Take these three cases:
• With her kids in tow, a rabid New York state woman spits racist words at a black man using a cell phone to videotape her outside of a store in a video called ""Blatant Racism in Cheektowaga, N.Y." (Warning: this video contains extreme and offensive language.
More than 10 million people have watched Janelle Ambrosia’s rant against Narvel Benning since it was posted June 5 to YouTube.com. It has been posted on scores of blogs and media sites around the world.
No criminal charges will be filed against the woman, according to the Buffalo News, but she is far from unaffected.
The woman’s children have been temporary placed with her relative for their own protection due to threats, the newspaper reports. Her personal information has been posted on the Internet.
• The latest video circulating the web involves a woman seemingly attacking a teenager for using a quadcopter to take video on a public beach in Connecticut.
First posted by the forum Photography is Not a Crime, the video shows 23-year-old Andrea L. Mears seemingly wrestling and hitting the 17-year-old boy after calling police to report that he had been videotaping people on the beach.
Mears was charged with third-degree assault and breach of the peace and is due in court June 19, The New Haven Register reports.
It should come as no surprise that this video that resulted from a kid using a drone with an attached GoPro camera also contains graphic language.
• Locally, two 14-year-olds were charged with disorderly conduct after a video known as "Shovel Girl" went viral in May.
Miranda Fugate of Vandalia and Emily Olinger of Bethel Twp. got physical in Olinger's family's yard over a conflict involving a boy, police have said.
About seven minutes into the video, Fugate chases after Olinger, who is headed for the house. Fugate turns back when she sees that Olinger has the shovel in her hand. Fugate runs away and Olinger flings the shovel. It hits Fugate in the back of the head and the teen drops to the ground.
Bloodlust is always trending on the Internet, but people seem particularly blown away by videos of a female being anything but the ideal of femininity.
What do you think? Does gender make a difference when it comes to outrageous behavior? Does it shock you more when a woman or girl is filmed behaving very badly?
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