Offtopic Any topics not related to the games we cover. Doesn't mean this is a Spam-fest. Profanity is allowed, enter at your own risk. |
|
|
General of the Army
Posts: 18,844
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: AA.com North Building, Offtopic Floor, Apartment 1337
|

04-18-2007, 07:15 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stammer
[url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261765:b1555]Heroic Professor at VT[/url:b1555]
[quote:b1555]A 76-year-old professor and Holocaust survivor was hailed as a hero after his students recounted how he saved about 20 people in Monday's US school shooting before being gunned down himself.
Liviu Librescu, a senior researcher and lecturer at Virginia Tech University, blocked the classroom door when he heard shooting and continued to hold the gunman at bay while students escaped through a classroom window.
|
Killed on Holocaust remembrance day. Talk about a tragic irony.
Rest in peace.[/quote:b1555]
Wow, that is incredible. RIP indeed.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Colonel
Posts: 9,369
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: United States of England
|

04-18-2007, 07:17 PM
check out this of him, looks straight out of resident evil
[img]http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070418/070418_vatech_shooterSTILL.hmedium.jpg[/img]
edit oh shit and a video of him
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18169776/
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
General of the Army
Posts: 18,895
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
|

04-18-2007, 07:23 PM
[url:db112]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266683,00.html[/url:db112]
Apparently there were several indications he was threatening and capable. After reading that I just cannot understand how someone like him was allowed to purchase a gun.
Some key points:
[quote:db112]State police, meanwhile, revealed that in December 2005, Cho was declared "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization" and posed "an imminent danger," according to a temporary detention order issued by a Virginia district court.
In November and December 2005, two women complained to campus police that they had received calls and computer messages from Cho, but they considered the messages "annoying," not threatening, and neither pressed charges, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.[/quote:db112]
[quote:db112]Around the same time, one of Cho's professors informally shared some concerns about the young man's writings, but no official report was filed, Flinchum said.[/quote:db112]
[quote:db112]Court documents show that on Dec. 13, 2005, a Montgomery County District Court judge ordered Cho undergo mental evaluation at Carilion St. Albans Hospital.
The judge issued an order temporary detention order on the grounds that Cho was "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an imminent danger to self or others as mental illness, or is seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment."[/quote:db112]
[quote:db112]The disclosures about Cho's past run-ins with authorities added to the rapidly growing list of warning signs that appeared well before 23-year-old student Cho went on his rampage. Among other things, Cho's twisted, violence-filled writings and sullen, vacant-eyed demeanor had disturbed professors and students so much that he was removed from one English class and was repeatedly urged to get counseling.[/quote:db112]
[quote:db112]Professors and classmates were alarmed by his class writings — pages filled with twisted, violence-drenched writing.
"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," poet Nikki Giovanni, one of his professors, told CNN.
"I know we're talking about a youngster, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings," she said. "There was something mean about this boy. It was the meanness — I've taught troubled youngsters and crazy people — it was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak."
Giovanni said her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior, including taking pictures of them with his cell phone, that some stopped coming to class and she had security check on her room. She eventually had him taken out of her class, after threatening to quit if he wasn't removed.
Lucinda Roy, a co-director of creative writing at Virginia Tech, said she tutored Cho after that. She said she tried to get him into counseling in late 2005 but he always refused.
"He was so distant and so lonely," she told ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday. "It was almost like talking to a hole, as though he wasn't there most of the time. He wore sunglasses and his hat very low so it was hard to see his face."
Roy also said she arranged to use a code word with her assistant to call police if she ever felt threatened by Cho, but she said she never used it.[/quote:db112]
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Captain
Posts: 5,724
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mostly Vermont. Also New Hampshire
|

04-18-2007, 08:09 PM
what now sparks?
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Colonel
Posts: 9,369
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: United States of England
|

04-18-2007, 08:29 PM
[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":b43a8]
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stammer
[url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261765:b43a8]Heroic Professor at VT[/url:b43a8]
[quote:b43a8]A 76-year-old professor and Holocaust survivor was hailed as a hero after his students recounted how he saved about 20 people in Monday's US school shooting before being gunned down himself.
Liviu Librescu, a senior researcher and lecturer at Virginia Tech University, blocked the classroom door when he heard shooting and continued to hold the gunman at bay while students escaped through a classroom window.
|
Killed on Holocaust remembrance day. Talk about a tragic irony.
Rest in peace.[/quote:b43a8]
Wow, that is incredible. RIP indeed.[/quote:b43a8]
[img]http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/6918/1176940658398lk8.jpg[/img]
|
|
|
 |
|
|
1st Lieutenant
Posts: 4,318
Join Date: Jun 2002
|

04-18-2007, 08:41 PM
You're a piece of shit elstat. You always have been, but this proves it.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Colonel
Posts: 9,369
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: United States of England
|

04-18-2007, 08:55 PM
it was on 4chan i just had to.
anyway buttocks is to blame, he pushed me into doing it, he doesnt like israel.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
1st Lieutenant
Posts: 4,318
Join Date: Jun 2002
|

04-18-2007, 08:59 PM
I'm not offended, because I don't allow myself to be offended, but you're basically shitting on a man who possibly saved many lives.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Sergeant
Posts: 1,473
Join Date: Jan 2004
|

04-18-2007, 09:09 PM
Technically the kill count would have likely been the same since he probably used up all his ammo before wasting himself.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Colonel
Posts: 9,369
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: United States of England
|

04-18-2007, 09:28 PM
|
|
|
 |
|
|
1st Lieutenant
Posts: 4,201
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Narf.
|

04-18-2007, 09:33 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by elstatec
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5504/1176918510434dq9.jpg
|
please jesus let that be photoshopped.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arch
sillybeans!
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
1st Lieutenant
Posts: 4,235
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Austell, Ga
|

04-18-2007, 11:27 PM
i hope he didnt play any violent video games b/c thats sure to be the next debate after this gun law bs. If guns are banned, people will resort to other forms of violence... aka bombs
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Captain
Posts: 5,930
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Wherever you're not !!
|

04-19-2007, 12:00 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tripper
[url:2f2a8]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266683,00.html[/url:2f2a8]
Apparently there were several indications he was threatening and capable. After reading that I just cannot understand how someone like him was allowed to purchase a gun.
|
Trip, i totally agree with you. I was thinking the same thing......how does someone who committed themselves for mental observation acquire a legal gun. Boggles the mind.
The world is my urinal
---------------------
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Senior Member
Posts: 210
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Doucheville
|

04-19-2007, 12:06 AM
He could of built a bomb, placed fatal poison in the cafeteria food, chain up the outside of a dorm/school and start it on fire, release butane gas inside the dorms at night, etc..., what difference does it make what weapon he used.
Someone made reference earlier in this thread to 9/11... "should planes be banned" because the terrorist used them.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Captain
Posts: 5,724
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mostly Vermont. Also New Hampshire
|

04-19-2007, 12:14 AM
your argument, if that even is one, makes no sense.
|
|
|
 |
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.12 by ScriptzBin Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
vBulletin Skin developed by: vBStyles.com
© 1998 - 2007 by Rudedog Productions | All trademarks used are properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.
|