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11/22/2008 18:15 #46799
Lots of Cock unexepctedly (no pictures)Category: sex
11/21/2008 19:10 #46789
Watching a Sucicide onlineCategory: internet
Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience
By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press Writer Rasha Madkour, Associated Press Writer - 1 hr 10 mins ago
MIAMI - A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke.
Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home - a scene also captured on the Internet - it was too late.
Biggs, a 19-year-old Broward College student who suffered from what his family said was bipolar disorder, or manic depression, lay dead on his bed in his father's Pembroke Pines house Wednesday afternoon, the camera still running 12 hours after Biggs announced his intentions online around 3 a.m.
It was unclear how many people watched it unfold.
Biggs was not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling. But the drawn-out drama - and the reaction of those watching - was seen as an extreme example of young people's penchant for sharing intimate details about themselves over the Internet.
Biggs' family was infuriated that no one acted sooner to save him, neither the viewers nor the Web site that hosted the live video, Justin.tv. The Web site shows a video image, with a space alongside where computer users can instantly post comments.
Only when police arrived did the Web feed stop, "so that's 12 hours of watching," said the victim's sister, Rosalind Bigg. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."
She added: "It didn't have to be."
An autopsy concluded Biggs died from a combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, which his family said was prescribed for his bipolar disorder.
Biggs announced his plans to kill himself over a Web site for bodybuilders, authorities said. But some users told investigators they did not take him seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before.
Some members of his virtual audience encouraged him to do it, others tried to talk him out of it, and some discussed whether he was taking a dose big enough to kill himself, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office.
A computer user who claimed to have watched said that after swallowing some pills, Biggs went to sleep and appeared to be breathing for a few hours while others cracked jokes.
Someone notified the moderator of the bodybuilding site, who traced Biggs' location and called police, Crane said.
As police entered the room, the audience's reaction was filled with Internet shorthand: "OMFG," one wrote, meaning "Oh, my God." Others, either not knowing what they were seeing, or not caring, wrote "lol," which means "laughing out loud," and "hahahah."
An online video purportedly from Biggs' webcam shows a gun-wielding officer entering a bedroom, where a man is lying on a bed, his face turned away from the camera. The officer begins to examine him, as the camera lens is covered. Authorities could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video, though it matched their description of what occurred.
Montana Miller, an assistant professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said Biggs' very public suicide was not shocking, given the way teenagers chronicle every facet of their lives on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
"If it's not recorded or documented then it doesn't even seem worthwhile," she said. "For today's generation it might seem, `What's the point of doing it if everyone isn't going to see it?'"
She likened Biggs' death to other public ways of committing suicide, like jumping off a bridge.
Crane said she knows of a case in which a Florida man shot himself in the head in front of an online audience, though she didn't know how much viewers saw. In Britain last year, a man hanged himself while chatting online.
In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: "We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time."
The Web site would not say how many people were watching the broadcast. The site as a whole had 672,000 unique visitors in October, according to Nielsen.
Miami lawyer William Hill said there is probably nothing that could be done legally to those who watched and did not act. As for whether the Web site could be held liable, Hill said there doesn't seem to be much of a case for negligence.
"There could conceivably be some liability if they knew this was happening and they had some ability to intervene and didn't take action," said Hill, who does business litigation and has represented a number of Internet-based clients. But "I think it would be a stretch."
Condolences poured into Biggs' MySpace page, where the mostly unsmiling teen is seen posing in a series of pictures with various young women. On the bodybuilding Web site, Biggs used the screen name CandyJunkie. His Justin.tv alias was "feels_like_ecstacy."
Rosalind Bigg described her brother as an outgoing person who struck up conversations with Starbucks baristas and enjoyed taking his young nieces to Chuck E. Cheese. He was health-conscious and exercised but was not a bodybuilder, she said.
"This is very, very sudden and unexpected for us," the sister said. "It boggles the mind. We don't understand."
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Associated Press Writers Jessica Gresko and Lisa Orkin Emmanuel and the AP News Research Center in New York contributed to this report.
(This version CORRECTS sister's last name in next-to-last graf.)
My first thought was wow that is really odd. It seems like people where being so cruel to encourage him to do it. But then I thought hey maybe they didn't think he really would and that it was a joke. Or maybe people thought hey if he wants to die he should do it. Or maybe they thought if he is going to do it anyways maybe I can see it. I think that a lot of people didn't think he was serious. Since it was by using pills I don't think anyone on line could really tell for sure he was dead. All in all it seems very strange and distrubing. I do think it was good that some people tried to get him not to do it. In any event I do agree that the ideas they express in this article are kinda true. I'm not the young generation but I have multiple blogs and post all kinds of pictures. So maybe if I did end my life I might want people to see the pictures but I don't think to watch but I don't know cause my mind isn't there. But there is something this article doesn't ask and I will. Where were the parents. I know that isn't fair that being bi-polar is very tough and I can't imagine what that is like. But at some point I wonder if they could have done more.
In terms of the legal isues I disagree with them a little bit. If anyone who was online new him personaly or any one new his location the cops or his house should have been called to try and stop him, anyone who had the ablity to do so would be liable for his death, would it hold up in court I don't know. The problem is though that in terms of the website itself it is hard to blame them really. I'm guessing they don't monitor content. If they do monitor all content or if there is someone who does and they have an address and do nothing then they it would be their fault partialy again don't know if it would hold up in court. I would think that if you could prove that the people encouraging the person to kill them selves could be said to be partly to blame and could be held as causing the person to do it. That being said if he was going to do it anyways I think would cause reasonable dobut most likely but it is something to think about.
You know having people pay to watch it might be a good idea really. Maybe you could sell the rights to Wrotten or is that Rotten . Com and then they would get the rights to all the pictures. That way when you cover all the funeral costs and maybe have a really nice headstone. Of course since it is illegal to kill your self I'm sure it could be argued that paying to watch could be aiding in it. What if say you want to die (I'm not kidding here either I'm very serious) but you don't want the burden of someone else having to pay for everything. But if you didn't have enough money then you would deal with the pain until you had enough, to not burden anyone else. Well then anyone who paid to watch you would be helping you kill your self. I wonder if it crossed state lines if it would be a more serious crime.
The problem with Suicide is there are people like this guy who are sick and need help and want help and the first or couple few times is what they call a Cry for help. That means they don't really want to die but they don't know what to do. Then there are people who just want to die and it isn't a cry for help. It is really tough to tell what ones are what. If this guy really couldn't live any more and was going to wind up dead anyways then there might not be anything anyone could have done. But if what he really needed was someone to say "listen I have been there and know How it feels, I have tried to do what you are doing now and I'm glad I failed, let me help you" then those people on line caused his death. There is really no way to know.
In terms of Public Suicide it is common. I may have even seen one in a movie. There is a very interesting movie called "The Bridge" it is about people who jump of The Golden Gate Bridge. I'm not sure if any of the footage is of people really jumping off or if it is a reinactment. If I where going to do it I don't know if I would do it online or not but if I did it on line I would have to do it completely nude, well no then I would get turned on and I wouldn't be able to kill myself. I guess it would come down to thinking about it. Say I got a gun and it slipped as a pulled the trigger and the shot didn't kill me, I wouldn't want everyone to see that, I'm so fucked I can't even take my own life, but at the same time since I did live then maybe someone could get me some help I don't want to be laying there in pain (a hanging where the thing I'm hanging from break) for hours.
Me too but I think I would get people to pay for it so I could at least go out with a bang.
Thats so crazy. If I killed myself I would do it online too. Why not?
11/19/2008 18:36 #46761
Jeff Dunham 1st Christmas specialCategory: holidays
Info and Video on Jeff Dunham on Comedy Central
So Last Night the Christmas Season got started again. I watched my first Christmas special of the Year. It was Jeff Dunham's Christmas Special, I laughed my ass off but not as much as the people there when it was filmed. I didn't know his material before hand. He uses puppets. Each one has there own personality. There is the Blown up Terrorist who is a skeleton. Then there is a Chili pepper guy. Then there is this old dude, he was maybe the funniest to me. And then there is a redneck. I'm sorry I don't remember all the puppets names but I thought they all where pretty funny.
Sort of what I saw on the special but not exactly the same:
It isn't exactly how it aired from youtube but from the comedy central site there is video also. I may get the DVD but we shall see. I know this Sunday someone else has a comedy special I want to say it is Might be John Stewart I'm not sure though.
11/17/2008 19:01 #46723
It is Christmas Season I declareCategory: holidays
1) Walgreen's and other places have Christmas Villages in their Ads
2) I ordered my Ticket for TSO (how many years are we going to have to wait for them to finish Castles , it has been at least 2 years for that CD, last year they where supposed to be almost finished)
3) Home Depot has Adds for all there Christmas stuff
5) I saw an ad for the first Christmas Special it was a comedy special on Comedy Central
#4 is the most important one. So get ready to go see all your wacky comedy movies about the holiday. That being said 4 Christmases looks like it might be very good.
For me the season doesn't start till the last football game on thanksgiving ends. I will not be waking up at 5am to go shopping anywhere.
11/15/2008 17:09 #46699
Bond SAbresCategory: photos
This morning I watched Henry Rollins from South Africa on IFC. It was about an Hour long. Some of it was him touring South Africa and some of it was of his Stage act. I wonder if there is a way to see more of it, or stuff they didn't show in the Hour I kinda doubt it. From what I heard IFC every Friday this month Is showing a different Henry Rollins documentary. I'm not sure what the 1st one was that I missed. I did enjoy it, it was pretty interesting and I'm hoping the other ones are also.
I will admit I'm not a sports writer, so if that is what you are looking for read the paper. I didn't see or read any news on last nights sabres game so I don't know their point of view. But from my view above the Zamboni enterance I thought the Sabres played great and played a lot better then the Blue Jackets. However when your back up goalie gets burnt it doesn't matter. The Blue Jackets where shooting at 50%, it was 2 shots 1 goal, 4 shots 2 goals, 6 shots 3 goals. On the other hand the Sabres where taking all kinds of shots and had some close ones at my end there was a great skate save by Leclaire , He looked pretty good in net to me. The Sabres did put Miller in but it was to late and then later the put our back up back in. It was still a fun game to go to and I had a good time.
Here are some Random Pictures from the Game:
Couple things I forgot to Mention about the Movies. I saw 3 previews that looked like the movies might be pretty good. A new superhero movie based on a Graphic novel called The Watchers looks really good. Then Paul Walker and Vin and Back together finally in the New Fast And The Furious movie, they hinted at in the last one but I didn't think they would get Paul Walker back, should be awesome. The Preview I saw for Star Trek looks amazing. Lets see Kirk as a kid and some flying cop. Kirk and Spock fighting. Great special Effects. To me it looks like it could be really good.
Henry Rollins, I went to IFC.com to get some info and this Friday the documentary is about him going to New Orleans , I think that could be pretty good.
BTW Check out this news story about the bunny ranch, economy and prostitution...
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If you do go out there you would need 3-4 Thousand Dollars! Those prices that they are charging are kind of crazy. Didn't one guy pay $1,000 for a girl to watch her masturbate with a dildo & wasn't even able to touch her? That's just f'ing crazy. The only way i can see doing it is if you really wanted to F your favorite Porn Star when she was there for a quick tour stop as they do from time to time.
If you wanted to hook up with a prostitute you're better off going over to Canada where it is for the most part legal & will only cost you $200 + a motel room for an hour.
Yes watching all the stuff tired me out. I also forgot I looked up a little bit on line also. Then the show following the bunny ranch was a show about the porn industry "Pornocupia (something like that) going down in the Valley" the episode was "Women On top" I had seen most of it before. That was pretty nice also. I would love to go see :::link::: weilding her sword and making me do what ever she wanted me to do. I would love to go on vacation there and do a report. I assuming that writing a blog wouldn't get me press creditals cause then maybe I could make my own documentary but then I would need a camera crew or at least someone who knows how to do Mobile Video posts. I would put them up on my Fubar page (not sure if I know how to do that) and then link here. I wish I had the money. Hey I wish I was a member of the Camera crew, that would be awesome enough. On a side note I'm sure they have a lot of footage I wonder how they edit it, it must be fun but it must be tough also.
SOunds like a busy day. You shoudl go on vacation to that ranch and report about it.