Halloween Costumes of VA Tech Victims-- What's Your Take?

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<p>ABC</a> News: V-Tech Costume Sparks Death Threats</p>

<p>Campus</a> outrage as Penn State students dress as Virginia Tech massacre victims</p>

<p>Ezine</a> Blog ? Blog Archive ? Penn State Students dress as Virginia Tech Victims for Halloween Costume</p>

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Two Penn State students have re-opened a wound after they costumed themselves for a Halloween party as victims of last spring's shooting massacre at Virginia Tech.</p>

<p>Photos of two Penn State students, partying in Virginia Tech paraphernalia marked with bullet holes and fake blood, made their way onto the social networking site Facebook.</p>

<p>The one photo accessible to the public came to the attention of WSLS-TV, a local station in Roanoke, Va., which broadcast a report late this week.</p>

<p>The station's interview with one of the Penn State students who wore the outfits drew the outraged attention of both campuses - especially because he defended the costumes, which WSLS-TV deemed too offensive to even show.</p>

<p>"It's not that it was funny," the student said of the costumes. "It's that we are notorious and infamous and very popular in the state college, so we have to do things that push the envelope just for shock value," he said.</p>

<p>He went on to imply that Virginia Tech students' public displays of grief less than a year after the massacre are at least partly for show. </p>

<p>"This is a group of college students who now think it's trendy to be upset about their friends being killed," said the Penn student.</p>

<p>He said those who objected to the costumes were blowing things out of proportion.</p>

<p>"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."

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<p>What's your opinion?</p>

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<p>Wow. I completely disagree with his logic and think what he did is disgusting, but that guy is smart and poetic. Especially that last sentence of his “… it’s someone wearing a costume.” He may be an insensitive jerk, but at least he’s philosophical and can back up what he’s saying.</p>

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<p>Hey look some college students wore an offensive costume on Halloween. Lets make a bunch of articles and posts and groups and stuff and bring it up giving them attention and making VT students see/hear/read about it as often as possible.</p>

<p>That would be my take. :)</p>

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<p>as bad as it is, props to them for the idea, seriously.</p>

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<p>I don’t care what they do. Sure, it’s a terrible joke (more lazy, cheap shock-effect humor than anything else) but there are no laws against bad taste in this country. </p>

<p>Stupid of them to make the pictures public, though, because now they’ve broadcast their poor taste and will have to deal with the consequences.</p>

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<p>Poetic my arse.</p>

<p>It’s disrespectul, thoughtless and in extremely poor taste no matter how you cut it.</p>

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<p>It was obviously a stupid and insensitive thing to do, but this is really just another case of the media just blowing up a story. Someone did something a bit stupid and offensive… that’s not news, but unfortunetly the folks at most ‘news’ organizations often can’t seem to be bothered with reporting any ‘real’ news. Anyway, that’s my take on it.</p>

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<p>I don’t see how this is notable news that has now been heard around the country. Sounds like a bunch of college kids using bad taste with costume choice to me, not something of great importance.</p>

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<p>I thought college students would know better. Actually, I thought anybody with a brain would know better.</p>

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<p>Ugh. Tasteless and crude.</p>