A day doesn’t go by without a reassurance that humanity is doomed, and I’m basing my assessment on the fact that people will do anything for money.
STORY: Disrespectful! Tony Scott Suicide Video Being Shopped
Two days after award-winning director Tony Scott’s fatal leap off an L.A. bridge on Sunday, many are planning on selling the videotaped footage that was captured on tape by multiple tourists and onlookers.
Really? Selling the death of a man to make a profit? Even TMZ said they would not purchase the video and they tend to cover any and everything having to do with celeb culture.
If anything, anyone who has footage of Scott’s final moments should hand it over to the police and not post it on their Twitter, Facebook, blog or Tumblr.
It’s a difference between viewing the footage as opposed to selling it. I admit, I’ll watch the video, but if I had it, I wouldn’t be looking to gain a profit from it.
The description of the video claims to show Scott climbing over a fence on the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, crouching and then the fatal moment when he jumped to his death.
In our “Cash is King” world we live in now, it shouldn’t be a surprise that someone is trying to sell the suicide video of Tony Scott.
Where’s the humanity? Does it exist anymore, or are we all just money hungry, waiting and wanting our next big payday?
It’s the same discussion we had when the National Enquirer paid someone after they took the casket photo of Whitney Houston’s body.
Someone got a real good payday for that snapshot at the expense of a person’s privacy, and it’s exactly what we’re seeing unfold in the case of Tony Scott.
Hopefully no one will profit from Scott’s final fatal moments, and he can rest with some sense of lasting respect.
Shaka Griffith is the News/Politics Editor of GlobalGrind.com Follow him on Twitter and send your thoughts, rants and outburst to @Darealshaka
