We first reported about this disrespectful idea with the post Chicago Haunted House To Recreate Pulse Shooting Scene. Luckily, it has been canceled, but unfortunately the mentality is still out there.
Tickets for the event, scheduled to run on Saturday and Sunday nights, were selling on Eventbrite for $10-$20. Tappler tweeted that the school pulled out of the event on Friday evening.
While it beggars belief that anyone could think depicting this mass hate crime would be appropriate for Halloween, it gets worse: the event description suggests the experience was about making moral choices and "facing the consequences of your actions."
Visitors to 'The Room' would walk through 10 rooms, the description states, in which they were to "encounter individuals who will make choices. The choice is life or death; sin or salvation; heaven or hell."
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The Pulse massacre wasn't the only off-colour scene set to be shown in the house. It was also reportedly set to depict a botched abortion, and the Charleston massacre in which nine black Christians were gunned down in a church by 21-year-old white man Dylan Roof.
While the Facebook page for Tyrone Tappler Productions has disappeared, his website says "Tyrone Tappler believes in reaching people in an unconventional way." – Sydney Morning Herald.com
His twitter account has become more colorful as well since the banning of the horrific haunted house idea.
It is sad to see someone take such a tragedy and treat it with disrespect.
h/t: Sydney Morning Herald.com