Thanks to everyone and his dog for sending these comments on Google Street View in, but specifically to Andrew and Sharon.
One Step too far. Privacy is a huge issue with this, effectively allowing (in a fixed slice of time) somebody to stalk another. For example, one my my colleagues is clearly visible on Street View, his face is blurred but it’s obvious who he is. What if he was walking down the street with someone else? If it was a woman, he could be in trouble with his wife (for no reason), if it was a man perhaps his boss would be wondering if it’s a recruitment agent, or the competition?
Rob Morgan, Leeds
What if he was with a man and a woman?? His boss might think he was bisexual. Or how about if he’d been walking with five people and a couple of dogs? Perhaps his friends might think he was having a party and didn’t invite them? Or his wife might think he was fucking one of the dogs. What if he was wearing a t-shirt that had “Bollock” written on it? Or a special shoe? Or shit trousers? Or a hat that made him look wank? Google certainly has a lot to answer for.
Meanwhile Neil C seems to have confused “terrorists” with “tourists”. An easy enough mistake to make after eight years of George Bush.
This worries me. This is a great way for terrorists to check out the target without actually going to the place.
Terrorists who are stalking a potential target will stand out like a saw thumb with their different clothes and their cameras and their different languages.
If my house is being cased by terrorsis I can see them from my CCTV cameras I hve around my property or when they trigger the alarms by walking on the trip wire.
yes another infringement of my personal liberties me thinks
Neil C, ENGLAND
I heard their religion forbids them from wearing normal-people clothes, even as a disguise. They’re only allowed to use oversized green cameras and they have to shout “Addis Ababa” every time they take a photo.
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Surely this privacy / nobody-can-know-I-exist issue has been around since people first learned how to draw other people on cave walls? I mean, what if Mr. Urgh’s wife had got suspicious and wondered what he’d really been up to with eight other men and a mammoth?
Surely Neil C’s post there is a pisstake. Tripwire? A mis-spelling of terrorists after he’d previously spelled it correctly? ‘me thinks’?
If it’s not a pisstake then verily, he may be a complete cretin, methinks.
I had the same worry – it sounds too stupid to be real. But then I have a tendency to underestimate people.
Are folks suggesting there may in fact be a lurker on HYS? Or maybe a kind of anti-twat-o-tron?
With regard to the blurred-but-oh-look-it’s-obviosuly-him chap, I’d be keen to know exactly what distinguishing features this person has. I’m betting he only has one leg, and weighs 25 stone.
Maybe in real life, his face actually is really blurry.
Wasn’t Jimmy Nail’s face blurred out when Evita was shown in Brazilian cinemas because of how ugly he is?
Maybe Alex or Nelson stalk HYS and post their own comments sometimes, so that they can post them here later… But they can never match the true power of the real stuff and are easily exposed. I can see those headlines in the Daily Mail already.
Unless it’s a Dr. Jekyll type thing.
Anyway, I see a clear connection. Nelson – Neil. How similar does that sound to YOU?
You have to look on the bright side.
At least if you are caught on Street View with another man/woman/animal and you get a divorce as as result that is quite interesting and you might get into Take a Break magazine or even possibly on This Morning with Phil and Fern as ‘World’s first Google divorce.
Then you’ll be a sleb and you can REALLY moan about people invading your privacy…
My arm is vaguely noticeable through the window of my work on the Street View pic. I now live in terror that anyone could find out that I sometimes wear a cardigan.
My house isn’t on the Street View. I got my cock out especially for the google terrorist lovers so all the little boys and girls surfing could see where their paedo uncle lived. I blame Gordon Euro loving Braun for invading my right to have my privacy invaded. Cunt
I live in terror that people might think I wear a cardigan, when I don’t. I definitely don’t wear a cardigan, ever (unless you count the fleece I was caught wearing on Street View). my street cred could be ruined….
You couldn’t make it up…
So it’s OK for Google to take photos of my house, but when I take photos of someone I’ve been stalking for years suddenly *I’M* the bad guy?
You couldn’t make it up …
“Stand out like a saw thumb”??
That’s a handy tool right there. Now if you can just get screwdrivers, allen keys, and assorted sockets on your other digits you could thumb your nose at B & Q.
But then of course you’d be straight down A & E.
Damn saw thumbs.
little shit, posting my joke 30 seconds before me.
Saw thumb. Hee hee. Just keep chuckling at that. Makes a change from the usual whole tea/snort/nose/keyboard debacle
Where has the Fucko lynch posse gone today?
Did Google take any pictures of police officers on this excursion because that would be, um, illegal and all.
I don’t think it’s right to mock people’s concerns about privacy like this. hahahahahahaha oops sorry.
It is illegal to take any picture of a policeman showing his helmet, yes.
@shitferbrains Gold. A Christian lady just came to the door, handing out leaflets, I had to answer it with tears running down my face and a little bit of wee in my pants, thanks to your post.
Mr Ugh wasn’t bothered about this though, he realised he could charge ten quid admission to see the paintings. And that is how the first ever porn cinema was started.
Ho hum. I’ve got just such an item, memento of a dutifully-drunken hen night.
He was very cute.
Gah, if only he’d put the ‘me thinks’ at the top of the post, it would have saved so much time.
Anyone else think Neil C is getting a bit paranoid about the June’s International Hosiery And Delicatessen van that’s been outside his house for a month?
“If my house is being cased by terrorsis I can see them from my CCTV cameras”
I like how he thinks his house is a possible terrorist threat.
Who does he think he is, having CCTV cameras around his house. If I were to go canvassing he’d be invading my privacy, shurely?
I wanted to go bus-spotting on Street Scene (or whatever it’s called) ‘cos that would save me having to go outside.
BUT the ********s have fuzzied the fleetnames and the numbers!!!!
It’s the nanny state gone mad!!!
Methinks or possibly me thinks ….
He doesn’t – he’s just living in mortal fear of his female sibling who makes his life hell by constantly telling him what a sad, tiny-cocked, inadequate, pathetic excuse for a human being he is, pretending he can see what’s going on around his house with the CCTV cameras he made out of old cornflakes boxes and toilet roll tubes.
Having met his sis I can confirm she is a real terror – but a bloody good shag though…
So Zanu Nu Google spy-cams are watching me masterbate in my own front garden now? It is no different from the Third Reich.
I am just glad Jade Goody didn’t live to go through what we in “Great” (remember that?) Britain are enduring now. She will be watching us from heaven – and laughing.
And speaking of the lovely and talented Ms Goody:
Quite.
yes another infringement of my personal liberties me thinks
My arm is vaguely noticeable through the window of my work on the Street View pic
How did you get an actual picture of me?! Life is a living hell under this soul-crushing ZaNuLiarBore Big Brother regime!
At risk of repeating myself, Neil C is a definite fake.
At risk of repeating myself, Neil C is a definite fake.
Anyway, as Street View is such an asset to targeted warfare/terror, perhaps the US should send Google to survey the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. I reckon Osama will be the one without his front window left open while he popped to the shops.
Duly noted.
OMG teh intarwebnetz are spying on me!
Bloody tourists are everywhere with their “ally kieeda”
were all doomed
Doooooooooomed!!!!!
I’ve had a headache since about the time that Google Street View launched. This is almost certainly not a coincidence, but it suggests that their mind rays need a bit of fine-tuning.
@wayne, grieving for the pikey they all love so much.
@773 Metric.
Think you may have stumbled across a great line in greetings cards there – match some dodgy 1970/80s picture with some inane brainfart off HYS – I’d get down to Clintons right now!
Mim, I think you need to use a better brand of foil for your tinfoil hat. I recommend M&S recycled – more expensive, but the foil is so much thicker. You can’t put a price on reassurance.
@ 773 (metric)
More likely scenario.
This Street View stuff is no joke, i’ve been trying for a week now to catch them at it. I bring up my house on street view, then run outside to catch the bastards filmin! Too fuckin quick though, always gone by the time I get out there. I go back to my computer and low and behold…the fuckers are back!!! Controlled demolitions ppl OMG wake up!!!!
Bravo, millie, bravo
@00773
Encore?
hai nelson.
please turn the comments off again.
blah blah blah.
thxbai.
I don’t wear a tinfoil hat because of the enormous health risks associated with aluminium. Instead I have crafted a hat from organic hemp and fairly traded rice cakes. It’s gone a bit stale but still seems to work quite well.
“Terrorists who are stalking a potential target will stand out like a saw thumb with their different clothes and their cameras and their different languages.”
I suspect this is a fake post too, but I think he missed a trick here- he could have mentioned that burglars would stand out like a “saw thumb two” in their easily distinctive masks, caps, and burlap sacks marked “SWAG”.
“I have crafted a hat from organic hemp and fairly traded rice cakes”
What!! You… Lefty, liberalist, sandal-wearing, Guardianista, trendy, PC, tree-hugging, namby-pamby, do-gooder, NuLieBore, multiculturalist, hoody-hugging, socialist, trendy, permissive-society, long-haired, yawn, snore… Sorry I seem to have fallen asleep before I could think of any more reactionary cliches of the past 60 years. Does that make me a bad person?
Who you callin’ a Guardianista?
“crafted” + “hat” + “organic” + “hemp” + “fair” + “trade” + “rice” + “cake” == “Guardianista”. Apparently. I really should write a Perl script (excuse my geekiness) to impersonate your classic HYS denzien.
BTW, I like that word “Guardianista”. It betrays the fact that persons that are supposedly are not at all lefty and are all salt of the earth (a) know a bit of hispanic revolutionary lore and (b) know what a “barista” is, and therefore are likely to have sipped a latte or two.
“Or a hat that made him look wank.”
Bravo. Really, the best thing I’ve read for weeks. Thanks.
It just goes to show, you can’t be too careful!
CCTV? Tripwires? Are you really Neil C or just Tony Montana?