GOOGLE STREET VIEW IN ZAGREB (October 4, 2012)

Google Street View has reached the Croatian capital at last. I read a few lines about it a few days ago, but today I saw it in action. As I write, a man in his twenties is riding a white bike with a tall column crowned with a clutch of cameras through the pedestrian area in the center of Zagreb. I am getting concerned, of course. As it happens, cameras from the very same bike have caught me in two of my favorite watering holes. And only a quarter of an hour apart. Goodness gracious, my privacy has been threatened! If anyone looks carefully into the footage thus collected, they will surely think of me as a chronic alcoholic. In the case I see the damned bike again, I will have to cover my face. Even better, I will have to duck. And especially if it happens to catch me in yet another favorite watering hole of mine a quarter of an hour from now.