Our instant info media center on the internet world ensures that every little thing like this that might be of interest to a few people, gets spread around for all of us to see.
Is this sort of thing happening more than ever before, or are we hearing about it more than ever before? Really, there have always been stupid people. And there have always been stupid people having kids. Now we have the internet to tell us the little fables of these stupid people and their stupid lives, everytime they do something stupid.
C'est la Vie.