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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: FU to tourists who think Ground Zero is now a NY attraction | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 12:27 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Fuck these stupid people. My favorite part of the article was this stupid f'n cunt from Boston who wanted to see it as part of her weekend vacation. What's next, The Twin Towers amusement park ride you can rent for birthday parties (O&A reference from Titanic ride). What is the time limit on that one. Tourists arrive to gawk at ruins of WTC NEW YORK, Sept 23 (AFP) - Twelve days after a terrorist attack toppled the twin towers of the World Trade Center, leaving almost 6,6000 dead or missing, hundreds of New Yorkers and camera-strung American and foreign tourists converge on the ruins. They emerge in throngs from nearby City Hall subway station and stroll, guidebooks and bottles of water in hand, towards Ground Zero, the mountain of rubble that was once the glittering crown of the lower Manhattan skyline. At the intersection of Ann Street and Park Row, where you get your first glimpse of the wreck, they stand on tiptoe, swaying as they seek out the best angle for a photo. A burned-out building is framed by a church and a truck, but it is too distant for a clear shot, and this is no place to hang around. The police tells the tourists to move on, "for security reasons", and the crowd contracts and heads in the direction of Nassau Street. National guardsmen, sent into the city after the September 11 attack, act as tourist guides. "Four or five blocks that way, turn to the right", one replies in a friendly tone to a foreigner asking for the best place to see the six hectare (15-acre) site of Ground Zero. You get your first real shock at Fulton Street, only a few dozen meters (yards) from where one of the seven buildings that made up the "Trade" leans, blacked but still upright. "It's block five", a woman said. "There's still lots of dust," noted the person next to her, pointing out neighboring buildings thick with soot. A group of French New Yorkers stand astounded at the sight. One of them, a financial analyst, Olivier Philippart, pointed to the gap in the cityscape where the 110-storey twin towers stood. "It's incredible. I used to go to The World of Golf shop," he said. "Right next door was Century 21 where you could buy clothes. I went past the Trade every morning. I used to take the Path Train underneath the Center to go to New Jersey. There are probably people still down there," he added. Street traders sell US flags for five dollars each. An old man cycles back and forth, a cassette-player strapped to his bike, playing the national anthem. Two blocks further on, in Liberty Street or Maiden Lane, the full horror of the catastrophe hits you. A bit of wall sticks up amid the tons of debris, an unbelievable mass of twisted steel and concrete. The star-spangled banner hangs from the arm of a giant crane. Suddenly, the visitors no longer look like tourists. Their gaze fills with sadness. A woman seizes her friend by the arm. Another tells a stranger: "My husband was here, he was downstairs." A man tells his daughter: "Look at it. This is war," Some climb onto benches to take photos, but no-one jostles for a place. Gale Rivera, a 45-year-old nurse from Brooklyn, said she had brought her son and grandson, each aged six, to the site. "I want to see reality and I want the kids to understand what's going on," she said. "They wanted to come to see if people are really dead or alive. Now they have the concept." Nearby, Lee Brooks of Boston, said she and her family had combined a weekend visit to New York to see the Broadway musical "The Producers" with a tour of the ruins. "I wanted to see what was left," she said. "I cannot imagine all those people inside ... thousands ... all those innocent people ... I am so sad." Many others stand in silence, their gaze fixed on the wrecked buildings which surround the plaza. Everyone tries to imagine the moment of impact as two hijacked airliners struck the twin towers, the hellish climb downstairs, the firefighters climbing to their deaths, the collapse of the towers. Like the others, the Brooks family stays for a very long moment. They leave, stop, turn back, stare once again and turn. It is time to go.  | ||||
| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 12:58 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I second this FU Teenweek. I can understand if some NY'ers go to see the site for a sense of closure, or maybe to take it in for the tragedy that it is....but these assholes that are purposely going there to take pictures and parade around it like an art exibition should be beaten several times in the head. I got on the ferry this morning and noticed it was somewhat more congested than it normally is. I attributed this to the new boat schedule (ever 20 minutes now) and the fact that the subways might be changing their schedlues to coincide with the boat more efficiently. After looking around, I notce a TON of people dressed in shorts, T-shirts, sporting backpacks and wearing cameras around their necks. I wonder where they were going? Its a warzone, not MoMa jerkoffs!  JackDan1974 is taking classes in board behavior - please forward all problems/complaints you might have of him to my attention. Email me here or AIM me at Organic999 to apply - there still one seat available!! | ||||
| Jennitalia | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 1:04 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | That's so disgusting. My mother has some white trash friends out in CA who are looking into flying to NY so they can see for themselves. Fucking assholes, I hope they rot in their pathetic little trailer park house  "Like, Mother, it's my life ok...so if i want to live on a beach and walk around naked..." | ||||
| prototype | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 2:15 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 01 | Dude I saw a news reporter who got banned from there because the ahole took a picture of a firefighter carrying a bucket of body parts some people are fen losers with no hearts. Free Northern Ireland | ||||
| GrkqtOandAfan Claim staked by FTL. | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 2:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | were these tourists wearing "Remember the WTC" t-shirts too?? how disgusting  I can't believe the news today Oh, I can't close my eyes And make it go away | ||||
| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 2:22 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | To me, this people are almost in the same category as the jerkoffs selling Tee-shirts and pictures of the towers. It just makes you wonder how people could be so moronic at times.quote: No, but I'll bet after taking their "tour", they'll be sure to pick up a few of those, as well as one of several panoramic WTC shots that are flooding the steets as much as the shirts are. I'm sure I'll see a few of them on the boat when I go home tonight. JackDan1974 is taking classes in board behavior - please forward all problems/complaints you might have of him to my attention. Email me here or AIM me at Organic999 to apply - there still one seat available!! This message was edited by hornygoatweed on 9-24-01 @ 2:29 PM | ||||
| Turk408 | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 4:08 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | I seen some of those shirts in a deli near my house the other day. Saw some guy looking to buy one and told him it was disgusting that he would even think of paying money that you know is not going to go to the families. The ones selling those shirts are no better than these idiots who are flocking to see the final resting place of so many. These are the kind of people I really hope get run over by a truck twice. Fuck em all. It ain't easy being greasy in a world full of cleanliness and you know, all that other madness. | ||||
| FoundryMusicJeff | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 8:35 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Did I read the same article? The article shows people treating the area with a great deal of respect. Chief Engineer of the Starship Foundry. (NCC 1841-A) Visit FoundryMusic & Chat   | ||||
| Kid Afrika | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 8:50 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | First you fucks complain that there's no tourists in Manhattan. Now you complain that they are coming. People are curious by nature, and if they're going to pump more money into the economy, so be it. I agree that it is somewhat morbid, but I don't see how it's completely illogical. So, I rebutt your FU by returning, FUNY. You fuckers are just pissed because you're not New Jersey. :p
This message was edited by Kid Afrika on 9-24-01 @ 11:38 PM | ||||
| Lent Black Rock Coalition Do you have a basketball in your car? | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 8:59 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: May. 00 | Now more than ever I hate these friggin tourists. Next time they ask you where the subway is, tell them to do f them selves! LET'S GO RED STORM! St.Johns U. '04 | ||||
| FoundryMusicJeff | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 11:27 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Morbid but completely natural...its rubber necking on a larger scale...cmon, like you don't want to see it...give me a break... Chief Engineer of the Starship Foundry. (NCC 1841-A) Visit FoundryMusic & Chat | ||||
| Kid Afrika | posted on 09-24-2001 @ 11:39 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | ...and how often do you sit in traffic for an hour, only to drive by an accident with no blood? c'mon, it pisses you off just a little... :)
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| New Fan | posted on 09-25-2001 @ 8:11 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 01 | Its human nature. People love to see a train wreck. In washington there is a major highway around the Pentagon(I 395). People have been stopping thier cars on a 4 lane major highway to take pictures. Everyone has a rubber neck and they do more then suck thier own dicks.  Forgotten but not gone(Im still here-God damn it)-now im a jerk- OK terrific | ||||
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