Online Idiots

I’m NOT reposting this one, its nasty to look at.

But really, a photo of a pair of young men holding a puppy off the ground by a string around its neck is horrifying yes, and I appreciate that you want to help possibly catch the two shown in the picture. But maybe you need to stop and look around first. The photo in question appears to have been originally posted online as far back as 2008, and there are reports that it was passed around via email for several years before that, AND that its possibly been “retouched” a few times. Reposting it everywhere you visit asking people to “help spread the word so we can find these people” is not effective, and makes you look stupid and alarmist to folks who know how to look up such things.

So, someone is spreading around this photo:

and telling everyone its a satellite photo taken during the recent power outages on the east coast.

*sigh*  I can’t blame the lady on my Facebook friends list who shared, she’s a perfectly nice older lady who’s really that clueless, so I sent her a private message instead of posting in the comments, though I almost changed my mind after I saw the originial version had 346 shares……

Look, this is the EXACT SAME PHOTO as was spread by email forwarders after the major east coast power outage in 2003.  It was confirmed a photo-shopped hoax then, and it hasn’t changed any.

Really people, don’t believe everything you see online, or are sent via email forward, it just goes to show how stupid you are (and don’t even get me started on the “Proctor & Gamble are owned by devil worshipers” forward…..)