A Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus calculator owned by Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho has gone on sale on the crime website Supernaught.com, according to an article in the Washington Post.
His calculator, common in college-level math classes, sells for $3,700. It usually sells for around $100.
The listing on the site says the calculator was “one of the few items that the Virginia killer Seung-Hui Cho sold on eBay to raise money for the guns, clips and ammo utilized during the rampage.”
It also said the calculator includes evidence of the calculator’s authenticity, and that the games – including Bomberkids, Mars Patrol and Sub Hunt – were still installed on it.
When purchased, the calculator comes with a list of the entire chain of events, eBay links, his blocked eBay account, and news ads.
This is the first item of Cho’s to become available in four years, and is the only item of his on the market.
The calculator originally went on sale three months before the April 16, 2007 campus shootings when Cho killed 32 people before taking his own life.
Cho sold it for $53 plus $9 for shipping and handling. The eBay flier said it was used for less than a semester because he dropped the class and worked perfectly.
Virginia permits the sale of killer memorabilia, although it is prohibited in eight other states.
A version of this article appeared in the Dec 31 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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This article is sickening. Why would anyone at VT want to be informed about this matter. I'm still hoping that one day the CT while choose to right quality articles which do not bring more undesirable attention to someone who took the lives of so many Hokies.
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Completely agree with the comment above
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I completely agree with anonymous. I find this article entirely unnecessary. Now all I'm thinking is "Who gets the $$ from this disgusting sale?"
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I too feel that this is in terrible taste. What good will come of informing specifically VT students, alumnus and faculty of this? What is the underlying journalistic purpose here?
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I sure hope you weren't insinuating anything by indicating the games that he had on his calculator. I can say I played a heck of a lot more Sub Hunt and Bomberman than this guy. It's moot and sensational plastering.
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If the CT had included a rant about this, which they probably really wanted to do, and is probably why they wrote this article, then you commenting fools would be the first ones to scream about "Ohhh the CT has no integrity and doesn't know fact from opinion!"
Get a life, spend some time doing something productive instead of constantly b**ching about other people's work.
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Who cares?
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Shame on the person who is profiting on this.
I am also question the sanity of the person who would spend $3700 on this.
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Just another d/sick article by the jokers at the CT.
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Josh Higgins, shame on you.
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So shame on the Washington Post too, I'm assuming? This is definitely newsworthy.
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This is a news worthy article. Instead of hating on the CT and its contributors, spread a little love in this at times disgusting and twisted world. In addition, I'm sure this article was written to inform Virginia residents that it is legal to sell killer memorabilia. Turn your anger towards your Va representatives.
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This is absolutely sickening. It should be give to Cho's family not sold for blood profit.
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