While many wish that Google Street View were available everywhere, a Village in northern Thailand does not share this opinion. Yesterday morning, A Google Maps car, mounted camera and all, was stopped in Phrae, a small village in northern Thailand.
The driver, Dephrom Fufong, of Chiang Mai, was detained by villages who believed that the car was surveying the neighborhood in advance of a controversial dam project which is strongly opposed by locals.
In order to secure his release, Dephrom was forced to swear in front of a Buddha image at the village temple that he had not shot anything in the area.
That's what you get for driving around with a camera on your roof, we suppose.
