Web 2.0 Comes to Myrtle Beach
New technology gives greater access. I’ve been reading articles where undercover cops arrest college kids at rave parties and the college kids take pictures and videos of the arrests with their cellphonesm. The college kids then post the pictures of the arrests and the undercover policemen on a community board. I do injury cases for a living. How does that effect me? How about if car wrecks are posted online?
I have a case where someone was videotaping events at Mustang Week in Myrtle Beach where there was a crash and posted a clip of the video to YouTube.
In fact, here is a second video of the crash:
If you want to talk punitive damages….A hotrodder leaving a car show with a clear road ahead of him, a clear road behind him, then while showing off for the crowd loses control of his car an t-bones a car on the other side of the median. Wow.
For plaintiff’s attorneys it doesn’t get any easier than that. And in case anyone is wondering, the video clips are safely downloaded and converted. Sometimes I really like the new technology.
How did you locate the video? With the thousands of videos on youtube, it would seem hard to locate the needle in the haystack.
Chris,
That's a good point. The client provided the links to YouTube.
