If you’ve never gone to 4chan, and you’re over the age of 40, you probably should just blacklist the entire site now, especially /b/. That being said, when “the collective” puts their mind to something, **** usually hits the fan, and by that I mean peoples lives are ruined. If you haven’t heard, a few days ago a closed captioned surveillance camera caught a (now identified as Mary Bale, 50, of Coventry, England) woman casually petting a neighborhood cat, then throwing said cat into a garbage bin. The Internet, and even more importantly local residents, were outraged. They wanted blood, literally. Mary received countless death threats to both her and her place of work, and is now in police protective custody. That was probably a good move, honestly.
Let’s back up a step to what exactly happened between the time the cat was thrown into the bin (which Mary claims was a joke), and now. If you have been to 4chan and are aware that the anonymous vigilantes there are perfectly dubbed “the best and worst spot on the Internet”, then you know it’s the type of place hopes and dreams go to die. However when they decide to be angered, they are a force to be reckoned with, and not to be trifled with. It took only a few hours from when the video was posted for the hounds of 4chan to identify the person in the video. A few hours after that, they had plastered the boards with not only her name, but where she worked, her phone number, the name of her boss, her Facebook profile, her home address, and a google map locating it.
Mary Bale, you dun goofed.
