By Jonathan Krim, Thursday, July 7, 2005; Page D01
If you no longer marvel at the Internet’s power to connect and transform the world,
you need to hear the story of a woman known to many around the globe as, loosely translated, Dog Poop Girl.
Recently, the woman was on the subway in her native South Korea when her dog decided
that this was a good place to do its business.
The woman made no move to clean up the mess, and several fellow travelers got agitated.
The woman allegedly grew belligerent in response.[b](read the article) washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co … technology[/quote]
A couple of issues here, her responsibility for her pet, the use of the internet in shaming her, cultural pressure in South Korea ( and other Asian countries), personal privacy among others.
I often go out with my mini camera/video recorder in my pocket and I do think of taking pictures of people, particularly poor drivers, especially driving the kindergarten buses, with the thought of posting them on the net.
The Dog Poop Girl deserves this public humiliation, however, as the article suggests, digging into her private life just to see what they could turn up is a bit too mobbish for me.
On a side note, what the HELL did that animal eat??
I bet she knows the next time to clean up after her mutt. That’s just totally ignorant on her part not to clean up the mess on a subway! I can see on a sidewalk but on a crowded subway car where other passengers have no choice but to be exposed to that is just filthy, disrespectful and lots of other names I could use.
She deserves to he humiliated to some degree for her ignorant behavior but digging up things about her personal life is too far. Maybe other people as well as she can learn a lesson from it. You never know who is watching so don’t do stupid shit you don’t want to get busted for!
This is obviously an extreme case, but it’s the beginning of a trend - that is, the end of privacy. One wonders how far things will go once cameras with instant Internet uplinks become common. I suppose they already are, in a way, with cell phones and mo-blogs, but soon there will be “one button” devices that promise to easily facilitate the plastering of photos of everything we do on the Net. Videos will follow.
Is there anyone else who feels we’re barely clinging to the last vestiges of personal, private space?
(Obviously, I’m speaking in general here, and am not trying to say the DPL deserved to get off the hook.)
[quote=“Jefferson”]This is obviously an extreme case, but it’s the beginning of a trend - that is, the end of privacy. One wonders how far things will go once cameras with instant Internet uplinks become common. I suppose they already are, in a way, with cell phones and mo-blogs, but soon there will be “one button” devices that promise to easily facilitate the plastering of photos of everything we do on the Net. Videos will follow.
Is there anyone else who feels we’re barely clinging to the last vestiges of personal, private space?
(Obviously, I’m speaking in general here, and am not trying to say the DPL deserved to get off the hook.)[/quote]
I have seen Big Brother and it is us.
I have a hint for DPL, admit you were wrong and grow from this situation. Sometimes, a dose of humility helps a person.
Although I don’t agree with this woman’s ignorance, I think the backlash she is facing a little extreme. The only benefit I can see is that other ignorant people will think twice when their pooch takes a dump in public.
In my home country, it is against the law to leave dog shit in public places, and there are reasonable fines dished out for doing so.
I disagree. If you do something which is basically a “fuck you” to society, then don’t be surprised when society says “fuck you” back. Personally, I’d be all for holding her down and rubbing her face in it. But that’s just me. Ahem. Oh dear.
well, sure, but in some societies, rapists and pedophiles get a better deal.
I’m not condoning this woman at all, but does her error in judgement deserve all of that?
In Singapore, yes SINGAPORe, I saw parents let their kids take a dump in the gutter and just leave it. Even though they were, geez, 30m from a public toilet. :loco: No one gave a shit (excuse the pun), and I personally think that is worse - especially if you see that as you dig into a Starbuck’s Chocolate Brownie. :s
Something is wrong with that picture. Have a look at how long her middle finger is.[/quote]
There you go. That explains why she is thinking about something else.
That’s insane. Why didn’t they just complain with a station manager. If you get fined for eating, sure as hell you will get fined for that! Spoils it for other dog owners too…
Sidewalks too…pick up the poo. Because people don’t clean up after their dogs, we can’t take them for walks ANYWHERE here.
The people who looked up this woman’s past and shared it with the world should have their faces rubbed in it as far as I am concerned. Her actions were indefensible of course and she deserved to be punished in some way, but having her whole life dragged up and disected by a bunch of mean spirited, annonymous half wits is hardly suitable punishment. It freightens me to learn that there are so many people (in Korea at least) that are too ignorant to understand even this.
I once saw a girl throw up on the tube in london, and she left it. The smell forced me to move to another carriage at the next stop, but I guess I should have taken a photo of it and posted it on the web, along with as much personal info as I could find :loco:
[quote=“Ironman”] Does seem to be a mob rule lynching when you read the article and she dropped out of university as a result of the ridicule.
However, she could have cleaned it up with
a) Tissue from her bag.
b) A newspaper from somewhere on the carriage. (there’s always one)
the dog if there was nothing else around to use.
c). The doggy blanket thing the dog is in.
c) The dog itself could have made a handy mop as a last resort.[/quote]
Absolutely she was a pig and should have been held accountable, but to the whole world? People are big on this “being held accountable for your actions” trip lately so how about hunting down the people who shared her personal information and holding them accountable. Seems to me like a more important issue than whether or not somebody cleaned up some dog shit on a train.
