Loose women, germans and fishermen.
With their street view option Google added an incredible feature to their maps application. When you’re heading into unknown territory you don’t have to be prepared for the unexpected, you can explore the terrain from the safety of your hammock, looking for obstacles like traffic lights and speed cameras. It also helps finding a place to park. But not everybody seems to be happy with it. It can be considered to be a little invasive in ones privacy.
Google does it’s best to protect our privacy by blurring the faces of all people and by dignifying the clothing of loose women 1 but still some people get angry and wayward when a google street view car passes by. Sometimes this rage is understandable. Imagine you and a good friend are just enjoying the sun, reading a newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee on your favorite spot in the city, the entrance to a parking lot and suddenly this car with an allmighty eye on top of it comes by and takes pictures of you without asking! I would be throwing spears at it if I had them with me 2.
- 1. Here’s a screenshot of the loose lady for those of us without flash ↑
- 2. Here’s the whole sequence in pictures, for those of us without flash: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, ↑
- Vasilis
Some people even pose as Stig for Google Street View. But why did Google have to censor that?
That’s obviously Nessie hitchhiking to get away from her overcrowded loch.