WTF petitions

WTF petitions

So today my mail notification pops up, and as I was busy with something else and didn't look at the title in the pop-up, I naively looked into what it might be.
Of course I ignored the warnings of DON'T LOOK AT THE PICTURES, because

1. I'm a journo
and
2. I'm a bloody nosy woman.

Now if I've learn anything in the past is that petition e-mails with overly cautious warnings in them do not always point at horridly grotesque images. In fact, these useless anti-violence images often have fairly SFW (or safe for work) images of beaten women or wounded members of the public in them.

But every now and then there comes a case, as the one today, where the warning should be: YOU ARE GOING TO PUKE YOUR GUTS OUT AND DIE IF YOU LOOK AT THE IMAGES.
In fact WHY THE **** did they attach images in anyway if you're going to serve your liver up on your desk?

And what weird collegues do I have that actually forward this crap?

But alas, I looked at the images. And now I want to poke out my minds eye with a heated object.

Now I'm sending this rant in the wrong direction. So people start these petitions that go:
Sign it, send it to this official person and forward to 1000 friends. If I were an official person and 1000's of people forwarded the same email to me again and again and again with different names in spaces 2 through 500, I'd delete them.
Or maybe it's just me... I dunno. But what I DO know is that petitions seldom mean anything.

The only reason you're going to stop crime or influence crime rates in to become proactive.
Hire Batman.
Or start hunting down and killing criminals like Dexter.
You can even take some ideas from Saw (1 through 6)
I dunno.
But stop sending stupid e-mail petitions!

They don't work!

Ah ~ you wanted to know what the image was? Nah, it's too graphic to share. SoRRy. :)