Well, a flagpole is pretty boring. The signaling rate with flags is way too low. Plus your arms get tired after the first couple of words.


Looks like a 4-foot CB (27MHz) whip from Radio Shack. Almost certainly trimmed slightly to work in the 10-m Amateur (Ham) radio band (28MHz).

Owner/operator probably enjoys working across North America as a bicycle mobile station.

All this is a guess. I assume that Google probably doesn't hire the usual red-neck CB types. But Hams typically know their way around modern technology (perhaps excluding cars in this case).

73.

Is that some sort of joke? It's a flexible flag pole that lost its flag.

What I make out is 2 bicycles, and the one in the rear I think, has a basket on the front with a thin thing sticking up.
Doesn't seem in the right place to be a flagpole with a missing flag to me, but perhaps the one that made the picture should have taken a closer look.