not saving in photo receive and logging the saving in common

app/models/photo.rb

@@ -29,6 +29,5 @@ class Photo < Post
   def remote_photo= remote_path
     image.download! remote_path
     image.store!
-    save
   end
 end

lib/common.rb

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ module Diaspora
           User.owner.receive_friend_request(p)
         #This line checks if the sender was in the database, among other things?
         elsif p.respond_to?(:person) && !(p.person.nil?) && !(p.person.is_a? User) #WTF
-          p.save 
+          Rails.logger.info("Saving object with success: #{p.save}")
         end
         #p.save if p.respond_to?(:person) && !(p.person == nil) #WTF
       end