More details coming but first pictures show flames coming out of a high rise building. Doesn't look major, anyone know any more?
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More details coming but first pictures show flames coming out of a high rise building. Doesn't look major, anyone know any more?
near rockafeller center (72nd street).
three apartments burning.
might have been a helicopter.
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/US/10/11...5.nyc.wnyw.jpg
Just read that, I have to say my heart sank a little when I glanced it.
If this was intentional, it's probably comparable to the one that happened in Tampa, Florida: link. Most likely just an isolated act of some wanna-be terrorist.
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wanna-be terrorist.
Or it could be an accident and people have just died for **** sakes :rolleyes:
Yeah, it doesn't really have the earmarks of an intentional terrorist act. If it was, I'd imagine they would have gone for something a little bigger than an apartment building, unless their mindset was that a lot of people live in apartment buildings so they'd kill more people.
I don't get how the airplane made it inside, though. The building looks fairly intact. The wings must have shredded right off.
from the reports, they're saying it's a plane not a helicopter
*puts tin foil hat on*
ooohohohoh noooeisiwieiss where are the wings!?@@! our president just bombed an innocent apartment building!?@@!oneone!
FROM CNN: One person is confirmed killed after plane crashes into New York apartment building, New York Fire Department says.
police confirm 2 dead
That's not near Rockefeller Center nords. That's right across the street from my office. I got called into a meeting uptown at the last minute when the secretary came in hysterical to tell us. We bolted for home when we heard. People back in the office said they heard a crash, then smelled an awful smell.
It's really foggy over there today, and there's an air corridor over the East River, just an accident. People are a little freaked but it'll subside.
Looks like I'm working from uptown tomorrow, but I'll bring my camera in case I head back down there.
yeah, i know it's not rockafella center, but the initial report said it was NEARBY (just as a reference). though, now that i think about it, isn't rockafella center south of the park, in the 60s?
50th if I remember correctlyQuote:
Originally Posted by nordberg
the plane is registered to a yankee's pitcher? the plot thickens.
Yeah, what the hell... As if the Yankees weren't having enough bad luck as it is.
yeah ESPN reports: Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was the pilot of a small airplane that crashed into a 50-story Manhattan condominium, killing Lidle and three others, according to the New York medical examiner's office.
..and we have reports coming in of some wet willies reported on the Upper East side, no, actually, reports of wet willies are rife throughout the five borough district...Quote:
Originally Posted by PAlexC
10/11
NEVER FORGET!!!
Hahahahahaha! That's horrible, but still funny. :D
Nothing horrible about it, just funny jokes about dates.
Still wondering what happens in x number of years when every date has a morbid act related to it.
That'll be a fun world to live in - not to mention, with all the one minute silences, how'll we get anything done?
MayDay MayDay the fuel injection is failling.....ouiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnyyyyyyoonnnnnn nnnnnn
I'm morbid. Thanks for the way too damn loud laugh, PAlexC.
I should not be laughing this much in this thread. 'cane you're on a roll.
Can't take credit for the image.
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1173/1011qp3.jpg
wtf is wrong with you people. The coffee lounge has just hit a new low. Besides the fact of people dying your bloody making light of a situation and at the same time a national tragety.
Flamed or not, the lack of utter respect for those that died in this thread is making me sick.
Go ahead. Flame away.
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Originally Posted by pea3698
I'm making light of the rediculousness and panic the media is making of the situation, especially locally. While everyone's first reaction was "Oh sh*t!" around here, once the news got out of what actually happened they still played the 9/11 angle rather than talk about the actual story UNTIL they found out the pilot was a pitcher for the Yankees.
You've never been to fark, have you?
Don't worry, guys, I'm ok!
Hahaha ****ing great.
at least no one has brought up that this was some kind of conspiracy. Now that would set me off in the worst way.Quote:
Originally Posted by pea3698
Hey Pea, a man was shot in New York today. In Ohio, a woman died alone in her house. Three doors down from my house, a teenager was robbed of her bank account and her virginity by a stranger. Not two streets down there was a fire that ended a family's lively hood.
But this man flies a hunk of metal into the 40th story. Humanity is tragedy. If you can't laugh at it, you'll lose your freaking mind to depression.
Hell, at least I would.
I'm working on one right now. It involves losing the pennent race, aluminum industry being mad about wooden bats, Jimmy Hoffa, grapefruit, duct tape, energy drinks and the ghost of Christmas Past.
Yeah, but I don't see anyone making fun of the above mentioned injustices. And I am hoping that when 9/11 did happen that you werent sitting in a corner somewhere laughing to keep your mind intact.Quote:
Originally Posted by ViRGo_RK
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Originally Posted by sk8Krog
quick send up another baseball player in a plane ;)
I believe the media's ghoulish money for anythign approach to 9/11 is what is being mocked, not 9/11 itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by pea3698
It wasn't an accident! Red Sox players are terrorist!
This isn't an injustice, it's an accident. 2 people died, some property was damaged. Think of it as an airborne car accident. People in my office are joking about it a bit, but recognize it's sad that someone died. We're gonna walk over in a bit and gawk at the hole with all the tourists and tv trucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by pea3698
Dude, this was death by accident, or stupidity.....either way comparing this to what REALLY happened in the past...? I think not. The hysteria in this country is crazy, getting on a plane takes 3 times as long now. Are the planes safer? I think not. It just makes the masses (read: ****ING SHEEP!!) divert their attention away from freaking over fear to freaking out about having to wait...Quote:
Originally Posted by pea3698
People die every day, the only reason that this BIG was news was that someone reported "a plane struck a building in New York this morning" and idiots started to freak out. Peeriud!!
I heard they knew it wasn't A-Rod 'cause he can't hit anything in october.
Also hear that Lidle was traded to the angles.