Twin Towers fancy dress stunt: thanks to Google, these stupid girls are disgraced for life

The Telegraph ^ | 11/6/2013 | Jack Rivlin

[markomalley]

Of all the people bidding for your pity today, Amber Langford and Annie Collinge might seem unlikely recipients. The pair, both 19-year-old students at the University of Chester, dressed as the blazing Twin Towers on Halloween. According to the Sun: “Each was labelled North and South Tower and featured explosions, flames and even people jumping from windows in a shocking reminder of the 9/11 atrocity. The girls topped off their costumes with hats bearing US flags and what seemed to be the smouldering wreckage of a plane.”

It’s sick and stupid, to put it mildly. But the punishment is huge. Amber and Annie are going to have serious trouble getting a job now their behaviour is recorded online for posterity. Most employers google applicants before calling them back, let alone hiring them – are you going to put the girl who dressed as the bloody suffering of 3,000 innocent men, women and children on your payroll?

[verga]

Three kids did that in the county just north of me. They were given the option of taking the “costumes” off or getting suspended.

[Slambat]

I believe there was an attack on the world trade
center in 93’. I can see small isolated events going
unnoticed but even the Boston marathon bombing should
have been intercepted. As far as hind site goes, all
it tells us is that we had the intell, all was missing
is no one did anything about it except to try and cover it
up afterwards. That’s government failure. We got upset
when the media went after the Obama rodeo clown yet here
we are doing the same thing to a couple of dingbats. I look
at it as poking fun at government failure and never
letting them forget it.

[jsanders2001]

> I believe there was an attack on the world trade
center in 93’. I can see small isolated events going
unnoticed but even the Boston marathon bombing should
have been intercepted. As far as hind site goes, all
it tells us is that we had the intell, all was missing
is no one did anything about it except to try and cover it
up afterwards. That’s government failure. We got upset
when the media went after the Obama rodeo clown yet here
we are doing the same thing to a couple of dingbats. I look
at it as poking fun at government failure and never
letting them forget it.

Some events just can’t be prevented if there’s a lot of pre-planning involved and they are aware of the countermeasure tactics that will be used. A lot of those guys are ex-military or go through militarty style training. That makes a huge difference The element of surprise is a most formidable opponent. I once asked a “real” ninja what was the most difficult thing to deal with in combat type situations and without blinking he replied, “the element of surprise”.

[pax_et_bonum]

If you can’t find it get over yourself and worry about something significant.

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[Fiji Hill]

The liberal media of the 1960s was ready to pin the blame for the Kennedy assassination on the right wing, especially as it took place in Dallas, then a conservative stronghold. Inconveniently for them, the man arrested for the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a Marxist who had defected to the Soviet Union from the Marine Corps.

Oswald's background is a minor inconvenience. They're still blaming the Kennedy assassination on the Climate of Hate in Dallas generated by Goldwater supporters, the Young Americans for Freedom, and other Right-Wing Extremists. Read about it in Dallas 1963 (New York: Twelve, 2013)