That Picture message that's been spreading around

Blisterman · 22-01-2004 05:27PM #1

Has anyone here seen it, or heard anything about it.

I'm reffering to a picture of a girl in a school uniform showing off her goods.
Everyone I know has seen it. From what I've heard, her boyfriend took it, found out she was cheating on him and sent it to everyone he knew.
Someone told me they were talking about it on the news.

Töpher · 22-01-2004 05:29PM

*cough*

Funky · 22-01-2004 05:32PM

haha yeah seen it , everyone in my school has it pretty much, it was on the news on the radio this morning anyway dunno about others

Raskolnikov · 22-01-2004 05:39PM

I don't know anything about any picture, if it ever existed, which it doesn't by all intents.

uberwolf · 22-01-2004 05:42PM

my number is 087........

She's from cork so it'll take a while to come up to teh big smoke. but when it does

unless she's actually really young as this suggests here

Blisterman · 22-01-2004 05:46PM

If you're talking about Dublin, It's already here.

Mr E · 22-01-2004 05:53PM

Gerry Ryan spent an hour talking about it this morning. Apparently its all over the country. Gardai are trying to digitally enhance the school crest in the picture to determine what school she is from.

Whats worse is that the poor girl will never be able to live it down. Imagine what her parents will say when her name comes out? (and it WILL come out)

Wouldn't like to be in her shoes....

I can imagine parents all over the country acquiring their childrens' mobile phones tonight to see whats on there......

The other point that came up was that O2 and Meteor must have made alot of money from it (Voda have free MMS this month).....

- Dave.

Oriel · 22-01-2004 05:53PM

It's in "World News" on Sky now here.

Mr E · 22-01-2004 05:57PM

Their tag line in the browser title bar is unfortunate...

"Headline News from Sky News - Witness the Event"

- Dave.

BuffyBot · 22-01-2004 06:11PM

Originally posted by TmB
Their tag line in the browser title bar is unfortunate...

"Headline News from Sky News - Witness the Event"

- Dave.

ROFL. Good old Sky News

ixoy · 22-01-2004 06:34PM

Originally posted by TmB
The other point that came up was that O2 and Meteor must have made alot of money from it (Voda have free MMS this month).....

Doubt it - you can't send between O2 networks and Vodafone :mad:

Agent Smith · 22-01-2004 06:35PM

the RTE.IE/news

The picture depicts a teenage girl dressed in a school uniform jumper in a sexually explicit position. The jumper appears to bear a school crest.

Gardaí began an investigation under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act because the girl is a minor. They have warned that anybody found in possession of the image or distributing it could be prosecuted and jailed.

The investigation began when a complaint was made to gardaí in the Cork suburb of Glanmire that a local teenage girl was the person featured in the pornographic image.

Gardaí spoke to the teenager and to her parents and are satisfied that the girl was not the person in the image. They are continuing to investigate reports that the image originated in Cork and are attempting to identify the girl from the crest on the school uniform.

They believe people who receive or send the picture are unaware that they are committing a serious criminal offence which carries a sentence of up to 14 years in jail.

The Copine research project, which is based at University College Cork and investigates the exchange of information among paedophiles, and the British children's charity, NCH, have both expressed concern about the use of camera phones in the spread of Internet child pornography.

looks like, if youve seen it, your breaking the law......
Question: if her boyfriend took it, and she is 18, then why would it be child porn? not many underage girls would pose there good for there boyfriend. would the fact that the girl is a school uniform come into effect? what if she borrowed her sister's/daughter's uniform?.................

Capt'n Midnight · 22-01-2004 06:46PM

Originally posted by agent smith
looks like, if youve seen it, your breaking the law......
Question: if her boyfriend took it, and she is 18, then why would it be child porn? not many underage girls would pose there good for there boyfriend. would the fact that the girl is a school uniform come into effect? what if she borrowed her sister's/daughter's uniform?.................

Even if she an actress who is over the age - if it looks like she is depicting a minor then the law kicks in - if it looks like child porn, it is.

uberwolf · 22-01-2004 06:49PM

Originally posted by agent smith
looks like, if youve seen it, your breaking the law......

but if you receive an MMS which has no warning or advertising how can you possibly be breaking the law by looking at it?

Agent Smith · 22-01-2004 06:52PM

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Even if she an actress who is over the age - if it looks like she is depicting a minor then the law kicks in - if it looks like child porn, it is.

eh what about all them porn stars who do films as school girl's?

Agent Smith · 22-01-2004 06:53PM

Originally posted by uberwolf
but if you receive an MMS which has no warning or advertising how can you possibly be breaking the law by looking at it?

text and mms messaging are tecncaily illigal in this country as yopu dont have the option to decline the message like you would a phone call. it falls under some act afaik

uberwolf · 22-01-2004 06:55PM

Originally posted by agent smith
text and mms messaging are tecncaily illigal in this country as yopu dont have the option to decline the message like you would a phone call. it falls under some act afaik

what about post, u can't decline that? Not being smart, wel maybe I am, but I'm curious

Chevano Riley · 22-01-2004 07:09PM

hm, i mean picture phones have such ****ty picture quality. i doubt you can even such much of the goodies.

mike65 · 22-01-2004 07:10PM

If you recive an illegal pic unsolicited, then you are not breaking the law as long as you do not keep or send the
picture on to someone else - distribution is a criminal offence. They ex is going to be in some Sh1t when the girls ID is made known to the police and her parents/big brother etc.

Mike.

uberwolf · 22-01-2004 07:14PM

Originally posted by mike65
They ex is going to be in some Sh1t when the girls ID is made known to the police and her parents/big brother etc.

Alternatively it'll transpire someone spotted a likeness between someone they knew and a porn pic they had sent to them by, and i presume they exist, mms porn distributers. From there things escalated.

The gardaí have interviewed the girl its supposed to be and she's denied it (but she would wouldn't she!) its not even clear if its a school uniform, they're analysing the picture to see if its a crest on the jumper...

*if there transpires not to be a porn mms distrib set up, is there anyone intrsd in financing a start up company?

quank · 22-01-2004 07:17PM

lol
i saw this all over the news today
it was gas funny

aw man...... feel so sorry for the girl though :rolleyes:

rymus · 22-01-2004 07:17PM

For all you that haven't sampled the delights of the South board.. theres been a big bru-ha-ha over this in the last few weeks....

kano476 · 22-01-2004 07:20PM

what if a minor is found in possesion of the pic?

Victor · 22-01-2004 07:20PM

Originally posted by agent smith
eh what about all them porn stars who do films as school girl's?

Haven't seen any, but if the object is to depict a child (as opposed to a young woman), then the act considers it pornography.

There is a clip of Bart Simpson giving it to Marge, which is technically illegal. While you are unlikely to be prosecuted for it, it would arouse suspicions.

How the act would deal with serious works of art like "Lolita" (they had to go to extreme while filming it with the Lolita actress not being allowed on set during the shooting of intimate scenes - I don't know how explicit those scenes got), I'm not sure. The line between genuine fiction and contrived fiction is blurry one. But as one judge is quoted as saying "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it."

mike65 · 22-01-2004 07:24PM

Originally posted by Victor
Haven't seen any

Pssssssht! Yeah right!

Mike.

seamus · 22-01-2004 07:25PM

OMFG! A pornographic picture of a girl in a school uniform?! Whatever next?! Unmarried mothers? Premarital sex? What's this country coming to? :rolleyes:

Typical Oirish bull****. Some aul wan makes a big fuss, and next thing it's a big deal.

It's a farce. Some silly bitch photographed herself naked, fecked up, and now she's paying the price by being humiliated. Worse things have happened. Waste of Garda resources.

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Even if she an actress who is over the age - if it looks like she is depicting a minor then the law kicks in - if it looks like child porn, it is.

That's not true. That's like saying that getting a prostitute to dress up in a school uniform and pretend she's underage, is child prostitution. Although Irish law is a bit ambiguous and archaic when it comes to porn.

Linoge · 22-01-2004 07:27PM

There is a clip of Bart Simpson giving it to Marge, which is technically illegal. While you are unlikely to be prosecuted for it, it would arouse suspicions.

I heard about a situation where it was Bart pulling down his trousers the whole way, it got emailed around the office and apparently a few people got fired for possesion of child pornography. It was about a year or 2 ago, probably in the US.

Victor · 22-01-2004 07:33PM

Originally posted by kano476
what if a minor is found in possesion of the pic?

Someone over 14 is considered old enough in the eyes of the law to know right from wrong, although it is unlikely anyone under 17 would go to jail, they could end up in trouble (community supervision, social services or in the extreme being taken into care). Someone under 14 would probably just get community supervision and / or councelling.

Originally posted by mike65
Pssssssht! Yeah right!

Loaned VCR to friend, his flat burned down, I can't watch pr0n now.

Originally posted by seamus
That's not true. That's like saying that getting a prostitute to dress up in a school uniform and pretend she's underage, is child prostitution.

What happens between consenting adults in private is little of our's or the law's business. If it is a minor or in public that is another matter.

Originally posted by seamus
Although Irish law is a bit ambiguous and archaic when it comes to porn.

Actually no, any prosecution would be brought under the CHILD TRAFFICKING AND PORNOGRAPHY ACT, 1998 and the DISTRICT COURT (CHILD TRAFFICKING AND PORNOGRAPHY ACT 1998) RULES, 1999.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/front.html

I understand the Film Censor is perfectly willing to certify the vast majority of "normal" pr0n as "18".

Big Ears · 22-01-2004 09:02PM

this story is only popular because of the media's latest craze........... why u shouldnt get ur child a picture phone.

Agent Smith · 22-01-2004 09:43PM

this story is only popular because of the media's latest craze........... why u shouldnt get ur child a picture phone.

yeah, get me one instead.

now i aint no legal specialest, but afaik,
post is not covered under this act, it's under a telecomuntcations act afaik. maybe i'm rong but i can distently remember my business teacher waffeling on about this.....

Note to self: get a picture phone

passive · 22-01-2004 09:45PM

hey, its on prime time right now..

That Picture message that's been spreading around

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