Morgantown reacts to Bin Laden's death (Contains offensive language)

Morgantown streets break out in fire; students celebrate death of Bin Laden. (Contains language which may be offensive) For complete coverage, visit http://www.thedaonline.com.

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QUOTES FROM THE REPUBLIC-

"For the most part, participants were jubilant, nondestructive and respectful of authorities," said WVU spokeswoman Becky Lofstead. "But it's clear that a small minority were not."

"They were not confrontational in any way at all toward the officers," Lantz said. "In fact, our officers said the crowds moved where they were asked to move."

"They were just loud, boisterous, but behaved," he said.

"There was no major property damage in the latest round of fires"

[DakotaRT1989]

I love reading all of the comments from idiots either belittling this generation or all of the West Virginia stereotype jokes. Fact is, colleges across the nation did this exact same thing, except no one else knows how to party like WVU. As for burning shit, it's simply what we do to celebrate anything. Therefore, shit got burned. The West Virginia stereotypes do make me sad however, not because it hurts my feelings, but rather the lack of intelligence exhibited by those who use them.

[charlosgibson]

i was downtown that night gettin drunk with my girl loretta price

[HollowFlight]

@fontanaman13 i'm sorry but it's a video of a bunch of kids that were too young to even remember the collapse of the soviet union.

they lived through the most peaceful decade in history, they think 9/11 is significant compared to every other tragedy because it's the only tragedy they have lived to see that has ever affected them. i kind of pity them, but as the chinese say: "may you live in interesting times."

[alexcala1]

@slime419 he did something to our country and all of Islam cheered. This is a fitting way to celebrate that scums death. Ding Dong the bitch is dead and may he burn in the hottest part of hell. If you dont like it move to Pakistan asshole

[fontanaman13]

14 dislike are from Al-Qaeda members.

[phreddy87]

this is freaky

[slime419]

@CodiMensah and no thats not a shot at wvu cause i love morgantown andlived there

[slime419]

@CodiMensah u all suck for celebrating death in that way.. obivisouly u really dont remeber 9/11. i bet osama didnt do shit to a single one of u college brats

[morgantown1]

Ha! I saw myself, so I am now famous.

[TJWrestling]

in other news there was a major decline in grades during the the spring semester at wvu. this decline has been attributed to news of bin laden"s death lol. I would of been celebrating as well had the news came 2 days earlier or 2 days latter. but i have invested way to much money in college to waste it. so instead i celebrated latter on for killing my finals and bin laden. lol

[JenniferHodor]

Wow some people just have no clue! Were not just all rednecks this is a wvu tradition. Something great happens we burn a couch. It happens for big games and other big events at least our students celebrated this happening. Im guessing most other schools were like a ghost town and most college aged people didnt even know about this. I am proud to be a Mountaineer. And to top it off this was during finals week.