Google's Street View Captures Drunken Moment
 

A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi. As he slept off his excesses, a car-mounted video camera passed by to record pictures of the street for Google's StreetView website. Within days a photographic record of the neighbourhood and its unusual presence was available for worldwide viewing.

The new Google service has been at the centre of controversy over claims it represents a breach of privacy. But the latest victim, who gave his name only as 'Bill', is not planning an official complaint. "I'm no too happy about it," said Bill. "I mean, I wouldn't have been there in the state that I was in, but I wasn't really thinking there would be someone driving by with a video camera on the roof filming me, either," Bill, 36, said from northern Australia, where he is working with a fishing company. "What do you do when you lose a mate like that?" he said of his pal, with whom he had been planning a motorbike holiday around the island of Tasmania. "I know what he would have done if I left - he would have partied, too. That's what I would've wanted him to do so that's what I did with some friends."


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