Mark and Patricia McCloskey sue news photographer, say they are being ridiculed

[muriel_volestrangler]

The St. Louis couple who brandished guns at protesters passing their home have sued a news photographer who documented the event, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a lawsuit Friday that accuses UPI’s Bill Greenblatt of trespassing on their property to take photographs.

The suit also names the news service and Redbubble, a company with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco that makes print-on-demand products from user-submitted designs. The McCloskeys claim the dissemination of Greenblatt’s images has caused them “humiliation, mental anguish and severe emotional distress,” the Post-Dispatch said.

T-shirts for sale on Redbubble label the couple “Ken & Karen,” pejorative shorthand for people having an inflated sense of entitlement.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/09/mccloskeys-sue-news-photographer-say-they-are-being-ridiculed/

This is surely a self-defeating suit. Just by filing it, they cause themselves humiliation.

[True Dough]

1. Reality is harsh medicine for some

They ought to be suing mirror manufacturers too, I guess.

[underpants]

2. These people destroyed a bee hive and then threatened to sue the school

They sue everyone left and right. They are personal injury lawyers which is a 30% take on wins.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. Streisand Effect?

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The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew further attention to it in 2003.[1]

Attempts to suppress information are often made through cease-and-desist letters, but instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, as well as media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, which can be mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.[2][3]

The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to access and spread that information.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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[LisaM]

3. They apparently sue everybody.

When they were in the news, I did a little online lookup and they are habitually embroiled in petty lawsuits.

I can't imagine living my life that way, I just can't.

[NotAPuppet]

4. That's funny,

I thought they humiliated themselves with their guns, behavior, and that Hamburglar outfit.

[LisaM]

5. Hamburglar outfit, LOL.

Exactly spot on.

[crickets]

16. Perfect, mustard stain and all.

[Firestorm49]

6. As the Trump supported showed on a poster: "Morans"

Yes, morans.

Lord knows, they didn’t bring any of this on by their stupid actions. 😜

[lame54]

7. Didn't those picks get them invited to the Whitehouse?

[intheflow]

8. "Trespassed on their property to take photos."

Um, I guess they're never heard of telephoto lenses? Also, racist m-fers should be publicly humiliated whenever possible.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Yeah, it's Greenblatt's fault.

They didn’t come out their house in mustard stained clothing, brandishing weapons at passersby and each other.

The photographer caused the whole thing.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. They're being ridiculed for good reason. They stood outside their house, showing off their guns and

and their idiotic actions in threatening other citizens of STL City in board daylight. As a citizen of STL, I don't appreciate anybody waving handguns/rifles/etc. at fellow citizens like they were. Thugs. I hope they get chased out of the city, we don't need people like this around.

[Chainfire]

11. The set out to be right-wing heroes

They accomplished that goal. They posed for that photo and should be giving the photographer a big check.

[nykym]

12. Too bad it wasn't in NY

Cuomo just signed a frivolous lawsuit bill.
This one would be a prime case for it.

[Binkie The Clown]

13. "Ridicule" has the same root as "ridiculous." They earned it. nt

[maxsolomon]

14. anyone who came inside the perimeter walls of their "private street" was trespassing.

Google Maps is quite illuminating: theirs is the Palladian mansion with a round pool at the east end of Portland Place at N. Kingshighway Blvd. in St. Louis. The Synagogue whose honeybee hives they destroyed, the Central Reform Congregation, is on the other side of a 12' brick wall.

the streets are private and held in common by the homeowner's assoc., IIRC. I don't think anyone went on the McCloskey's property per se, just the private street.

it's gated, but the gates are usually open. there are no gates on the street entries to the south (Lake Ave. & Lindell Blvd).

the entire march was deliberately passing through the walled neighborhood. that was the point: civil disobedience.

[Gore1FL]

15. If they weren't into humiliation, they wouldn't have participated in the Trump convention. nt

[Volaris]

17. They ARE being ridiculed. Because that's exactly what happens when

you act like an ass in public, in an open society with protected speech. These people are lawyers, one would think they would know this...

[displacedtexan]

19. For crying out loud, they were a very popular Halloween couple costume choice.

Journalism (first amendment) always seems to be too difficult for wingnuts to comprehend.