Just How Low Can Some People Get?

[Barsel]

Three months? To me that isn't long enough for the despicable thing this person has done.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/facebook-ghoul-who-photographed-dead-grenfell-tower-fire-victim-in-body-bag-is-jailed-for-three-months/ar-BBCM1Ba?li=BBoPWjQ

[Old_Geezer]

It's probably enough to drive home that there are limits beyond which public decency won't allow someone to go. Hopefully he'll be able to figure out those limits for himself in the future.

[Barsel]

I just cannot understand the mentality of someone who would do that. It's just beyond comprehension.

[Old_Geezer]

Unemotional, wanted a photo so just went and got it. I'm no psychology expert but that sounds psychopathic to me.

[ToraToraTora]

well he'll have plenty of time to reflect on this!

[Barsel]

I hope he meets someone in prison who feels as angry as I do!

[Ken4155]

Of course, what he did was despicable and i believe he has been dealt with correctly. Though i do have to ask myself, just what would have happened to him had he been a photographic journalist and the images, pixelated of course, had been published in the press?

[EDDIE51]

Facebook is a curse !
I have previously commented on a car crash I saw ( but did not have a phone with me)
12 people saw it but just took pictures to put on Facebook, I had to tell a local shop keeper to dial 999 as none of the 'viewers' had bothered to do it.
I asked two of them why they did not dial 999 instead of just putting it on Facebook, they said '' well the police look at facebook so they will see it anyway''
It scares me that young people in particular think putting something on Facebook is the answer to any problem!

[Togo]

Faecesbook the veritable Tower of Babel.

[sp1814]

Last month something similar happened.

Remember the story about the driver (Richard Rojas) who mowed down all those people in Times Square? One national paper in the UK chose to publish an unpixellated photo of one of the dead victims.

The paper in question got slated by its readers.

It's a disgusting act. It shows no human empathy for the victims or their families (in both cases). Reducing human life to a bit of "Ooh...look at this everyone!"

Horrible.

[-Talbot-]

I really don't think this thread is about Facebook EDDIE.

[vetuste_ennemi]

What was this man charged with? Desecration of a dead body?

[Zacs-Master]

It tells you in the article:
'two counts of sending by a public communications network an offending, indecent or obscene matter.'

[-Talbot-]

He pleaded guilty to two offences contrary to section 127 of the Communications Act, Scotland Yard said.

That clause refers to "improper use of public electronic communications network" by posting matter that is "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

[Cloverjo]

I'm not trying to defend him, I don't know what was going through his mind, but he said he was trying to highlight the fact that the body had been left unattended.

[Barsel]

jo, he did it for sensationalism not for the reason he gave. If he was trying to highlight the fact that the body had been left unattended, there was no need to do what he did.
He posted one video and two pictures of the body bag with the man inside and then later five pictures of the victim's face and body after opening it to look inside.

[Mamyalynne]

I read this report yesterday, don't know which paper - I didn't share it here as it sickened me and he'd been dealt with.

I too must make the point Facebook is not the culprit here, he is.

[jno]

Talbot, I think it is about Facebook (and so does the law, as you quoted). Would he have done this before social media existed? I very much doubt it. Simply taking the photo was pretty gross, but if it had stayed in his camera it wouldn't have been much cause for concern. it's posting it on FB for all the world to gawp at that is really nasty.

[Mamyalynne]

So - if he had posted it here?

[-Talbot-]

jno
Talbot, I think it is about Facebook (and so does the law, as you quoted). Would he have done this before social media existed?


Then it is about social media not Facebook.

[hc4361]

But FB didn't encourage or make him do it. If cameras had never been invented it wouldn't have happened