Donny Ryding from Leasowe, Merseyside, had been warned by doctors to quit smoking and to adopt a healthy diet after suffering from a heart attack.. The taxi driver promised his wife Julie he would kick the habit but he was still enjoying cigarettes in secret behind her back.

 

But Mr Ryding, was rumbled³ when he was captured outside his home having a crafty⁴ cigarette by one of the Google Street View cameras after his wife suspected he wasn't keeping to his healthy lifestyle.

 

Mrs Ryding said: 'He'd been told to give up smoking and to stop eating unhealthy foods after he had a heart attack. I cleaned his car out for him and I found loads of Hobnob biscuits in there. I confronted him and he denied it and he wouldn't admit to it. He stormed out of the house and then later that day we'd heard that the Street View camera was driving around. When I checked it online I couldn't believe it - there was no denying it now we'd seen it.'

 

Although the incriminating picture has now been removed from Street View, and replaced with a more up to date version, it can still be accessed on Google Maps.

 

Mrs Ryding added: 'When Street View first launched, they didn't blur⁵ out faces, but there was no need to with him - he was covered by a cloud of smoke anyway!

 

'Since it happened we've called it 'Hobnob day' and whenever the family gets together we laugh and joke about it. He did sleep on the couch that night but he took it all in good spirits.'

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