Jokey #SydneySiege tweets are stupid, nihilistic

The siege in Sydney's Martin Place is still unfolding. As I write this a few people have managed to escape. Hopefully the rest will get out unharmed.

I've been keeping up to date on Twitter. And what's interesting is how callous and stupid many of the tweets are. Because the terrifying event is occurring in the Lindt store there, some of the more cynical tweeps are making jokes about chocolate.

Take this from what appears to be the real Mohammed Junaid Thorne:

This is not a #SydneySiege. It's a chocolate shop siege. For all we know it could be an angry customer who didn't like the chocolates.
— Sh. Mohammed Junaid (@MJunaidThorne) December 15, 2014

Others in a similar vein:

If someone wanted to charge me $20 for a hot chocolate I'd hold them hostage too #sydneysiege
— ava maria jensk (@avamariajensk) December 15, 2014

If #SydneySiege isnt a lone wolf #IS attack, Then it seems like a wannabe terrorist jst had PMS Evidence → chocolate shop!
— Muhajirah Amatullah (@BintWater) December 15, 2014

This hostage situation is nuts. Lindt chocolate is good but not that good #sydneysiege
— Josh Brozzesi (@joshwithcon) December 15, 2014

I'm beginning to wonder if #sydneysiege is just an xmas shopping related meltdown. No demands being made as desires met by chocolate in shop
— Brian Ward (@indolentdandy) December 15, 2014

And thankfully some common sense:

Why are people making jokes about the #sydneysiege and talking about chocolate? Seriously, have some basic decency. It's a hostage situation
— Alan Sizzler Kistler (@SizzlerKistler) December 15, 2014

UPDATE: But even that very reasonable exhortation provokes mindless abuse from the trolls. Amazing.

How did I actually get hater attacks for saying I wish we didn't make jokes about an unresolved hostage situation? DON'T ACTUALLY ANSWER.
— Alan Sizzler Kistler (@SizzlerKistler) December 15, 2014

UPDATE: And still the "jokes" keep coming, all of them as lame as they are revolting.

Take this guy's offering. Well, at least he seems to have some idea of just how pathetic and nauseating it is ...

Here's an appalling attempt at a TOPICAL CARTOON about #SydneySiege #MartinPlace - feel free to tell me I suck pic.twitter.com/v3ky01vXog
— Javid v. d. Piepers (@jvanderp) December 15, 2014