 The song caused a controversy in 2000 when it was set to replay indefinitely on a nearby stereo as 17 @-@ year @-@ old Greg Barnes , a teenager who attended Columbine High School and had lost one of his best friends in the massacre the previous year , hanged himself in the garage of his family 's home . Both Hoppus and DeLonge were sympathetic but stressed the song 's meaning : 
