Henry Chu reports:
The good folk of Broughton don’t take kindly to being photographed without permission. Just ask Google.
When the search-engine giant sent one of its specially equipped cars to take pictures of the village for its Street View feature, residents swung into action. They stopped the car in its tracks, called the police and quizzed the bewildered driver for nearly two hours before letting him go.
“I don’t think this guy anticipated how angry people would get,” said Edward Butler-Ellis, 28. “We didn’t stand there with pitchforks or anything and block the road with bales of hay, but obviously people were agitated. . . . A car with a pole with a camera on top of it causes suspicions.”
Read more in the Los Angeles Times. The article describes problems Google Street View has faced in other countries, as well.