People taking photos of someone seriously injured

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I was at the beach today. At one point a coastguard helicopter landed behind the seawall for what was an obvious emergency incident. I later found out on the news that a woman slipped on the rocks and banged her head. Anyway whilst the emergency services were on the scene there must have been around 200 people looking over the seawall gawping and taking photos until the helicopter left. I was disgusted at the lack of respect people were showing someone who was obviously seriously injured. What is wrong with these people? I'm sure they wouldn't like a huge crowd doing this if they or their loved one was injured.

I cannot STAND this kind of thing.

There was a poor man thinking about jumping off a bridge at the railway station last year and the police were up there gently trying to talk to him. There was a whole little crowd of local teenage boys standing there filming him in case he jumped. If I weren't scared of getting stabbed I'd have told them right off - makes my blood boil.

Oh jeez, how gross filming someone brain dead and posting it.

Grosteque people that need charging with gross indecency upon someone's privacy and right to be protected as extremely vulnerable

I would have filmed the little teenage gits and sent it to the police.

Disgusting little pricks.

I also hate seeing this kind of this. It would be immensely satisfying to carry a full water gun in the car so that whenever you come across a group of these vultures you can take the job of squirting them all - bet they'd disappear sharpish, or at the very least put their bloody phones away so they don't get damaged.

Where's the compassion and the shame? Do they not feel they're signposting themselves as selfish arseholes by putting someone's tragedy on social media for all heir friends to see? I guess not...

Car accident last year, young boy on a moped collided with our car. DP was in total shock and crying, I ran over to cover the boy with my coat and keep him talking whilst we waited for ambulance. The amount of people who came over trying to take photos was unbelievable. Fucking bastards. It's all so they can bask in adding 'exciting' news to social media. They don't care about your trauma and for me that worsened the incident. You're just a photo opportunity, that's all.

I console myself there are good people in this world who counteract these people. 2 men directed traffic away from the incident and told the photo seekers in no uncertain terms to fuck off. Stayed with us all until ambulance arrived. I mentioned it to the police who also came to the scene and they said they're sick of photo hounds, they get in the way, cause delays etc

I don't think I'd be able to stop myself asking them what on earth they thought they were doing.

In fact if it was something in which I was directly involved, I'd be dishing out dry slaps to anyone filming or taking photos.

It's so macabre, the worst is when say Northbound of a road has an accident, but there's that many nosey 🤯 that the traffic on Southbound slows down crazily or comes to a halt, whilst everyone has a good look.

I always thought if you saw something really grim by doing this, you pretty much should have bad dreams as it's such bad taste.

I've never understood the fascination myself. It's similar to staring at something grim on the pavement, or having Social Media accounts that really wing you up, but you can't avoid looking at posts that are going to make you sad for humanity.

I can understand rubber-necking, to a degree, there is something about something horrible happening that makes us want to look, even when we should look away. But hanging around, getting in the way and taking photos is unbelievably ghoulish.

I think this should be made illegal. We need an MP to sponsor a private members bill.

A lot of people are just cunts.

There was a fatal hit & run here last week, my friend lives near by & was struggling to get into her house with her young DD because there were so many people gawping/filming/taking photos crowding around.

It's sick.

Three weeks in prison and your name and photo in the paper so everyone knows you're an sicko accident perv.

My cousins wife was killed by a big cement mixer lorry..Photos were taken by the police of the various body parts spread out over the road/
The photos were sent to my s-i-l dh as he had some connection with road safety on the docks were it happened.
I only found out a few years afterwards that he had taken the photos home to show her and some friends

Someone on a local FB page took photos of her SON when he was wrapped in foil blankets on oxygen after nearly drowning with the air ambulance in the background. No thought of comforting her son, just about getting her FB likes. She posted about 20 pics from different angles.

I really don't understand people.

It's the 'everybody is a photographer' mentality that seems so common nowadays. I prefer to think of it as 'some people are cunts'

I can't understand why people think it's OK, I object even to programmes like You've been framed because it's making money out of others discomfort.

I had the misfortune to be a witness to a fatal accident-the amount of people of all ages and backgrounds who stopped to record and take pictures of the poor man who died was sickening. I can't shake the mental picture of what happened, it was absolutely horrific. I've also recently been a witness to a serious road traffic accident and was the only person to make a call to the emergency services, despite hundreds of cars passing(slowly, to rubberneck) and one of only three cars to stop to lend aide. Hundreds of comments on a local Facebook page of "OMG I saw that" "it was carnage" "do you know who it was/was that your brother/father driving that car @joebloggs?!!" Not one of the bastards wanted to help in the moment, but they all ran to their keyboards to claim glory online for having seen it.