What is it with morbid curiosity?

[hobish]

Either that or snopes took off the offending pics because maybe the family complained or something.

Well, when I foolishly looked, I definitely saw more than pictures of the car. I wouldn't be at all surprised if somebody had complained, as it was beyond gruesome.

They've had some pretty bad 'beyond gruesome' photos on snopes before, so I don't think that would stop them, unless they have recently changed their policy and become more strict about what they will post. Could be out of respect to the family, as I don't think I'd want pictures of my dead beloved looking like a pile of meat or whatever posted for everyone to see.

Indeed. Snopes is great about posting warnings if something is greusome. I can only think of one where i knew i shouldn't have looked & did. It was so awful, i really really wish i hadn't. The images are stuck in my head & even typing this is making me tear up.
Lesson learned.

[kingsrings]

When I first went to snopes, I naively thought that their 'gruesome image' warning just meant something like a bit of blood, so I gave no mind to it. So I ended up looking at a decapitation. Now I know better. Now when I come across one of those stories, I just put my hands up in the middle of the screen so that I can still read the story attached without seeing the images, unless my morbid curiosity gets the best of me sometimes. But if it's a fake photo, I do look so I can see what photoshop or make-up techniques were used.

[Seraphine1]

I had a friend who used to look at stuff on Rotten.com, which makes Snopes look pale in comparison.  He seemed to have a rather high tolerance for gory pictures - he just didn't seem to notice how awful some of this stuff was. 

I dropped by his house once for coffee and he looked terrible.  He said he'd seen a picture of a murder scene on that particular website that had bothered him so much that he couldn't sleep.  Now, I could only imagine (actually, I couldn't) what it was he saw that bothered him considering the things that DIDN'T bother him.

He actually stopped frequenting those sites for fear of running into that particular picture again.

[Sharnita]

i think it is more thant just death, though. The immediate reaction to the two young boys who were just found alive after being kidnapped, Elizabeth Smart, the bodies of peole who didn't come home alive... the media and the public want to know if there was sexual abuse and all the gory details. I'd rather not know. These aren't people I know and hearing all the details won't help them heal.