black comedy

Attn, all people.
Especially women.
"don't go to wal-mart. gang initiation shooting targeting women. 3 dead. confirmed by the news."

Did i get you?
I'm sorry but this is all fake. A sham. A hoax. A terrible, terrible prank.
apparently, beginning yesterday people from all around north America have been getting text messages telling them not to go to Wal-mart because of a gang-initiation shooting that had killed three women in an unnamed Wal-mart.
My mom told me this tonight. said she got the text message. i will admit that i was scared. i think anyone would be. I did a little research online to find out which Wal-mart in Vancouver had been targeted. and lo and behold!

"Reports of a text message about a gang initiation stunt requiring the random shooting of people at a Walmart are a hoax." via Now Public
(I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO READ THIS)

If i am to believe what i've read, this originated yesterday, March 19th, and possibly in Kentucky.
It then proceeded to spread like wildfire across North America.

I believed that shootings did happen in Wal-Mart was afraid, i was scared, i felt sadness and despair for the state of our community, our world.
But now that i've come to learn that this was a hoax i am even MORE afraid, scared, sad for the state of our world. What have we become? What terrible prank is this? Who would do this? Why would someone do this? Are we so amoral that we'd scare the shits out of an entire continent?
Maybe I'm just bitter because I got fooled by this hoax but you know what? I don't care.
I don't care that maybe the one that did this is concerned for the well-being of the world and it's wal-mart monoculture.
I don't care that maybe the reason they did this was to steer the public away from the capitalist Wal-Mart giant.
I don't care.
This is still mean, terrible, and horrible.

I'm not laughing.