What is it about cults that makes them so willing to prey on people when they're at their most vulnerable?

As reported elsewhere earlier this week, Scientology's Volunteer Vultures have descended upon the grief-stricken Virginia Tech campus.

VT senior Christie Weaver, a psychology major, confirmed their presence on Thursday, and was kind enough to send us some photographic evidence.

"Yeah, those f-----s are here," she said, noting that she "has not seen anyone speak to them because they wear these bright yellow shirts that say 'Scientology Volunteer Minister.' They stick out like sore thumbs, especially given that they look very LA'd out and we're in the mountains of Virginia."

On Friday, Weaver told Radar, "Yesterday they just walked around campus without being obtrusive, but today they set up a bright yellow tent about 100 yards from the memorial."

The tent, similar to the ones celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise routinely pitches on movie sets, have also been erected right next to the victims' memorial boards, so when aggrieved students come to pay their respects, they get accosted by the culties. "It's sick," says Weaver. "They can leave and take the media with them."

Scientology, of course, is the "religion" practiced by flakes with too much money and time on their hands, and it's based at least partially on the belief that, 75 million years ago, an alien named Xenu came to earth with a bunch of other aliens he'd captured, and that he blew them all up in a volcano with a hydrogen bomb.

So, yeah, I guess you'd need to stalk people while their emotionally vulnerable in order to get them to take you seriously.

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