Broughton expels the
Internet
A lynchmob of angry rich people from the quiet Blighty village
of Broughton physically chased a Google mapping car from the
area.
Villagers fearing that Google Earth could be used by burglars to target
their homes snapped when they saw the Street View car appear. They formed
a human barrier to stop the Street View car in its tracks and forced the
vehicle to turn around and leave.
Resident Paul Jacobs
saw the car first and confronted the driver and told him that he was not
allowed to continue, before alerting police. When this proved pointless and
also illegal he then knocked on his neighbours' doors and a crowd of angry
residents surrounded the black Opel Astra, forcing it to make a U-turn and
quickly leave.
Jacobs, who works for a global entertainment company,
described Street View as a 'burglar's dream'. He told the driver that he
was not only invading our privacy but also facilitating crime. This is an
affluent area. Only poor people have their houses snapped in Google, we
guess.
Google has pointed out that the was driver was on public land and
because Street View blurs out any faces or car number plates, he was not
breaking any laws.
It seems that only in England have rich people the
right to stop people in a public highway and send them packing. Poor people
would be arrested.