Should Death Photos On the Internet Be Regulated?
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Death is sad enough but imagine being the parents of 18 yr old Nicole Casouras. She came home from college and she had a pack of cigarettes which were against house rules. Her parents took her car keys away from her. As they left she snagged the keys to her dad's Porsche 911 that she had never driven before. As you can imagine where this story is going, yes she died. She clipped a car going over 100 mph, crossed over medians and hit a tollbooth head on and died.
Her head was basically split in two. One of the California police officers snapped some pictures which some how ended up on the net. My heart breaks for the family as thy try and remove the photos from the net. The photos are beyond graphic and if you scroll down at the end of THIS story there are links to them as we won't post them here. The family is fighting to have the photo's removed from the net and they are suing the CHP over the photos being released in the public.
At what point should things not be allowed or at the very least censored much like "adult" content on the internet? I hope the family does win a huge chunk of change over this with the CHP. How does photos like this end up on the net? Should there be laws against this?
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Oh I know once the pictures hit the web its too late to stop it. As for the police releasing them don't they become part of public record once in evidence? I do feel for the family - no one likes to see a loved one like that and I hope they didn't see them but just heard about them. Maybe the pictures will serve a purpose to stop someone else from speeding out of control. What a horrible way to die - atleast no one else died along with her.
I agree you can't censor the internet.
i remember seeing this on tv i think a while back. was it in fl? i never had seen the pictures but i believe the cop who suposidly emailed the pics said he sent them to a relative(s) for a see what can happen effect. which is what i would do if i were this girls family and couldnt control what happens online....take the best from it. not that there is much. and whoever got these pics online had the right legally to post them i guess but morally they know it was wrong. to answer the topic question though i dont know how you would regulate/ enforce it. even photos on sites like myspace can be kinda out there and theyre supposed to be regulated right?
This happened in CA. From what I have read on a few articles the family has NOT seen the pictures nor do they want to - I can't blame them. As a parent I would NEVER want to see anything like this of my child. Even if I though it could help another person I could never look at them.
Now on the flip side - I have a 17 yr old who is driving. I bought him a car a few months ago and I purchased one I felt he would be safe in (not to small and full airbags - Mazda CX-7). My son is far from a speed demon (can't say that about my other ones). He didn't get his license for a year after he first could. I had a neice that was killed by a DUI (the other driver was drunk) where she was mangled. It really shook him up and for a while he didn't want to drive.
So sad and so tragic.... i dont like censorship but im on the fence on this one, if it was my child I would not want it all over the internet, as I'm sure no parent would. I tried to see those photos but I couldn't find them in that link 
MissB you really don't wanna see them, trust me. But You either are against censorship or not, if you or someone you know is involved it may be more difficult to realize but you can't have 2 sets of rules on this issue.
SM I don't know if I would say "the police" release them, I mean all it takes is someone with a camera who perhaps works with the scene investigator to take a few snapshots and upload them online. I seriously doubt it's part of the police policy to do that, quite the opposite I'd imagine.
I'm against censorship, however when issues like this apply to "your" child things can change in an instant. And yeah you're right maybe I don't want to see them.
The first story I read it said something of the nature that it was posted by the one cop(s). I can't remember for sure how they worded it and I cant find the article. I remember them saying that it was first dismissed then later re-opened (investigation).
Missb the pictures are very VERY graphic - something you would see in a horror movie with brain parts everywhere. The links were at the very bottom of the story - there were link 7-8 links to each photo with a brief description of what you were clicking on.
Interestingly enough since we're on the topic of internet censorship, a friend linked me to this.
I hate when Europeans bitch about the U.S. and talk as if we have less freedom than they do, the day some bs like that happens in this country will really really piss me off. But I don't think it will so long as people like me exist 
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The internet should not be censored as a matter of principle, period. We aren't communist China or Cuba. The goverment has absolutely no place, for any reason, to regulate what people can and cant see.
Photos like this come up on gore-hound sites like rotten.com from people who are privy to the crime/accident scene, so I guess it's people who work for or are associated with those agencies. I think the only way a court can intervene is when there is a copyright issue at stake, because there are laws to protect people's art. I don't see how these photos can be copyrighted but even so its all moot now...once it hits the internet there's no stopping it