I feel for this young fella. I knew once people started pulling pictures of anyone at the scene with a backpack that some pour soul was going to be freaking out. It could have happened to any of us that happened to be there with a backpack. I can’t imagine having my face splashed all over the internet with that sort of weighted incident on my back for all the world to see when all I was doing was standing with my backpack watching a race. Glad he came forward.
It's happened before.
I fear the web is where many of "us" will be seen by the public and "achieve" our 15 minutes of fame.