Afghan Students Sneak Prank Names Into Apple Maps

We've all seen that Apple Maps is a far cry from perfect, but the Wall Street Journal's Kabul bureau chief may have just discovered some of its most amusing glitches while browsing on his iPad.

Yaroslav Trofimov discovered a street named "Bad Monkey" and another named "MoJo Way." After discovering these unlikely streets on Apple Maps, he shared his findings to Twitter, UN Dispatch reports.

So is one of #Kabul 's main streets really called Bad Monkey, as the new Apple Maps on my iPad claim?#TooGoodToBeTrue twitter.com/yarotrof/statu— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) January 13, 2013

The street behind the #Kabul Serena, meanwhile, has been appropriately renamed MoJo Way by #Appl…
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