Vidiotic summer
August 9, 2008 by cynthia
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.
Then we have Jesse Jackson volunteering, on air, to perform bilateral orchiectomy on Barack Obama for talking down to black constituents. He no doubt wanted to save on health care costs.
Ooops.
The guy who stole weapons and advertised them for sale on MySpace.
Awww, c’maaaaaaaan.
There’s the usual armed robber who stole a guy’s bank cards, was first videotaped using them to withdraw money with a mask on at the ATM, then videotaped at his next stop taking the mask off.
Ooops.
The cop caught giving drugs to a stripper on surveillance tapes. Or the one at the jail in Memphis, beating up a transsexual on camera. (You mean nobody told them there were cameras?)
Ooops.
And the dude who took his child porn-filled laptop to Geek Squad for repairs. (Although given the Geek Squad track record the news should probably be that they FOUND the hard drive in the first place.)
Oooooooops.
Now there’s the guy awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of driving while drunk and nearly killing a woman in an auto accident. Apparently having nothing better to do, he heads for a party, gets himself photographed boozing it up with a coed…and posts the shot on his FaceBook page. Judge wasn’t impressed.
Ooops.
And it’s not video, but what about the thieves who stole a car with the owner’s mobile phone inside? She sent a text message to her phone offering them $400 to return her car, and the cops took them into custody when they came to pick up the cash.
In a prior age we might have used “bellerophontic” instead of vidiot, except that these guys did it to themselves. Wherever is Darwin when you need him?
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