Former elementary school teacher Keri McInty recently discovered a video of her at a fifth grade graduation ceremony posted on YouTube.
In other news a court on Friday fined a 15-year-old student and ordered him to pay damages to his teacher for posting a Bon Jovi karaoke video of her on Youtube , that named her and claimed she was a lunatic.
The video was entitled “Karaoke of the mental hospital.” According to AP (Associated Press), Vesikko was fined $120 for uploading the video and also ordered to pay $1,000 damages and $3,000 in court costs.
ABC News reported, that even though YouTube almost immediately pulled the “hot for teacher’ video of Keri McInty, nearly 200,000 people had viewed the clip.
Can you imagine the suffering that these poor teachers have gone through? This may all seem funny, but it isn’t.
Some of you may recall Ghyslain Raza. Raza classmates posted a video of him online in 2003 and labeled him the Star Wars Kid. At school whenever he walked by students would jump on tables and chant, “Star Wars Kid! In 2003, a lawsuit was filed against the three classmates that uploaded the video for harassment and distributing the video without consent.
While some of the videos uploaded to YouTube may be seen as fun, one needs to stop and consider the emotion damages it may cause to the victim.
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Wrote: Aug 26, 2007 at 9:13 pm
That’s a scary thought. I wonder why she is a FORMER teacher?
Wrote: Aug 26, 2007 at 10:08 pm
One of my other blog friends is dealing with a similar situation where an ex-employee is hassling the place she works by posting slanderous videos to youtube.
Ian
Wrote: Aug 26, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Ian, I’m sorry to hear that. Has she done anything legally regarding it?
Wrote: Aug 27, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Wow, thats interesting and sad. When I was in college one of my first assignments in videography was to shoot different things happening on campus. One of my professors said I could video tape her class only if I didn’t include any shots of her. I just thought she was a bit camera shy at the time, but now I can see why…
btw I linked to my other blog, the one you didn’t know about, on my name here instead.
Wrote: Aug 27, 2007 at 1:54 pm
It is scary. The internet has made it possible for the worst kind of harassment.