An Australian woman was mortified when she learned a drone snapped pictures of her sunbathing while wearing nothing but a G-string- which were later published.
Mandy Lingard, who owns a small business, didn't think anything of the buzzing sound she heard while sunbathing in the backyard of her Mt Martha home a few weeks ago, Perth Now reported.
"I heard a noise and then I saw this odd thing flying around and thought it was a kid's toy," the 50-year-old grandmother of one, who lives southeast of Melbourne, told Perth Now. "It hovered around and luckily I was face down the time."
But she received a rude awakening when she recently walked out her front door and was greeted by a large billboard with an aerial shot of her sunbathing face down in her G-string.
"You could see it's our backyard and quite clearly it was me."
The drone had been sent by a real estate company to take photographs for a house it was selling, which lies next door to Lingard's home.
"It's in the real estate magazine, it's on the Internet and on the board and I'm really embarrassed," she told Perth Now. Her son and friends also noticed the humiliating picture.
A representative from Eview real estate said they did not realize the nearly naked woman ended up in the advertisement for the million-dollar home. The billboard was removed on Monday.
The company also stood by its use of drones for aerial photography to help promote listings.
"It's something that Google does and people use that every day," Eview real estate head Steve Walsh told Perth Now.
But Lingard doesn't see how the company missed the partial nudity and wonders why they didn't edit her out.
"You can't tell me the person who was looking at those photos didn't notice that," she said.
