This one is JUST SICK

[Racket_Man]

http://www.aolnews.com/tech/article/..._lnk2%7C178643

a woman is involved in a car accident. very bloody scene. Woman was mostly likely killed instantly. First responder/EMT/Firefighter whips out his CELL PHONE and begins videoing the scene along with a "causual and non urgent" conversation whilst describing bloody body parts. Firefighter then shares footage with his colleagues. one of them then goes to a bar and shares it with MORE people. local TV station gets footage and alerts the womans parents = parents tramatized twice. Sheriffs office confirms one of their own took the video but is unsure the "movie-maker" did any thing wrong or broke any law.

[telecom_goddess]

Well I would say they did something wrong for sure but probably didn't break a law....which would figure.

[LexiaFira]

I thought the EMT's and fire fighters were supposed to HELP US
forgive me as this is a cold thing to say but spoken from a logical standpoint
yes she was possibly already deceased but that doesn't mean you can just whip out your phone and take pictures!?

that is someone's child there or someone's mother or relation somehow. how would those people feel if their kid or parent died and some other person did the SAME THING they just did. Law breaking or not...have some respect for the dead/body especially considering the gruesome scene omg.

(i don't care how desensitized one gets from that profession, that is morally wrong)

[LadyBarbossa]

Yeah, if it was someone I cared about being videoed by some EMT/Youtuber I'd be livid. I think some action should be taken, and the EMT possibly lose his job. That's incredibly unprofessional, not to mention crass and insensitive on so many levels.

[DrFaroohk]

It is kinda sick and wrong, insensitive at best, but I don't think he should be able to be severely disciplined unless there's something already on the books about it. Making up rules + retroactively enforcing them = more of an offense than he committed.

[ZedOmega]

The link brought me to an article on cyberattacks. I found the one you're talking about, though. http://www.aolnews.com/nation/articl...crash/19679815

What completely and totally sucks about the whole thing is that there probably isn't a law against something like that. About the only thing I can think of at this point is the parents taking the EMT's company to civil court for emotional duress and failure to render aid. And I'd be the first to admit firing blindly here.

[KitterCat]

There currently isn’t a law about video taping this type of thing. Think about it, the accident is out in public view anyone can video tape it not just the firefighter that took it. Personally I don’t think it should be legal. This is more morally wrong than illegal.

What I find disturbing isn’t the fact that it was videoed, but the fact that they send copies to co-workers and from the article have no urgency to verify if the victim is still alive. I could sort of understand if they were videoing it incase they ended up in court to show that she was dead when they arrived on scean, but you don’t need to send copies of it to friends for that.

The fathers response to have cell phones taken away is a knee jerk reaction and I only see it passing as a feel good law in response to public outrage. Emergency personal do have radios, but there are times when they go out of signal and a cell phone is the only way they have to call back to base.

[NateSean]

I think it's awful that an EMT worker did this as it was unprofessional and disrespectful to the victim, but on the otherhand, would it have been any worse if someone else had done it?

I'm not ashamed to say that my first instinct at a lot of incidents over the last few months has been, "Damn, I wish I had a camera so I could put this on Youtube."

I've recorded arrestings before from the safety of my apartment, with the knowledge that it was not illegal and that if the officer in question was doing everything correctly then there was nothing wrong with what I was doing.

[lordlundar]

I'm not against the recording of the scene so much as what was done with the video. Recording the scene can be very useful for training, evaluation, and investigative purposes. There's no real reason for banning recording the scene, apart from denying new technology. Trying to enact a ban because "responders don't need cell phones because they have radios" is a load of crock as it is.

I'm also willing to bet that the "casual and non-urgent" conversation was simply an assessment of the situation and the outcry is because the response crew wasn't frantic and freaking out. I'm sorry, but there is a difference between being professional and being heartless, and these people have to deal with this shit every day, so I can not only expect a level of detachment, but also count on it.

Now all that said, what was done with the video was in bad taste and a penalty should be applied to the firefighter for sharing it and allowing it to spread like that (media do have restrictions in recording scenes, like minimum distance, agreements not to disclose until next of kin are notified, etc. Why no apply the same to the emergency crews), but certainly not for the recording in the first place.