A question of numbers...

If you're the only one, ie the only person in Buford, the US' smallest town, you'll want to think about selling it and moving on

TODAY (16 March) carried this AP wire story, headlined "Smallest town in US, population one, up for sale":

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120316-0000017/Smallest-town-in-US,-population-one,-up-for-sale

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If you are one in 3,000... you won't want to be caught on camera peeing outdoors

Talk about a pissed-off Frenchman! He's so livid, having been caught with his fly down, that he's suing Google Street View.

This hasta la piss-ta urinator lives in the little commune of Anjou -- which has just 3,000 folks -- so it seems that everyone practically knows each other. For reasons best known to himself, this man took a leak in his own garden.

Er, it so happened that a Google Street View vehicle, mounted roving camera and all, was passing by. A snap was taken, if unwittingly.

The man, through his lawyer, is suing Google Street View for making him the laughing stock of his little village. He is demanding the immediate withdrawal of the photo, and not just for his face to be blurred as Google has already done. He is also demanding €10,000 in damages.

His lawyer apparently presented his case thus: "This presents a problem because everyone has the democratic right to a certain level of privacy. In this case, it is not serious, it is rather funny. But if he had been caught kissing another woman, the problem would be the same."

Google's lawyer has called for the case to be dismissed.

Here's an English-language French newspaper's account:

http://connexionfrance.com/Google-Street-View-peeing-garden-France-Maine-Loire-Anjou-13505-view-article.html

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And while you may be a happy-go-lucky "seven in 10" Singaporean today, you might just become a "four in five" cataract sufferer tomorrow:  

I don't know how reliable the figures above are for the general population here, but it's a big jump when you hit the age of 60 and beyond. In my case, I discovered I had cataracts when I was 50 years old. (These figures above are from an eye surgery's ad in this week's Mind Your Body magazine supplement.)