The face that launched 10,000 emails

Steve is a dickhead, pure and simple. His department should have terminated his employment immediately. His actions and their inaction, have caused this girl a great deal of stress and embarrassment.

What if Olivia had a boyfriend or was married? What if she was ‘your other half’ and was now to embarrassed to go out and was copping loads of flack at work, would you not be hunting down Steve to knock six shades of sh*t out of him? I know I would.

justin heywood said :

The dusky maid was naïve
To the passion she’d roused in our Steve
The world was amused
But the girl ain’t enthused
Not the outcome he’d tried to achieve

Can a Moody Blues revival be far off?

Clown Killer said :

I give the guy credit for following his heart. I give ‘Olivia’ credit for being demure.

+1 and two thumbs up as well.

Clown Killer said :

There’s too many wannabe closet dwelling tin-foil hat wearing butt-plugs here bandying about the ‘stalker’ tag without any real appreciation of what it really means to be ‘stalked’.

Sounds like the enigmatic Johnboy much? LOL

susan23 said :

I know Liv and I think this photo is very old. It’s not a particularly nice one, she is much slimmer and prettier in person. Poor thing didn’t want any of this attention!

She (the story with this photo that is) is the top ranked story on News.com, Sunday Telegraph and Herald Sun websites. I certainly hope she makes a civil claim against News Ltd for this. There’s a good chance depending on how similar she looks now to the pic that she’ll have all sorts approaching her after this. And News Ltd has no justification in the “public interest” for going as far as it has. They should pay up and issue an apology for such blatant invasion of privacy. I hope it works out ok for her in any case.

If you look at the SNOG facebook photos there are other photos from the ball. The night that true love (didn’t) blossom!

I know Liv and I think this photo is very old. It’s not a particularly nice one, she is much slimmer and prettier in person. Poor thing didn’t want any of this attention!

Looking at the photo above, I take it Steve didn’t have the pleasure of meeting the lass on the right.

she’s a ‘ball organiser’.

had me at hello.

justin heywood said :

The dusky maid was naïve
To the passion she’d roused in our Steve
The world was amused
But the girl ain’t enthused
Not the outcome he’d tried to achieve

Very nice 🙂

This poem left a strong and positive impression on me.

I feel sorry for Olivia – she didn’t want to be dragged into this moron’s 10 seconds of fame and now here we are with these photos – wonder how ‘princess leia’ and ‘hot chick next to Olivia’ are feeling about all of this now? they must be thrilled that the world has decided it’s time they were published all over the place…

So who’s the hot chick on the right then? I think, it’s time to fire off some emails…

Poor girl having her name and face splashed around the news. Why? Just because she spoke to a fool at a party. I can only hope this saga blows over quickly so she can live her life in peace and privacy.

… Oh and for the record. I’d give my left testicle just to be ‘despised’ by a girl as pretty as Olivia!

It’s grow up time people. If you’re alive in this world, you’ve got to expect something like this sooner rather than later. I give the guy credit for following his heart. I give ‘Olivia’ credit for being demure. There’s too many wannabe closet dwelling tin-foil hat wearing butt-plugs here bandying about the ‘stalker’ tag without any real appreciation of what it really means to be ‘stalked’.

I will not care to speculate upon her Western eyes beauty until in the fullness of time I see her dressed in a micro bikini.

From that photo in the other thread – I didn’t think Steve was much of an oil painting.

When the Israelis stole the identity of some Australians living in Israel, and used them to make fake passports for a hit in Dubai earlier this year, the media became obsessed with speaking to the people whose identities were stolen.
In the media’s defence, some top journalists argued that those people had been caught up in a media story, and so their privacy was irrelevant. Yet they hadn’t done anything to seek out such publicity and wished to remain private citizens.
I believe public figures – politicians, rock stars, movie stars etc – who court media attention are valid targets for being reported on and identified. Those who commit crimes of public note (Ivan Milat, David Eastman etc) are probably fair game for the media to report on and plaster their pictures all over the cyber-world.
But a girl who went to a party and met some unhinged guy?
Shouldn’t we be letting her live in peace?

The dusky maid was naïve
To the passion she’d roused in our Steve
The world was amused
But the girl ain’t enthused
Not the outcome he’d tried to achieve

We have to be prepared for these incidental moments of “publicity” in the 21st century. And despite some people criticising the publication of her photo and name, I can think of far worse things for which to be remembered.

Some people here are forcefully defensive of privacy rights, but I doubt they’ve thought through the consequences of what they’re asking for. Perhaps, in their perfect world, it’s impossible to name anyone for doing anything unless permission is first obtained. What a great way to cover up all kinds of things.

creative_canberran said :

He was an idiot, simple. Sending out the description and name of a woman to a whole department is desperate, creepy and a gross invasion of her privacy, particularly when other legitimate means of finding someone’s contact details exist such as the Public Service internal phone book.

Agreed. Some might say it’s romantic but to me, it reeks of stalking. Shudder. Poor Olivia. She wanted nothing to do with him and she didn’t want to be identified. Sometimes the 21 st century goes too far.

He was an idiot, simple. Sending out the description and name of a woman to a whole department is desperate, creepy and a gross invasion of her privacy, particularly when other legitimate means of finding someone’s contact details exist such as the Public Service internal phone book.

“Things went awry when Mr Tucker sent an email that would go viral, after it was posted on Canberra-based website the-riotact.com.”

Congrats, you’re famous! INTERNET famous!

You don’t seriously think this is about her appearance? You don’t suppose maybe she has any other positive qualities or some shared interests with Steve?

Setting up a poll to rate Olivia’s physical attractiveness as stalkable or not stalkable? She’s a public servant, not a model, and even if she was a model, Steve wanted to finish his conversation, not gawk at her.

I hope.

bd84 said :

I feel sorry for her though, one night out and her name gets known internationally after a random guy sends a stupid email.Then to get your face plastered all over the newspaper just because they want to.. Unwanted attention much.

+1000000

Olivia made it blatantly clear through those close to her that she didn’t want anything to do with scary stalker Steve, wanted to be left alone, and most importantly DID NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED.

Sadly her privacy couldn’t be respected.

And now, with her identity revealed she is going suffer hugely and the harassment will no doubt increase.

Ah the game of 21st century – mass stalking.

I think she’s attractive, although a bit hard to tell from just one photo. I don’t think I would be sending an all staff in department email to find her though..

I feel sorry for her though, one night out and her name gets known internationally after a random guy sends a stupid email.Then to get your face plastered all over the newspaper just because they want to.. Unwanted attention much.

The media has no morals.

She’s quite attractive, certainly not unattractive. Each of us has our own “type”, maybe she hit all Mr Tucker’s right buttons. (I’m sure he would have liked her to hit all his right buiuttons.)