I was getting on a plane. Tense flight that one.

On holiday in Spain trying to watch the Arsenal match in champs league over my wife's ( then gf) shoulder and when she complained I told her it wasn't footie, just some programme about demolition :-0

Found out the actual news the following morning and had all sorts of fun with the airport security a few days later.

Watching it on the box in a semi in little hulton, before drinkies at a pub called the Stocks.
genuinely thought it wasa crash followed by the other pilot crashing due to gawking the original "crash" and being shocked in to crashing. couldnt concieve at that time it was deliberate..

sat on a beach in Roses, Costa Brava.

Went to a cafe to use los servicios, saw it all live on TV. Locals thought I was French for some reason (perhaps the proximity to the border); English didn't even occur to them.
Next day sat on the beach, the air raid sirens went off. That was a bit nervy
3 days later, Barcelona airport was crawling with army types

The wife just said similar, user removed..She thought it was a film, she was doing the housework with the sound turned down..

I was in Peru, about to fly over the Nasca lines.

Had transferred through New York on Sept 7th.

weird, I was in Ibiza too.
found out in a scooter shop.. the English guy who was behind the counter was just in a complete daze and couldn't do his job, then explained what was happening (tried to). so we went to a bar too.. and yeah, everyone was just so quiet.. sat staring at the TV.

<EDIT> My girlfriend was pregnant too

Your particular point is what exactly?

I meant exactly what I said.

Lots of it goes on.

Perpetrated by the smallest nations on this world and the largest.

Getting party stuff ready for my daughters 1st birthday,It put a bit of a downer on her 1st birthday.

At work. It was all over the radio, but still didn't really believe it till I got home and actually saw it on the telly. Just sat there disbelieving for sometime afterwards.

Giving class to Lt. Col in the Spanish Airforce when someone came into the office to tell us what had happened. Saw the first pictures a couple of hours later.

I was working in A&E and was just on the phone to a social worker letting them know a child we'd been working on had died after an rta, and in general chat she asked if I'd seen the news and that a plane had crashed into the world trade centre, and during the conversation one of her colleague's told her another plane had also crashed into it. We thought there must have been some mix up. I tried to check the BBC news website, but the screen wouldn't load up. I had to give up as some old dude that had fallen was up next. I remember it quite vividly and still remember the names of the kid and the old dude.

I'd just landed an aircraft having flown back from the middle east; some dude came on the flight deck and told us what had happened. I felt physically sick and lost the ability to get up out of my seat.

At a demonstration against the arms trade fair at the Excel Centre in East London. Seems almost surreal by context, now. Remember the police suddenly becoming extremely aggressive, without most of the (peaceful) demonstrators knowing what had happened in NY. The fair was closed very quickly, and the protestors kettled into very confined areas even though none of them had been at all confrontational. Only after managing to sneak out and boarding a DLR train did I realise why: they were trying to get all the arms dealers out of the area. Saw some of them, weird to see them on public transport. Had to get a British Bobby to protect the Civil Liberties of a couple of British Citizens from the over zealousness of the bodyguards of some tinpot foreign military leader (you're not so big when you're not surrounded by your private army are you you ****). Quite funny to stand toe to toe with these harbingers of death and destruction, and see them cower behind their hired muscle. ****.

As will I. Politics aside, thousand of innocents died on that day. As a Londoner, having seen the chaos caused by terrorist attacks, I hope no other city ever has to suffer that. Just utterly senseless and an attack on Humanity itself.

Thousands of people man. ****.

I watched the events unfold live on tv… couldn't believe my eyes.. immediately assumed that it was anti-capitalists..

I feel sad for the loss of any innocent life but when you look at the bigger picture by god they had it coming..

I was working at Tesco at the time in the garage. We had one customer come in and say, "Did you know that a plane has gone into the World Trade Centre in New York?"

Throughout the day we got updates from customers – another plane had crashed, the first tower had come down, the second tower had come down. I didn't actually see the news until 6pm in the evening, I just remember being absolutely mortified, trying to comprehend that this movie-style scene was actually happening and that thousands of people had lost their lives. The scale of it was immense – not just New York, but also the two other jets that came down.

I remember my brother being particularly grim – he was convinced that it was potentially the end of the world because he was so worried that George Bush was in power. He was convinced he'd just nuke someone…

Was a disgrace in my eyes. British Citizens exercising their 'democratic rights', then kettled like animals to allow Death Mongers to flee the area safely. Pfft. Democracy? Yeah, right.

They obviously saw you lot as part of a global terrorist attack…

It shocked me when I first saw it, but I have read loads since and had my eyes opened wide.

If you poke your finger in a wasps' nest it will eventually get stung!

Elfinsafety…not to burst your bubble mate, but those 'riot police' were there all along. Any time there's a demonstration of any time those guys are always within a couple of hundred metres. It's not so much a matter of anticipating trouble as normal working practices.

Pure evil, but a disproportionate response.

The tobacco industry kills more people each week than all the terrorist activity this century. Can we have robot drones take out the executives of the tobacco industry please.

(Not biased – just both parents died horribly due to tobacco)