Is that a nude on your phone or are you just glad to see me?

By now, just about everyone has heard about the Washington state husband who left his cell phone in a McDonalds and then nude shots his wife that he kept on the phone suddenly showed up on the Internet.

Makes us wonder. Made Joey Arerilla, a blogger for CNET, wonder too:

Without going into the merits of the suit--that's for the courts to decide--or pinning the blame on anyone, I just have to wonder why anyone would carry around such sensitive photos on his or her mobile phone.

Again, there's no excuse for tampering with someone's mobile phone, or posting private photos online. But on a purely practical note, wouldn't you be paranoid about keeping private pics like that on your mobile, when it's so easy to misplace it or have it stolen? How many handsets have you, or someone you know, lost over the years?

How did all this come about? Reports the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas:

A Bella Vista couple has sued McDonald's for at least $3 million after nude photographs of the woman were allegedly taken off her husband's misplaced cell phone and posted on the Internet.

Phillip and Tina Sherman say Phillip left his cell phone at McDonald's on Sixth Street in Fayetteville on July 5. Tina Sherman then began receiving offensive calls and text messages about the pictures, then learned her pictures, which she had sent her husband, had been posted on-line along with her name, address and phone number.

The Web site allegedly described how McDonald's employees retrieved the pictures from a phone left at the restaurant.

Before the pictures and information could be taken down, Tina Sherman began receiving threats and lewd, explicit and obscene text messages and phone calls from strangers who had seen the site. There were also similar comments posted on the web site, according to the suit.

The suit names McDonald's Corp., Matthews Management Co. and a manager, Aaron Brummley. Employees of the restaurant had allegedly promised to secure the cell phone, turn it off and safeguard it until Phillip Sherman could retrieve it.

The suit seeks no less than $1 million for outrage; no less than $1 million for public disclosure of private facts; and, no less than $1 million for casting the Shermans in a false light.