Snapchat Sued For Facilitating 107 MPH Car Crash (patch.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A Georgia couple is suing Snapchat, a popular instant messaging and photo sharing app, after a car accident last year seriously injured the husband, leaving him permanently brain damaged. According to media reports, Wentworth Maynard, the victim, was driving in a 55-mile-per-hour zone when 18-year-old Christal McGee crashed into him traveling at 107 miles per hour. McGee, according to lawsuits, was attempting to use Snapchat's "speed filter" -- a feature that overlays the speed one is traveling on a picture. "Snapchat's speed filter facilitated McGee's excessive speeding," reads the lawsuit. "McGee was motivated to drive at an excessive speed in order to obtain recognition through Snapchat by the means of a Snapchat 'trophy.'"

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Re:grr

[DarkOx]

Don't underestimate the self absorbed nature of the millenials

http://www.npr.org/sections/al...

I honest think all this identity politics, blacklivesmatter, transrights, green, peta, and other nonsense has to do with the fact that nobody ever told them no. They never learned any real empathy or "mindfulness" that would lead them make basic human considerations like not endangering the lives of others. Since they don't actually care or love anyone but themselves the find the most ridiculous causes they can to latch onto so as to convince themselves they complete narcissists.