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(48,121 posts) Sun Nov 3, 2013, 03:21 PM Nov 2013

What Happens When You Dress As A Boston Marathon Victim And Post It On Twitter [View all]

Alicia Ann Lynch, a 22-year-old from Michigan, tweeted and instagrammed a photo of herself at work dressed as a Boston Marathon bombing victim for Halloween.

Twitter users were enraged at the costume, and thousands tweeted at Lynch to express their disgust.

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The Internet rage spun out of control as Twitter users took out their anger at Lynch by contacting her family. They also circulated nude pictures and videos of her found on Tumblr.

Lynch deleted all of her social media accounts, then later reopened her Twitter to attempt to be forgiven for her costume.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/what-happens-when-you-dress-as-a-boston-marathon-victim

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This is too horrible. Whisp Nov 2013 #1

I never understood the need some people have to be assholes for halloween Scootaloo Nov 2013 #2

I have never understood the need to broadcast the fact that they are ass-holes etherealtruth Nov 2013 #4

See ME!! narcissism sometimes draws unexpected results. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #3

What on earth can she have been thinking?? The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #5

While her costume is distasteful, it doesn't give internet fauxragers the right to use her personal Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #6

The slut shaming was not cool Shivering Jemmy Nov 2013 #7

and another nasty idiot gets fired for being herself online! magical thyme Nov 2013 #8

So a 22year old makes a really bad choice for a halloween costume, should she lose her JOB? peacebird Nov 2013 #9

Well, she was attacked by people who were just as stupid as she was. That is all. Mass Nov 2013 #12

I can cut her slack, I think the abuse she received was over the top. Yes, she was insensitive and peacebird Nov 2013 #14

she didn't lose her job over her halloween costume at a *work* party magical thyme Nov 2013 #13

Point well taken. I had not realized she id'd her company... Doubly dumb... peacebird Nov 2013 #15

she didn't specifically ID it, but the twitterworld did... magical thyme Nov 2013 #18

When I was 22 I knew people who dressed up as Jon Benet Ramsey, male and female. Quantess Nov 2013 #10

WTF is wrong with her? City Lights Nov 2013 #11

She really did show poor judgment more than once. In_The_Wind Nov 2013 #16

I bet she thought she was being really clever... dorkzilla Nov 2013 #17

What a stupid MagnumUK Nov 2013 #19