I was checking a fantasy football game on Facebook when I came across this on the "Trending" bar. Here's an article about it. In short, a man took a SUNY Farmingdale professor and beheaded her (he was believed to be her son), dragged her body outside, and then jumped in front of a Long Island Railroad train. His body was found a mile away.
Due to the date on which it occurred, some people thought her corpse was a Halloween prop:
Other neighbors thought it was a cool trick and went over to try to lift the body, only to discover, upon touching it, that it was flesh and bone.
The reason I'm sharing this is because this happened in Farmingdale – the town I'm originally from. When I saw this on the Trending bar, I got a knot in my stomach. Plus, the comments on some of the posts about it pissed me off to no end, like:
"ISIS is here folks, in OUR WH too."
"Muslims have no problem [performing beheadings] and then playing soccer with the head afterwards."
"When you push God out, in comes satan and his army Of demons through the gaping hole. America is no longer blessed."
"I don't remember having to worry about being beheaded when GW [Bush] was president…
Okay, fine, the top article when I clicked on it was for some reason Fox Faux News', so I may have cheated a bit here. But I saw a few like this on News 12 Long Island's page, too. Though in all honesty, what do you guys think about this?