing suit and wrapped in a beach towel, she saw a Google Street View car coming towards her with its 360-degree camera capturing images for the worldwide mapping tool, and seized the opportunity.
"I thought 'oh my gosh, this is it, this is the time, this is my chance, I get to do something funny,'" Hudson told The Morning Star. "I had like half a second to think of doing something and I wasn't holding anything 香蕉视频直播� I mean, I was barely wearing anything 香蕉视频直播� and the only thing I could think to do was to say 'ta-da' and hold my towel out like a cape."
Hudson held her pose for a few seconds as the Street View car went by. The end result was a viral Vernon moment.
Hudson's pose made it onto Google Street View and a picture was shared on a local Facebook group. Hundreds of people reacted and commented on the photo.
Hudson said she'd meant to check Google Maps after striking the pose but had forgotten all about it. It wasn't until a friend told her about the photo on Facebook that she realized she was on Street View, and had become a bit of a local internet sensation because of it.
"I posted it on my personal Facebook as well just because it was such a laugh," she said. "It definitely feels a bit silly but in a fun way."
Hudson has received comments from people from all over the world about the photo. A friend from Australia told her that her son was so amused by it he asked to see the photo multiple times.
She said one heartwarming aspect of her viral moment is that all of the online comments have been positive.
"There wasn't one comment that was negative, and I just think that says so much about our community in a time where there's a lot of people who hide behind anonymity and their keyboards and use their energy to say negative things and troll people," she said.
Aside from her playful Street View stunt, Hudson is looking to foster that sense of inclusiveness in another way.
"I'm starting up an inclusive cycling group," she announced.
With support from Sun Country Cycle, Hudson has created Everybody Bikes, a new cycling group designed to fill a gap in the local cycling community.
"It's a cycling group aimed towards people who feel like they don't belong in existing bike groups for whatever reason. Maybe your size, maybe your shape, maybe you've got diverse abilities or a diverse gender and you don't feel like you belong in the biking groups that exist," Hudson explained.
The Everybody Bikes rides are free and will begin in June, taking place on Thursdays at 6 p.m. throughout that month. For more information or to register for a ride, visit .
