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I think that's more an indication of the problem with people not caring about a misunderstanding and only caring about the heat of the moment (lol which is probably as good a description of this forum as exists) than a problem about a photograph of someone doing something in a public place.

What she did was, to whatever degree one feels, shameful. If others would have been present to witness it, they would have disapproved to one degree or another (that's what shame is).

If someone who is walking by and views the act overreacts and beats her up because they walked by when she did this, or follows her around screaming and berating her, or calls her boss to get her fired (or if it's her boss that sees her and fires her as a result), then the problem there isn't that she was viewed doing what she did, she was in public and can reasonably expect to be seen. The problem is the disproportionate response by those who viewed it, beating her up, firing her, following her and berating her are disproportionate responses.

The only difference here is that someone happened to take a picture increasing the number of people that viewed the incident. To me that isn't any different than more people walking down the street to view the incident, if people overreact then the fault is with the overreactors.

If I knew her I'd laugh at her and tell her to stop being dumb and follow the signs, but I wouldn't think less of her, it wouldn't ruin our friendship, everyone's done dumb shameworthy things of this level before, and many of us have done them in public in view of others.