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Monday, September 14, 2009

England village covers Google lens -- latimes.com

Reporting from Broughton, England - 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...

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