Nude Photos Make McDonald's The Victim

Karen Bune
Victimology Contributor
Officer.com

Phillip Sherman of Arkansas has no one to blame but himself if nude photos of his wife turn up anywhere other than on his cell phone where he had them stored. He reportedly left his cell phone behind in a McDonalds and is now blaming the store for not maintaining the security of his phone. Consequently, he alleges the photos are supposedly floating around somewhere in the public domain on the internet. Mr. Sherman is now bemoaning his own self-induced plight and is suing McDonalds for 3 million dollars for suffering, embarrassment, and the cost of having to move to a new home. Mr. Sherman is by no means a victim of anything other than his own stupidity and, therefore, one is hard pressed to have any sympathy for him whatsoever. He made the mistake of putting the photos on his phone in the first place, and he is the one who didn’t take the proper means to secure his own phone. If he was so worried about who could see those photos, he shouldn’t have put them there in the first place and should have been more vigilant and not so absent-minded to leave the phone behind. Perhaps Mr. Sherman could take some lessons from married men who engage in clandestine affairs or guys who cheat on their girlfriends. They are more street smart and savvy in knowing how and where to store their information and hide their activities from their personal and, in some cases, public lives. If Mr. Sherman is bold enough to put nude photos of his wife on the cell phone, he should realize that the potential exists for that confidentiality to get compromised by virtue of a situation occurring like the one he is experiencing. If he was so worried about these photos being “discovered,†then he should have found an alternative mode and method in which he could keep these highly prized photos of his sweetie. Any man who will place nude photos of his wife on a cell phone can’t be that much of a prude to feel so much “embarrassment†and “suffer†to the extent that Mr. Sherman claims. It appears that he has an ulterior self-serving motive in claiming such distress and emotional impact and is utilizing it to his full advantage to try to take advantage of McDonalds. He even stoops so low as to lay blame on others that he has to relocate from his home. Mr. Sherman doesn’t have to do anything, but he chooses to do otherwise. He could, in fact, remain living where he is and take the consequences of his own mistake like a man rather than behaving in such child-like manner and becoming an apparent poster boy for a whiner. Mr. Sherman is looking for a pot of undeserved gold from the Golden Arches of hamburger kingdom but, perhaps, instead, he should merely seek compensation for a pair of sexy stilettos that he could give his wife for Christmas and have her audition for Playboy.