Sunday, November 3, 2013

Michigan Woman Messed With the Wrong People

"A Michigan woman who posted her bombing victim costume online has apologized after receiving death threats."
Alicia Ann Lynch, a 22-year-old from Michigan, tweeted and instagrammed a photo of herself at work dressed as a Boston Marathon bombing victim for Halloween.
Twitter users were enraged at the costume, and thousands tweeted at Lynch to express their disgust.
It didn’t take users long to discover that Lynch had once posted a photo of her driver’s license and used the information to attack her. 
The Internet rage spun out of control as Twitter users took out their anger at Lynch by contacting her family. They also circulated nude pictures and videos of her found on Tumblr.
Lynch deleted all of her social media accounts, then later reopened her Twitter to attempt to be forgiven for her costume.
BuzzFeed (pictures at the link)

18 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

These two minute hates on the internet are horrifying.

Nothing can justify them.

Phil 314 said...

nude photographs!?

bagoh20 said...

This is what gets people really angry - complete strangers acting dumb, but hurting no one? Meanwhile people lie right to their face while destroying their future, and they think that's just an oopsy by good people. Sheese! We have raised a culture of idiots.

Synova said...

Twitter and the internet is the problem. We used to be able to make bad jokes without the specter of having them shared with the people directly involved. If you were a little bit careful not to do it in front of anyone who'd had a baby die, you could tell dead baby jokes... etc.

Dressing up as a marathon bombing victim is one of those "Oh, you didn't!" and then laugh because it's horrible. And then there is the gallows humor or jokes made by people who scrape dead bodies off of roads or work in hospitals to help themselves cope. Humor is how humans deal with horror. It's not a bad thing, either.

But with the internet you risk the loved one of the dead/maimed person seeing it, and it can only ever hurt them.

But it's wrong if we can't deal with horror by making fun of it, and that's what is happening.

Shouting Thomas said...

Here's something to get really pissed off about...

750 people sent off to re-education camp because one of them wore an Obama costume to a Halloween party.

bagoh20 said...

Those 750 people need to put up a real stink about that, maybe a lawsuit.

I imagine the problem is that many of the 750 actually think that, yes they do need diversity training. I'd wear blackface, an indian headdress and come in a wheelchair with a rainbow flag. A job is just not worth being treated like a subject of an emperor fool.

Paddy O said...

People were maimed and killed by angry guys.

Woman dressed as a victim of the event.

Woman threatened to be killed by angry people defending the people killed by angry people.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Just finished dinner. My lovely and talented wife made some kind of beef stew that was a cross between beef bourguignon and a Thai curry.

Parsnips, carrots and these itty, bitty little potatoes.

Absolutely freaking delicious.

We knocked off a tasty, tasty bottle of wine and I started off already drunk so . . . the point being . . . ah . . . I guess what I want to say is . . . ah . . . what I'm trying to say is . . . ah . . .

LIFE IS GOOD!!!1!!1!!!!!!!!!

Palladian said...

Only good would come to the world if Twitter was shut down.

Shouting Thomas said...

Yes, my life is good, too!

Never let the storms of life interfere with eating a good dinner!

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rcocean said...

I'd love to meet her in real life in slap her. What's next dressing up as Holocaust victim?

She got a lot of well deserved contempt.

rcocean said...

And she exercised her freedom of speech as did the people who attacked her.

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bagoh20 said...

"There are too many angry and outraged people out there"

Oh, now you really did it!

Maybelle, get my shotgun... and a samich.

Icepick said...

A job is just not worth being treated like a subject of an emperor fool.

Actually, today a job is worth that much.

Chip Ahoy said...

Utterly tasteless. That makes it a perfect Halloween costume. Offensive, too soon to be funny, tasteless.

Is it still too soon to dress as twin towers with people falling out?

Or a building with an airplane bashing into it? It's been a decade.

It's not the horror of the missing lower parts, it's the horror of insensitivity. The horror of too soon.

You're supposed to be horrified. It's Halloween, now trick or fucking treat.

They're the same people who wouldn't bat an eye (intended) at a dzhokhar tsarnaev costume, no horror there, no horror behind the banality of cute symmetrical face and delicate curly hair, that would be okay, no cause for outrage there.

The best costume I saw this year was so subtle I took it for realz. A young slip of a hipster male in skinny everything, actual passable clothes, mismatched plaids, hipster hat, and stark white rimmed glasses that are real. Nothing Halloween about it, and yet, a mustache too iconic and misplaced and ridiculous it takes a moment to notice it's too shiny to be real, that it's actually painted on, but it does take a very long moment to figure out without being too obvious you're studying him, and to realize you're being put on for Halloween. Very close to reality.

Trooper York said...

I saw a guy dressed as a Rex Sox player with a full beard.

He should be arrested.