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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.
Our decision not to show you the pictures is a result of our desire to be sensitive to a community that is still grieving. We also want to show respect to the shooting victims, their families, and their friends. Showing these pictures would serve no purpose.
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.
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.
"The fact that one of these individuals is actually from Virginia, makes it even more difficult to understand. Just because something is within the bounds of the Constitution and free speech, does not mean it should be undertaken. We certainly condemn these ugly and senseless actions. Most Penn Staters are as offended by this as anyone from Virginia Tech would be-- and rightfully so. These two people do not represent 90,000 Penn State students. They represent themselves."
After seeing the pictures, a Virginia Tech student created a Facebook group called, "People Against This Costume." 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."
He goes on to defend the pictures.
"The thing is, everybody\'s making a big stink about Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech was 32 deaths out of the 26 thousand that happen in America everyday," he said. "That\'s the problem with college students. They all live in an ivory tower of privilege. They don\'t understand, when it all boils down to it, it\'s someone wearing a costume."
Reaction from Tech students and Blacksburg residents was disgust.
"That somebody would have the nerve to mock [the victims]. They were really good people," said local business owner, Carol Gwin.
Gwin knew three of the victims in the shootings and considered them cherished friends.
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That blonde has some nice tits.
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That blonde has some nice tits.
I\'d shoot her in the face.
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I would do, I\'d shoot a load in her face, after I got done giving her a good poke in the rear, because with tits like that, I bet she has a nice phat ass also.
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"facebook" is the problem.
get the fuck off those kind of sites.
i find it hilarious they created a "new" group to "combat" the pictures.
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"facebook" is the problem.
get the fuck off those kind of sites.
i find it hilarious they created a "new" group to "combat" the pictures.
Fuck, I hate to agree with him, but I do. Facebook, MySpace and to an extent, YouTube are all cancers of the internet.
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Especially if it\'s just pictures on there that offended people so much. If it offends you, don\'t look at it. It was your choice to do so in the first place.
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"facebook" is the problem.
get the fuck off those kind of sites.
i find it hilarious they created a "new" group to "combat" the pictures.
Thank you for showing your intelligence. Facebook is probably why these people are so insensitive. Not that I expect you to understand mm.
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That blonde has some nice tits.
Remind me to mock you when any of your family members die. I\'ll post it on the internet.
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Thank you for showing your intelligence. Facebook is probably why these people are so insensitive. Not that I expect you to understand mm.
what\'s your facebook/myspace address so i can make fun of it?
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mm wins thread. Thread over.
ggs
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http://myspace.com/djloompia
add me mm, kthx!
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Wow, didn\'t realize facebook had the power to make kids dress up and act like idiots.
If facebook/myspace wasn\'t around they would have used some other means to become attention whores. Get over it, college students have done moronic things long before facebook/myspace.
Edit: have a blast (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=30216146)
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Ugh, Myspace makes my eyes hurt.
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what\'s your facebook/myspace address so i can make fun of it?
I\'m sorry, my stuff is private or you could have at it. This has nothing to do with me being a member, thats not why I\'m defending it. It has everything to do with what Phil said. Facebook didn\'t make this people act like idiots.
Go ahead and trash facebook, I\'m so upset that I can keep in contact with my friends no matter how much I see them.
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you don\'t need a website that PROFITS off you keeping in contact with your "friends".
try email, or *gasp* a telephone.
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why shouldn\'t the site make profit from their services?
Still, use the phone plenty. Oh and email? what is this, 1999?
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not to mention you dont pay to use it
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Wow, didn\'t realize facebook had the power to make kids dress up and act like idiots.
If facebook/myspace wasn\'t around they would have used some other means to become attention whores. Get over it, college students have done moronic things long before facebook/myspace.
Edit: have a blast (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=30216146)
Get over it? Easier said than done. Surely you can understand why people are upset about this.
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Get over it? Easier said than done. Surely you can understand why people are upset about this.
No, no. I meant get over the whole myspace/facebook being the devil bullshit. Although I\'m not a huge fan of censoring things because it might offend someone, those kids were douchebags and deserve all the hate they are receiving right now.
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Remind me to mock you when any of your family members die. I\'ll post it on the internet.
Oh get off your high horse.
I didn\'t mock anyone, I simply said the blonde had nice tits.
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http://myspace.com/djloompia
add me mm, kthx!
So....THX....I see you\'ve gone to college for close to 8 years.
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crazy white folk....*shakes head*...that\'s not funny in the slightest form....just tasteless...that idiot talks of people dyin\' everyday but they specifically chose a tragic event that was broadcast not just on a domestic scale, but on an international level...and it affected so many families...and alot of those students were well on they\'re way to achieving something great in life...what a bunch a f**kin\' assholes....
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you don\'t need a website that PROFITS off you keeping in contact with your "friends".
try email, or *gasp* a telephone.
Using a phone to call them cost money and facebook is definitely a much easier and better way to keep in contact than email. Since facebook cost me nothing and provides this service, sure they can make some money off of me. I don\'t care.
Please *gasp* think before posting.
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mm is just upset because even if he had a myspace or facebook, his friend count will still be 0
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titan,
you know what. you just brought out a good point there. lol.