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Family Has Right of Privacy In Decapitation Photos
big6joe sends in an update to a morbid story we discussed last year: a California appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling, granting the family of an 18-year-old woman who was killed in a traffic accident in 2006 privacy rights and recourse against the California Highway Patrol. "In a case that highlights how the ease of online communication can overthrow both common sense and basic decency, a California appeals court has ruled that families have a right of privacy in the death images of their loved ones. In 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman was decapitated in a traffic accident. Two of the police officers who reported to the scene emailed photos of the woman's body to their friends and family one Halloween."
If she got drunk and splattered herself on public land and property there is no expectation of privacy.
The problem is the pictures came from the cops, not a bystander or journalist.
When something like that happens the public land becomes an crime/crash scene and is not public for the moment.
Those highway drunks can be real mean, it's best not to provoke them.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The greater good can fuck itself up the ass sideways. The greater good has, through one evolution or another, given us every truly despotic regime on this planet. It has justified more bloodshed and evil than any other phrase in existence.
You're thinking of Religion, actually.
OK ... am I free to stop paying taxes then? No? Then I'm going to use the goddamned roads I paid for.
Why not make them all toll roads? Pay proportionate to your usage? I'm all for it. Oh, I'm sorry, does that offend your lazy-ass socialist sensibilities? Dumbshit.
Yes, you are an anonymous coward and you suck rhino. Suppose it was your sister. You are one sick bastard
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.