Okay, where can I see that guy killing himself on a webcam?
In what’s been called the first “death by Web 2.0,” 42-year-old Briton Kevin Whitrick threatened to kill himself, then hanged himself live on a webcam on the video chat site Paltalk after users in an “insult” channel encouraged him to, reports the Evening Standard. (Chatters told the Standard they had thought he was kidding.) It’s a tragic event, but someone out there must be looking for the video. How could they get their hands on it?
For now, they can’t. There’s no footage of the event on YouTube, and any copy would almost certainly be deleted for violating the site’s terms of service. Those present in the webcam chat room during the hanging aren’t revealing their identities to the press. And according to BBC News, investigators have asked people not to distribute images of the hanging.
What would it take to break through the silence? Presumably one could log into PalTalk and start searching around for people who were in the room. (Good luck figuring out which of these rooms is the “insult” room.)
Photo from Evening Standard
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on March 26, 2007 at 7:37 am Kyle Bunch wrote:
Is that the guy, or is that Mark Foley?
Kind of looks like the page-lovin’ former Congressman.
on March 27, 2007 at 8:43 pm Starked SF, Unforgiving News from the Bay » Blog Archive » Loser 2.0: Video Suicide hopefully the first of many wrote:
[...] e-loser Kevin Whitrick hanged himself on webcam, he may have started a trend. We can only hope droves of other video-producing losers hop on the [...]
on November 6, 2007 at 9:15 am MR Anon wrote:
How many Congressman do you know that have tattoo’s and built like a brick shit house?