Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go - but I bet this Frenchman didn't expect himself to be caught in the act ... of peeing outdoors in his own garden by Google's Street View!
And how, he's suing:
"He discovered the existence of this photo after noticing that he had become an object of ridicule in his village," lawyer Jean-Noel Bouillaud told AFP, asking for the name of the village not be published.
The slightly blurred photo, seen by AFP, shows an individual relieving himself 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 at the time the photo was taken.
If you choose to vacuum in the nude, you can do so. If you do it with the curtains wide open, it's illegal.
If you sunbathe in the nude behind your tall fence, but all your neighbours can see you from their upper windows, it's not their fault you're that foolish.
If you pee in your garden, and a blurry picture ends up on the internet, it's not the fault of the picture-taker who can't possibly screen every blurry picture for every possible thing. Yes, if it's that intrusive, they could probably blur him out even more. Are they obligated to? Is he entitled to some sort of monetary compensation for pain and suffering? No.
Should they go around the world taking pictures of everything readily visible from the street? That's a different question entirely. But if you're concerned that what you're doing could possibly be caught on film, maybe you should think twice about doing it where you're doing it.
My, what a convincing argument. I may indeed be wrong about France, but in the USA if you are legally on public property you may take a picture of anything and anyone in view. You may not like it, but tough.
You are wrong.
How about not photographing peoples houses and everything and putting it on the internet?
It's pure arrogance. They think they can do anything they like and get away with it. We didn't ask for this you know.
He should have just pretended he was doing something else or even it wasn't him. Or maybe tell people to get a life. Or that he did it to keep the rabbits away.
I think they did everybody a favour. Nobody's going to break into his yard to steal his vegetables now.
http://bit.ly/cTN2oU
He's fuzzed out pretty bad. He should have just told his neighbors he was gardening, because well, he was.
@Craig -- I'm signed out of Google right now and it's letting me in. Maybe there was a temporary glitch.