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

[Barsel]

My post wasn't about what he did with the photos, it was to ask why did he do it in the first place, what sort of person would do this and is 3 months long enough punishment.
Mamya, it is sickening but then again, all the reports and videos of the catastrophe are.

[Mamyalynne]

I don't know what was in his mind at the time - often we cannot comprehend people at all.


I was not criticising your post Barsel, sorry if it read that way.

[hc4361]

I'm not defending his actions, either - it was a deplorable and inhumane thing to do but when I was in a traumatic situation I behaved deplorably - I was in shock and not thinking straight. I thought I would be calm and rational in such a situation, I now know different

[Barsel]

/// - often we cannot comprehend people at all. /// This is very true Mamya. I do despair sometimes though.

[jno]

Barsel, I think the reason he did it was to post the photos for all to see. I think FB is all part of it. There may well have been people who photographed bodies 15 years ago, but as there was no simple way of distributing them the world would seldom hear about it. My guess is that he did it not just because he could, but because he could then publish online; without that platform, I doubt he would ever have thought of doing what he did. (I'm not blaming FB; he and he alone was responsible.)

As to whether the punishment is enough I don't know, it's still not a common crime; but it's a fair bet he'll be inside longer than the people responsible for building the deathtrap tower block, which I personally consider far worse behaviour.

[mushroom25]

jno: //the people responsible for building the death trap tower block...//

did you mean the builders? those that erected the tower in 1972?

[andy-hughes]

As with any thread that carries a 'How could someone ...' message - the answer is always the same.

If you are asking that question, it's because you are assuming that there is a rational thought process at work here, and you want to know what that is.

That is where your thinking parts company with the thinking of people who do things like this.

It's pointless to look for a rational reason for this behaviour -there isn't one to find.

Yes, this man dreamed up a (facile) reason for his action, but the truth is, he wasn't actually thinking at all about what he was doing, or why, or whether it was right or wrong.

These concepts require an ability to think rationally, and with an element of intelligence. Sadly, neither are pre-requisites for ownership of a mobile phone, and access to social media.

[albaqwerty]

The guy is a plonker and should never again have access to a mobile phone. Well, one which takes and can send images to other websites.

[Buenchico]

I see absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever with taking pictures of dead people (and/or distributing them via social media).

The UK is one of very few countries where our media shy away from posting pictures of corpses on the front pages of daily newspapers. In almost any other European country (e.g. France, Germany or Italy), where they're not so reticent to depict death, the guy would have been paid a large amount of money for his photographs to adorn every news-stand in the country.

Exactly the same should have happened here.

[Jackdaw33]

You're going to get some stick over that, Chico, although I quite take your point.

[-Talbot-]

Buenchico
I see absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever with taking pictures of dead people (and/or distributing them via social media).




He opened a body bag to take the pictures For Funks Sake.

[Buenchico]

>>> He opened a body bag to take the pictures For Funks Sake

So what? When you're dead you're only a lump of rotting meat. What's wrong with taking a picture of rotting meat?

[Mamyalynne]

Chris, your stance doesn't surprise me knowing you as much as anyone on here can - but I do disagree.

Years ago it was common to take Photographs of deceased family in all manner of poses and of course parents still do of their deceased children, but not for gain or to shock - that is different.

As is War Photography.

Thank goodness we are all different in our views.

[-Talbot-]

You're a sick man ... A protected species of sick man


Non the less ... Sick

[Mamyalynne]

Chris, I strongly advise you to leave this topic - at least for tonight.

[-Talbot-]

He would not be looked at as a piece of rotting meat by his family.

[baza]

All the emergency services show respect for the dead, the body was in a zipped bag, the plonker with the camera needs to be educated as to what is and what is not normal.