December 22, 2007
Cameraphone misuse and indecency
One of the most appalling stories I've ever read on indecency and the misuse of cameraphones. [via The Daily Times Salisbury]
"Beth Bounds lost a son in a devastating crash Aug. 5 on the Chincoteague Causeway.
But months later, photographs of the tangled wreckage of vehicles survive in the camera phones of local students -- and continue to be forwarded to students, recent graduates and others.
Some of the photos even show her deceased son, 11-year-old Brendan Chance Holston, in the wreckage as he waited for medical help.
The photos are among the continuing insults that Bounds, and especially her ninth-grade daughter, Elyssa Bounds, are experiencing in the wake of the crash, which injured 10 other people.
Classmaates accused her of enjoying a "death limelight" and began to spread jealous rumors about her in the wake of her brother's death.
Waves of the photos were circulated to caller groups immediately after the crash, and recently have begun again in an bizarre electronic testament to morbid curiosity."
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