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A Greater Manchester mum is "angry, disgusted and upset" after Google flashed her three-year-old son's arse at Street View surfers. Claire Rowlands, 25, told the Manchester Evening News of her horror at discovering the Great Satan of Mountain View's spymobile had grabbed her nipper's backside while he was butt naked in his …

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      1. Titus Aduxass

        Outrageous (That a title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits)

        @seanj - You really can't spot a joke without the "joke alert" icon can you.

        What I want to know is which b****r nicked the letter 's' I'd typed in the word ''buttocks''.

        1. seanj
          Joke

          Physician, heal thyself...

          I really, really did spot the joke in your post, yet ironically, you failed to spot the joke in mine.

          Unless I'm being hyper-ironic by missing the joke in your reply - in which case perhaps the universe might implode or something...

  1. Ivan Slavkov
    Flame

    Some people need to get a life

    Some people need to get a life.

    A good idea may be to attend a beach with people who have one. Going on a holiday to a place where Germans, French, Spanish and other more sane people tends to help.

    For f*** sake, this is a toddler's bottom. So what? We have all seen one. Those of us who have children and have to change nappies probably one time too many. Having it documented is not the end of the world.

    Similarly those of us who do not go to beaches with bylaws set by taleban have it here or there on their holidays snaps. It is impossible not to have one while trying to take pics of your own offspring on a beach where nobody has their kids in swimwear up to the age of 5 (this is pretty much the norm for most beaches in the EU and especially for the ones where Brits are a minority).

    If I was in her place I would have taken some screenshots for posterity to show on their wedding day in 20 years time instead of producing Daily Fail style fits of rage.

  2. CraigRoberts
    Unhappy

    Uhhhh....

    I...agree... with... a... Daily... Mail... commentard??!?!

    That's it... Stop the world - I want to get off...

  3. MarkieMark1
    Happy

    More worrying

    is the german car in the picture; particularly after yet more injustice during a football match :-)

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Only this last weekend

    I had two of my sprogs running around the garden stark naked. I had a moments thought that anyone in the surrounding houses could easily see and take pictures. I even took a photo myself for posterity (you know, the 18th birthday party embarrassment), then the thought said, Fuck it. If they want to take pictures they could do, but it really doesn't matter, and it was my choice to let them run around like that. I am not going to curtail their freedom to prance around in their own garden naked just on the off chance some nonce is around with a camera.

    If on the other hand, said nonce were to approach my children, naked or otherwise, and attempt anything untoward, I would cut his hands off with a rusty sledgehammer.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hang on, she seems to know something the rest of us don't

    namely that the Google spyfleet is also capturing environmental data such as temperature along with people's email, bank passwords and posterior peachiness...

  6. Bassey

    very strange

    Am I to take it from the above that very young children running around butt-naked during the summer is frowned upon in the UK nowadays? You lot are very strange.

  7. karl 15
    Alert

    Got it in one

    "One wrote: "If you're that worried about paedophiles love then don't let your kid run around naked outside in the front garden!!! "

    Got it in one m8

  8. The Vociferous Time Waster
    Thumb Down

    here we go again

    A Greater Manchester mum is "angry, disgusted and upset"

    That should read:

    A Greater Manchester mum is "rubbing her hands with glee at the thought of £20,000 from the papers"

    It's a toddlers arse, who cares? I doubt even the mythical paedosaurus will get it's rocks off on that. It's much more likely that an uncle of close friend of the family would be adding the mental image 'to the bank' after seeing it in real life - most abuse comes from family members and close friends after all.

  9. Dan P
    FAIL

    Re: A female spokesoperative said...

    Have you considered the fact that you might have been mistakenly photographed by hundreds or perhaps even thousands of people whilst in public view? You know, those people out snapping holiday snaps, shots of their friends whilst you're walking past, shots of buildings, even perhaps (gasp!) a fine art photographer?

    So presumably your perfect solution would be to have every photograph that gets taken in public be vetted by everyone in the world before it's 'approved' and allowed to be used by the photographer.

    It's attitudes like that which lead to uninformed police officers harrassing innocent photographers for no legal reason.

  10. Anonymous Bastard
    Joke

    "Google has apologised and pixellated the offending buttocks"

    Did Google also add the large red 'here it is' arrow? That's just insensitive.

  11. thefutureboy
    Alert

    So looking at the photo...

    If someone removes that blue and yellow prop will the whole car tip over or will just the wing mirror fall off?

  12. Graham Wilson
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    The mother's creating a storm in a tiny teacup!

    The mother's is creating a storm in a tiny teacup! Unfortunately, in an era of hyped-up overly sensitive sensibilities, even a mention by the media of such trivialities makes matters worse as it propagates similar notions to others.

    I feel sorry for the poor kid who may end up psychotic by living in such a stressed and overprotective environment.

    What in Hell's name has gone wrong with this society? Methinks society needs to acquire a grip on reality, it needs to be transported back to say 1940 or 1916 for a week or two--a time when upon hearing a scream from a woman somewhere in the street neighbours automatically knew she'd just received a telegram from the war department.

    This story ought to pale into insignificant noise.

  13. JohnG

    Sun in Greater Manchester?

    I didn't know they had sun in Greater Manchester, I was told it rains all the time up north.

  14. coalvilledave

    Arse rocognition?

    I assume that the youngster's bottom wasn't picked up and obscured by google's face-recognition algorithms? Maybe they need an arse recognition algorithm also.

    1. LinkOfHyrule
      Joke

      They do have arse-recognition

      It recognises most arses as the face of David Cameron!

  15. Sarah Davis
    FAIL

    Wait a minute

    isn't it illegal to take photos now? why haven't the police flasly arrested all the google cars?

    why did that dumb woman let her bratt run naked in public? is she deliberately trying to attract peodos?

  16. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

    I’m angry, disgusted and upset

    'Cos that's what my agent told me I should look like if my plan to sell this outrage to tabloids were to succeed.

  17. Eden
    FAIL

    There is a photo of me...

    Back in the 1980's during one particularly hot spell I was straight out of a bath and back onto my little pedal bike and training wheel in the Garden without stopping for clothes.

    Being the Adventurous young chap that I was it wasn't long before I pedalled out the front gate and down the street stark bollock naked.

    What did my parents do on seeing my vie for freedom?

    Run into the house to get the Camera and take a photo of my firm peachy buttocks working their way into the distance.

    It's been posted on face book for all to see and shown to many a Girlfriend over the years.

    These days you'd expect them to be arrested for "creating child pronography" and the child given an asbo for public indecency, that's assuming the child even makes it past the first hedge before the fabled urban pedo-monkey leaps out and abducts him/her.

    They're everywhere don't you know!

  18. Fred 4

    What about the image laws

    isnt it illegal to take and distribute images of unclothed minors??

    Why isnt Google being prosecuted?

    Wouldnt you be prosecuted if *you* took that image and posted on the internet?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Is it? Can you quote the actual law in question?

      Or are you just another cog in the hysteria machine?

  19. M Gale

    Modern times

    I still remember reading through an old set of kids books from the VERY early 20th or late 19th century. "World of the Children", they were called. Showed you precise instructions on how to make black powder, amongst other innocent childhood pursuits. All told in a narrative style focussing around a family with a very cool set of parents who would do things like putting a car into a skid to explain how skids work, amongst other such fun.

    Oh, and it had butt-naked pictures of children in it, passing off the differences in biology as something that "God did". And showing the excellent results you can get from a pinhole camera that had been enhanced with a few cheap lenses in a stack.

    Different times, eh?

  20. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Some people though...

    .get off on anything. I posted some pics of our (then) new-born baby up on an un-advertised website just for friends and family to see. Checking the access logs later on, I found they were being used as the target or img src for porno spammers on various forums!!! Sheesh...

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    They took mine off

    I saw them coming along a lane in a village near where I live.

    I mooned then from my car window, with my teenage daughter cringling in the passenger seat!

    When my area was released on Streetview, I went straight for it.

    But <joke intended> it was completely missing!

    They had gone back and redone that section.

    The rest of the lane has a wet road, that section has dry, and I'm missing!

  22. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    legal actions now

    How about sueing the google manager for publishing an indecent photograph of a preteen? As far as I know that is illegal in UK.

    When they have to fear to get on the sex offender database, they will think twice before publishing anything automaticly on the interweb.

    Maybe they will be more carefull and won't rely only on their algorithm, which can fail.

    anon to avoid possible legal action by google.

    Oh .... I hear the helicopter ...

  23. Keris

    Missing the point

    Whether a toddler's backside is an "obscene sight" is irrelevant. The real point is that Google is distributing an image of a naked child, which if any of the rest of us did it would have us locked up as paedophiles. Worse, they have taken the photograph -- just taking photographs of clothed children in London gets you nicked! It's one law for them and another for us, and as usual the ordinary bloke doing his job is the one who gets molested by police who steal his property where the big corporations don't even get a warning.

    See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/police_photo_bother_romford/ ("Romford coppers try to stopper young snapper) from yesterday...

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