.. 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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Your particular point is what exactly?
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.
[i]allthepies - Member
I was in Peru, about to fly over the Nasca lines.
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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.
So the POINT of what you said is....
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. ****ers.
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 ****ing 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.
Elfinsafety - Member
Ho Hum; a pretty ****ing 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.
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!
I was working in Canary Wharf at the time, remember watching it all and then being put on high alert so they shut the building down. We all went down the pub to watch the goings on tv. It was awful I remember so many people from the mercer office in floods as there office was at the top of one of the towers if remember correctly. I remember the memorial service at St Pauls, we went too, so many people. So moving. I'll be having a moments silence tomorrow for everyone affected by tragedies like this.
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.
Well I got up, wondering what to do with myself on my birthday,switched the news on and just sat there stunned,(& sort of thankful that it hadn't happened 2 weeks earlier when my son went up to the top sightseeing)feel terrible for all those lost & everything but the main lingering feeling is that the bastiges stole my sodding birthday.
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)
It's not so much a matter of anticipating trouble as normal working practices.
There was no validity in their deployment. Trust me, I was there. I have also studied the law surrounding the deployment of riot police/TSG. There was no justification on this occasion (backed up by the fact that several people won cases against the police following incidents of police treatment of demonstrators). No, the Babylonians were sent in to kettle the demonstrators so that the Death Mongers could make good their escape.
Normal Working Practices my arse. Don't give me that. The police's job is to uphold Law and Order. Not kettle British Citizens exercising their legal democratic rights. The police are as beholden to the Law as is anyone. They're not a private army employed to protect foreign Death Mongers over British Citizens.
At work, then in respiratory/acute medicine. Unlike the boatman, I can't remember the patients' names but I had C and D bays on Hexworthy ward and I remember their faces like it was last week. It was before 'patient-line' so we had one telly at the end of each bay, and I remember watching the 2nd plane and the towers collapsing as I worked my way round the run-of-the-mill blood pressures/dressings/commodes etc just thinking how lucky we were to be half way round the world from it and how unbelievably easy my job was compared to anyone in an NY hospital. I didn't really think about the human cost, families etc at first, it just seemed all so unreal.
Derriford hospital is near an airport and between 7 and 12 stories high depending one whether you are at the bottom or top of the hill its built on. In the 90's one of the emergency plans/drills was based on the evacuation of complete stories or 'halves' of the tower part in the event of a plane hitting the building, using alternative lift shafts and fire control zones. I wonder what that plan looks like these days...
They obviously saw you lot as part of a global terrorist attack...
A bunch of White mainly middle class Trustafarians? I was one of the only Brown people there!
Anyway's up. Thousands of innocents died that day. Tomorrow I will spend a moment in contemplation of those lost souls. Their slaughter was utterly disgusting, as is the slaughter of innocents across the globe.
Where has mastiles_fanylion gone?
I was hoping for a good debate about the USA's foreign policy and their neo-conservative leadership 😉
What happened was horrible and it shook me, but after reading up on modern geo-political history you could see it coming.
Derriford hospital
**** me I've been treated there! As was my nan before she died.
