Sunday, March 4, 2012

Having It Both Ways

A Frenchman is suing Google for posting online a picture of him peeing in his yard. It is part of Google's Street View section. See the Reuters article.

What I don't understand is how a Frenchman can be embarrassed about being photographed urinating. In the years we drove back and forth along I-95 on the East Coast, we learned that whenever we saw a car stopped along the highway the car had Quebec plates and one of the male passengers was standing alongside having a pee.

We concluded public urination by males was part of the French culture, or lack thereof. Does the French fellow on Google get to have it both ways? Does he get to pee in his yard but sue anyone who takes his picture from the public street?