Vidiotic summer
August 9, 2008
Vidiocy [vid-ee-uh-see] -noun, plural -cies
1. Performing a criminal or criminally stupid act in front of a video camera or other electronic device, thereby ensuring you’ll not only be caught, but look like a moron in the bargain.2. Of or pertaining to the state of being a vidiot.
[Origin: 2008; video + idio(t) +-cy ] Related word: hypervidiot, i.e., one who videotapes themselves in an act of vidiocy and posts it on the Web.
This seems to be the summer of vidiocy. First, we have a poor woman dying in the ER in a hospital–on videotape–at the same time hospital staff records say they were assiduously keeping watch over her and she was perfectly fine.
Ooops.