Excuse me, a student was decapitated in a freaking coffee shop at V. Tech?

[JanMichael]

This happened like TWO WEEKS ago and we didn't hear that much about it?

DECAPITATED??? WTF? In the US?

Have we become so used to violence that we (wife and I) possibly heard about this, and just glossed over it because we were just busy???

Holy shit.

This country has gone straight to hell. It's scary.

http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/new_river_valley/article/virginia_tech_murder_graduate_student_decapitated/25622/

[MichaelHarris]

1. hmmmm

Ninjas?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. And the nature of the murder is important because...

:shrug:

[mitchum]

6. Well, some murders are more lurid than others

and it does make them more remarkable

Trust me, I'm an aficionado of the lurid

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Well, yes, there's a certain voyeuristic perversion to it.

But voyeuristic perverts are hardly anything new to this country.

[mitchum]

28. Nor is murder

[Tangerine LaBamba]

38. Did you see this detail?

He was holding her head in his lap when police arrived.

It's awfully hard to decapitate someone, so that knife must have been something serious.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

Decapitations aren't nearly as common shootings.

At least in this country.

I did hear something about this a couple of weeks ago - a couple of poorly-written paragraphs from the AP. I am surprised that more sensationalist sources of media didn't run with the story, though.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. So?

And there's an interesting nationalistic undercurrent to this thread.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

17. If it bleeds, it leads.

Add in some good ol' fashioned xenophobia and that should at least be making waves over at CNN and Fox.

[mitchum]

24. Not yet, but if someone said...

"Well, that's two less graduate instructors I won't be able to understand"
then you would possibly have a case for the nationalistic undercurrent

[RB TexLa]

3. People are murdered every day.

[JanMichael]

5. yes, they are. Thank you. My wife was a paramedic.

I think we know this.

but, decapitations in a campus coffee shop should shake you up a little, ya think?

[RB TexLa]

7. Schools usually cover it up better than this one but sadly it happens.

[MichaelHarris]

16. You have to wonder

what he used. They were drinking coffee and suddenly he whips out {blank} and chops her head off. What school supply could it be, a modified T-Square?

[leftstreet]

4. Victim didn't have the good sense to be blonde, or have a 'Murkin name

M$M had no interest

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Yes, very sad story and very bizarre. And it was in the news a lot.

I remember reading about it a few times.

The part of me that has no faith in the integrity or morality of the Chinese government makes me wonder if this was a personal thing... or perhaps more likely, something the government wanted. Which we'll never know, I'm sure.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. It was frontpage news here in the DC area

Washington Post and all that.

Guy just whipped out a knife and cut her head off in a coffee shop.

Chinese students, both of them.

Clearly, he needed decaf.

Virginia Tech is not on a lucky run.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Yeah, I was thinking, "Man, I don't want to be the guy in charge of V.Tech. at this point"

Not having a lucky run, indeed.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

19. The constant in all of this

- well, both events - is that the killers were Chinese nationals.

I have no idea what's going on. If I had a kid at Va. Tech, I'd be scared.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Makes one wonder if the Chinese government is somehow plotting a takeover the US

but their spies fucked up by telling them that the key to US security is making students afraid to be at V. Tech., causing them to leave, and thus leaving the buildings empty and ready for the Chinese to turn into a secret headquarters from which to launch an attack on... West Virginia?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

37. Could be........

The other day I found myself musing that that woman in California who just popped eight babies was secretly in love with her fertility doctor and this was just her diabolical plan to get him to be with her, after his medical license is lifted and he's ordered to pay child support for those eight kids.

It's possible that the Fuckface years have had more of an impact on us than we thought?

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. Conspiracies everywhere! But I"m not going to continue this discussion,

because obviously you are a plant from the NSA acting like a friendly on-line fellow liberal, but you're really trying to get me to reveal my secrets so I can be sent to gitmo.

You're not fooling me.

Probably working with the Chinese, too. You agreed with me so readily, it's suspicious.

Of course, if you hadn't agreed with me, that would have been suspicious, too.

So I guess I really do have your number!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

42. Number this, ya headcase -

(See how I took the offensive away from you and impugned your credibility? They teach us that in Spook School.)

Try watching this - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/program.html - and consider that we're not really joking.

Except for that Chinese part.

I was sent here by Guam, where they're terribly confused.

[Posteritatis]

47. You can't really declare a "constant" with a sample size of two (nt)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

58. Sure I can

It's meaningless, but I can do it.

(Just kidding - it was a sloppy use of the word "constant," I agree.)

[Lilith Velkor]

51. Not true - Seung Cho was Korean.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

59. You're right!

Whoa. That was sloppy of me. If I tell you I was hospitalized and heavily drugged when that happened at Va. Tech, do I get any points for getting it wrong tonight?

Good catch. Thank you.

[Lilith Velkor]

62. Only if you throw in North Korean mind control experiments

That'll get you a nice shiny hat. :tinfoilhat:

I was heavily drugged during Inauguration week as well. I even had a dream that I asked Barack Obama to faith heal me, but that was just the Vicodin wearing off.

[LostinVA]

57. No, the VT Massacre murderer was Korean

[MineralMan]

11. I don't know about you, but I saw the story when it broke, on

CNN, on CBS, and in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. It was covered. I'll wager that it was covered much more closely locally. It's a murder. Murders are local stories.

[Uzybone]

12. There was a long thread in GD about it

a chinese guy did it.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Guess the media didn't think that ONE death was worth reporting. Perhaps if the

suspect had decapitated several people it would have been found newsworthy...or if any the victims had been American...

[havocmom]

31. It WAS reported! I read/saw it and I am in the most remote town in Lower 48

More likely, the big money around V Tech managed to put a lid on it fast?

As I recall, there was an inauguration or something about that time too.

[BrklynLiberal]

44. ohhhhhh.

[aikoaiko]

18. It happened, someone was arrested, and it was reported, what more do you want?

:shrug:

[Political Heretic]

20. One non-white "foreigner" offed another non-white "foreinger...."

...MSM doesn't give a shit.

Though, it should also be pointed out that I'm not sure they should be reporting it anyway - I don't see how its national news. Only difference is I'd still feel that way if the victim was a white, attractive blonde.

[4lbs]

23. Well, if one of them had been (semi) famous, it would have been front and center.

n/t

[Wapsie B]

21. Omg............

That is horrible. I have to wonder if he wasn't sent over here by the Chinese government to kill her?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. facepalm

[BlooInBloo]

36. Dude. This isn't The Bourne Supremacy.

[JHB]

39. Yeah, he couldn't possibly be a creepy psycho boyfriend...

...(or even wannabe boyfriend) who didn't take rejection too well.
:sarcasm:

You don't exactly need to invoke government plots to account for insane violence against women. There are plenty of nuts out there who do it "freelance".

[Political Heretic]

61. You deserve this:

[HEyHEY]

63. Uh, you'd think a contract killer would be a lil' more discreet.

[Wickerman]

25. In the US 4 women a day, each and every day, die due to domestic violence

I find that number more horrific than this one rather graphic example.

[CLANG]

26. I remember it, and was appropriately shocked and dismayed at the time n/t

[patrice]

27. This country just killed about 90,000 Iraqis who didn't need killing. Why are you surprised?

90K doesn't count the other appx 910,000 that have died at the hands of those we set loose by invading, nor the 1-5 million killed by our economic sanctions, nor something like 3 million refugees.

[BlooInBloo]

29. DUers will say that the foreigners knew the risks when they came here.

[JuniperLea]

30. Well, we've heard all about Jonbenet Ramsey!

And I'm always horrified when the local Los Angeles news reports on a house fire in Dubuque, IA! I mean, come on! LA has as many people as a lot of small countries! You mean to tell me there wasn't something going on in LA today?

I tend to agree with the other poster who said the victim wasn't sensible enough to be a cute, young blond. Now, I'm blond, and I'm still rather cute, but since I'm no longer young, I'll never make the news should I be murdered... decapitated or otherwise.

Time to take back the media! I'm sick of news being an entertainment industry!!

[merh]

32. Scarey, isn't it?

Don't know what is more troubling, the act itself (straight out of some video game) or the attitudes of many concerning the act. The opposite of your reaction.

[Bolo Boffin]

33. Clear proof that when the news media wants to ignore a story like this...

...it can.

[SmileyRose]

35. 2 weeks?

Maybe took 2nd stage news wise to Obama?

[Inspired]

41. I heard about it. Don't know why others haven't.

[Posteritatis]

46. Murders are generally local news

I doubt the mother who killed her daughter because her boyfriend more or less told her to in my neck of the woods is making headlines in the States.

As someone said elsewhere in the thread, a whole lot of people get killed in North America with a depressing level of regularity. Just because one of them is "interesting" doesn't mean that there aren't considerably more important things for most news agencies outside of the immediate vicinity to spend their time on.

[BlooInBloo]

48. Except when they're pretty blonde white women.

[Posteritatis]

49. Well, of course. Those are national crises of the highest order! (nt)

[zagging]

43. Aha! I get it now. I wondered where the news was in, "Student decaffeinated at coffee shop."

[Sarah Ibarruri]

45. Are there any updates on this? nt

[Historic NY]

50. It was out there in the media.......

http://news.aol.com/article/russian-killers-ate-girls-body-parts/328458

in russia they're eating people again.

[razors edge]

52. No gun, no story. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. I posted it. It dropped off the 1st page the same day.

[Barack_America]

55. I read your post. nt

[Dr. Strange]

54. It was in the news.

Hell, there was a thread here and everything: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4889410

[LostinVA]

56. A male Chinese grad student killed a female Chinese student he knew from China

It was all over the news when it happened, as well as a few threads on here. It appears to eb some kind of acquaintance stalker crime.

[Incitatus]

60. I recall reading an article about the incident,

but I did not remember that it took place in public. I think you might be onto something.

"and just glossed over it because we were just busy"

It's not only that, but incidents like this seem to be happening more often. Add to that all the problems we are facing, personally and as a country, I can see how something like this can be easily forgotten.

[Iggo]

64. This is the first I heard of it.

Really REALLY strange that I didn't catch even a whiff of this story.

[democracy1st]

65. first time hearing about it

[MichaelHarris]

66. I read the entire thread and

not one OJ joke. Man you guys are slipping up bad.