Google Street View pic as ‘evidence’?
“Is Google the Facebook of pix that can come back to haunt you?”
Asking the question was p2pnet regular, and ace Google Street View tracker, Marc.
But wait! How can that be !? Street View is a Gargoyle Do No Evil ’service’!
It couldn’t possibly hurt anyone by taking photos of them and their surrounds without their knowledge or permission!
Right?
“The former homeowner of an Olympic Street property, her daughter, and a tree cutter have been charged with violating the city’s old tree bylaw for illegally removing trees without permit or permission,” says the Vancouver Courier, going on >>>
Last May, 23 cedar, cypress and evergreen trees were axed on the property at 6060 Olympic St., which sits between Southwest Marine Drive and Musqueam Park. The property consists of two legal lots side by side, measuring 66 feet by 116 feet.
Margaret Claire Burnyeat was listed as the owner until June 24, 2009.
Theresa Beer, a spokesperson with the City of Vancouver, said Elizabeth and Margaret Burnyeat and Michael Safronick of Michael Safronick Tree Care Limited, have also been charged.
Could the evidence be a Gargle Snoop-O-Rama pic taken by a Gargle SneakMobile?
“The tree removal was inadvertently caught on camera by a specially equipped passing vehicle taking pictures for Google Street Views, which links pictures of city streets to Google’s mapping program,” says the story.
“The photograph shows a truck on the site, along with a couple of workmen, tree debris, and a line of tree stumps along the length of a fence. Beer is uncertain if or how the Google photograph will be used in the prosecution.”
Now, “Our city’s legal department is aware of that,” it has Beer saying, adding:
“It is an interesting new dimension, perhaps, of legal evidence.”
Stay tuned.
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