By Editor Sophia Stanford
A disgruntled homeowner has left a rude message on the roof of their property for anyone peeping on Google Maps.
Huge black letters spelling ‘F**K YOU’ were painted on the home in Mississippi, US.
The outrageous move has left curious theorists believing that the explicit message is intended for Google Maps.
With the property blurred from Street View, some Redditors speculated it was to do with the person wanting to keep their privacy.
‘I imagine they had Google blur their house on Street View (ya know, for privacy) but Google wouldn’t do it for Satellite View, so this was the homeowner’s response,’ one user wrote.
‘They’ve had their property image blurred from Street View as well… hah!’ someone added.
‘Do you think they realise this only draws more attention to them and not less?’ another said.
Home-owners can ask Google Maps to blur their ‘entire house, car or body’ by submitting the request with the ‘Report a problem’ tool.
This image will then be blurred on Street View over privacy concerns. However, they will not edit the satellite view.
Google has been contacted for comment but they had previously confirmed ‘Google does not itself blur satellite imagery’.
They said: ‘Google Earth is built from a broad range of imagery providers, including public, government, commercial and private sector sources – some of which may blur images before they supply it to us.
‘Such imagery is commercially available on the market (including to other map services) from third party providers. Any inquiries should be directed to that provider.
A Reddit user added that the roof has since been updated to ‘EAT S**T’, although this is not reflected in the satellite imagery.
Last year, another property similarly wrote a blunt message on their roof to stave off nosy neighbours.
A homeowner daubed ‘Watch p*rn, not me’ across the roof of their property, but the stunt backfired as tens of thousands flocked to view it on social media.
The gorgeous waterside property is located in Lake County, north-eastern Illinois, which boasts natural terrain ranging from sand dunes to prairie.
An image of the property was shared by a Facebook user posted a snap of the crude graffiti on to a dedicated group chat with fellow satellite imagery fanatics.
As a result, the rude message, painted in white block capitals to starkly contrast the homeowner’s black roof, can now be found on Google Images, with the entire world able to see.
A Facebook post highlighting the incident has received over 120,000 interactions, with many taking to the social media platform to air their thoughts on the irony.
One claimed ‘the entire world’ is now watching their rural property, and another, appearing to be a Google Maps enthusiast added: ‘Near Chicago. Soon it should be a law to have a quote on your roof.’
Another commented: ‘This poor guy or whoever is probably seeing this and thinking ‘well sh*t, that didn’t work out.’
Another user remarked: ‘And then suddenly, the entire world was watching THEM.’
One joked: ‘I can’t disagree with the homeowner.