Cheating husband caught on Google Street View?
Editors' note: Some readers have pointed out that the Sun's story appears to have been debunked.
Further update 1.58pm PST: The Times of London quoted an esteemed lawyer a couple of days ago who related the broad facts as being true.
He didn't even say he was working late. No, no. He said he was away on business.
However, his wife, bathing in uncontrollable suspicion, decided to do the only thing she could. She dialed up the local detective agency. Yes, Google Street View.
In the story as related by the Sun newspaper (and which still, as of 7.50am PST sits proudly on the Sun's Website), the unnamed woman seems to have had some sense of whom her errant husband might be squiring.
She Google-zoomed in on the woman's house and discovered that her husband's Range Rover proved that he was, indeed, roving.
Yes, its distinctive shape, and its even more distinctive fancy hubcaps, were parked exactly where they shouldn't be.
Divorce appears to be proceeding.
Britain has already been shaken to what remains of its foundations by Google Street View's unerring ability to discover people and things where an idealist might wish they weren't: from the vomiting man to the man walking out of a sex shop. Yes, not even the same man.
One can only hope for some form of reconciliation in the sad Google Street View divorce. At the very least, wouldn't it be nice if Google picked up the legal bills? Or if the company offered to pay for counseling? On the other hand, will the poor husband threaten to sue Google?
And now, despite some confusion as to whether this whole story is nothing more than a street legend, perhaps some doubtful wife will today be inspired to leap to Street View to find evidence of her husband's philandering.
Unlike with marriage, the possibilities with Google Street View are endless.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
That probably was in the offing before the husband got off with another woman.
http://idiotforever.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/how-i-duped-the-sun/
Morons.
http://idiotforever.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/how-i-duped-the-sun/
It's a complete hoax.
The thing is, I DON'T believe everything I read in the Sun. Which is why I wrote "in the story as related to the Sun newspaper." But I should have looked at the calendar more closely. Always thought April Fool's nonsense happens on the day, not the day before.
Chris
The odds of catching someone you know doing something on Google Street View has to be like 1 in 10 million. I know Google van will never even drive down my street, I live way out in the country lol. Well, not waaaaaay out, but far enough from the cities in an already obscure state.
It's like when there's a program that invites people with some rare disease to call in for a discussion. The individual people who call in were really unlucky. "What were the odds that I might catch Leprosy?" they might ask. But the odds that you, sitting at home, will get to see/hear someone on TV who has leprosy are close to 1.
- by Atomic1fire March 31, 2009 7:13 PM PDT
- the story appears to be fake,
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- by ChrisMatyszczyk March 31, 2009 9:20 PM PDT
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(19 Comments)the person who made up the story even used a image that wasn't on street view,
and made up two names (one which happened to have some credibility, as it shared the name of a media lawyer, though the prankster didn't realize it, or care)
and the fact that the story spread is more of a check your facts type thing, then a haha on sun, since other news sources seem to fall for the story
Please check the link from the Times of London and see what you think.
Chris