English villagers send Google snapper packing

busterb · 04-05-2009, 07:51 PM

LONDON (AP) - You're never far from a camera in Britain, a country that has accepted the presence of millions of surveillance cameras in its streets, shopping centers and public spaces. click anywhere for link. Read last line.

Cloud · 04-05-2009, 09:06 PM

I saw that. Funny, but --- I don't see how there's any sort of right to privacy on the outside of one's home.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-06-2009, 12:44 AM

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Since the service launched, millions of Britons have gone online to look at their own houses or landmarks like the Houses of Parliament. But some government buildings and the area around the prime minister's Downing Street home have been removed.

I wonder what the significance of those Government buildings was? Probably not the tourist type buildings.

DanaC · 04-06-2009, 08:10 AM

Wasn't the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries buildings, by any chance? :P

TheMercenary · 04-06-2009, 09:00 AM

This should be in the New World Order thread. Google is taking over the world. You watch.

Sundae · 04-06-2009, 10:28 AM

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"I was upstairs when I spotted the camera car driving down the lane," villager Paul Jacobs told The Times of London newspaper. "My immediate reaction was anger: How dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?"

Village idiots. They probably kill and eat anyone who isn't local anyway.

It's near here actually, just outside Milton Keynes.
Thank god none of the people whose homes I've taken pictures of in the Aylbesury thread have had the same reaction!

TheMercenary · 04-06-2009, 07:06 PM

I was pretty lucky when the Google truck came through our place, it was just about 4 or 5 pm in the winter because I can tell the position of the sun was just over the top of the roof of our house and the shot of the front of my house is nothing more than a big blur of sunshine and refections back into the lense that was on top of the truck. Pure luck.

Cloud · 04-06-2009, 09:48 PM

BD#1 and Son-in-Law#1 were actually photographed by Google outside his dad's house. Weird.

glatt · 04-07-2009, 07:46 AM

Check out BigV's profile picture, if you haven't already.

SteveDallas · 04-07-2009, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Village idiots. They probably kill and eat anyone who isn't local anyway.

I've always wondered.. why the phrase "village idiot"? Like there aren't any idiots in cities?

xoxoxoBruce · 04-07-2009, 09:00 AM

Village Idiot vs Fool for the City.

Clodfobble · 04-07-2009, 03:56 PM

Because in a small village, there is likely to be only one. In a city, there are so many we have to refer to it as "downtown."

Beest · 04-08-2009, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Because in a small village, there is likely to be only one. In a city, there are so many we have to refer to it as "downtown."

..and in a country we send them all to a big building, Parliament/Congress.

04-05-2009, 09:06 PM	#2
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	I saw that. Funny, but --- I don't see how there's any sort of right to privacy on the outside of one's home. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	This should be in the New World Order thread. Google is taking over the world. You watch. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I was pretty lucky when the Google truck came through our place, it was just about 4 or 5 pm in the winter because I can tell the position of the sun was just over the top of the roof of our house and the shot of the front of my house is nothing more than a big blur of sunshine and refections back into the lense that was on top of the truck. Pure luck. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

04-06-2009, 09:48 PM	#8
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	BD#1 and Son-in-Law#1 were actually photographed by Google outside his dad's house. Weird. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Village Idiot vs Fool for the City. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	English villagers send Google snapper packing LONDON (AP) - You're never far from a camera in Britain, a country that has accepted the presence of millions of surveillance cameras in its streets, shopping centers and public spaces. click anywhere for link. Read last line. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

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DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Wasn't the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries buildings, by any chance? :P

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