Picture phone girl. A scam/prank.

StephenInsane · 23-01-2004 08:02PM #1

Do you guys agree with me? No girl identified. No age of the girl. More rumours going around than you can shake a stick at. Alternating stories. A emotional appeal from annoymous Dad on national radio, telling us not to send it on, only drawing more attention. But here's the best one. A school jumper which no one can identify, surely there aren't that many school jumpers in Cork.

I bet it was a pic of an 18+ girl who mightn't even be from Ireland, posing, knowing full well that the pic was going to be distributed. I think the most reasonable possibility, is that some weirdo was surfing the web for prono and came across some obsure pics of a girl wearing what looked like a school jumper. He transferred it to his phone with a date-cable, and came up with a stupid story about some guy sending the pic to get revenge on his gf who cheated on him, and then sent it to a few of his mate for a kick.

And the whole thing got WAY WAY out of hand. If it is a prank, and it's a legal pic, I bet the guys who started it are delighted with how well the prank went, outcries on radio/newspapers, garda envolvment, etc. etc. Altough he's still scewed if he gets caught.

kmart6 · 23-01-2004 10:33PM

Hard to know if it's a prank,if it is it's some hell of a prank.But that still does'nt make it right

Capt'n Midnight · 23-01-2004 10:40PM

Reminder:
Even if the picture was of an 18 year old it may depict someone younger and the law kicks in.

orangerooster · 23-01-2004 10:44PM

Its hard to know-its still pretty dodgey-hopefully that Mcdoughal sack wont impose some mad phone ban on us.

I am MAN · 23-01-2004 10:46PM

I''ve been sent the picture twice and it is deffiently a minor, I dont think its someone of a different nationality either just the worse thing that could happen to her.

kmart6 · 23-01-2004 10:55PM

Her life is never going to be the same again

Grom · 23-01-2004 11:01PM

uunlucky for her.Allthough I dont have a pic fone I dont know what she looks like.

jesus_thats_gre · 23-01-2004 11:02PM

Seemingly the body is not the real body of the head. She is fat supposedly. The picture was edited..

kmart6 · 23-01-2004 11:04PM

Originally posted by jesus_thats_gre
Seemingly the body is not the real body of the head. She is fat supposedly. The picture was edited..

Have you being drinking????:D

Where did you hear that though????

Cabaal · 23-01-2004 11:09PM

Its all a plan by the evil phone companies to make loads of money from media messenging :rolleyes:

kmart6 · 23-01-2004 11:12PM

Originally posted by Cabaal
Its all a plan by the evil phone companies to make loads of money from media messenging :rolleyes:

Ah but see the reason it prob spread so fast is the fact that there free

I am MAN · 23-01-2004 11:19PM

jesus_thats_gre

....such a retarded thing to say it is an original picture stop confusing the situation further.

TCamen · 24-01-2004 12:21AM

OK, first off, I haven't seen the picture yet I have a camera phone. Guess I don't know the sort of people that are forwarding it around the place.

My main reason for posting is that I read in the newspaper today about an Irish company 'Telcotec', that have developed technology to block 'unsuitable' images being sent to mobile phones. The technology does this by 'image analysis and special filtering methods'.

Now call me crazy but I don't like the idea of my MMS being censored. What will happen to pictures you want to send, of say yourself in a bathing suit on a beach to a friend, or something like a drunk friend mooning? Will they show too much skin for this technology to allow it through? I know it's not every day that you'll be on beach or whatever, but what about grown adults' right to send pictures to each other. I'm not saying that this picture is acceptable, again I haven't seen it, but the effect it may have in the future seems heavy-handed.

Fair enough if it's a case of parents needing to sign their childrens' numbers up to a particular service in order to get 'suspect' MMS blocked; the article doesn't mention how the technology will be implemented. The company is trying to sell it to major phone operators in Ireland and the UK, which means most people here will be affected by this, if it is adopted. I realise the fuss this picture has caused and all the rest, but I don't like the idea of censorship in any arena, unless it's going to be a voluntary decision on behalf of parents/guardians of minors.

Just my opinion, and just in case it seems too off-topic, the newspaper wouldn't be running this article were it not for that picture floating around of this girl.

kmart6 · 24-01-2004 12:26AM

Would this not be total invasion of privacy as thet would see everything you send?????

jesus_thats_gre · 24-01-2004 12:30AM

Ok. The body in the picture is not the body of the head in the picture. It has been edited. From what I heard, the girls head belongs to a less sexy body.

kmart6 · 24-01-2004 12:33AM

Originally posted by jesus_thats_gre
Ok. The body in the picture is not the body of the head in the picture. It has been edited. From what I heard, the girls head belongs to a less sexy body.

HAHA,well IF thats the case she would have nothing to be ashamed of except the fact she must have a crap body

TCamen · 24-01-2004 12:35AM

And here was me worried about offending people by not heaping sympathy on the girl

kmart6 · 24-01-2004 12:36AM

Originally posted by TCamen
And here was me worried about offending people by not heaping sympathy on the girl

LOL:p

su_dios · 24-01-2004 12:44AM

It's def not superimposed! You would be able to tell the difference in the pixels anyways. It's definetly been blown out of proportion and it's only making things worse for the girl. Plus the photo quality is ****e so you only get the suggestion

Does anyone else here think it's being blown out of proportion

Exit · 24-01-2004 12:46AM

Of course it is. Ireland's a boring little country with nothing better to talk about it.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-01-2004 12:47AM

Originally posted by jesus_thats_gre
Ok. The body in the picture is not the body of the head in the picture. It has been edited. From what I heard, the girls head belongs to a less sexy body.

Yawn - the law also covers generated images -eg: if the Court decides that it is intended to depict a minor ...

sci0x · 24-01-2004 12:51AM

Actually the girl really exists. She is from Blackrock and in 6th year. I know a girl who goes to that school and she was telling me about her.

TCamen · 24-01-2004 01:06AM

I thought they didn't know which school the uniform was from?

su_dios · 24-01-2004 01:09AM

sci0x a mate of mine in holy faith said she was in 3rd year of their school too and they had been questioning the wrong girl in Cork too. Looks like everyone thats slightly resembles her is in for it on this one

iggy · 24-01-2004 01:23AM

get over it,there is a going to be a lot more of this going around b4 something is done,it's typical Ireland

Tommy Vercetti · 24-01-2004 01:27AM

Originally posted by sci0x
Actually the girl really exists. She is from Blackrock and in 6th year. I know a girl who goes to that school and she was telling me about her.

No. You are wrong. It was me. I dress up like that on Wednesday nights.

Go ahead and laugh at me you bastards.

ixoy · 24-01-2004 01:45AM

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Yawn - the law also covers generated images -eg: if the Court decides that it is intended to depict a minor ...

Hey how odd then is this: Monday night's episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit dealt with this topic of making fake child porn. It's semi-legal in the US after a court ruling...

Tommy Vercetti · 24-01-2004 01:50AM

I think that the law is quite odd. By that logic, shouldn't a movie depicting a murder, for example, be banned? If someone who is blatantly 60 years old dons a school uniform, is that illegal? Bizarre.

Winters · 24-01-2004 01:56AM

Originally posted by su_dios
sci0x a mate of mine in holy faith said she was in 3rd year of their school too and they had been questioning the wrong girl in Cork too. Looks like everyone thats slightly resembles her is in for it on this one

I heard this, I heard that... A mate of a mate said that she knew her. I heard its her. She looks like her it must be her .... blah, blah, blah .... blah, blah, blah .... blah, blah, blah .

God, it like the school playground again. Loads of gullible kids. Its nobody, its probably just a random net picture with someones head attached. Or else it actually is Tommy Vercetti, you do look pretty nice on Wednesday night

Tommy Vercetti · 24-01-2004 02:05AM

Originally posted by Winters
Or else it actually is Tommy Vercetti, you do look pretty nice on Wednesday night

hold meh!

Agent Smith · 24-01-2004 02:12AM

No. You are wrong. It was me. I dress up like that on Wednesday nights. Go ahead and laugh at me you bastards.

and i will

buwahahahahahahahahhhahahhaaah:rolleyes:

Picture phone girl. A scam/prank.

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