Comments | stupid_free: if you comment with dead baby jokes they better be funny goddamnit

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if you comment with dead baby jokes they better be funny goddamnit

Jan 25, 2007 22:34

Dead baby pics, yea or nay?

ohbusiness posts in customers_suck about being upset about developing some pictures of a stillborn baby. Instantly, people begin wanking about the customer's insensitivity to the OP and the OP's insensitivity towards the customer, again and again and again. There are also some inevitable personal anecdotes.The award for special achievement in ( Read more... )

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really_living January 26 2007, 04:52:40 UTC

Protected entry. :/

_bump January 26 2007, 04:53:11 UTC

double :/

morpheus0013 January 26 2007, 04:54:14 UTC

Yeeahh...I joined the community (I'd hoped never to have to do so, honestly) and I still can't see it, even after a logout/login.

morpheus0013 January 26 2007, 04:56:18 UTC

Since I can't see the entry, I don't know if the OP was actually bitching about having to develop them or just creeped out. I can understand being creeped out. I wouldn't be personally, but I know other people might be.

However, report them to the cops? Bwah? There are no laws against taking photographs of your stillborn child.

clairespawprint January 26 2007, 05:02:43 UTC

No, and many hospitals provide the service of photos of the infant as a memorial for parents. I think the hospital I work in does Polaroids though, they don't go out to get developed. They have a whole "kit" that's set up - a picture, a lock of hair, plaster casts of the footprints.

defaultcrush January 26 2007, 05:22:43 UTC

She was creeped out, but she said something like, "why must people insist on taking pictures of shit like dead babies?!" and I think that's why people got so fussy about it.

morpheus0013 January 26 2007, 05:29:53 UTC

It finally started showing after probably 10 minutes of periodic refreshing. I think if she'd phrased it differently, the wank would likely have been very minimum.

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Text amyrebeccah January 26 2007, 04:59:50 UTC

"I work at the Target One Hour Photo, and it's pretty awesome in comparison to being a cashier. We develop film, make sure the pictures are clear and usable, and use coupons on people whenever possible. But sometimes people want prints of the strangest things, be it the customer cupping another person's bare buttocks, a grandmother's open casket funeral, or a bloody cut-up deer (oh how they love their hunting, here ( ... )

Re: Text morpheus0013 January 26 2007, 05:04:00 UTC

Thank you, ma'am.

_bump January 26 2007, 05:02:30 UTC

can't read the entry, but a similar thing happened in a myspace group i belong to.
it's a long story, but basically, the one girl ended up carrying her baby to term knowing that he would die during or immeadiately after birth.
she was in the group for most of her pregnancy (both before and after she found out about his medical condition) and had become close with most of the members.
she felt comfortable enough to post the only pictures of him that she had, in which he was sadly deceased.
2 girls got all freaked out and started talking about how disgusting it was, and how she offended them, blah blah blah.
i can't say how i would be acting in her situation (in regards to whether or not i would be posting such pictures on the internet, or even taking them) but i do think perhaps negative comments could and should have been kept quiet.
people do strange things to deal with grief, and i personally can't imagine any loss bigger than that of your own child.

_bump January 26 2007, 05:06:21 UTC

damn it.
*immediately

newreflections January 26 2007, 05:11:02 UTC

that poor family :( I cant imagine carrying a baby I knew would die immediately. Thats awful.

_bump January 26 2007, 07:55:51 UTC

it was a very sad thing, it makes me shudder to think of what they had to go through.
he had a very rare kidney condition that made it impossible for him to survive out of the womb.
she was a young girl, even younger than myself, and she handled it with such grace.

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omni_videns January 26 2007, 05:03:32 UTC

Ehhh...I didn't see any insensitivity towards the customer. She didn't say "hey, could you have warned someone?" or anything like that.

She kept the rant to CS.

merlyn4401 January 26 2007, 05:08:17 UTC

I was all good up until this: but i really wish people wouldn't photograph shit like dead babies.

Sorry, but really, what are parents supposed to do? I lost a baby. I took pictures. They are all I have left. I can understand being upset at seeing the pics, especially if she wasn't prepared to do so. But that last sentence just seemed very insensitive.

I fail to see how it is a customers_suck to take pictures of your deceased child and bring them to be developed.

morpheus0013 January 26 2007, 05:24:52 UTC

I feel for the girl, because it's probably pretty disturbing to just come across those photographs. I think if she'd phrased her dismay a bit better, the wank probably would never have started. A phrase like "I wish people wouldn't photograph shit like dead babies" doesn't generally endear you to people.

petitfour January 26 2007, 06:09:40 UTC

well with no life experience frame of reference i can imagine it has the possibility to evoke something closer to the sick voyeurism of rotten.com than of family photos. moving from one to the other takes a serious amount of growing up, and i don't know that it's fair to expect everyone to get there when we'd like them to.

i know some adults that still aren't.

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