Yokels run Google Street View snapper out of town

I think Century21 may have pictures of my home too. <gasp

I find it almost heart warming the lengths people will go to prove their own stupidity.

"This is an affluent area. We’ve already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks"

oh well, if he/she's that affluent they can afford to be a few bob worse off.

moan the burglars

...but they actually have no legal right to prevent someone from taking a picture of their property...so long as they are doing it from a public area, like a street.

And the sheer stupidity of the argument he gives is pure win...you're going to be more vulnerable to thieving because your house is now shown on a website? Really? Because theives clearly already don't know where you live, and that you are rich, and that you probably have stuff they could steal and sell for a profit?

People are stupid.

"...but they actually have no legal right to prevent someone from taking a picture of their property...so long as they are doing it from a public area, like a street."

Not quite... That is the common interpretation of the law, which is generally accurate. However, if the item or person being photographed is in a position where they would expect privacy, then you can't snap them. Which is why the paps don't take pics of Madonna through her bedroom window from the other side of the wall round her mansion... That and you'd need a crane to lift the 5000mm lens!

However in the case of the google car, they're completely within the law, they're on a public road, they're using wide angle lens, not zooms, and it's all automated, so even if they did snap something they shouldn't, nobody can even claim it was deliberate.

Broughton isn't NEAR Milton Keynes, despite their protests, it's IN Milton Keynes, and according to those I know who live in or near it, not the nicest of places.

Then again, with all those burglaries and even a murder in recent months (http://bit.ly/d8D6A) perhaps you can understand the paranoia?!

Oh the horror of it all - irate citizens blockade Google Nazi street snappers.

This, coming from the land of 1,000,000 cameras?

Good job they didn't notice the helicopter or whatever they use to get the "Bird's Eye" view on live maps, or they'd have been shot down and publicly flogged for their spying, devious ways.

If I could legally keep my property off of google streetview I would as well.

Not for burlery concerns.

Just plain old desire for some privacy.

Does the Google steal the soul of your house when its vans take a photograph of it?

What if i visited the town with my gf, and happened to takea picture of us in front of their houses.

Will i be ran out of town, i mean god forbid i might actually share the photo with people... the humanity.

Morons, last time i checked it was a free country, if they don't like it, they can take their little inbred country yokel rednecked idiotacy elsewhere

Nice. Now they've attracted even more attention to their sorry little street than otherwise. People will no doubt want to see the photos they were so riled up over. Maybe there are even some photos of the human chain!

.. isn't there an angry, snaggle toothed, bile spitting, pitchfork wielding, torch bearing posse around when Islington Council drive their SMART car spy-mobiles down my street and in to my living room whilst looking for such evils as putting the bin out a day early... Especially ironic as I live in _Camden_!

you have to wonder why google is doing this. they are not providing a service and i cant see a demand for it.

is it just to support plain old noseyness?

"This is an affluent area" How can that alone not be an invitation for burglars to visit? Streisand Effect anyone?
Stupid luddites!

This is hilarious, the majority of the world is on google street view, why would burglers pick their 'affluent' village out of all the others. It's only Broughton, if I was a burgler I'd go to a real affluent place such as Aderley Edge.

And secondly what kind of burgler uses google before they rob a house?! All they've got to do is go stand outside! The people of Broughton are an embarrassment to the UK and have proved to the rest of the world that its a backwards,(both socially and interlectually) arrogant town!

Google - just keep going back!

What a bunch of self-obsessed nimby clowns. I can't wait for my street to be on streetview. They have no idea of the basics of traditional English liberties, which include the right or law abiding citizens like google's contractor to use the Queen's highways. They should have been arrested as an example to others who think that they are above the law because they are "affluent".

I can't believe that anyone thinks google is "not providing a service", this is one of the most useful services ever invented. You can check out places you're thinking of moving, or going on holiday, or looking for a job in. You can give people directions to hard to find places with a clarity unprecedented in human history. And no doubt in the long run google will makes lots of money selling advertising on it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...You think they would be more concerned by the 'affordable housing' being built on their doorstep and the fact they are in sniffing distance of the main sewage works for the whole of Milton Keynes