People filming distressing incidents

[Stolenyouth]

Saw this on the BBC today about the terrible impact of the filming and sharing of other people’s worst moments.
As medics worked to save my dad, people shared photos online https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07ddyv15gzo
It’s left me so upset. Happened to a dear friend of mine who was filmed in the immediate aftermath of an accident. Her dress was half ripped off. That feeling of powerlessness to stop moronic people whipping their phones out every time they see the slightest thing of interest. I really hope the campaign takes off.
I’ve seen footage of people on YouTube that I feel bad to have witnessed. Some of the comments will be expressing disgust that the footage has been shared but that just helps the algorithm.
Don’t know what we can do about it except support this campaign and be that person who speaks up when these shitty people whip out their phones.
My friend’s son is a new Police Officer and happens to be very good looking and works in Central London. Almost every day he gets tourists taking his picture and asking for selfies. Even when he’s trying to deal with difficult situations. Why do we not respect these human beings who work in emergency services? Why are they not seen as humans with a right to privacy and dignity?
Why can’t people go through their day without their bloody phone recording every little thing? Can we all step in when we see it?

Completely agree. Technology has moved on and we are now constantly “at risk” of being filmed and the person filming can do exactly what they want with it. However personal or demeaning or unpleasant the footage may be. And whatever we are doing. It’s so odd that we have such strong laws over privacy of data, yet this is apparently all fine and dandy. Our laws need to catch up with this and give people some privacy and dignity back. No one’s image should be uploaded to the internet imo unless they’ve consented to it. People are getting much more clued up in terms of not doing this with children’s images. It’s no different with adults. There are very similar concerns around safeguarding and consent.

I think there’s two seperate issues here. Having worked in emergency services photos and footage of an incident can be invaluable in both responding to an emergency call and investigating post incident. Apps such as GoodSam can be linked to 999 control rooms so that the public can provide live updates as to the situation so that appropriate resources can be provided. Similarly, phone footage, dashcam footage and photos can be used to piece together what happened during a post incident investigation. I would encourage people on the scene to take footage as long as they don’t put themselves at risk or impede access to emergency service workers.
The other issue is around posting footage and images on social media. This is completely unacceptable and in the interests of the privacy of those involved, not to mention the judicial process should charges be brought against individuals should never happen.

Disgusting people, shame on them.

That thought crossed my mind too. Abhorrent behaviour

My dog and I were attacked by another dog in the street. We were pulled to the ground. I was doing everything I could to shield my dog with my body, while a policeman ineffectually tried to kick the dog away. When the attack finished (a female police officer turned up and tasered the attacking dog), I staggered to my feet clutching my dog, and the first thing I saw was groups of men in the windows of the local boozer holding their phones up. Evidently, rather than trying to do anything at all to help, they'd decided to capture the attack on film. It was utterly appalling. My dog survived, by the way, but was never the same physically and ultimately had to be put to sleep.

I was once walking down the street,pushing my buggy and had turned the corner when I saw a little old lady come out of m&s and then step out onto the road

Where she was hit by an oncoming bus

The amount of dickheads that had their phones out and where filming this poor ladies body (or more accurately,her legs sticking out from under the bus) was unreal

I'm not joking,there was about 30 people all glued to their phones,getting in the way of the professionals trying to save her life (she would have been dead within seconds)

Another time,I was walking through my city centre with dd (then aged about 9/10,shes now 28) when I found the normal way we would have gone was blocked with hundreds of people

Not knowing what was happening,I steered dd away to walk around

We came out of another street and there where hundreds of people all filming and shouting

It turned out,a young man was hanging out of a hotel window and was treating to jump

Pete where shouting at him to do it and about 3/4's of them where filming it!

The man did jump (just as I said to dd 'the mr will be fine sweetie,the police will get him down'while trying to get her away from all this) and he died later In hospital

I will never forget the sound of him hitting the ground and I hope all those rubbernecking/filming arseholes get their comeuppance

I hate mobile phones. I hate that the world is obsessed with attention. People don’t film it because they care about it. If you care you wouldn’t film it, they film it so they can share it online and shout they were there and get clicks from other twats who post inane, generic comments under it. Then themselves post some bollocks about “thoughts and prayers with the family” when in actual fact they’ve tried to gain attention out of someone else’s misfortune.

the internet has done some great things for the world, but it’s created a vile, attention seeking mob that would step over their dying mother to get a thumbs up on something they have posted.

I see the irony of myself saying this on a chat forum.

I can understand dashcam footage etc, but not people filming someone in distress, and especially when emergency services are already there. It is ghoulish.

I’m so so sorry 😔❤️

The main reason of course, they want to give/sell to the media. Or they are wannabe influencers.

In conflict situations of course, this footage is essential to show the truth. Professional photo journalists can't be everywhere. In Gazza no news providers are permitted, and the Isrealis are hardly likely to record the results of their actions.

It really is very grim out there. People that do this clearly have no moral compass. Too many people hanging around doing nothing all day - got to get their dull lives spiced up somehow with someone else’s misfortune.

Glad to see so many agree. If it happens again I may lose my temper and start shouting ‘Shame’ at the mindless phone addicts. Not that shame is really a thing for too many people in the UK now.

I've been a 'victim' of this. 1st week back driving after back surgery, I got twatted from some idiot on his phone. My car flipped and trapped me. It took nearly 2hrs to cut me out of the car, all the time a paramedic was giving me first aid. Literally as soon as I was released and on the trolley to go into the ambulance, some twat had shoved his phone at me asking questions. To be fair, the police got him out of the way with a threat of arrest. I vaguely remember saying to one police woman that if I wasn't so out of it on morphine, I'd have swung for them. She said it was an annoying common occurrence. I found out later that nearly 10 rubberneckers had been warned about filming my situation.
It's sad how people seem to get excited about this kind of thing. Where's the empathy gone? Why make someones bad day into entertainment? It's disgusting.