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?
Here are some more pictures.
Penn State Virginia Tech Halloween Costumes
When it comes to being offensive about Christianity such as putting a crucifix upside down in a jar of urine and calling it “Piss on Christ”, all the worlds Liberals leap with joy and cheer when the Liberal “artists” do this. When it comes to attacking Conservative Christians, most Liberals whole heartedly support the mass slaughter of Republicans and conservatives and totally support anything that attacks them or what they believe in. At the same time the Liberals fall over backwards to not only protect the “rights” of Islamofacist Terrorists, the Liberal Democrats want to give Terrorist more and more rights and help the Terrorists take over America. Liberals hate America to its core and want it destroyed – period. Why do you think Liberal Democrats constantly attack and blame America?
Just remember, all this crap is coming out of our universities which are totally controlled by Liberal Democrats. If you think this is bad, wait until the Democrats size power. This is what our entire nation will look like on a daily basis, not just isolated incidents.
#8, Mister Patrick,
Being tasteless isn’t a crime …
Keith Oberman’s choice in ties could be classified as a crime.
what’s really tasteless is the gun lobby saying the solution to one moron having the power to kill 30 odd innocent strangers is to have more guns
I heard the guy on the news. He clearly isn’t the brightest guy around. “We are notorious and infamous in State College” ….what an ego. He is notorious for being a moron and she is infamous for being a dumb ass.
I have no problem with poor taste, but if poor taste gets your ass beat then live with. I have no problem with the threats to them. I hope they can’t find jobs when the get out of PSU.
#36 – Canucklehead
“what’s really tasteless is the gun lobby saying the solution to one moron having the power to kill 30 odd innocent strangers is to have more guns”
OOoo, yeah, baby! Christ forbid that any one of those victims would’ve had a pistol – they might’a used it, and prevented him from killing as many innocent people as he did. What a horrifying thought, eh?
You’re still in love with those insane, completely backward laws that only prevent harmless citizens from having guns and have exactly zero effect on the actions of murderous ones, aren’t you? You should move to DC; the District government there suffers from the precise same mental defect as you.
>># 35 Mister Hairball said,
Knock it off with the “mister” shit, will ya?
It’s just a matter of “how soon is too soon”. It’s subjective. Some people move along more quickly than others. If you’re going to do something like this, you better be prepared to take the heat. I think they know what they’re getting into when they did this.
Wow, so many of the comments against these two students are just petty and vindictive, or in the case of # 34, fodder for an irrelevant political diatribe. Really people time to move on to more import things.
Geez, we are so lame at dealing with death in this culture. It may seem inappropriate, but it’s a way of dealing with the fear and uncertainty that death (especially of someone close to your age) brings up. IT’s a COSTUME. Halloween costumes are either stupid, funny, or explore some fear. Ghoolies, ghosties, monsters, demons..all scare us. So does death. Is this any more/less appropriate than being a Grim Reaper or a Zombie?
I don’t think it is.
#39 Go back to your taint stretching exercises and glory hole lurking you human douche.
# 39, MM,
Who ever posted #43 was not me, the original Mister Hairball.
Did you hear Jeffery Daumer escaped from Jail?
He was last seen headed to Waco with a bottle of barbecue sauce.
Thank god enough time has passed I can finally tell that joke.
To all those people who “just dont get it” and sees nothing wrong with this, and says Humour is Humour and they donthave a problem with it… Imagine this: What if *YOU* were the victim of a tragedy? lets say your wife was brutally raped and murdered, your baby killed and decapitated by a crazed serial killer..then come halloween you see someone wearing a replica of tha tattered red dress they found your wife in with fake slash marks on her throat, carrying a doll with no head around… is it still “edgy”? Funny enough for you? AFAIK not one of the families of the 30+ victims has reacted to this “humor”… not yet anyway. It is their horror and pain that I’m thinking of right now.
Well, Alf, at least you understand what I’m sayin’
“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.”
Certainly some of them are. Too bad they don’t screen for this, when accepting enrollments. To think, some of those types will end up as doctor and lawyers. Not because they care, but because their parents could afford the tuition. And that may explain why this country is in the state it is now. The parents of today’s politicians and statesmen got dumped into college, to avoid the Vietnam War draft. I read that Dick Cheney went to college four times, to avoid the draft. Bet he didn’t wait on tables to afford all of that tuition. Now he’s a major reason for the mess we’re involved in. In fact the White House has been staffed with quite a lot of “Chicken Hawks”. Check out…
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
“…some of those types will end up as doctor and lawyers.”
Too late. Many already have. The minority with some leftover trace of human feeling will become doctors, and the rest will grow the pool of conscience- and morals-free lawyers who are even now eating away at American society like the cancer they are. Scum with the souls of psycho killers, lacking the guts to actually kill. Look at the foul buckets of slime who get rich helping society’s worst enemies stay out of prison. They’d put Ted Bundy on the street if it’d buy ’em a bigger house.
Yes, I’m sure that quite a few of the college zombies involved are well on their way to law degrees. The natural choice for people with no human compassion or sense of decency, who find major tragedy something to laugh about.
“…that may explain why this country is in the state it is now.”
May?? I wouldn’t say it explains everything about America’s decline, but it surely accounts for the lion’s share of it.
Hello Kitty! Gosh, you certainly seem to hold doctors in high esteem. I guess you don’t know many.
#50, Mister THC,
…but it surely accounts for the lion’s share of it.
Do I note a feline bias there? Hey, and don’t you accuse me of being full of shit either.
Hey, I disagree with your position but have to admit your arguments are persuasive.
I don’t know about ‘holding doctors in high esteem,’ but I do respect them more than I do lawyers – which ain’t saying much, since I also
find pedophiles more worthy of respect than lawyers.
I think they can do that because they have no emotional connection to any of the victims, living or dead. And they have not yet experience death in a personal way that has been meaningful.
Exactly as I have been saying, albeit obliquely; but totally absent is any sense of connection, of kinship to others particularly like themselves – and that usually is a result of never having fully outgrown the egocentrism of childhood. IOW, it’s a maturity issue. And these are the modern Peter Pans, ‘adultolescents.’ And the severity of the social consequences justifies labelling this developmental disorder as ‘pathological.’
That shit is fucked.
It is apparent that the Penn State students that did this are very stupid and heart less. I just listened to his comments about this on the news and he is not only stupid but VERY GAY!!! It figures that some one that is already fucked up in the head about his sexuality would do some thing like this also. He has already showed he is dumb as a box of rocks with his stupid idiotic comments. How would he feel if it were his GAY friends that were killed at college by another idiot like him? Put the shoe on the other foot and think about what you did.
I also want to add that we have twins at VT and they were seriously considering Penn State three years ago. I am so pleased they picked VT because if this is the kind of people that attend Penn State I am SOOOOO glad to say my girls are not students there. You have done nothing but put shame in the news about your school. I’ll bet your parents are real proud of you….
Nathan Jones
Jessica Maroclo
You know, I live in the State College community, and I work at Penn State. I feel such a deep sense of shame and sadness with how a few of our students behaved-that Penn State is in the news for something like this. A lot a great things come from Penn State. I sat in the stadium the day of the Blue-White game when tribute was paid to VT. We grieved for them then, and after this, many of us do again. These few students behind this-I’m embarrassed for them. Hopefully, someday, they’ll come around and gain the depth of human character to be embarrassed for themselves.
#57 – dk
Hate to say it, but you have something there. Male homosexuals in English-speaking countries are considerably more likely than the members of the general population to exhibit traits consistent with a diminished or absent conscience.
In short, and oversimplified, a higher percentage of them are cold-blooded and conscienceless than the gen pop. This is the reason (for example) for gay males higher incomes than other groups, controlled for age, occupation, geography, etc. It’s also the reason for the spread of AIDS by individuals who are HIV-pos, yet continue to engage in anonynous, unsafe sex with multiple partners and who do not inform those partners of their HIV status. And the overrepresentation of gays among pedophiles is another key piece of evidence. These conscience-free individuals simply do not give a shit what happens to others as a consequence of their actions.
And they would much rather that the public not snap to this.
Note, this does NOT describe most gays, but a minority. Still, it is significantly less common among straights. The reasons why are still a matter of speculation.
So this guy’s stunning lack of conscience and his orientation are not unconnected. You got it right, dk, but just sorta backwards;
“It figures that some one that is already fucked up in the head about his sexuality would do some thing like this also.”
It’s not being gay that makes him lack a conscience – but people lacking a conscience are more likely to be gay, because, as you noted, they’re already fucked up in the head, so that defect will show up in other aspects of their lives.
LOL THATS HILARIOUS!!!!!1111
It was tasteless. These students are acting as if a private joke was told. Taking a picture for public viewing is not a private matter anymore than the Nazi’s marching in Skokie, Il. It hurt feelings –a private joke doesn’t hurt feelings unless it becomes public and then it’s not private anymore.
As to one of the Pranksters/Perpetrators refusing to apologize. I am reminded of another sick villian who has sparked “JUST OUTRAGE” Lori Drew–whose insensitivity and piss poor joke caused a 13 year olds suicide. She , too, has refused to apologize.
Have we lost all civility?