If you could, would you choose to watch....

BluesStringer

BluesStringer

Les Brers
....a guy commit suicide on live TV?

Weird question, I know, but here's why I ask.

I probably won't have to wait for the results to come in from that question before someone else posts a YouTube link to it, but I just captured on my DirectTV DVR a segment of FOX News where they were following a car chase near Phoenix. The driver was said to have hijacked the car he was driving. He got off of Interstate 10W near Tonopah, drove a few miles before going off-road, stopped, fumbled around getting something out of the car and then started running away from it. He ran a short ways, stopped, racked his semi-auto with his back to the helicopter camera, and then raised the gun to his head and fired as Shepherd Smith was yelling at the booth to "Get it off! Get it off! GET IT OFF!" But it had already been broadcast before he even started yelling.

I've never tried to transfer anything from DVR to VCR or to hard drive, but I'm almost positive that at least the VCR can be done. I doubt I'll try though. Guess I'll consider y'all's opinion on it, but I'm inclined to think that should've been a private moment for the guy and just go ahead and erase it. I didn't enjoy seeing it. Doubt y'all would either.

Blues
 
Even with the 5 second delay they had no idea he was going to do it. Don't post it would be my choice. Something happen so fast it can't be stopped. Don't blame FOX they did the best they could.
 
rehalfacre said:
Even with the 5 second delay they had no idea he was going to do it. Don't post it would be my choice. Something happen so fast it can't be stopped. Don't blame FOX they did the best they could.
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Wasn't blaming FOX, just mentioned what network I was watching.

~OtisM~ said:
There are hundreds of videos on YouTube of it already.
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There wasn't when I posted, but like I predicted, I knew there would be uploads shortly thereafter. Good. I already erased it anyway.
 
It's a longstanding policy in journalism not to report on suicides. Exceptions have been made in the past when there have been "outbreaks." I think the idea is that they don't want to glorify it in any way, and that most people (at least way back when) don't feel it's newsworthy.
 
localgirl said:
It's a longstanding policy in journalism not to report on suicides. Exceptions have been made in the past when there have been "outbreaks." I think the idea is that they don't want to glorify it in any way, and that most people (at least way back when) don't feel it's newsworthy.
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Since when?.......
 
I have seen enough death...don't need to see more...doesn't really bother me but I don't think it should be televised especially when small children could accidentally see it
 
I have seen my share of suicide videos and pictures due to EMS training. Outside of that, I stay clear of that kind of imagery.
 
It is actually much less graphic than what one sees in the movies these days. Similar to watching film of drone strikes. Not for kids though.
 
I haven't personally seen the video you're talking about, but I did see a video of a man committing suicide in a police station interview room due to the failure of a pat search during one of my department's training sessions. I've seen and been involved in shootings, including suicides, but for some reason that video and imagery has stuck with me for years.

Sure, it's not as graphic as a video game or a movie, but unlike some people I am able to grasp that there is a difference. I suppose just certain events and images seem to stand out more to me than others, and probably have just learned some odd way to cope with the first-person happenings.
 
I'm just glad the courts and prisons don't have to deal with the guy. California should encourage more criminals to take this approach, they need every cost saving idea they can think of. My condolences to the mans friends, family, and drug dealer.
 
~OtisM~ said:
That guy was certainly on drugs. Drugs need to be made illegal so there aren't any more of them.
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I have to respectfully disagree with your statment. Not that the guy was on drugs but that they need to be made illegal. I also have to be honest, I thought you were kidding at first. I would argue that there are more drugs because they ARE illegal. I certanly do not advocat the use of drugs but blackmarket sales of drugs is what keeps them flowing into our country. The war on drugs is a scam. This could easily spin into a political debate so i'll just leave it here with this since this isn't the politics page:

U.S. Soldiers Grow Opium/Heroin Poppy in Afganistan - Fox News - YouTube

and

CIA Torture Jet crashed with 4 Tons of COCAINE - YouTube
 
I was watching Fox when that douche-bag offed himself, my only thought was "good shoot".
 
After riding as a paramedic for some 24 years, I have seen all the graphic I care to see, the fact that this loser saved taxpayer dollars is good enough for me.
 
escapedthematrix said:
I have to respectfully disagree with your statment. Not that the guy was on drugs but that they need to be made illegal. I also have to be honest, I thought you were kidding at first. I would argue that there are more drugs because they ARE illegal. I certanly do not advocat the use of drugs but blackmarket sales of drugs is what keeps them flowing into our country. The war on drugs is a scam. This could easily spin into a political debate so i'll just leave it here with this since this isn't the politics page.
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Depends on the drug. I can't see wasting tax dollars on hooch but I'm never agreeing to make crack or meth legal. Drugs that cause heavy addiction have a social cost. Kids of addicts are ruined, the medical and social service systems are stressed. Alcohol produces the same problems in some people but it's not as addictive as the big three. My sister-in-law is a NP in a neo-natal intensive care unit in Fl. She tells me one the worst things to watch is a drug-addicted newborn go through withdrawl.
 
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