And in other news, everyone in the Politics tab is now entitled to some hefty compensation.

Morbid Curiousity got the best of me.....glad I didn't expand the pics to normal size just saw the thumbs in GIS.

I woulda hit it.

"I'm determined to get them off the Internet," her father, Christos Catsouras, told The Times in 2010, "although I've been told by every single person who's an Internet expert that we will never get them removed."

And sir, that is why you'll never get them off the internet. Because that's the way it works. The more and harder you try to remove something like this from the internet, the more people will look for it, at it, and rehost it. The best bet would be just shutting up about it.

But, of course, I still fully support suing the hell out of the police and the dispatchers personally. Also, your daughter was a damned idiot. Cute though. She didn't deserve to die but she was a damned idiot who could have killed many others through her stupidity.

Sharpton for President, ya'll. Peace out.

Just a hint, GIS for "Porche Girl" may turn up some NSFW images. Just sayin'.

She hit it.

♫Hey theeere Porsche Girl

Flying through the air so fancy free♫

How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

Rent Party: I woulda hit it like a tollbooth.

FTFY

God damn, she cut her bloody head in half. That's a pretty gruesome set of photos.

Back to eating my carnitas now.

TTIUWP

AND WHERE ARE THE PICS

First thought: The people in the Civic (or their family) that Catsouras clipped should file a a 2.37 million dollar suit right about now.

I'm really curious to know how fact she was going. All Wikipedia has was she was doing over 100 mph. Normally at 100 a Porsche will be farked up, but not farked up to the point it appears to be in the photos.

/although the concrete tollbooth might have had something do with that
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ha-ha-guy: First thought: The people in the Civic (or their family) that Catsouras clipped should file a a 2.37 million dollar suit right about now.

I'm really curious to know how fact she was going. All Wikipedia has was she was doing over 100 mph. Normally at 100 a Porsche will be farked up, but not farked up to the point it appears to be in the photos.

/although the concrete tollbooth might have had something do with that
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HTML Fail:

This is the Civic She Hit

SFW and no gore at all in that photo

ihatedumbpeople: How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

Because money is the agreed medium by which guilty parties pay and "make whole" the victims in civil cases. There is simply no other logical way to do it.

ihatedumbpeople: How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

They're punitive damages. It's to encourage the CHP to put safeguards in place to prevent photo leaks from happening again, and/or to deter another police agency from leaking photos.

ihatedumbpeople: How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

It punishes the guilty parties to make them never do that shiat again. (hopefully)
It helps with the pain and suffering by helping to pay the doctor bills.
It helps to buy porn since they cant go online and get it for free.

Satanic_Hamster: She didn't deserve to die

I agree with most of your comment, save this, and that's because:

Satanic_Hamster: she was a damned idiot who could have killed many others through her stupidity.

All sympathy and caring for a person goes out the window for me when they undertake the epic level of stupidity she did. In fact, I'd go so far as to say I'm at somehow satisfied on some level that she took herself out before she got anybody else.

I do feel bad for her family, however, support the notion that the idiots who unleashed all this deserve to be hammered hard for what they did, and hope that all the scum who engaged in the harassment get un-treatable eyeball cancer.

Despite the efforts proving futile thus far, the Highway Patrol agreed to cooperate with the family in fighting to remove the images from the Internet, as a part of the settlement.

You would have had a better chance of doctors reattaching your daughters head, bring her back from the dead and recovering to a point to where she was able to live a long and fruitful life save a few migraines.


btw did those cops get fired or only placed on "administrative leave"

Satanic_Hamster: And sir, that is why you'll never get them off the internet.

It never hurts to ask. (new window)

ihatedumbpeople: How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

Owning a Porsche kinda indicates you place extremely high value on money and material goods

There was a time many years ago when I'd giggle at the prospect of seeing pictures like this. I've seen the pics of her before, and they're pretty gruesome. I feel sorry for her family who has to go through this; not only having pictures of their daughter posted as a spectacle, but for the subhumans who think it's lulzy to keep rubbing the family's face in it.

Ugh, I never look at gore sites. But the article was basically begging me to google it. They even told me what to search to find them
And so I did.
And wish I hadn't.

When I was in High School in our Driver's Ed classes, long long before teh intarwebs, the teacher handed out books that contained police photos of dead and mangled people in car wrecks to show what can happen to you if you don't drive carefully. I mean horrific images, probably just as bad as the pics of this girl, which I have not and will not GIS. We all pored over those books, fascinated, but I can't say that it had any effect on any of us. I hope the families of those people gave permission for the use of the photos. Also, I have never heard since then of anyone seeing books like that in their Driver's Ed classes.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: AND WHERE ARE THE PICS

Here (new window) NSFW

dennysgod: Despite the efforts proving futile thus far, the Highway Patrol agreed to cooperate with the family in fighting to remove the images from the Internet, as a part of the settlement.

You would have had a better chance of doctors reattaching your daughters head, bring her back from the dead and recovering to a point to where she was able to live a long and fruitful life save a few migraines.


btw did those cops get fired or only placed on "administrative leave"

fired

i never really liked this story. the pics don't really bother me, but harassing the family with them? yeesh.

Satanic_Hamster: "I'm determined to get them off the Internet," her father, Christos Catsouras, told The Times in 2010, "although I've been told by every single person who's an Internet expert that we will never get them removed."

And sir, that is why you'll never get them off the internet. Because that's the way it works. The more and harder you try to remove something like this from the internet, the more people will look for it, at it, and rehost it. The best bet would be just shutting up about it.

But, of course, I still fully support suing the hell out of the police and the dispatchers personally. Also, your daughter was a damned idiot. Cute though. She didn't deserve to die but she was a damned idiot who could have killed many others through her stupidity.

Sharpton for President, ya'll. Peace out.

dennysgod: Despite the efforts proving futile thus far, the Highway Patrol agreed to cooperate with the family in fighting to remove the images from the Internet, as a part of the settlement.

You would have had a better chance of doctors reattaching your daughters head, bring her back from the dead and recovering to a point to where she was able to live a long and fruitful life save a few migraines.


btw did those cops get fired or only placed on "administrative leave"

couldn't you theoretically just pay every search engine automatically filter out the results? Does not take them off the internet.. but makes them hard to find.

FTFA: The family has said they avoid using the Internet to avoid seeing the photos.

I have been using the internet continuously since before 2006, and I have never seen the photos. Never heard of them until today, in fact. Funny how some people perceive the internet. Recently I heard an old guy explaining that he won't ever use it again as he believes it's "all lies."

If you can afford a Porsche and your daughter's old enough to drive, why didn't you send her to a high-performance driving school? That's like keeping an assault rifle in the house but deciding not to get gun safety lessons for your family. Someone's gonna get killed since they have no idea about the responsibility they bear with something that can fark them up if they're not careful.

/Pelle Lindbergh, Bobby Phills, Ryan Dunn and James Dean's running a train on Porsche Girl in the afterlife because of your short-sightedness, Christos Catsouras

jaytkay: Owning a Porsche kinda indicates you place extremely high value on money and material goods

Nnnno..... There really isn't any alternative to making a person whole again when they've suffered some non-material damage. It's cute to recite the sticks and stones mantra when you're talking about people calling you a doodoohead in third grade, but when you're talking about intentional and prolonged assaults on the psyche it's pretty much entirely bullhonkey. Words and taunting can not only injure a person's feelings, they can cause serious and irreparable damage to a person's life that can actually be measured in medical and financial terms.

Beyond that, punitive damages also serve as a staunch warning to others, basically saying "you better think before you do something stupid like this, because it could cost YOU a few million dollars too".

silvervial: When I was in High School in our Driver's Ed classes, long long before teh intarwebs, the teacher handed out books that contained police photos of dead and mangled people in car wrecks to show what can happen to you if you don't drive carefully. I mean horrific images, probably just as bad as the pics of this girl, which I have not and will not GIS. We all pored over those books, fascinated, but I can't say that it had any effect on any of us. I hope the families of those people gave permission for the use of the photos. Also, I have never heard since then of anyone seeing books like that in their Driver's Ed classes.

My daughter saw video called Agony on the Highway last year. It was gruesome wrecks and done by some State Police department (Ohio I think, but don't hold me to that). Supposedly though at best the gruesome photos only work for 2-3 weeks before they get shoved off some some deep storage part of the memory or forgotten and cease to be effective.

/I got the photo of gruesome photos, but I'm old

MajorityWhip: Teen Wolf Blitzer: AND WHERE ARE THE PICS

Here (new window) NSFW

I can't do it. Thanks for the link though.

What matters is that these pictures should have never hit the internet. It's absurd.

jaytkay: ihatedumbpeople: How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

Owning a Porsche kinda indicates you place extremely high value on money and material goods

So people who drive Tercels love money less and something else more than those who drive Porsches? How do you know that the average person driving an Accord doesn't love money as much as the guy driving a Porsche? The only thing we can infer is that one is better at getting it.

silvervial: When I was in High School in our Driver's Ed classes, long long before teh intarwebs, the teacher handed out books that contained police photos of dead and mangled people in car wrecks to show what can happen to you if you don't drive carefully. I mean horrific images, probably just as bad as the pics of this girl, which I have not and will not GIS. We all pored over those books, fascinated, but I can't say that it had any effect on any of us. I hope the families of those people gave permission for the use of the photos. Also, I have never heard since then of anyone seeing books like that in their Driver's Ed classes.

WHEELS OF TRAGEDY!

*Stories of the Ohio State Patrol*

ihatedumbpeople: How does money help...really? the images are leaked. once online, they'll stay online. I can see canning the idiots that leaked them, but how does paying the family somehow make it right?

Because you can't sue them to death...?

silvervial: Also, I have never heard since then of anyone seeing books like that in their Driver's Ed classes.

We had movies, though I can't remember if ours was "Signal 30" or "Red Asphalt".

But I remember when I was in the single-digit age range seeing crash aftermath photos in "Reader's Digest" (this would have been late 60's - early 70's; you know, the old "Reader's Digest") and being simultaneously morbidly fascinated by them, but too scared to look at them.

Thinking about it some more, silvervial, I wonder: could those books have been put together by "Reader's Digest" for use in driver's ed classes? That was the kind of thing they did a lot of back then.