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// posted by MaxedOutMama @ 4/18/2007 09:19:00 PM
I hesitated to write this because I feel so sorry for Cho's family and for the family and friends of those who were murdered and injured. It seems disrespectful to point out that the students should have acted differently, and a heaping of coals on Cho's family to photoshop him like this.
Because somewhere out there, a Cho-like loser is thinking "If I top Cho's score, I'LL BE FAMOUS, TOO! I'LL BE ALL OVER THE NEWS! EVERYONE WILL STAND IN AWE AND FEAR MEEEEEEEE!"
Anyone remember the main bad guy in Peter Jackson's movie The Frighteners? ("I topped Starkweather -- he only killed 11! I'm topping Ted Bundy! And that Russian cannibal guy -- he did over 100!")
Yup, exactly. I don't think the media should have publicized his screed, but since they did, the only thing left is scorn and mockery.
We need to write a giant "Pathetic Loser" over top those images.
A comment thread on another blog (Shrinkwrapped, I think) claimed the AP just reported the first copycat -- another Korean, somewhere in Israel of all places.
Morning drive-time radio was speculating on copycats, and that a lot of strange stuff seemed to happen in mid-April, from Adolf Hitler's birthday to Waco to Ruby Ridge to the Oklahoma City bombing to Earth Day. All within days of each other on the calendar.
Oh, I expect copy cats, but I thought the Israel thing was a sick joke. It would be on the news, and it isn't.
MaxedOutMama: Sometimes They Do .comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}
// posted by MaxedOutMama @ 4/18/2007 09:19:00 PM
I hesitated to write this because I feel so sorry for Cho's family and for the family and friends of those who were murdered and injured. It seems disrespectful to point out that the students should have acted differently, and a heaping of coals on Cho's family to photoshop him like this.
Because somewhere out there, a Cho-like loser is thinking "If I top Cho's score, I'LL BE FAMOUS, TOO! I'LL BE ALL OVER THE NEWS! EVERYONE WILL STAND IN AWE AND FEAR MEEEEEEEE!"
Anyone remember the main bad guy in Peter Jackson's movie The Frighteners? ("I topped Starkweather -- he only killed 11! I'm topping Ted Bundy! And that Russian cannibal 
guy -- he did over 100!")
Yup, exactly. I don't think the media should have publicized his screed, but since they did, the only thing left is scorn and mockery.
We need to write a giant "Pathetic Loser" over top those images.
A comment thread on another blog (Shrinkwrapped, I think) claimed the AP just reported the first copycat -- another Korean, somewhere in Israel of all places.
Morning drive-time radio was speculating on copycats, and that a lot of strange stuff seemed to happen in mid-April, from Adolf Hitler's birthday to Waco to Ruby Ridge to the Oklahoma City bombing to Earth Day. All within days of each other on the calendar.
Oh, I expect copy cats, but I thought the Israel thing was a sick joke. It would be on the news, and it isn't.