Jul 2nd, 2008 | Nikki Catsouras survey

Do you think the Porsche Girl's parents are right to sue the state's police?


18 year old Nikki Catsouras crashed and died inside her father’s Porsche, which she took without permission, and drove at a speed of 100 miles an hour. Her story, the one of a careless teenager, gained lots of press, and Catsouras became known as the Porsche girl.

That wasn't the end of this family's tragedy. Somehow, horrific photos from the crash scene leaked into the internet. These were some gruesome pictures, one graphically showing the decapitated body of the teen, still strapped to the Porsche's seat.

Then - all of a sudden, a wave of anonymous emails started coming into the family's email mail box, filled with the gory pictures, and shocking the family time and time again. 

The parents are now suing the California Highway police for leaking the photos.



Do you think the Porsche Girls parents are right to sue the states police?


155 votes, 695 views , 5 comments
 
 
Poll tags:Nikki Catsouras, Nikki Catsouras Crash Photos, Nikki Catsouras Pics, Nikki Castouras Crash Photos, Nikki Castouras Pics, Porsche Girl, Porsche Girl Crash Photos, Car Accident

 
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Comments (5)
Gigglybritches
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Texas, United States

posted Jul 5th, 2008 at 03:11 CDT

The person liable is the fiend that posted them. There should be criminal liability there.

Ang
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Texas, United States

posted Jul 4th, 2008 at 12:50 CDT

 It's very unfortunate but with the internet these days, hardly anything is really private. You really can't expect anyone to protect your information when they don't have a vested interest in your privacy.

Iowagirl
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Iowa, United States

posted Jul 2nd, 2008 at 16:26 CDT

the story AND pictures i remember ended up in the bulletin space on Myspace.  I read a bulletin about a car crash, then it said pictures of car and then not expecting it at all there she was...not fully decapitated, but the front of her head/face completely gone and the back of the head was still there.  I was instantly sickened, and angry that someone would pass that bulletin on with no warning.  I then saw this article about the family, if she was my sister or if she was a child of mine? MY GOD i would never be able to sleep again after seeing those photos.  It has been about 2 years, i didn't know her but cannot get that image out of my head.

Scooter
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New York, United States

posted Jul 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 CDT

after reading engreirte's comment i change my answer. there IS a law suit here.

Engreirte
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California, United States

posted Jul 2nd, 2008 at 09:40 CDT

If this is true, yes.  "Police admitted responsibility for accidentally releasing images of Nikki's corpse - those same images then got posted to the Internet."  http://www.zimbio.com/Nikki+Catsouras/articles/62/Orange+County+Superior+Court+will+hear+Nikki

 
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