Google deletes imaginary street after company and MBTA fall for teen’s prank

Brendan Libby somewhat expected that his prank could fall apart once he confessed online to duping the MBTA and Google into renaming a bus stop.

To some extent, it did. But not entirely.

Libby, a Brookline High School senior, detailed this week how he jokingly submitted a correction to Google Maps years ago that resulted in a driveway in West Roxbury being renamed after Rabbit Maranville, an early 20th-century baseball player with a particularly eye-catching name…

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