The 'wtf is wrong with these people?' thread.

[DanaC]

Sometimes people can just be such utter dicks. Internet trolls in particular - not the ones who stalk comments threads and try to derail sensible discussions - they're just annoying, occasionally entertaining. No - I'm talking about these kinds of people:

A dossier of online abuse directed at the parents of Madeleine McCann is being examined by police.

Their little girl was snatched several years ago and hasn't been seen since. Quite possibly dead - or worse.

The material posted by online “trolls” is said to have included suggestions that the couple should be tortured or killed. One message board comment reportedly said: “These 2 should burn in hell.”

Sky News said other posts in the dossier included: “I hope that the McCanns are living in total misery,” and “I want to see them smashed up the back of a bus or trampled by horses.” Some messages were said to have been directed at Madeleine’s younger siblings, now aged nine.

Seriously - wtf is wrong with these people?

Their 'contributions' were so extreme and worrying that they prompted uninvolved members of the public to report the matter to police :

The posts were gathered by people who are concerned about the abuse. One campaigner, who did not wish to be named, told Sky News: “We’re very worried that it’s only going to take somebody to act out of some of these discussions, some of the threats that have been made, and we couldn’t live with ourselves if that happened and we had done nothing.”

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...lice-madeleine