Google sued over Street View photo of peeing Frenchman
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Despite having his face blurred by Google, the man said that he became the "laughing stock" of the town and sued Google in an Algiers court. The man is seeking the removal of the image from Google and 10,000 EUR (approximately $13,000). This pisser of a case was called "implausable" by a Google attorney. The man's attorney, Jean-Noel Bouillaud, said his client is asking for the name of the village to not be published by Google. The blurry photo shows an individual urinating in a garden in the village in the west-central Maine-et-Loire department. "My client lives in a tiny hamlet where everyone recognised him," said Bouillaud, adding that his client was on his own property and that the gate to his garden was closed when the photo was taken.
We can imagine how Google's attorney's are responding to this case. From battling Apple's well educated lawyers in richly decorated courtrooms, litigating matters that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to their client, to working in a courtroom that we can visualize with a large spinning ceiling fan, litigating a case worth less than their monthly retainer. Couldn't you see the plaintiff's attorney asking his client to show the judge how he, uh, was watering the plants when he was photographed.
While the ruling could go either way, we are trying to track down the validity of the rumor that if the Frenchman wins, he will ask his pals to sing in court, "Urine the money".
source: Physorg.com via Gizmodo
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21 Comments
1. imkyle posted on 02 Mar 2012, 00:17 2 1
You were peeing outside and not in a toilet. Bad timing. Could have happened to anyone.
15. messiah posted on 02 Mar 2012, 10:44 5 0
it's hard to take a shot in france without catching someone peeing in public.
2. GeekMovement posted on 02 Mar 2012, 00:28 5 0
His own fault he shouldn't be blaming google. Stupid man. You pee outside you're asking for an audience.
3. Giggity posted on 02 Mar 2012, 00:54 2 1
Even when gates are closed, if he doesn't have fences around his yard/garden (or at least high enough), he still subjected to public indecent exposure; at least that's how the laws go in the States.
4. Glim12808 posted on 02 Mar 2012, 00:55 5 0
Somebody should charge this guy in court for indecent exposure!
8. Mimsyborogove923 posted on 02 Mar 2012, 02:04 2 0
Umm, it's not even all that obvious that he's takin a piss. Just looks like he's standing there MAYBE with his hand at crotch level. Not sure what the fuss is about. Hell, if this happened to me I would probably tell everyone to go check it out.
10. ibap posted on 02 Mar 2012, 06:43 0 0
The song joke is cute, but I'm presuming he would be asking for something in French.
11. remixfa posted on 02 Mar 2012, 06:54 0 0
nice pun there at the end. how does that go in french? :)
13. PAPINYC (limited) 5 days ago posted on 02 Mar 2012, 09:40 0 0
¡C'est un idiôt!
¿Excusez-moi, ou sonts les toilettes?
14. lpratas posted on 02 Mar 2012, 09:52 0 0
My comment didn't stayed added here. I said that the frenchman is free of pee in his property where he wants since that doesn't have public exposition. The photographer was very rogue, breached the privacy and was incovenient.
21. bubbasixx posted on 04 Mar 2012, 13:10 0 0
Ok, first, if he pees out in the open for anyone to see anywhere, even at his house, it is public. I can't stand naked in my yard and not get in trouble for indecent exposure. Second, your "rogue photographer" is driving in a white car labeled GOOGLE, with a dozen cameras on top of it watching the road, not urinators who should not be on the side of the road. Third, privacy is behind closed (bathroom) doors. Lastly, the only inconvenience will be when his drinking buddies make fun of him for actually getting caught.
16. gallitoking posted on 02 Mar 2012, 11:46 3 1
I dont see a man peeing.. I see a man marking his territory..
17. galbert1555 posted on 02 Mar 2012, 12:05 0 0
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18. LoneShaolin posted on 02 Mar 2012, 12:36 0 0
I don't see a man peeing. I see a man with a blurry face standing there. No evidence of watering the lawn. Had he not said anything, no one would have probably noticed.
