Virginia Tech student gets decapitated

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ConstipatedVigilante

ConstipatedVigilante

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Originally posted by: TallBill
lol, text messages and emails sent to all 30k students.. now we're over panicky a bit aint we?
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My school has an alert system that does this too. Today there was a gas main break and everyone got email/txt messages describing the situation.
 
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OCGuy

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Some of the comments in this thread are pretty low-brow. I think im going to head out now...
 
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ManBearPig

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i cant even begin to understand how you could decapitate a person. WITH A KITCHEN KNIFE! wtf? thats some seriously messed up stuff. poor girl just got here. also i think its seriously fucked up that you guys are joking about shit like this. not cool.
 
ConstipatedVigilante

ConstipatedVigilante

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Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: irishScott
This is why we need concealed carry on campus. I've already narrowly avoided a couple of street fights (once was a guy checking out my car, another was just a bunch of random collective stares from what appeared to be an Hispanic gang). Crazy shit like this is the reason I take Krav Maga and carry a spring-assisted (read: effectively a legal switchblade) knife. Obviously the chances that I'll ever have to use either are low, but if it comes down to it and the other guy has a gun, the gun "not being allowed on campus" won't really matter. Delaware has some retarded gun and knife laws as it is.
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oh please, if everyone carried a gun the person who wanted to kill you would just be more sneaky about it. your false sense of security doesn't help you when you get hit on the head from behind b/c your attacker knows or suspects you have a gun. and you sound paranoid with the people looking at your car and hispanic gang members somehow thinking twice about tumbling with your...sheesh.
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You sound like you've never gotten the death stare from a crazy/violent person. When it happens, you'll really wish you had something to protect yourself with. This is the reason I always carry a knife with me - you just never know what might happen.

Edit: What I don't get is how shit like this happens. I mean, if I see someone being stabbed with a kitchen knife at the next table, I'm going to do something. Seeing a couple of guys brawling in the street is one thing - but when someone is being decapitated it's an "oh, shit's really happening" sort of thing. It's really fucking difficult to decapitate someone with a kitchen knife. It would take at least enough time that people notice something's wrong.
 
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GundamW

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Wow, this is terrible.

Reminds me:
"Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the... little emotions. In... you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did..."
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jagec

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There can only be one!


Originally posted by: irishScott
I've already narrowly avoided a couple of street fights (once was a guy checking out my car, another was just a bunch of random collective stares from what appeared to be an Hispanic gang).
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I think that they make meds for what you've got...ask your psychologist.
 
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Turin39789

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Originally posted by: irishScott
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: irishScott
This is why we need concealed carry on campus. I've already narrowly avoided a couple of street fights (once was a guy checking out my car, another was just a bunch of random collective stares from what appeared to be an Hispanic gang). Crazy shit like this is the reason I take Krav Maga and carry a spring-assisted (read: effectively a legal switchblade) knife. Obviously the chances that I'll ever have to use either are low, but if it comes down to it and the other guy has a gun, the gun "not being allowed on campus" won't really matter. Delaware has some retarded gun and knife laws as it is.
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oh please, if everyone carried a gun the person who wanted to kill you would just be more sneaky about it. your false sense of security doesn't help you when you get hit on the head from behind b/c your attacker knows or suspects you have a gun. and you sound paranoid with the people looking at your car and hispanic gang members somehow thinking twice about tumbling with your...sheesh.
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The bolded makes no sense.

As for getting hit from behind, that's why I take Krav Maga and stay reasonably alert/don't do anything stupid (ie: walk down a dark ally at 2am).

Let me go into more detail. When I say checking out, I mean I walked out of a restaurant with take-out and found a guy with a weird earring, which I later learned was an hispanic gang symbol, basically sticking his face in my car's windows. He noticed me when I was about 20' away and gave me a fricken eyes-wide death glare. Thankfully it was daylight and people weren't too far away, so I dropped eye contact and walked evasively back toward the restaurant. He got in his car and drove off.

As for the weird stares, I was using a bathroom at a gas station on a solo trip to my University (2 hours away). Wasn't the best place to stop in retrospect, but when 5 guys look at me more-or-less simultaneously for more than a couple of seconds, I start to get suspicious.
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So these near death experiences were staring contests?


jonks point is that if I know everyone is carrying and I want to rob someone, I can still do it, I'm just going to wait until you are alone and I'm going to be hidden until I hit you in the head with a bat. It just changes the tactics for a determined attacker.
 
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V00DOO

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Shit, all the crazy asians attend VT! On a serious note, I feel sorry for the family of the girl. She's probably their only child (China 1 child rule). They spend all these money to send here and now she's dead. They must be heart broken :brokenheart:
 
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91TTZ

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Originally posted by: Turin39789

jonks point is that if I know everyone is carrying and I want to rob someone, I can still do it, I'm just going to wait until you are alone and I'm going to be hidden until I hit you in the head with a bat. It just changes the tactics for a determined attacker.
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Very unlikely. If the attacker knew that the victim was carrying a gun, he'd probably not want to risk getting shot. The difference would be that you've put more power into the hands of the innocent.

Also, a criminal will have a harder time walking around with a baseball bat and not getting caught by the cops.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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Some of the posters here seem to think the head is solidly attached to the body or sumthin...

Remember, each of those bones in the neck is a separate component with only a bit of soft tissue between each one.

Doesn't take much to draw a sharp knife through the neck in one fell swoop...and get some head for your trouble.

No machete needed, no samaura katana-type sword, no Highland broadsword...just a good sharp kitchen knife will suffice.



IMO, handguns are NOT appropriate on college campuses. While some students are possibly responsible enough to handle such a responsibility, from my experience, most are not.
 
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MotF Bane

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
IMO, handguns are NOT appropriate on college campuses. While some students are possibly responsible enough to handle such a responsibility, from my experience, most are not.
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What about only concealed carry by those who have obtained the permit for such? Or when you say handguns do you assume concealed?

Disclaimer: I don't know if all states require a permit for concealed.
 
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amicold

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Originally posted by: Kalmah
Umm.. you would actually have to saw through the bone and everything.. That would take time.. while the victim is struggling as well. How was somebody not available to stop this?
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Didn't we ask that about the Greyhound?

 
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