This week, we have an image supplied by Fox. We got last week’s correct, Trish was in Lusthusportens park, Stockholm.
First thoughts: Clearly a populous city, maybe some sort of event taking place around Christmas. Looks quite American.
It’s clearly Christmas, and everyone seems way too happy for this to be anywhere other than America. In the background, you can see the name of a building called “The Lodge”. It is an oddly shaped building, maybe built specifically for Christmas. The architecture of the building behind the Christmas tree seems extremely Victorian-era. Due to the building's height in the background and the Victorian-era building as well as the joyfulness of the people within the photo, I'm going to start my search in the northeast coast of the USA, surely there aren’t that many!
After extremely briefly scanning through the East coast of the USA I promptly gave up, because for some reason they cannot stop building cities that look exactly the same. Doing the smart thing (searching for The Lodge) I found that the big building is the New York public library, and that we’re in Bryant Park. It turns out The Lodge only exists during the winter months. However, I was confused: you see, Google street view does this funny thing where it does not update constantly for your convenience. So lining up a photo with some of the buildings in the background was near impossible as one of them wasn’t completed until 2020: the One Vanderbilt. Looking closely at the original photo you can see it being built, meaning this photo was taken between 2017 and 2020.
Looking closer you can see that there is a professional camera crew recording two people with hockey sticks, which begs the question: was this event recorded and uploaded to the internet? I searched “Hockey Bryant Park”. After scrolling aimlessly for what seemed like hours (it was actually about 2 milliseconds) I spotted a photo with matching lighting and matching hats on heads. Following the link, I found that the person in the goal was famous ice hockey defenseman P. K. Subban, and YES, this event was recorded for his YouTube channel. I watched the video frame by frame until I noticed something that shocked me to my core. At 5:40, you can see, plain as day, Fox (our editor) slapping a puck with the might of 1,000 gods into P. K. Subban’s unsuspecting balls. I assume Fox fled the scene of the crime and flew back to New Zealand to quickly cover his tracks.
Final answer: Fox was in Bryant Park, New York, on the 4th of December 2019. He was at an event hosted by P. K. Subban, where Fox potentially hampered P.K.’s ability to reproduce. Well done Fox.
Want to send in your own picture? Send an email to maps@critic.co.nz and we’ll give it a shot. Correct answers will be published next week.