Lynched for Halloween Costume Choice

[XLFD]

A Bay City, Michigan woman named Alicia Ann Lynch, age 22, tweeted out her Halloween costume choice and it went viral, primarily because it was seen by many to be offensive and in bad taste.  The choice she made was a running outfit, decked out with blood and scars, can you guess what she was dressed up as according to her tweet?

 

 

She's a Boston marathon bombing victim.  Since then she has made the following comment in her own defense: 

“My costume was not meant to disrespect anyone, ever. I am truly sorry to anyone that I may have offended or hurt with this,” she wrote. “I wore a costume to work, with people that know me, and wouldn’t get offended by it. I had even ran the idea by a friend whom had his father in the marathon and he didn’t have an issue with it.  Honestly, it’s the Day of the Dead,” she said. “I wasn’t a dead person, I wasn’t being disrespectful. I was a survivor of a marathon. And it’s not like I was walking around with a fake leg or my arm torn off or something like that.”

 

Definitely a controversial choice, but it has spawned a rash of even more truly offensive backlash in the form of death threats and threats of rape directed at her, while her parents and best friend have also been subject to a barrage of abuse after online vigilantes dug up information about them.

She was also fired from her job from the repercussions.  Do the people threatening and harassing Lynch on line actually care about her insensitivity to victims of the Marathon attack?   Or are they coming from even a darker place in attacking this woman, her friends and family, and her choice of exercising her freedom of expression?

 

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[Dave]

Probably wouldn't ever be my first choice for a costume and I would say it was in bad taste.... but, there isn't a law saying what a person has to wear for Halloween. I've seen a few costumes over the years that were a bit out there, the one in the story here is a little tame compared to at least one friend's costume one year.

[XLFD]

A friend who sometimes contributes to our Facebook partner, The Ludington Pitchfork posted a link to a Massachusetts mom who had grown up sons that dressed up as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, who also lost her job and status just because of these cyberpathic people that can't abide cowboy costumes, ethnic jokes, or criticism of their public office so much that they threaten to harm you and go after you and your family for offending their limited mindset. 

[Willy]

I have to say it was a poor choice for the costume she chose. You have to wonder why anyone would dress up as a terrorist victim but I have to say that  the reaction to what she wore was way out of proportion. The picture X posted was even worse. These people are idiots and don't realize that some nut jobs may take out their frustrations on them for their choice of costumes.

[Dave]

In a little twist to this story, just read where the young lady here in this story turns out has posted many pictures online and, well, we'll just say you see plenty. The screen name she was using is either right on or just for fun, you decide.. it was 'some skank in MI'... silly people.