Odds and Sods
Google's Street View project to map the world by taking pictures from
passing cars ignited a minor uproar in northern Thailand where villagers
detained a driver and made him swear on a Buddha statue that he was not
surveying the area for an unwanted dam project. Villagers in Phrae
province have now apologised for mistaking the Google worker for a
government snoop.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCQA4Axf650f9aSsjSoAwgechfUlJfPx29ULXlguExKrDBMQ7vPpA7PL6RgcUzDxl5syS4dSQY5QKy1eJMJq_NRLmqWTVi7YmsXSrpPJUOs_S486b-6xTXlLQU-wti4YklCOyXaRjOG_w/s400/Google+Street+View+car+in+Thailand.jpg)
They surrounded the man's car, questioned him and then took him to Wat Don Chai in the village to swear in front of a statue of Buddha that he was not working for the government. Devout locals said the man would face bad luck within a week if he lied in front of the Buddha's image. "Villagers apologise to Google for the misunderstanding that he came to survey the area to build the dam," a spokesperson for locals opposing the Kaeng Suea Ten dam said later.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinsEMfvjytv95bvyEa_4cs0769_G52EiIQcUF6wkUmGtXnjwcCRGPuClkM4mVqLrdDj4kQaJNwJoHGJoXKzBlyki8JHxvKuXksxW-H8EZt4w1afMlzvRIBZJG7Bp8dFQcuEcm30cPNARo/s400/Google+Street+View+driver+with+Buddha+in+Thailand.jpg)
No comments:
Post a Comment