Cell Phone Cameras - Good, Bad, and Very, Very, Sad

[bmattock]

Cell phone cameras are becoming ubiquitous. And people use them for all kinds of things - good, bad, and otherwise. And today, some of all of the above.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

Today's news:

Bad Photographers:

http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/5589.stm

A new law signed in Baltimore to outlaw 'downblousing' which is similar to 'upskirting' and just hadn't been made illegal yet.

Good Photographers:

http://www.wkyc.com/news/regional/akron_article.aspx?storyid=51158

A woman takes a digital photo with her cell phone of a fleeing armed robber - captures his license plate number. Police make an arrest 20 minutes later.

Very Very Sad:

http://www.tampabays10.com/thismorning/thismorning_article.aspx?storyid=29319

Woman captures fiery vehicle wreck on cell phone camera, only to find out later her sister was in the car

A South Florida woman takes pictures of a horrific wreck that killed four people, only to find out later that the pictures she took were of an accident that killed her sister. Maria Ramoutar was driving home alone after partying with her sister and her friends. She came on the accident scene and saw a car fully engulfed in flames. She says she stood just behind the police tape and watched the scene unfold.

“After 20 minutes of just watching that car burn I was, ' wait til my parents see what I just saw' so I took out my camera phone and I started recording it to show them what I encountered. ”

What she didn’t know until later was that her younger sister Andria, her sister’s husband, and three other friends where inside the burning car she caught on tape. Police are still trying to figure out what caused the accident. They don’t believe alcohol was involved.

Andria’s husband is the only one who survived in that car.

This is a very new world. And a strange one. Be careful out there.