Deutsche Welle claims egg-armed vandals are terrorising privacy-minded homeowners who requested that their property be blurred out of Street View. So, of course, the logical response to this inability to stare at these mundane scenes is to track them down in real life and chuck eggs against them. German police haven’t tracked down the culprits yet, but Google has already said it “distances itself completely” from the attacks. Which is hilarious in itself. We applaud them for refusing to condone these cowardly acts of egg terror.
Even lamer than attacking blurry houses with the mentality of a 7th grader? Taping notes saying “Google’s cool” to their mailboxes. Which isn’t even immature so much as just sad and weird. Stay strong, blurry Germans—we hope your love of personal privacy isn’t worn down by the poultry marauders. [Deutsche Welle via Search Engine Land via Business Insider]
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Steve
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 3:12 PMAhhahha, this is pretty hilarious. Juvenile, but funny as hell. Germany’s such a funny country. Scientology- no, Google- yes!
ozoneocean
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 3:37 PMThe eggthrowers are fools. but the ironic thing about this situation is that it points out just how stupid the privacy freaks are- by opting for “anonymity” they actually singled themselves OUT and deliberately made themselves LESS anonymous than anyone else in the whole of Germany who show up on Google street view normally- as the egg incident conclusively and hilariously proves.
The Joker
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 8:14 PMIf you understood peoples concerns at all you would realise it’s not anonymity people want, it’s privacy. It’s not reasonable that someone can come around to my house, take pictures of it and publish them on the internet. Every time anyone suspects Microsoft or Intel of implementing anything to do with personally identifiable information the IT community creates an uproar, but send a tweet, put info on Facebook or have a company come around to your house and own that information and people seem to think there’s no problem. Every tweet ever sent has been saved and is available at the US Library of Congress. We should all think long and hard about being so liberal with our privacy. You can NEVER get it back..!!
James
Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 2:02 PMCome on Gizmodo. You just had an article on your website a few days ago blaming these Germans who had their homes blurred for ruining Street View. Now you’re saying that they’re “mundane scenes” and condemn the “google zealots” for chucking eggs. You can’t have it both ways.