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Penn State Costumes Spark Va. Tech Wrath

Macabre Halloween photos surface on Facebook

By Lucas Laursen,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 9, 2007 11:22 AM CST

(Newser) – Virginia Tech is in an uproar over Penn State students who dressed up for Halloween as Tech shooting victims, then posted the tasteless pictures on Facebook, reports the Washington Post. The reaction has been both mournful and violent. "People all over Penn State—students, faculty, alumni—are appalled at what they've done," said a Penn official. Website moderators have had to remove threatening comments.

One of the pictured students told a TV station that they were trying to outdo last year’s grisliest costume: the victims of the Pennsylvania Amish school shooting. He said, “It's not meant to really make a statement about anything, other than, 'Look how amazingly shocking we can be and not cry about it, not be upset about it.' "

A Penn State student dressed as a Virginia Tech shooting victim.
A Penn State student dressed as a Virginia Tech shooting victim.   (Facebook.com)
In this undated photo released by the Virginia State Police, Seung-Hui Cho is shown. Seung-Hui, 23, the gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child: shy, frail and leery of physical contact by the time he was 3. His teachers said he began showing suicidal...
In this undated photo released by the Virginia State Police, Seung-Hui Cho is shown. Seung-Hui, 23, the gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child: shy, frail and leery...   (Associated Press)
A Penn State student dressed as  Virginia Tech shooting victim.
A Penn State student dressed as Virginia Tech shooting victim.   (Facebook.com)
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