This is just fucked up:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3045605


Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus

Gunman Opens Fire on Virginia Tech Campus, Killing 21, Injuring Another 21 Before Being Killed

By SUE LINDSEY

BLACKSBURG, Va. Apr 16, 2007 (AP)— A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman was killed, but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

The university reported shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.

Some but not all the dead were students. One student was killed in a dorm and the others were killed in the classroom, Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum.

The name of the gunman was not released. It was not known if he was a student.

Up until Monday, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history took place in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire. He killed 16 people before he was gunned down by police. In the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo., in 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

After Monday's shootings, all entrances to the campus were closed. The campus was to reopen Tuesday but classes were canceled.

The university set up a meeting place for families to reunite with their children at the Inn at Virginia Tech. It also made counselors available and planned a convocation for Tuesday at the Cassell Coliseum basketball arena.

After the shootings, students were told to stay inside away from the windows.

"There's just a lot of commotion. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on," said Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the dorm where shooting took place.

Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the 4th floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode's resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.

The death total is up to 25 now.

OMG.....just clicked the link and the death toll is up to 29

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/newt1.vatech.mon.14.ap.jpg

holy shit

31.

We need some gun control up in this bitch.

31.

We need some gun control up in this bitch.
hmmm you tell that to this nut.
http://www.reedsway.com/charlton_heston2.jpg

and this one.
http://www.concealedposition.com/CornerImages/bush_Alberto_Gonzales_Un_Patriot.jpg

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/newt1.vatech.mon.14.ap.jpg

holy shit
not to sound sick. but that ain't his intestines hanging out the bottom is it? hopefully not his junk.[smilie=worried.gif]

looks like someone had a case of the moondays.

im thinking thats an article of clothing. dont think those bullets blow up your abdomen like that. i dont think junk is too likely either, for various reasons.

tourniquet?

could be. I first thought it was flags from a flag football game. glenn could be right though because it looks like a bullet went right through the leg (judging by the spray on his other leg).

yea, it looks like its tied around the thigh. isnt flag football usually on a belt? however, would they really use a tourniquet when they could get him to a hospital in like 2 min?

Playing flag football during a deadly shooting spree just isn't smart.

GUNMAN GOES ON SHOOTING RAMPAGE ON THE CAMPUS OF VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY

LOG ON TO WDFN.COM FOR COMPLETE DETAILS!

Question: Did I really need to get a BREAKING NEWS email about this from WDFN?

I mean, who doesn't go to WDFN.com right away when something like this happens?

Question: Did I really need to get a BREAKING NEWS email about this from WDFN?

I mean, who doesn't go to WDFN.com right away when something like this happens?

i smell a new advo:

'when shit hits the fan, I go to wdfn!' (long emphasis on D)

Haha yeah I got that E-mail and just questioned why I'm getting it for WDFN and not something like the free press

http://photos-368.facebook.com/ip002/v52/1662/94/n6202368_8563.jpg

the culprit....ummm i totally can't see the warning signs.

more hints at this link.
http://vt.facebook.com/photos.php?id=6202368&l=d1b29

more hints
http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/

retract...he is not the shooter. but he's taken this mishap as a chance to advocate for carrying your own firearm in school(because that will make things safer of course).

maybe the guy in the pic is the shooter. i know the guy writing that journal is not.

http://motownsports.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=47758

Can't confirm any of this, but Estrepe1 was a poster at ESPN for a while when I was there, and posted at MLive and was big there at MtownSprts. Could be a hoax, but it doesn't look to be.

killer is a korean guy cho seung hui..

http://hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/cho.jpg
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/17/breaking-abc-news-ids-gunman-as-seung-hui-cho/

http://motownsports.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=47758

Can't confirm any of this, but Estrepe1 was a poster at ESPN for a while when I was there, and posted at MLive and was big there at MtownSprts. Could be a hoax, but it doesn't look to be.

It's official.

I never met Brian in person or talked to him on the phone. I knew him exclusively through the internet but I still consider him a friend. He will be missed.

Rest in peace, Brian.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting.victims/librescu.vt.jpg Liviu Librescu, 76, was a Holocaust survivor, who his son said, will be remembered as a hero. He "blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu told AP. "Students started opening windows and jumping out."The elder Librescu, a professor at Virginia Tech, was recognized internationally for his research in aeronautical engineering, the head of the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech told AP. He was born and received his advanced degrees in Romania.

Now the fucker made a video about it, mailed it inbetween the shootings, and is being shown on NBC. Personally, I think NBC shouldn't show it, why give the guy the fame he wants.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18169776/

looks like someone had a case of the moondays.
Tori Amos is quality.

And its tough to be a kid. Really tough for some.

Fuck People:

URL buyers hope to cash in on tragedy
By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press Writer Thu May 10, 2:34 AM ET


BLACKSBURG, Va. - When Fred McChesney heard about the Virginia Tech shooting spree on April 16, he was appalled. But what he did next has appalled many others. Within hours of the rampage, the Phoenix man began buying dozens of domain names — CampusKillings.com, VirginiaTechMurders.com, SlaughterInVirginia.com — in the hopes of selling them later to the highest bidder.

McChesney, 48, said he saw it as an opportunity to show his contempt for firearms by featuring anti-gun content on the domains he is selling.
He also saw it as an opportunity to cash in.
"Everyone is profiting off of this," McChesney said. "I'm not hurting anyone."
Domain names related to the tragedy were snapped up almost immediately by people hoping to sell them off for a profit or use them to link to advertisers. The cost of registering such domains is generally less than $10 — but some are now being auctioned off for thousands.
While many consider the practice repellant, experts say it has become commonplace.
"Any time there's a big news event, people go register the domain names," said Christine Jones, general counsel for GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain registration service. "Nine-eleven they did it, Katrina they did it, the tsunami in southeast Asia they did it."
Especially troubling to some is the registration of domain names related to those killed in the tragedy. On the same day the victims' names were released, people began registering domains named after the dead, such as JarrettLane.com. Victims' friends and family members seeking to create a memorial site under the same Internet address would then have to purchase it from the domain name owner — for whatever price the owner wants.
"If anybody is working to make a profit off of this tragedy by selling these kinds of things, it's just a crying shame," university spokesman Mark Owczarski said. "Obviously, you wouldn't want anybody to make a profit off something as horrendous as this."
Jeremiah Johnston, chief operating officer for domain name broker Sedo.com, said his company has shut down domains named after the victims as well as dozens of others related to the tragedy, including BlacksburgBloodbath.com and SchoolSlaughter.com.
"We do feel that they fly in the face of our offensive domain policy," Johnston said. "It is quite tasteless."
GoDaddy.com shut down one site purporting to raise money for the victims' families after university officials said they weren't aware of any such charity, Jones said.
But in general, there are few restrictions on what people can register. The Internet's key oversight agency, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has arbitration procedures for resolving disputes, but they cover only trademarks and service marks, which can include names of celebrities. Federal laws also focus on trademark owners, not the names of non-famous individuals such as the victims.
"It's kind of exploitative, but it's not really cybersquatting," University of South Carolina cyberspace law professor Ann Bartow said. "It's socially, normatively disgusting, but it's not trademark bad faith."
McChesney, who has been "hugely anti-gun" since his brother shot him in the face with a BB gun when he was a child, said he hopes to use some of his domains to draw attention to what he calls an epidemic of gun violence in America.
He also plans to give away his memorial domain names to Virginia Tech students, and has donated one so far. He hopes to sell others, such as VaTechTheMovie.com, to companies. So far, he hasn't sold any.
He understands that many will vilify him. But he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong.
"What I'm doing is the equivalent of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic," he said. "Period."

It's all gone downhill ever since human beings stopped being involved in the domain registration process.