Damon Flintov: lez do it
As the night wore on, signs of trouble began to emerge. There is a photograph of the driver of the BMW, Damon Flintov, kneeling on a kitchen floor, a bottle of Smirnoff Ice cocked at his mouth:
Nick Brickston: Damon getting iced
Ryan Harbinger: chag ro
Ryan Harbinger: fuckin goon
Damon Flintov: Ha ha flints back bitches
Jonas Everett: ohhhh shit
In another photo, Nick Brickston, one of the passengers in the BMW, gives a sexually explicit hand sign kids refer to as “The Shocker”:
Ryan Harbinger: its the shocker!!
Emma Fleed: ohh yaaaa
Damon Flintov: yo nick brix got the hooks
The night progressed and Emma Fleed, the primary victim of the car accident at Throckmorton and Cascade Canyon, was video-recorded on a mobile phone as she danced on a glass coffee table, apparently unaware of her surroundings, likely intoxicated (or “turt”). The video was posted on Vine, a popular social networking site where short videos play on never-ending loops. Here, the kids’ comments take a darker turn:
Nick Brickston: majestic
Steph Malcolm-Swann: he he
Damon Flintov: woah woah woah. this chick is so ratchet
Lexie Carlton: luv u sexxxy
Ryan Harbinger: drunk off her ass ha ha
Annalynne Schmidt: wut the fuck is this girl doing??? lol
Nick Brickston: Emma Fleed is so wasted Lindsay Lohan just told her to get it together
Jake Rambelli: is this girl getting naked or what?
The kids continued to take advantage of Emma Fleed’s vulnerable state, posting additional photographs and videos of the young girl on the table, her skirt and top disheveled so as to reveal her thighs and underwear:
Jonas Everett: this girl is fcked UP
Jake Rambelli: thirsty trick
Steph Malcolm-Swann: this is so hilar
Dave Chu: what if that was your daughter
Ryan Harbinger: what if it was my fuckin little sister
Damon Flintov: it wouldn’t be tho. she wouldn’t do that.
Ryan Harbinger: real.
Jonas Everett: Emma Fleed is DTF whose ready??
CHRIS NGUYEN and 6 others
Finally, the victim is shown as she lay passed out on a soiled white couch, her hair disheveled, her skirt hiked up to reveal pink underwear. Though at least five other kids took and posted photographs in this moment, it does not appear, from the photos, that anyone stepped in to help the girl. To the kids it seemed to be a kind of terrible joke:
Damon Flintov: she is so fucked right now
Corie Narlow: who is this sloppy drunk bitch?
Brian DeAngelo: cumbucket
Jeremy McCreigh: some people deserve to get raped
Damon Flintov: u r one sick fuck
Jeremy McCreigh:
http://www.twitter.com
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@sflover_08: @1marinview It must suck to be that drunk slut everyone’s tweeting about #mvcrash #partyfouls #sloppydrunkbitches #kidsthesedays
@aliciababe8: Girls need 2 stop putting thmselves in dangerous situations like this. #mvcrash #kidsthesedays
@mvdad94941: @aliciababe8 @1marinview What so now it is her fault the other kid was driving drunk?? #mvcrash
@anniebansie: @mvdad94941 if u act like she did ur asking for things 2 happen 2 u. Its common sense, this is the world we live in. #mvcrash
@ericdracula2: Stupid bop gets what she deserves. Maybe now shell see dont get in cars with ppl who r drinking!! #mvcarcrash #sloppydrunkbitches
As Emma read, her heart beat faster. This was her (could this really be her?) that they were talking about. She had always been popular, among kids and adults. Now she was worse than a slut or a trick—she was a victim to be judged, pitied, and avoided. Even Abigail, her best friend, did not want to be near her. No one did.
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In restless dreaming she was standing on the wet deck at the party, in a circle of basketball players. One of them, Chris Nguyen, she’d given a blow job after the MCAL finals. Now they flirted in the semi-dark and Emma let him kiss her because why not. When Rihanna soared through the stereo, Emma’s of-the-moment favorite, she didn’t need a partner to start dancing.