Who wants one last outrageous story before Christmas? Anyone?
Here is what has been reported.
According to Florida Today, a woman tweeted at 5:22 p.m. Monday about the fog over Brevard County in Florida. Some time between 5:22 p.m. and 5:38 p.m., her 2-year-old son fell into a swimming pool and was found floating in it.
911 records reportedly show that his mother called the paramedics at 5:38 p.m. Monday. At 6:12 p.m., she reportedly sent an update to her Twitter page, Military_Mom. It read: “Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool.” (The tweet has since been removed.)
Her name is Shellie Ross. She is a regular tweeter and has a blog called Blog4Mom. Not long after she tweeted for her 5,300 followers’ prayers, her 2-year-old son, Bryson, was pronounced dead.
At 11:08 p.m. Monday, she reportedly tweeted: “Remember my million dollar baby,” along with a picture of her dead son.
ALONG WITH A PICTURE OF HER DEAD SON.
Yes, I can see that it was a considerable amount of time after the baby died before she ”tweeted.”
Did you all also note that she TOOK A PICTURE OF HER DEAD BABY and TWEETED IT for EVERYONE TO SEE????
This woman is mentally deranged. I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would do something like this. As your baby is dying, how could you even consider taking your eyes off of it for a SECOND?? This woman should have been throwing all her efforts into saving the baby’s life, or at least being there with it as the paramedics arrived, but to tweet during this crisis? It’s beyond bad taste. It’s an atrocrity. It’s a fucking godforsaken abomination. I hope criminal charges are pressed against this woman. This world has officially gone to hell.
—may jesus take pity on this child.
This article appears in Dec 17-23, 2009.
that is fucking pathetic.
someone needs to chuck her phone into the pool so she can drown herself as she desperately dives in to save her digital crack.
In this day and age it’s not that weird to tweet about people’s deaths. Her first tweet likely happened when she was sitting in the waiting room and worrying about him but couldn’t see him (you can’t just wander around the hospital). She needed to reach out to people, her followers. Many bloggers consider their followers their friends. I can get that.
I can even understand notifying people of his death hours later, they likely wanted to know and were worried about him. Again, I can get that. The picture though… is more than a little creepy.
But criminal charges? What she did might have been in poor taste, but it’s certainly not illegal. It was her son. She called 911 when she found him in the pool and got him to the hospital asap. She is allowed to take pictures of her dead son, as creepy as that may be… again, not illegal. Think the lady is crazy, sure, but damming her to hell for tweeting during a personal crisis is a bit much.
It’s an interesting thing, but situations such are becoming normal, and as such becoming psychological diseases. This woman probably has a variant of narcissism, much like our friend kay. They have to be the centre of attention, and will do/say anything to get there.
She should have connected up a live webcam feed. That sounds like something she overlooked. Mom Of The Year award.
Where was she when her kid fell into the pool? Probably tweeting. Isn’t that some sort of criminal act in itself? Like criminal negligence causing death of a minor?
Any idea if she updated her facebook status accordingly?
________ is riding in the Ambulance!
I like the internet as much as the next guy, but some of this Twitter/Facebook/blogging stuff is a little weird if you ask me. There are most certainly people who are ADDICTED to this stuff, just like nicotine or heroin.
Not a crime, but a symptom of a disturbed society….
I’ve got a few people on my FB friends list who feel it necessary to state their plans for each and every single day. I went to their profile page and no one writes on their wall it’s just pages of them posting their schedule for the day.
Newsflash: no one gives a shit.
What’s almost as bad as when people put pictures of their kids up for their profile pic.
Those are usually the same people who will post shit like “little johnny pooped in the potty today!” or “little johnny played with toys today!” and they’ll post a million pics of their kid doing the same pose thinking everyone cares.
newsflashx2: no one cares.
Pretty Kitty “no one cares”
Exactly, so why bother having an account there ?
So strangers can ‘poke’ you ?
So people, you’ll never meet, probably wouldn’t want to know, if you ever did meet them! Can list you as a friend… or, so you can list them as a friend ?!?
When you think about it, its rather lame , or am I the only one who feels that way ?
I had an account for a couple of days, when it was first getting big ,end of 2006 & the idiocy of it caused me to leave.
And never go back .
I’m face crack free for over 3 years ! so put the pipe down, you can do it .
More, I use facebook so that I can easily get in touch with old friends whose email addresses, phone numbers, etc. may have changed over the years. It’s also swell for organizing get-togethers and sharing pictures with your buds. I only have “friends” who I actually care about. I also have my privacy settings so that no one can add me as a friend (or see any of my information) without me doing so first.
Privacy settings…I believe they are ‘better’ than they were when it first started. So I’ve heard.
Although Jennier, you still have the people trying to add you as a friend.
Which means you’ve got to clear it up now & then…do they have a fuck off everyone setting ?
didn’t think so !
I believe I’ll just let FB alone. Never been one to try and hold on to everything/anything I’ve been in contact with over the years…my place isn’t big enough to hold everyone if they all showed up on the same day either !
No I’ll stick with the few old friends I’ve still got, & the new friends I make & discard those who’ve moved on…seems easier.
Don’t get me wrong, More, I like facebook — but I only have friends on my list who I actually talk to now, presently and want to keep up with. I used to have a bazillion friends, but then I just deleted most of my list…I didn’t see the point of having people like some random chick I went to elementary school with that I haven’t seen in 20 years, or my cousin’s cousin’s best friend’s aunt…you know?
Twitter, however, is just STUPID.
Twitter makes people like kay feel she’s a rock star.
She probably didn’t want to drop her PDA she was tweeting on – thats the reason she couldn’t get the baby out the pool . Fuckin cunt should be shit on in public . Really – I’m fucked too – but that ? Nawwww man – thats a fuckin headcase I hope the fuck they charge her with something and place her in the nut ward for awhile and figure out what the fuck is wrong with her head!
I used to have my Facebook settings so no one could add me as a friend. Then I took that setting off so people could request to add me as a friend since I had no friends, but still, no one wanted to be my friend. Now I use Facebook to spy on people because I have no life and, hence, live vicariously through the lives of others. Ohh looks like a cool party they had that night! If only I was cool enough to have been invited…
One interesting example at the moment in particular, regarding that whole status update thing: one of my Facebook “friends” recently posted several status updates all about her six year relationship and engagement to be married to this guy being ended by him, talking about revenge and how horrible he is, listing several potential reasons why, including: (a) He is cheating on me (b) He has a perpetual fear of me turning into my mother (c) He sees me as a liability for future career advancement (d) Money means more than me (e) All of the above. I hardly know this girl (she added me, and in order to be cool and increase my friend count, I accepted), and while I feel bad for her, it has been kind of interesting to watch and see it all play out. I was tempted to “Like” her status update just to be a turd, but obviously that wouldn’t be cool. Her hundreds of Facebook friends are now consoling her, of course… and telling her what a dick he is and how they never liked him anyway. All for the whole Facebook world to see.
Hmm, I haven’t posted an update in a while myself. Maybe I’ll post something like “snowy enough for ya?” or “cold enough for ya?” and see how many of my five friends notice and/or “Like” it. I’m sure my mom would.
just fucking unbelievable.
There are 83 pictures of our cat on Facebook. Does this make us crazy too?
just don’t post pictures and updates as your rushing him to the vet and or 1000 more when the cat dies and your not to be considered nuts haha
James Delorey was unsupervised, walked off into woods, got caught in a storm, suffered hypothermia and then died.
This kid was unsupervised outdoors, walked into a pool, fell in and drowned. Not sure if the kid was autistic.
My question: why did nobody hang James’ parents out to dry but are doing so to this woman? Sure – the mother was negligent, but people made excuses for James not being watched over.
Those stupid Americans. Not you, Dino, but the dumb ones.
Not just crazy, Pavillion, you’re a prime candidate for an insane asylum.
Thanks NGF. It’s those damn Texans/Californians/Alabamians/Missourisippians…
Nothing wrong with most Californians with the exception of electing Arnold.
San Francisco still produces some of the best house music in the world today.
As much as what she did seems ridiculous right now, in a couple decades or so it will probably be normal among the generations that grew up tweeting… it’ll still be ridiculous in my opinion, but I’ll be an old fart.
Perhaps this is that awkward in-between stage…
I’m hoping twitter will ultimately end up like 8 track tapes 🙂
Anyone else here have catbook? heh.
Just goes to show how chained some people are to computers, cell phones, etc. However, I highly posted a picture of he dead son’s body but rather a picture of her son, who is now dead.
KAYY, What you’re doing isn’t clever or funny. Fuck off.
I have catbook… he has friends to. 🙂
NGF: You had a good point that got lost in the posts:
“James Delorey was unsupervised, walked off into woods, got caught in a storm, suffered hypothermia and then died. / why did nobody hang James’ parents out to dry but are doing so to this woman? Sure – the mother was negligent, but people made excuses for James not being watched over.”
I think part of it was because the entire community got involved in tryng to find him, the other was that he was an autistic child, somehow looked upon as “more helpless” than other children (whether or not *I* believe that is irrelevant, it’s society’s general view), and he was a “runner” – certain autistic children are like this, and supervised or not, good luck catching them when they get away… also, the parents didn’t exploit this – his mother even asked to be left alone until she felt capable of giving a statement…
But I’m not an expert, and I think you’ve posed a really good question here.
I have no words for this pseudo-kay and it’s abhorrently execreble profile picture. See you all in fifteen years, I’m gonna go barf now.
Probably would win a prize on American Funniest Home Videos