Despicable Media Watch: Ghoul Celebrates Spammer Suicide
From the offensively inappropriate file comes a post on the UK’s Inquirer Web site celebrating the escaped spammer Eddie Davidson’s apparent suicide/murder of his wife, their three-year-old daughter and himself.
Yep, that’s right: In one demonically diseased mind pretending to be an edgy reporter, this tragedy was cause for celebration.
Davidson, a convicted spammer who had escaped from prison on July 20, was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound last week, along with his wife and three-year-old daughter, who authorities believe Davidson shot and killed before turning the gun on himself.
The couple’s seven-month-old infant was found in the couple’s Toyota SUV physically unhurt and a teenage girl who had been shot in the neck escaped by running away from the scene.
By all reports, Davidson was a particularly egregious spammer, engaging in all sorts of nefarious activity, including a pennystock pump-and-dump scheme. He also reportedly had a menacing streak.
But the angle technology writer Charlie Demerjian of the Inquirer took on this story last week was nauseating.
“Not all stories have a happy ending, but the tale of escaped spam king Edward ‘Eddie’ Davidson sure does,” wrote the ghoul in his post. “After walking away from prison, he got a gun, killed his family, then killed himself.”
Yes: Someone actually put the words “happy ending” right before “killed his family, then killed himself.”
But it gets better: Demerjian does a quick-and-utter-failure of an attempt to show he’s human, but then goes right on writing his incomprehensively inhuman take on Davidson’s murder/suicide—complete with “jokes” that wouldn’t even be funny if there were a funny angle to be found.
“While it is hard not to feel bad for his brutally murdered wife and child, not to mention his wounded daughter, Eddie’s suicide itself is the stuff of happy thoughts,” Demerjian wrote. “Every deceased spammer is a million fewer in-box-clogging, malware-infested mails a day, so lets tip one back for liberal gun laws.
“Law enforcement sources had originally thought Mr. Davidson’s despondency was due to his losing the millions of dollars he gained by helping the widow of an African dictator liberate her fortune from that continent on a hot email stock tip. That eventuality was quickly ruled out. Police are now investigating if some miracle blue pills guaranteed to work found in his car’s glove box were related.
“In any case, the spammer is no longer on the loose, and while he only got a taste of what he deserved, it is a good start. Condolences to his family, none for him. May his colleagues follow his lead in short order.”
The Inquirer’s editorial policy touts “no-holds-barred” coverage that won’t be seen anywhere else. If Demerjian’s disgusting post is an example, let’s all hope that, indeed, we don’t see anything like it anywhere else, ever.
Message to Dmerjian: Let me lay it out for you, Charlie: Either a three-year-old girl saw her mother shot to death before she was shot to death herself, or a mother saw her three-year-old shot to death before she was shot to death herself. Also, an infant watched his father kill his three-year-old sister, his mother and then himself—an infant who is now orphaned. A teenage girl was shot in the neck and had to run for her life—away from family members being slaughtered in cold blood. No matter what anyone tells her, she will search her soul for the rest of her life wondering if she could have done anything to prevent the carnage. That’s what kids do, Charlie. They find a way to blame themselves.
And these are just the effects this tragedy had on immediate family. Get it? Idiot?
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