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By adamg on Tue, 01/13/2015 - 6:24pm
Finally! The MetroWest Daily News posts video of the sausage-and-bacon-throwing woman in the FramingHAM police station last month - as an intrepid reporter took it all in and slowly and methodically got out his phone to document the carnage.
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Best. Headline. Ever.
Thanks for the tasty link!
So...
What was her beef?
The bystander
The bystander is too funny.. he's like wtf?!?
Looks like a big sausage eater
Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't scoop up some of that sausage for himself.....
...when pigs fly.
...when pigs fly.
Hilarious!
I love how that guy took out his phone and took pictures.
Hilarious.
Why?
Or...pork-quoi?
Glad the link worked...
Hot Dog! That was very rasher on her part. Kinda cute, but don't know if I'd banger.... Haggis some people are just a little off...
Is there a cure?
Is there a cure for this? Or was she just confused when she was invited to a "meat up"?
At least the police didn't have to hold a steak out to catch her.
Social Sausage Justice!!!
SocialSausage Justice!!! Fight the power!missing the f/u
She WAS a nursing student heading for a career, family, etc. Severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia most often strike people in their late teens and twenties.
Are you all happy with your mockfest?
When people act in ways that are not rational, in public, and make confused and illlogical statements, the compassionate and humane thing to do would be to get them help.
The reporter who delighted in this justified it by saying that he knew other media were going to cover it and he "needed to be first".
This is disgusting.
Camberville's observation is
Camberville's observation is spot on.
Mental Illness is just that, it's an illness that strikes human beings just as other illnesses do.
Severe mental illnesses both affect the afflicted's perceptions and thinking as well as isolate them because of the stigma.
Camberville is right to point out how shameful it is to mock those who suffer due to no action of there own, but simply the luck of the draw.
Perhaps we could also yuck it up at videos of people with Down's syndrome? the funny way people with MS talk? and how bout those old timers who are stroke victims or dealing with dementia?
I think the jokes here have
I think the jokes here have very little to do with mocking the person in question and more to do with coming up with meat product puns. Puns are quite prevalent on this blog (read some of Adam's headlines).
The linked article had no mention of this woman's mental issues so all we had to go on was someone hurling sausages at the front desk of a police station, which, while a bit weird, taken out of context like this I can't say makes a basis for diagnosing this woman as being bipolar and laying off the obnoxious commentary out of good taste. I hope she gets the help she needs and that you and Cambreville do too.
And I'll go back to being an obnoxious brat making the wurst puns I can think of regardless if you think I'm a moronga.
there WAS mental illness - the judge intervened
She was also filmed in the courtroom, and the judge quickly intervened and ordered her to hospital. Her parents had a mike and cameras thrust into their faces, and they were stunned.
This is EXACTLY about mocking people with mental illnesses.
And, BTW, I had an email exchange with the Framingham reporter to express my concerns, and he was absolutely unapologetic, as is Adam (I commented on his previous mocking post about this). Adam's "kidlet" is getting to be near the vulnerable age of the manifestation of mental illnesses. Wonder if he'd be so ready to joke about his child or her classmates' illnesses, should they manifest. And have their lives at their most vulnerable be captured on video for all within net access to mock.
The REAL story is why this person didn't receive competent and timely help prior to this incident. The REAL story is how her life will unfold - statistics say her chances at a satisfying life are very small. Less than 5% of people with severe mental illnesses get to work and are happy with their social lives. People with severe mental illnesses (both treated and not) die about 25 years earlier than everyone else. There's a story, amirite?
And over 10% of people with severe mental illnesses die by suicide - their quality of life - the stigma they face (thanks again, Adam and commenters) become unbearable.
If you are going to continue to do this, at least be aware of the damage you do. Yuck it up.
As someone that grew up with
As someone that grew up with a family member with mental (and other) illness, I appreciate your thoughts for her family.
I grew up in a time when adults acted like first graders. I witnessed, as a young child, adults mocking, acting rudely and just being idiots towards my older sister.
We've come a long way but I'll always hurt for what my sister endured. To top it off, she was the nicest person I knew and I miss her every day.
Just. Stop. It.
Now.
If you are going to do these things in my name, let it be known: I don't need your advocacy.
I have Bipolar Disorder and I can speak for myself. I don't need people grandstanding and attention whoring around the idea that what I have is horrible, hopeless, untreatable, incurable, and a death sentence, and neither does anyone else with this TREATABLE disease.
You love to mention those of us who haven't learned to manage their illness as if that is all there is. No hope. Well, maybe you should actually talk with someone who has learned to manage their illness - like me, like my cousins, like my friends - and get on with their life. For every one of us who can't make it back from the deep end, scores of us learn to swim. We have productive, uneventful lives that you don't hear about - and can't grandstand over on our behalf.
You sound just like those money grubbing horror story peddlers who run Autism Speaks. They claim to speak for people with Autism and their families, but want to paint autism as hopeless and horrendous rather than let people who actually live with Autism speak for themselves, rejecting putting people on their board who understand the condition from the inside. No. That doesn't give them the control and attention and MONEY that comes from painting grim pictures of illness, rather than hopeful pictures of success.
I'm sure that you mean well, but you need to learn the positive realities as well as the horror stories, tone it down and SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.
Pork-Related Violence Is Not That Uncommon ...
Although Ms. McNamara's actions were bizarre, they were essentially harmless. Adam did not run the story to mock someone with a (presumed) mental illness; he ran the story simply because it was a funny Boston-area occurrence. I'm glad it's something people can have a giggle about instead of mourning another tragedy.
If she is indeed suffering with some mental disorder, it's fortunate that the judge ordered her to receive an evaluation. Hopefully she'll be able to look back and laugh at it too. I certainly have sympathy for Ms. McNamara, but it would be dishonest to pretend it wasn't funny.
Unlike Mrs.
PorksleyVealsley, at least she didn't injure anyone over thevealpork.Shame on Devo
And he wore a hat and he had a job and he brought home the bacon so that no one knew.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2tZqXWa7no
Just another day at the sausage factory.
If you can't beat it, meat it? Is flinging franks a felony? More meat than a misdemeanor?
The reporter was perfect.
Reporter reading police logs. Woman enters scene and throws meat at police. Reporter calmly watches and takes photographs.Police arrest and remove woman. Reporter resumes reading police log.