Man urinates on dying woman, declaring it 'YouTube material'- NVR
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Man urinates on dying woman, declaring it 'YouTube material'
From the "Annals of Modern Depravity" comes this sordid story:
Shouting, "This is YouTube material!" a 27-year-old British man urinated on a dying woman who had collapsed on the street, the BBC and local Hartepool Mail and Northern Echo tell us. He also doused her with a bucket of water and covered her with shaving cream.
The woman, 50-year-old Christine Lakinski, died at the scene of pancreatic failure.
In a sad sign of the times, it was all recorded on a mobile phone.
In court, Anthony Anderson said he had smoked a joint and been drinking with two friends when they spotted Lakinski. He faces jail after pleading guilty to "outraging public decency." Sentencing is set for Oct. 22.
"We will await the outcome and just hope he gets what he deserves," Lakinski's brother said after today's court hearing.
Original here: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/man-urinates-on.html
I believe we've all covered how terrible and inhumane of an act this was and I most definetely agree.
However, I will disagree as far as youtube goes. A lot of it is ridiculous but I have watched videos that made me laugh my a** off on a bad day or showed me something interesting. I used to hate youtube but then I watched the algorithm march with ninjas and I was fascinated.
YouTube is the absolute worst cultural innovation since MTV. Nothing but pointless videos.
Youtube has also been the forum for many news events that otherwise would never have reached national attention. Videos of protests, police brutality, etc are things that deserve mainstream media attention but don't get it. Many times in the past, such videos have reached national attention through Youtube; they wouldn't have gotten it otherwise (for example, the UCLA student who was tasered in that university's library). Youtube is a means of disseminating information in a way that is controlled by the people rather than by corporate news media. When I am disgusted with the cherrypicking infotainment on CNN, Fox News, etc, Youtube and other noncorporate media, such as the blogosphere, give me hope.
There are pointless videos, but it's definitely not "nothing but pointless videos." Many of the videos have a very important point.
My thoughts exactly, It is one of the only places where you can actually view the few rare news segments about the important political events that are taking place and not being covered by FUX news..... Most of the stuff of there is nonsense but it can be a great resource if you are searching about certain topics that are taboo in the britney saturated mass media....
So... Where's the YouTube video?
ETA: Okay, that sounded really nasty when I reread it. What I meant was, after all that, did this loser even get the YouTube coverage he wanted?
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