Tag: Virginia Tech

Because I condone and encourage future cowards

I just got an email from someone complaining about something I blogged about  two years ago .  It reads:

from: Samuel Saunders
to: rick@bentcorner.com
date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM
subject: Your Photo of Cho

I was doing some research on my Alma Mater, Virginia Tech and found your photo of Cho – it is quite offensive both to me and to hundreds of thousands of people. Have you ever thought that by posting this photo you are condoning his act and ultimately encouraging future cowards that may be considering such a heinous crime? There can be no justification for leaving a photo of such a wicked individual on your site. The fact that you leave it there says a lot about you and your site.

Sincerely,

Samuel F. Saunders

For the record, the reason I posted the photo of Cho was not to condone or encourage people like him, but to bring attention to the fact that NBC News plastered their logo on his photo.

This is the second complaint I’ve received this month concerning the Virginia Tech massacre. The first one can be read here.

What’s up with these people? Don’t they have anything better to do?

4 Comments by Rick  /  July 20, 2009  /  Posted in: Web Design & Blogging
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The most obnoxious request I have ever recieved

I got an email last night that ranks right up there with some of the strangest that I’ve received. And that says a lot.

Here it is:

From: Amanda Heckman
To: rick@bentcorner.com
Subject: Google Image Search
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:11:29 -0500

Please remove the Virginia Tech tag from your article on Cho. His image is one of the first that pop up when someone wants to find an image for Virginia Tech. It could be as simple as changing the tag to “Virginia Tech Tragedy.” I don’t want people to think of what he did every time they want to look up Virginia Tech.

Sincerely, Mandy

I write a blog post about the Virgina Tech massacre and I tag it with the words “Virgina Tech”. That’s what you are supposed to do when you write a blog post. You are supposed to tag what you’ve written with any applicable keywords. It allows search engines to find what you’ve written. It’s considered good search engine optimization (SEO).

When I first read this early this morning, I thought it was a goof. After having my coffee and reading it a second time, I came to the conclusion that it’s actually legit. This person, Amanda Heckman, evidently thinks that she is within her rights to ask me to edit something I’ve written because she doesn’t like how it’s showing up in search engine results. It’s not even about her, nor is she representing Virginia Tech in any type of official capacity. She sent the above email from an American Online account.

How obnoxious is that?

2 Comments by Rick  /  July 3, 2009  /  Posted in: Web Design & Blogging
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Virginia Tech mass murderer’s eBay account

It turns out Seung-Hui Cho bought ammunition clips for one of his two handguns on eBay. Clips he undoubtedly used the day he killed 32 unarmed people at Virginia Tech. On eBay he went by the user name blazers5505. He had a feedback rating of 64.

He also used the email address of “Blazers5505@hotmail.com”.

Looking at this eBay history, be both bought and sold on eBay. He recently sold two tickets to the Peach Bowl. It looks as though he sold tickets to other Virginia Tech sporting events too. He recently sold two tickets to a Virginia Tech Hokies vs Coppin State Eagles basketball game.

He also sold a Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus scientific calculator. He claimed that it was barely used because he dropped the class he needed it for.

He also sold textbooks on Half.com which is owned by eBay. His current seller page shows that he is “on vacation”. Yes, in Hell. Past books he sold include Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover and The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre.

Is that how he got money to buy both guns and ammo? By selling junk on eBay? He didn’t have a job. His parents don’t seem to be very well off.

I’ve wondered since the day of the massacre how he was able to buy handguns. Not because of his apparent mental problems. How did he come up with the money? Often the price of a gun alone keeps them out of the hands of people that have no business owning them. Like Seung-Hui Cho. How did he get a credit card with enough available credit to purchase expensive, top-end firearms? He had no job or any other source of income. The guns he purchased were not cheap pieces of junk.

Link

11 Comments by Rick  /  April 22, 2007  /  Posted in: News
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Cho Seung-Hui’s favorite news network is NBC

In the middle of his massacre, Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui was able to take time and put together a little care package for NBC News. In it he included photos and a video of himself speaking about why he did what he did and what he was about to do. As it turns out, go on to murder 30 more innocent people.

NBC turned the material over to law enforcement after making copies of everything and then plastering their logo on everything. Are they proud that Cho Seung-Hui chose NBC over the other major networks? If it was me, the last thing I would want is Cho Seung-Hui connected to my organization. I surely wouldn’t be slapping my logo on a photo brandishing the guns he used to kill 32 innocent people.

One of the people he killed was a 76 year-old Holocaust survivor who died saving his students.

Why would NBC News or any other credible news organization want to inject themselves into such a tragic event where so many innocent people were killed?

5 Comments by Rick  /  April 18, 2007  /  Posted in: News
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