.. When you first saw or heard what had happened.
I was living over in ibiza and got several calls off people telling menwhat had happened. Didn't believe them so went to a friends bar and it was packed with people were just sitting, staring at the screen and I swear no one said a single word for a couple of hours...
I was getting on a plane. Tense flight that one.
Quite a horrible act of terrorism.
Lots of it has gone in the world though.
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.
Just coming out of a lecture at uni when my brother rang me. Went straight to the union bar and watched the big screen for ten mins before walking away in disgust. It was an incredible, eerily quiet student union....
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..
Got back from college (very mature student), switched on the telly and gawped. Thought it was a film / end of the world / a dream...
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
I was at home - but a mate of mine was on a flight into the States - this got diverted into Canada and landed at a small municipal airfield, the authorities did not let anyone off the plane for hours.. when they did no one was allowed to phone anyone...
The wife just said similar, user removed..She thought it was a film, she was doing the housework with the sound turned down..
Ho hum - Member
Quite a horrible act of terrorism.
Lots of it has gone in the world though.
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I was in Peru, about to fly over the Nasca lines.
Had transferred through New York on Sept 7th.
Coming back from Sainsburys with 22 month old daughter in car and 8 months pregnant, vivid memory of what kind of world are my children being born into.
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
At work. We heard about the "plane crash" and assumed it was some sort of light aircraft, tuned in to the CNN and Sky websites and then saw the reality.
mastiles_fanylion - Member
Ho hum - Member
Quite a horrible act of terrorism.
Lots of it has gone in the world though.
POSTED 2 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POSTYour 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.
Off day at home then glued to the telly the whole week.
Getting party stuff ready for my daughters 1st birthday,It put a bit of a downer on her 1st birthday.
allthepies - Member
I was in Peru, about to fly over the Nasca lines.
That should also be in the awesome post... fantastic..
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.
Heard it on the radio as I left the house. Turned around and sat watching it all afternoon. I turned sky news on about 2 mins after the second plane hit. Literally could not believe it when the first one came down, then the second.
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.
mastiles_fanylion - Member
Ho hum - Member
Quite a horrible act of terrorism.
Lots of it has gone in the world though.
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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.
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.
mastiles_fanylion - Member
mastiles_fanylion - Member
Ho hum - Member
Quite a horrible act of terrorism.
Lots of it has gone in the world though.
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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.So the POINT of what you said is....
It was an event waiting to happen on the soils of the arguably the largest terrorist country in the world.
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.
i had spent all day in the car on my way back from the alps, radio was knackered.
when i finaly got home late that night i wandered into the room took a look at my folks and said...whats up has someone died. 
oh.
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. ****.
Working on a site on the edge of the Quantocks.
The owner came down for his pre breakfast tipple from the secret garage stash, and told us.
I'd never heard of the twin towers at that point, a single atrocity in a world full of them.
Such a shame it gets remembered by so many, whilst bigger atrocities get forgotton by more..
For all those lost and whom have lost, through acts of terrorism and war, i will spare a moments thought tomorrow
i will spare a moments thought tomorrow
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. ****.
Elfinsafety - Member
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. ****.
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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 at work when it happened. The internet died for quite a while but we got the general picture. Quite shocking but as far as deaths go, Americans are far more efficient at killing Americans than terrorists are. Even if terrorists really upped their game, they lag massively behind Americans in the cause of American death stakes.
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...
Ho Hum; a pretty **** mental situation to be in, when major shit is kicking off somewhere across the globe. The mood of the demo went from pretty laid back, just a bunch of hippies banging drums and singing songs, to the previously reasonably bored yet amicable police being replaced by fully kitted out riot thugs in a matter or moments. As though they anticipated trouble.
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.
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