Away from all the Super Bowl hoopla in Tampa comes a more lighthearted story about a dead basketball coach and the vandalism of a memorial to her. Yes, the victim is a woman, so put on your laughing pants.
A mural in N.C. State University’s Free Expression Tunnel to honor women’s basketball coach Kay Yow, who died Jan. 24 after a long struggle with breast cancer, was defaced Saturday with blue paint and offensive language.
A blue mustache and the phrase “cancer rules” were added to the painting [not actually pictured], which shows a portrait of Yow against a pink background. The graffiti was removed and the mural restored by early Sunday morning, but the incident did not sit well with students.
Aw, crap, I forgot to make the background pink. Hey, wait a second, I thought pink was just for cancer survivors. Now I’m somewhat relieved that a kind soul took some initiative to correct it. Even though defacing a memorial to someone that only left this earth a week ago is probably the most cowardly thing ever.
Ironically enough, the mural is situated in the Free Expression Tunnel. Mission accomplished, I’d say.
[News & Observer via GameOn]
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That vandal must feel like an outkast.
Truly the cancer that is killing /b/
It would have been a lot more offensive if they wrote “cancer rulz”
Cancer ruled?
Gemini RULES!
I thought Knibb High football rules?
women’s basketball coach Kay Yow
Funny, she doesn’t look Chinese.
Ive been known to ‘paint graffiti’ in the ‘free expression tunnel’,
wink wink.
I’m just glad to see that the Zodiac killer has found a new, less mur-didly-urderous pasttime.
At least they didn’t paint “canker sores rule”. Man, do I hate those things. Even worse than I hate cancer, and almost as much as I hate these herpes sores.
Maybe it was just a guy named Cancer who didn’t know the coach died from cancer..?
“Kay Yow” sounds like like the noise made when Adam West used to punch out hooligans on the old Batman show.
/The Clap rules
I was under the impression O’Doyle rules
Good one, Tony. So clever.
‘Bout time this blog lived up to its masthead.
Last night it was defaced again, this time it said “TOO SOON?”
It’s been a week already. Jeez, get a sense of humor people.
Nothing more painful than obvious lesbian giving me the sign of the goat.
that cancer sure does have a high opinion of itself
Five gives you ten it was Tar Heels. It’s like Duke Light: all the douchebaggery, half the carbs.
“Five gives you ten it was Tar Heels. It’s like Duke Light: all the douchebaggery, half the carbs.”
This is certainly one of the dumber statements I’ve ever heard. Someone did something unbelievably shameful, and you want to turn it into a UNC Bashfest. Get your facts straight. It was not UNC Students, it was a third party trying (quite successfully) to stir up shit. A sizable portion of UNC’s Campus was defaced today with Pro-NCSU Graffiti.
There are Duke fans that are assholes, there are NCSU Fans that are assholes, and there are certainly Tar Heels fans that are assholes. But nobody in any one of these groups is downright evil enough to do something like that.
Daniel Said: “But nobody in any one of these groups is downright evil enough to do something like that.”
I Read: “None of them are clever enough to think up something that funny”
Daniel knows every one of them. And their evil levels.
Personally I think he did it.
I sure it it was someone from NCSU. We only get news coverage when something f@cked up happens here. Remember the racist obama comments in the free expression tunnel?