Couple’s Break-Up at Burger King Becomes Twitter Spectacle

Well, I agree with the poster who said he was tired of hearing people argue in public. But, how about some manners from the dude who posted it online? Kinda rude, no? Maybe they chose a public place to hash things out in, thinking it would help keep the peace between them. Either way, I feel bad for the couple. It’s a shame that they couldn’t work out their differences, and even more so that those differences were relatively minor reasons to divorce.

I get not wanting to listen to others argue in public but what about some respect by not posting someone elses breakup on Twitter, jerk!

This story may have a happy ending. They sue you for invasion of privacy and then have to money to have a place of their own(without his mother living with them), have the money to hire a housekeeper and a marriage counselor and live happily ever after. Then they tweet a thank you to Boyle….o sweet revenge…

Sounds like Brockton to me!

They couldn’t sue for invasion of privacy. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public restaurant.

If this is real I think its reprehensible to post it on Twitter. This is somebody’s life not a gag for hipsters to chuckle over. However something about this seems too perfect. Could this be some kind of sick viral marketing campaign for BK? Seriously, I would not put that past anyone.

The person who posted this on Twitter is a classless jerk. His momma must be so proud.

We wonder why in this country our politicians are such low-lifes.. pretty simple.. look at who they work for. Twitter/Youtube/social media is much more important than hurting someone else over something, yes, they should of kept at home. My neice was attacked and robbed in the parking lot of the local mall about 6 months ago. The police talked to people in the crowd to see if anyone could ID any of the attackers.. OH NO.. no one saw anything. That night, the attack was ALL OVER youtube showing a lot of the people just watching who claimed not to see anything. Luckily, in that case.. the police found the person who posted the attack.. got the video.. arrested the attackers and THEN ARRESTED the little IDOT that recorded it for hindering the investigation. Bad enough to stand and watch something like that and not help.. but then record it and not help. Our values are screwed up.. very screwed up in this country. And no.. I don’t believe in GOD, so I do not go to church.

Katie Kindelan do you think this is news worthy? REALLY? Printing this crap is low and tasteless reporting, time to find a new line of work!

To those who say he is guilty of invasion of privacy – there is nothing private about the dining area at Burger King. I don’t need the details of their breakup but if wants to tweet it – legally its ok. They are the ones who put it out there.

A trio of idiots. The couple, for choosing a public location to have their break-up and Boyle for being tasteless enough to tweet about it. The former couple deserves the embarassment and I hope Boyle drops his smart phone in the toilet.

I don’t understand how any of you can claim this as an “invasion of privacy”. They were in a public restaurant, loudly arguing, loudly enough where everyone, including this guy who tweeted it all could hear. Now if they were in their apartment, and this guy was listening through the peep hole, or their balcony, YES, that would be an “invasion of privacy”. They lost that right when they took up their personal matters in the middle of a PUBLIC restaurant. They made it public! People need to understand that the whole world is watching, with Twitter, Facebook, public forums…what you do is being watched. Between breaking up, and having the whole world shake their head at them, maybe they will grow up! Don’t get married unless your ready to be an adult, and certainly don’t argue in a public place if you don’t want the world to know your business!!

of course it’s expected that the twitter guy would get ostracized for posting this drama on a social networking site. but think about it: though today’s world is run by technology, people’s nature hardly change. WE just love to gossip, about anything and everything. this, being posted on Twitter is no different from a bystander (who either knows or not know the couple), eating while hearing their arguments, goes out of BK, then will relay “hey, i just heard john & jane breaking up in BK last night” to anyone who would listen. Really, spreading gossip just got easier by carrying a videophone w/ you & making use of WiFi instead of your mouth to tell the tale. why do these kinds of tweets, posts, videos, etc get viral anyway? would you still shout “invasion of privacy” if the stars of video were Posh Spice & David Beckham instead of 2 unknowns? why did people read the article in the first place? because the title’s captivating. because it’s of human interest. so don’t cover your perversions by blaming the tweeter-er (or whatever it is they call them), just take the lesson here: if you don’t want to be the subject of gossip, avoid doing something in public that you don’t want people to see.

I think his most egregious mistake was to classify Burger King as a restaurant.

Not ok – not his business to be tweeting this – I can maybe see talking about it on twitter but taking pictures and video without consent is wrong and he should be charged for doing so. It is a public location so you do not have the right to have NO ONE hear you fighting and listen in but saying where it is happening and broadcasting it to the world in inexcusable. HE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF FOR DOING THIS TO OTHER PEOPLE – Hey – why not follow them into the public bathroom and quote on how much they peed – do you want anyone doing that to you? NO – back off and let the couple settle their issues with as much privacy as you can give them! Jerk!

“they should sue you for invasion of privacy, I hope they do..” — there was no invasion of privacy when you’re in a public place and speaking so loud that you can be heard from several feet away. The couple on the other hand could have been charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace had anyone at Burger King, at the time of the argument, would have contacted the police.

so this is what passes muster for tech news in america these days, huh

she should have married a man instead of a little mama’s boy

as for the tweeting, they fought publicly. what do they expect these days? at least it was tweeted with the possibility of dramatic license instead of the ugly truth of video.

What a punk – Mind your own business, boyoyoyoyoy

Tweeting about the breakup through 140 characters, fine…but posting pictures of the couple? And videos? That’s taking it way too far..

Yeah, Andy Boyle is a complete jerk. No one wants to listen to others argue, etc., but if they are this young, and presumably live with Mom, who’s to say they even have a car where they could have hashed this out? Maybe arguing at home (with the mother/-in-law) wasn’t an option. The arguing in public is unfortunate. Boyle, however has much less class than these two do. Report about it on Twitter, fine, whoopee, how exciting for your loser followers. Once Boyle started taking pictures and video, he crossed the line.

I stopped at BK to place a special order for the kids as it has to be just so. As I was leaving a couple got at at the exit and proceeded to throw their food at each other. I just tried to stay clear as the security guard broke the rampage up as she was pulling his hair and he was trying to control her anger. Amazing the idiocy of youth today!

What a jerk for publishing their photos and video. I hope he suffers the same humiliation. And shame on ABC for doing the same.

You can make light of it all that you want and say ” hey ! I was just doing it because ___________ ) but honestly, does that make it right ?

Were those new 75 followers of you so important as to where you couldn’t say, ” No…this is a very personal thing between two people and I should just leave well enough alone?”

So you twitter and take video and, in the end, add a lot more pain to two young people and their domestic problems than they already had.

Here’s hoping your marriage fails if you have one and that the same thing happens to you.
Your actions were callous and thoughtless.

The key is publishing and broadcast. The minute the Tweeter, an employee of Boston Globe, a publishing company broadcast someone else WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT via the internet there were a number of violations. It’s one things to write and publish an account of what you might see or hear in public but broadcasting images, sounds, etc. of people crosses the line. They are not public figures. Unless this couple signed release forms this jerk violated a lot of things. It’s probably much worse that he works for a publication. You have the right to authorize or not authorize the use of your likeness and image period. He didn’t get authorization. He’s opened himself, the Globe, Twitter, and Burger King up to major liability.

Sorry Andy, why not just eat your cholesterol-rich Whopper and not worry about other people….because clearly you have nothing better to do. Should we instantly make assumptions about you Andy? Are you a lonely, overweight guy who eats fast food frequently? Nothing better to do than be on Twitter while you’re stuffing your face w/ a burger? Really? Sounds pretty pathetic. This couple, sure, they aired their fight in public, in a Burger King of all places, but that doesn’t mean you need to broadcast it. Now what happens when one of these two commits suicide because you broadcast them online Andy? Are you not somehow at fault? Huh Andy?

@Derick, that’s exactly what I was going to say. Trail this tool and post everything he says and does. Twitter is a showcase for sociopaths. Get rid of it. And ABC, you’re despicable using your corporate might and pretense of being a legitimate news org to pick on a couple of heartbroken kids.

I know that fighting in public can be “disturbing the peace” but this Dennie persaon NEEDS TO GET A LIFE of their own and concentrate on morals and dignity instead of tweeting somoene else’s life like some moron. I’m so ashamed for this person, and I do hope the couple sues him for invasion of privacy because technicfally if no one else complained about the couples fight , or if no one called the police to file a police report for disrturbing the peace, this Dennie will lose his wanna be justification for voyering into somoeone else’s life, what a loser, and if the person who posted this was in front of me I would certainly tell them in person to their face what a loser they were for invading that couple’s privacy. Get some education, or “EDUCATE IDIOTA!”

A new low. What next – people sneaking into hospitals to record people dying. Do make sure you get some great shots of family member’s expressions of grief. Journalism is dead along with any class this country may have once had.