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Village Mob Thwarts Google Street View Car

Source: Fox News

London : United Kingdom | 8 months ago

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Angry English villagers formed a human chain to thwart the progress of a Google Street View car that was in the process of taking photographs of their homes. Police were called to Broughton in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, Wednesday after furious villagers blocked one of the cars, complaining...

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