Watch out Broughton! Street View fans plan to descend on 'privacy' village for photo festAs a plan to keep a village hidden away from snooping eyes, it sounded logical - but it may have backfired spectacularly.
When villagers in the quiet, 'affluent' village of Broughton in Cambridgeshire spotted a Google Street View car creeping into sight, they leaped into action and formed a human chain until the Google car slunk away with tailpipe between its tyres.
The villagers complained Google had no right to take pictures of their homes, calling it an 'invasion of privacy' and an 'invitation for burglars to strike'.
But not only has the village now become the focus of national attention, it has raised the ire of Internet users, who are now campaigning for Street View enthusiasts from across the UK to descend on the village to snap their own perfectly legal photographs.
Members of social networking site Twitter are calling on Street View enthusiasts to sweep into action as a protest against the villagers.
They have already begun posting pictures of the village online and used the photographs to post tongue-in-cheek 'masterplans' on how to plot robberies, by climbing on red phoneboxes and swinging off tree branches.
The impromptu protest started on Wednesday when Resident Paul Jacobs spotted the Google car - which was unmarked but featured the tell-tale 360-degree rotating camera fixed on a pole on its roof - cruising slowly down his lane in the Buckinghamshire village.
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