It started with a picture on Facebook and has now created a firestorm of outrage. Two Penn State students, dressed as Virginia Tech shooting victims, at a Halloween party have enraged people from the Virginia Tech community, as well as the entire country. 10 On Your Side has seen all of the controversial pictures. They are of two Penn State students and are extremely graphic. Both are wearing Virginia Tech t-shirts and elaborate make-up. Both have bullet holes in their bodies.
“It’s not that it was funny, it’s that we are notorious and infamous in the state college, so we have to do things that push the envelope just for shock value,” he said. Penn State officials were quick to respond to the costumes. ” We are appalled that these individuals would display this level of insensitivity, indifference, and lack of common decency and sense by dressing up in this manner,” the school said.Some of the upset members have left threatening messages to the Penn State students. “This is a group of college students who now think it’s trendy to be upset about their friends being killed,” one of the two Penn State students who wore the costume said. “I don’t know what they teach people in Virginia Tech, but at Penn State we don’t learn to threaten people with murder to teach them that murdering is wrong.”
I like an off color joke as much as the next guy, but what were these kids thinking?
Egads! The youth of today…
The height of poor taste.
#1- Balbas
“The youth of today…”
…are the conscience-free sociopaths of tomorrow.
Clueless, egocentric adultolescents with absolutely zero sense of the sanctity of human life. Cut from the same cloth as the morally empty vessels who gun down innocent strangers at shopping malls. Representatives of the first generation in history posessing no empathy whatsoever.
Makes me ashamed to call myself an American.
Video News Story from a local VA station.
What ??? The pro gun crowd aren’t all jumping up and down about second amendment rights? Man, how weird is that?
They did it because people expected them to do stupid shit? What a bunch of tools.
You ask “What were they thinking?” Answer, About themselves and how “cool” they are. Totally self absorbed morons.
Spare me the PC outrage crap. The guy has a point about the people make threats against them on that Facebook group, allowing threats of violence and retribution only detracts from their message.
Being tasteless isn’t a crime, threats of violence may very well be -not to mention they also demonstrate a lack of taste as well-.
Hell if being tasteless was a crime there be a lot of people in jail by now and I would be one of them.
What? Too soon? ID10Ts
It ain’t got shit to do with bad taste, kiddies. Jokes about babies playing with razor blades are about bad taste. This is about being so fucking empty inside as to make sport of the hideous slaughter of other young American college students. When you lack all empathy for other people, especially people like yourselves, you’re a sick, twisted subhuman. For the edification of those of you who see nothing wrong with being stone-cold indifferent to extreme human suffering and senseless violent deaths, that is a bad thing.
Having the idiotic idea that there’s nothing wrong with such behavior is a good indication that you need to take a good long look in the mirror, because you’ve got more in common with the VT murderer than his victims.
Forty years ago college-based empathy led to a reassessment of Vietnam. Now students are reassessing values and saying, “LET’S PARTY!”
It was Halloween ffs. I usually go naked on roller skates as a pull toy.
Hey, VT’s football team is better than that.
Where do kids get their ideas today? I mean teachers and their DU supporters aside.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14918
Teacher arrested for posting sarcasm! Really!
RBG
If you can’t make fun of dead people, who can you make fun of?
So it’s bad to dress up as murder victims? Is it OK to dress up as zombies?
Taste is a matter of opinion, and I don’t find it tasteless.
Morality is a personal matter, and I can’t find anything wrong with their stunt.
And if they’re lacking in empathy (as #12 would have it) that’s their problem, not mine.
So whats so wrong with dressing up as dead murdered people? It’s Halloween ffs!
It really isn’t worth getting upset because of these college brats… They did it only to attract attention from people and be accepted by their idiot peers. It’s kinda sad really…
Fact remains is that you can’t stop people from doing this sorta thing as much as you can’t stop islamists from cheering when terrorists blow up a bunch of people. You don’t have to like it, but you can’t punish people for being insensitive…
I love being a “a sick, twisted subhuman” and wholeheartedly support the right of everyone to do likewise.
that’s some extra Bad Karma bonus points right there… yikes.
Wow, Thats funny like the old joke “Did you hear about the van load of Falidmide babies that was stopped in London, they were arrested for bringing small arms into the country
Easily the coolest costume. evar!
and if yall dont like it, go hide your bleeding heart in the same place you left your sense of pushing boundaries (aka college). morans
awesome!
I support these kids. (Kids? Damn, I’m only 10-12 years older then them! College sure has changed alot in the last decade.) I have a “theory of humor” that states that EVERYTHING can be joked about. The moment you say one thing shouldn’t be joked about, then you started a domino effect that leads to nothing being joked about. HOWEVER, part of my “theory of humor” states that you need you know your audience. For example, a menstruating statue of the Virgin Mary is great on South Park, I wouldn’t bring it up during mass on Sunday. Or calling the holocaust a myth to be busted by the Myth Busters is great on Robot Chicken, but I wouldn’t bring it up at temple. This kids knew there audience, other college kids at the party who, I’m guessing, got the joke and probably had a laugh with it. (Of course, there mistake was posting it on Facebook where it got away from them an into the great wide world.) Anyway, like I said, I think they have the right to make jokes about whatever they want to amoungst themselves. And i’m not going to judge them for it. (Casting the first stone and all that, ya see.) It’s not like they dressed up this way and went to the VT campus on the anniversary of the shooting. – Anny comments? ~LB
I notice alot of people complaining here and elsewhere seem to have trouble mentally processing the following items:
We talked with one of the students who wore the costume. He said the outfits were worn to a small party and meant to be private.
“It’s not that it was funny, it’s that we are notorious and infamous in the state college, so we have to do things that push the envelope just for shock value,” he said.
When making an effort to mentally assess a given situation, it is vitally important to absorb ALL available information, not just the bits that you want to see or hear.
Pffft.
“meant to be private.”
Really? Oh. Just cuttin’ up and joshin about a recent, real-life mass murder among yourselves, eh? Well, then. Great humor topic. Carry on.
“It’s not that it was funny, it’s that we are notorious and infamous in the state college, so we have to do things that push the envelope just for shock value,” he said.”
Uh, I don’t get it… You just said it was meant to be private. So who were you gonna shock? Each other?? Fucking lame-ass excuse if I ever heard one.
“When making an effort to mentally assess a given situation, it is vitally important to absorb ALL available information, not just the bits that you want to see or hear.”
Really? Wow. Lemme write that down.
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Making jokes about things that happened long ago, far away, etc, is one thing. But your own kind, almost yesterday, and not too far from where you are?
Think of it this way:
“Ok, but other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?” is funny. But only a total moran or headcase would’ve told that joke in Washington a month or two after the assassination.
IOW, even among the edgiest people, who proclaim ‘No sacred cows’, there ARE sacred cows. What kind of asshole would attend a function with Stephen Hawking present and show off for his friends by mimicking a spastic in a wheelchair, within eye- and earshot of Hawking and his wife? Do you know anyone that boneheaded? Do you know anyone so clueless as to call that “pushing the envelope”?
Didn’t think so…
Overheard phone conversation: “But Ted, what if I get pregnant?” “Ah, don’t, ah, worry, Mary Jo. We’ll drive off that bridge when we come to it.”
Telling that joke today won’t make you a shit-for-brains lamer; telling it to a member of the Kopechne family at the funeral would’ve.
That means that having a “laugh” at fellow students from only a few hundred miles away, who not long ago died in genuine hideous terror, is the act of walking, talking anal sphincters.
Amazing as it might seem, notoriety and infamy are not actually things to be sought. Who’d’a thunk it?
The Aristocrats!
I want to dress up as any of the bullies who made the Columbine kids go crazy and shoot their peers.
They wanted to “push the envelope”, eh?
Why didn’t they show up at the party wearing black face, then?
Oh, no. How could you even suggest such a thing?
Why, that would be insensitive! 🙂