Boston marathon bombing halloween costume

[SkullKing84]

I find it weird that Halloween costumes are supposed to be "funny" nowadays.

Whatever happened to Halloween being a holiday that celebrated fear and the things that make us afraid? People dress up like serial killers, murderous psychopaths, and monsters and that's fine, but dressing up as something that's truly scary crosses the line?

Devils and ghosts scare children, why can't adults have more adult costumes about what scares them? Why do people have to dress up as some kind of pretend evil when there's real evil in the world?

I was gonna say this... but you beat me to the punch.

When I was younger I remember O.J. Simpson masks being sold that Halloween when he was arrested and I remember people dressing up as the Unabomber, Hell I even remember someone Dressed up as Timothy McVeigh.

Now a days people are 100 times worst then the person wearing a "tasteless" costume. Seriously, Death Threats, Account hacking and involving her parents... WTF? Back in the day it was simply, "You are a Freaking Asshole" end conversation.

When I first saw the costume I thought she was a "Runner" Zombie.

 

[CriticalMiss]

I don't really see the issue. Sure it's insensitive to people who were hurt, killed or knew people who were, but if I hadn't been told it was a 'costume' of a bombing victim I would have assumed she had a half-arsed attempt at a jogger who turned in to a zombie. Or even that she fell over whilst running and it wasn't a halloween costume at all.

And would people have a similar bout of death threat hurling if someone dressed up as the Pope or global warming?

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

I think it's distasteful, but I don't wanna jump in on either side of the shit puddle and call other people shitheads.

The one bit of wry humour I DID notice though, is that her last name is "Lynch" and the internet lynch mob has come after her.

 

[2xDouble]

I can't help but laugh at all the butt-frustration this is causing, both here and in reality. Why is everyone still so afraid of this crap? It's in the past, nothing to be done about it now. Not to mention, the more people say "too soon" the worse it gets. Just take the joke, let others live/do as they please and move on. (Barring that they're not committing the acts of terrorism themselves, mind you.)
I could arguably argue about how the more fear we put into stuff like this, the more the terrorists win. But I wont.

I was in Boston during the bombing. I spent that night in a hospital (concussion, severe abrasions, and multiple small puncture wounds, if you must know), followed by weeks of bandages and PT. I'm still not afraid of terrorism. I'm upset that my suffering, and the far worse suffering of those around me, was mocked and trivialized. I'm the only one that should be mocking and trivializing my pain. It's my pain, I earned it, and she has no rights to it. But, as I said earlier, I'd just give her the finger and move on. That's how we do things in Boston. These other wack-jobs need to be institutionalized and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

 

[Ipsen]

I find it weird that Halloween costumes are supposed to be "funny" nowadays.

Whatever happened to Halloween being a holiday that celebrated fear and the things that make us afraid? People dress up like serial killers, murderous psychopaths, and monsters and that's fine, but dressing up as something that's truly scary crosses the line?

Devils and ghosts scare children, why can't adults have more adult costumes about what scares them? Why do people have to dress up as some kind of pretend evil when there's real evil in the world?

Agree heartily here, but she missed the point spectacularly; the Boston marathoners weren't the real evil in the world (as far as I can tell). I was always under the impression that Halloween was about dressing up as the objects that cause fear, not the victims whose unfortunate circumstances spread it. Being the Boston marathon bomber would make more sense, instead of one of the runners blown up, to be tie back to topic.

We're not afraid of the people hurt in events like this, but afraid of what and who caused the hurting. Shock value costumes bring more sadness than fear, and that sucks.

 

[anthony87]

Meh, I like it. Although if nobody told me that it was a "Boston marathon costume" then I wouldn't have assumed so. Totally forgot that even happened.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Wait, it said she was a survivor of the marathon bombing and yet she still think dessing up as that was a good idea?

Either way that latest LRR video seen more relevent somewhat (yes I know there were other people dressing up in questionable and offensive costume).

 

[omega 616]

Can somebody help a guy out, post Steve Hughes video about being offended... I would but my phone won't do it.

Seriously, a tragic event happened but move on. We make Nazi jokes constantly and that is infinitely worse than a bomb going off, there are even jokes about IRA bombings. Personally, I think some Americans need to chill out, they're so patriotic they can't move past events.

Although, I love me some close to the knuckle comedy.

 

[DEAD34345]

I found it vaguely amusing, personally.

The real concern in this story though, is that people across the internet have used a photo of the woman's driving license to harass her, spread "racy photos" of her, and send death threats to her parents. We're supposed be living in a developed, cultured society, you'd think we might have moved on from the lynchings and witch-hunts by now, but it seems they've just shifted format a little.

 

[EternallyBored]

Yeah it's a stupid insensitive thing to do, I would probably be kind of ticked if I saw someone wearing that at a Halloween party.

Still, it is just a costume, and no matter how offensive or insensitive it is, that doesn't justify the kind of response she got that borderlines on harassment. Seriously, tell her you think its a dumb idea, death threats and making a huge protracted issue of it is far worse than wearing a monumentally dumb costume.

As for the idea itself, yeah there's no law against it, but if you wear a costume like that be prepared to be criticized for it. Don't act shocked when people decide your costume isn't funny, part of being on display in public is that you need to know your audience, dressing up as Hitler might be fine for your Jewish friends, but it's probably not going to go over so well at a Halloween party hosted by holocaust survivors. Of course the problem here is that the internet is world wide, so you're pretty much guaranteed to be offending somebody, you gotta have thick skin if you want to do something controversial. Hell, somebody out there is probably offended at this post, that's the nature of putting something out there the whole world can see.

Again though, none of that excuses the death threats and harassment, those are an order of magnitude worse than her shitty costume.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I'm gonna say that poor taste is just that. Poor taste, but honestly while it may be morally abhorrent, theres nothing in society's law that says its illegal. Therefore, the most you can do is say how stupid and insensitive of a person they are, but thats the extent of what you can do. Can't block them from being a jackass.
If that were the other way we also wouldn't have black comedy, which some people find offensive and would shut down in a heartbeat if they could. The trade-off is that being able to make fun of bad situations also means we have to put up with jackasses who take things across the line.

 

[thisbymaster]

I support her ability to make an idiot of herself. Mainly because she is hot and nude photos have now popped up on the internet. (try reddit).

 

[Frankster]

"Lynch also said, "I?ve had voicemails where they want to slit my throat and they want to hang me and tear off my face. I?m just like, I don?t even know how to respond to this right now" and "Honestly, it?s the Day of the Dead. I wasn?t a dead person, I wasn?t being disrespectful. I was a survivor of a marathon. And it?s not like I was walking around with a fake leg or my arm torn off or something like that.? She said that she wasn?t concerned about the possibility of prospective employers learning about the incident. ?I have nothing to hide. It happened, I made a mistake. I just have to learn from it. I?m not a terrible person,? she said."

The joke might have been in poor taste and offensive, but the girl judging from this tidbit is still 1000x times classier then the people harassing her.

If the bit about her having been an actual survivor of the marathon is true then only makes this story worst.

The bit about appealing to leave her family and parents alone strikes me as rather caring and unselfish too, especially in contrast to some over reacting twitterites.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Can somebody help a guy out, post Steve Hughes video about being offended... I would but my phone won't do it.

Okie Doke


OT:
Costume thats insensitive and in poor taste? Eh, what else is new.
Internet going over-board sending the costume wearer death threats, involving parents, ruining personal life? Eh, what else is new.
Obviously one is the lesser of two evils but i'd rather not dig into which one cause everyone above kind of did it for me.

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

Isn't the mature part of Halloween about death, terror, morbidity and fear?
Now it's about whore pikachu, whore nurses and whore Yolo.
And death threats? Those people are just as bad as the people bombing the marathon.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I knew people that were injured in the Marathon Bombing and this still didn't bother me, nor do I think she should have been fired. I think everyone needs to lighten up. Basically, all I see here is "Let's honor the memory of the victims by destroying someone elses life". That is basically what is happening.
She does a costume in poor taste, which really shouldn't bother people like it does and the backlash is absurd. I think we should be focusing more on the people trying to destroy this woman, than the woman herself as they are all far worse.

 

[Genocidicles]

I went as a terrorist for Halloween, so I can't really judge. Although it was more along the lines of 'IRA bomber' than 'Jihadist', so it wasn't 'too soon' or whatever.

 

[TakerFoxx]

I don't really have a horse to back in this race. On the one hand, yeah, that costume was in really bad taste, and I definitely don't blame people for finding it disgusting. So far, I've seen reactions from two people who were actually at the bombings, one of them in this very thread, and neither of them appreciated having their ordeal made light of.

On the other hand, the reaction is pretty damned disproportionate. It's Jessi Slaughter syndrome all over again (minus the memetic quotes). Come on. Yeah, it's in bad taste and she should be ashamed, but it's not like she's Jennifer Petkov.

 

[elvor0]

The real outrage here is the fact that people are issuing death threats over her costume and harassing her and her family. It's one of those situations that makes you realise no one gives a flying fuck about freedom of speech if the speech is offending them.

Freedom of Speech doesn't work like that. I won't get arrested for calling someone a **** and saying I fucked their mother in the street, but I'd be surprised if the geezer didn't punch my teeth out.

Not that I'm supporting the people sending death threats to her family and whatnot, I'm just saying that freedom of speech works both ways.

 

[Hero of Lime]

When I saw the picture I had to be told it was a Boston Marathon bombing costume. I can be a bit dense. -.-

This costume is in such bad taste, stupid, messed up, lousy, insensitive etc. However, death threats, hackings and personal assaults only help to make her a sympathetic person in the end. I honestly can't think of a costume offensive enough to warrant a death threat, especially from me. Though if I was close to a victim I would probably feel differently.