A man clad in a purple jumper and black jeans, and donning a horse mask has become the latest talk on the internet after being clicked by a Google Street View car collecting information in Aberdeen.

BBC News accounted that the image was posted over the web as a part of Google's Street View service. News reports of the photographs broadened like a viral, tagging the supposed 'horse boy', the latest hit on Internet.

Internet users from all regions of Europe have sent e-mails to the BBC, stating that they know who the real horse boy is.

Russell Moffatt, an IT Manager observed the man wearing the horse mask, whilst he was looking for an optician's shop in Hardgate, Aberdeen.

Moffatt said that he is striving to find the man with the aid of pals on Twitter.

He wrote on Twitter, "I bet he's been quietly smiling to himself ever since, waiting to be discovered".

The BBC says that the post has received over 800,000 hits from the time it was released.

He slipped on the horse mask as the Google car captured a housing Aberdeen street close to Riverside Terrace in the city.

Clad in a purple jumper and black jeans, he can be viewed in the Google Street View photos wearing the mask.