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Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online
Jason writes "Reuters reports (and News.com mirrors) that the video of a man who shot himself after his girlfriend broke up with him has appeared online under the heading of 'Introducing: The Self-Cleansing Housing Projects.' It goes on to say that the police officers receive no training to deal with privacy issues."
OK, this is sad and all, and the cops shouldn't post this stuff on the web (assuming they did), but this quote kills me (not literally, of course):
My child was killed twice," she said. "The first time he did it to himself. The second time, online did it to him."
My god, what will online do next? Won't somebody think of the children?!
everything in moderation
I dont know what sickens me more - that people flock to see this so much, or that they put it up in Windows Media Format!!
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At least its not a 'how to' or a Suicide FAQ.
Hmm... Sounds like a whole company could be created around this whole thing: Suicide'R'us.
Only problem is that business keeps dropping off....
Either that or they don't have any repeat customers.
Good to see our law enforcement is doing such a bang up job.
Im on for 50 that some senator will pass an emergency law making searching, viewing, downloading or even caching this file carry upto 20 years jail. I'd tend to agree with him on this one - you simply cannot have people encoding in windows media format, its just not right!
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don't give anyone a new idea for goatse links
Death by suicide is more common than death by murder.
In other breaking news, people enjoy seeing graphic imagery!!
Also, police are assholes.
Film at 11.
For those in more sensitive environments, be aware that the link in the parent post contains some porn ad banners.
Nobody's real mother gets to see their real kid really die in a movie (usually). In that sense, yeah, make-believe makes a difference I'm afraid.
That said, I am disturbed by the lack of sex in our violence (most American media). I prefer boobies and butts to entrails and gaping wounds.
everything in moderation
Joe: You can't take something off the Internet. It's like taking pee out of a swimming pool
The difference is, the "Faces of Death" people went around to all of the folks they had committing suicide on camera and got them to sign over permission to use the video.
In this case, nobody asked the dead guy for permission.
I'm not gonna click, but if that's the Ford ad where the car decapitates the cat with the skylight, that's some funny shit.
This could all have been prevented if root would just put a respawn in init for us all.
Shame on you root.
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You're prolly the same type of person who thinks wearing "faux fur" is ok because it's not real fur and therefor not really symbolic of skinning an animal and wearing it's fur...
No, it's symbolic of my foot in the ass of people who come up with bullshit logic such as this. Jesus, what's wrong with you?
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
I prefer boobies and butts to entrails and gaping wounds.
I suppose it depends on your taste in sex films.
If you want to see what's REALLY on the news, check out News 14 Carolina whose TV caption system was haxored:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~smheath/news14.html
cpeterso
> can I have your name and SSID?
Well, if you need to know someone's, you can have mine. My name is "Dan" and I've set my SSID to "AirPort Extreme." Do you want my router's MAC address too?
Don't anthropomorphise Information. It doesn't like it.
(Shamelessly stolen/copied, or just plain unfunny.)
No shit last week fox news used some of my work and they didn't credit me!
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
> Imperfictly of course my thoughts come first so by bisses cancle out...
Is this Vogon poetry?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."