50-metre insect roaming German countryside!

Slashdot has a link to this frightening image on Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=Germany&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=48.857699,10.205451&spn=0.002404,0.006738&om=1

Suggestions that this is a scanning accident will, of course, be met with the contempt they deserve.