You gotta bullet in ya f*ckin' head
Back in the good old days when the Interweb was just discovering advertising (about 1999) a mate of mine used the work email system to send around a link to a video clip. It was one of those tasteless and rather pointless video clips of someone apparently getting shot in the head - evidently ketchup-based but might shock your granny if she's the sort who sits in a rocking chair knitting tea-cosies and cat-warmers.

We were programmers working for an international company. We used Outlook for our email. We had the addresses of everyone in the company (thousands of Americans and a Norn Ireland based team of about five). The pillock only went and accidentally cc'd it to one of the American colleagues...

American colleague was not amused. American colleague was on the phone literally sobbing to our boss that someone in our office had sent her a snuff movie. To placate her, and because he was a nob, our boss phoned the police. Two RUC officers in full moustaches turned up to interview my mate about how he had access to deadly footage (when really his only crime was being stupid in a built up area).

They let my mate off with a warning. We all switched to hotmail for our deviant email needs. Now? Now you can watch real beheadings online and they call it "journalism".
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 10:24, Reply)