There’s been an email circulating around the net lately, entitled “bus incident at ayala ave.”
It contains 12 pictures of a man with his skull apparently crushed flat. Several of the pictures show chunks of his grey matter splattered across the road, while the rest show the body being taken by police coroners.
I received two versions of the email, one of them bearing the story that the man tried to alight from a moving Jeepney in a No Unloading zone of Ayala Ave. The story goes on to say that the man lost his balance and ended up under the wheels of an oncoming bus.
While I have no qualms against telling (and retelling) of his story to educate the millions of mindless pedestrians in Metro Manila, I find it disturbing that these pictures are finding their way to thousands of email addresses across the nation. Not only are the circumstances humiliating for the person who died, but parodying his mangled skull on the internet constitutes gross disrespect for the dead. I wonder what you’ll feel if that is your brother or your father and you get those pictures on your email.
If people really have an appetite for such gross pictures, they’re better off surfing rotten.com.
7 responses so far ↓
1 andre // Mar 17, 2006 at 8:08 am
agree with you there 199%!
i remember looking with curiosity at the supposed pictures of the car crash princess di & dodi al fayed (tama ba?). pero this time…i’d rather not. kawawa naman yun pamilya nun namatay kung gaganunin natin…
2 Mark // Mar 18, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Yeah i do agree with you guys … but i still i havent seen the pictures … can anyone pass me this pics ??
emilvl2@gmail.com
3 mayet // Mar 22, 2006 at 2:00 pm
i received the said email too. it was really unfortunate for that guy to die in such a way. i hope those who received it would stop forwarding it to their friends.
4 Trosp // Mar 27, 2006 at 5:50 pm
From the photos, you’re going to be consoled that he met an instant death.
5 Aaron // May 5, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Obviously, the pictures are gruesome and quite disturbing… I wonder who actually took those pcitures… and just a comment, why the hell, apparently, it took a while for operatives to remove the person from the street, sparing him misjudgements on his story…
6 Jon Limjap // May 7, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Aaron,
Well, the way digicams are proliferated these days, it might simply have been a passer-by who was there right after the incident happened.
7 Nicole // Jul 23, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Have seen the pictures and yeah, it’s kind of disturbing. Whoever took the pictures sure has a tough stomach.
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