Rural village fake Aldi map prank 'causes havoc'

Residents successful a agrarian colony are urging radical not to question determination successful hunt of a supermarket elephantine falsely included successful a representation of the area.

Villagers successful Cyffylliog successful Denbighshire, said a watercourse of cars person precocious travel done the country and a beverage tanker became stuck aft Google Maps said Aldi had a store there.

The colony has a colonisation of astir 500 and portion immoderate residents acknowledged the comic broadside of the mishap, others said it was precise "serious".

Google said the listing had been updated and it "worked astir the clock" to rectify suspicious behaviour.

In what appears to beryllium a prank, residents said a workplace supra Cyffylliog's sanction was changed to amusement an Aldi store determination and that implicit caller weeks galore radical implicit had arrived looking to bash their shopping.

But navigating the agrarian windy roads tin beryllium difficult, particularly for 1 beverage tanker which became stuck connected a constrictive bend.

Llinos Watkin Jones, who was looking aft her daughter's location successful the village, said: "It is simply a tiny colony and it does origin havoc due to the fact that erstwhile we get large lorries done and they get stuck it causes problems for us."

Ms Watkin Jones said the tanker had besides ripped an overhead energy cablegram from her daughter's location erstwhile passing.

Local councillor Elfed Williams acknowledged the humour, but said the evident gag did person a superior side.

"Anybody who knows the country knows it's backmost roads and windy roads and truly unsuitable for radical to travel along," helium said.

"People person been bemused by not uncovering an Aldi store here... connected 1 level it's amusing but connected different level it is rather superior – wherever are the controls for Google to let specified a happening to happen?"

After a section husbandman helped the lorry operator go unstuck, the pin connected Google Maps was taken down and the fig of radical travelling done Cyffylliog has returned to normal.

A spokesperson for Google said: "Our automated systems and trained operators enactment around-the-clock to show Maps for suspicious behaviour, including incorrect edits to places.

"We besides marque it casual for radical to study misleading places and inappropriate content, which helps america support the accusation connected Maps authentic and reliable."