Whether You're BP Or A Petty Criminal, Photoshopping Yourself To Look Sympathetic Probably Isn't Wise
from the just-a-tip dept
Slashdot pointed us to this fun story about a scam artist who tried to get leniency from a judge by showing him photos of charity work he had done. The only problem? He Photoshopped himself into the photos and also forged letters from those charitable organizations. Not surprisingly, the judge didn't take too kindly to it, and gave him 285 months in prison -- 50 more than the sentencing guidelines allow -- because of the attempt to defraud the court.Of course, I was thinking of doing a post on just that, when Karl Bode pointed me to the news that BP has also been caught messing around with Photoshopped images. Apparently, the images that BP has released of its oil spill "command center" are really, really, poorly Photoshopped. After being called on it, BP denied it, then sorta admitted it, but won't explain the details. Then, to make matters worse, it got caught with another Photoshopped image.
So, whether you're a petty criminal, or a giant multi-billion dollar multi-national, perhaps you should layoff the Photoshop when trying to make yourself look sympathetic.
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http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAG ING/local_assets/images/HIVE_houston01.jpg
Makes you wonder why they even bothered.
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Judging by the reflections and shadows that match the light coming off the bottom left of centre screen, that part at least is real.
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Photoshop
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Gotta love that pic. Look at the laptop in the front. Suuuuuure you're working :P
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I can't wait to see the resulting meme pics LOL :D
Oh wait, here's one... http://twitpic.com/2754ns
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IF THESE PEOPLE WILL LIE TO US ABOUT STUPID SHAP LIKE THIS, HOW MANY LIES ARE THEY TELLING ABOUT THE IMPORTANT SHAP!?!?!?! NOTHING LESS THAN OUR COUNTRY IS AT STAKE!!!
I'm sorry for yelling.
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Because BP is not a petty criminal.
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Petty criminals perform petty crimes... like dispensing falsified photos.
Does being a true felon trump the title of petty criminal? I suppose it might. But then, it might not.
And yes, I'm on crack.
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what they were really doing...
http://www.axisofwin.com/public/bpphotoshop9.jpg
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