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August 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Shut up Obama!! Crazy Times man Crazy Times
August 26th, 2008 at 3:45 am
thats messed up obama
August 26th, 2008 at 5:52 am
That is not real! It’s a dummy! Think about it! Are you going to be all limp when you fall, fear sets in and your going to be as tight as a stretched rubber band….
August 26th, 2008 at 5:59 am
The dude was probably already dead from a heart attack at that point.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Its real.
Hes one of the many jumpers from the World Trade Centre on 9/11.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:20 am
@Tom: ah, so there’s a proper way to behave when falling to your death. Moron.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Thank you Lars. Sometimes children make silly remarks, having as yet experienced so little of the world.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:48 am
It is real. And its exactly as Crofty states it.
If I remember correctly, thats not the full picture. There is another person falling, above this guy.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Educate yourselves, simply look up “9/11 Falling Man” and you’ll see where some investigated and actually found out who it was. You are also looking at one photo from many of the same guy falling. I watched the video some time back… http://www.maniacworld.com/9-11-the-falling-man.html
August 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
What i’d really like is if the 9/11 Conspiracy theorists told the families who lost loved ones that it didn’t really happen, that the government thought wasting trillions of dollars on recovery and subsequent warfare was genius. Yes, some governments are capable of committing heinous atrocities. So if you think the United States’ government is one of them, why don’t you just move elsewhere and stop it.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@Schmooz
Move elsewhere? Why would people who believe their government is committing atrocities want to move elsewhere? To save their own asses instead of trying to protect others by exposing what they believe is an atrocity? Don’t be an idiot.
And who ever said that 9/11 never happened? That is an impossible argument. “Conspiracy theorists” simply believe other people were behind it than what we are told. Dumbass.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
@Schmooz. The us gov’t has committed very many atrocities, but mostly in foreign countries, so ‘moving elsewhere’ would be just a lucky guess! (Although you could improve your chances by moving to a land with not a drop of oil)
August 26th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for posting that documentary, Jon. Its well worth a watch, anyone who hasn’t clicked it yet. Its profound.
and #11, I hear echoes of the profoundly idiotic “love it or leave it!111!” cliche in your words. How about “Love it or work to change it” instead?
August 26th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Eni- there really are people in this world who seriously believe that the attacks did NOT happen, that it was a hoax - that 3k+ people didn’t die, leaving their families with lost loved ones. People who believe that the images you see are fake.
There are those who believe it was a conspiracy by the US government - people to whom Schmooz and I simply ask “why?” If the US government wanted a war, there are cheaper and easier ways to do it.
People are easily manipulated - and it’s not just “liberals” who do the manipulating, or “conservatives,” or “republicans,” or “democrats,” “rebels,” or “hippies,” or “Blacks,” or “Whites,” or “Americans,” “Chinese,” “British,” “Indian,” “French,” “Afghani,” “Egyptians,” “Lebanese,” “Germans,” “Canadians,” “Sudanese,” “Muslims,” “Christians,” “Jews,” “Buddhists,” or any other group of people. It’s on all sides of the equation from every wake of human life. It’s not one particular faction that causes the problem, it’s individuals from each and every one. Likewise, not one particular group is the “divine hero of righteousness.” EVERY government has it’s negatives and its positives. You can’t pick on one, and not point out a fault in another.
3k+ people died that day, and many of you need to learn to respect them. Respect their lives, respect their honor, and respect those who knew them. It wasn’t only “Americans” who died that day, or “Christians,” or “Whites.” It was a melting pot - a plethora of people from all cultures, races, and religions. What happened wasn’t just a strike against Americans, but against all those ways of life as well.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Even so Gabby (and I’m not a person who suggests that 9/11 didn’t happen) the U.S. government could not have asked for a better Casus Belli against 1/2 of the world.
Without 9/11 it would have been much harder for the Bush Administration to propagandize us into the invasion of Iraq. How much harder is anyone’s guess, but keep in mind that the Bush Administration very successfully convinced us that the invasion of Iraq was part of the War on Terror (though the links between Al Qaeda and Saddam were weak at best) and therefore necessary.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but keep in mind that there were multiple warnings prior to 9/11 that something was going to happen and nobody in the Federal Government did anything.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I honestly believe in my heart that what the US government tells us happened on 9/11 is not entirely true. And that is coming from a member in the armed services.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
@ Luca:
If it was a plot of the Bush Admin, WHY would they want this war? Trillions of dollars spent, thousands of innocent people killed. WHAT is the motive? It doesn’t make them look better, and it doesn’t bring in any revenue.
And it is the “War on TERROR.” Saddam Hussein slaughtered entire villages of men, women, and children. Is that not a terrible and heinous act? Does that not count? “Oh, if you crash planes and kill our people it’s terrorism, but if you slaughter your own, it’s not?” We prevented what was another “Holocaust” if you will. Thousands were being butchered mercilessly for their beliefs and culture. And yet, the US is evil? We saved thousands more being slaughtered. And yet, it’s all Bush’s fault?
August 26th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
@Gabby
Why?
You can start by studying the no bid contracts Halliburton was awarded.
Here’s a nice video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXjCtkymRQ
What is the Motive?
Who’s trillions of dollars were spent? It wasn’t George Bush’s trillions of dollars. It was OUR trillions. But it’s ok, we’ll pay it off as we work and pay taxes, I guess you can’t consider that revenue since we’re paying it rather than receiving it.
You’re right, Saddam Hussein did slaughter entire villages of men, women, and children (A long time ago) and he did it with the weapons we sold him. (While he was slaughtering villages)
Iraq did NOT crash planes into our buildings. Remember, we went to war because they had nuclear weapons that they would use against us. Strange thing though, we never found any. The administration lied to us, and for some reason you think that’s ok.
We have NOT save thousand of more lives. Since the US invaded Iraq, over 85,000 Iraqi civilians have died.
That’s 85 THOUSAND
There is no way you could even attempt to justify that.
There are “Holocausts” if you will, going on all over the world, so why Iraq now?
And yes, we can blame Bush. For so easily helping take advantage of Americans and betraying our trust. The sad thing is, people still don’t notice what is going on because they believe whatever they are told, and don’t bother asking why.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
The pictures of this man and the others in the series bring me to tears every time. I remember People magazine, I think, did a story on 9/11 shortly after it happened, and featured the series. Absolutely heartbreaking. No matter how you look at it, innocent people died that day. And that’s 100% inexcusable.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Wo! I’m glad that guy didn’t land on me!
August 26th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Yeah, too bad all you conspiracy theorists don’t read the news. Goddam morons.
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc082108.html
August 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am
@ Gabby
Why? heard of divide and conquer? And ‘Guy’ says enough about who ‘earning during this ‘war’
August 27th, 2008 at 1:30 am
wow, some of you really have no grip whatsoever.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Where is Tor saying something like “this is what Americans deserve for being such ignorant hateful douchebags.”
August 27th, 2008 at 2:07 am
too bad that the people reading the “news” believe everything they read just because it is printed…
you owe me $1,000,000
August 27th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Guy - nailed it
Gabby - think harder, try again
August 27th, 2008 at 8:04 am
is that guy called R Kelly?
August 27th, 2008 at 9:14 am
yes,this picture is sad and yes, 9-11 was the darkest day in modern history…but that man and hundreds others who jumped also give us a message..
and thats the message that they chose their method of death on their terms…it’s an act of extreme courage and bravery in my opinion and if we can take one positive from 9-11 and thats the fact that there were so many selfless,brave people who did all they could to save and help others.
what a shame it takes a group of sicko muslims for us to see the good in ourselves.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am
gabby: “There are those who believe it was a conspiracy by the US government - people to whom Schmooz and I simply ask “why?” If the US government wanted a war, there are cheaper and easier ways to do it.”
Why? Why don’t you use your head? “The cheaper and easier ways”, like a completely unprovoked attack of Iraq, wouldn’t have had the blessing and support of the rest of the World. Simple question, simple answer. Can’t believe you and Schmooz couldn’t figure it out yourselves. Idiots unite.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
There are a lot of morons in this world and some of the people posting here are proof the number is growing.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
9/11 is a hoax it never happened
August 27th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
no one is saying 9/11 was a hoax. we’re just sayign that it is not as it was presented to the world. the only terrorist that were involved in this attack was the united states itself. do some research please.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
The conspiracy theory behind 9-11 is not that it did not happen, but that the American government had knowledge of it prior to this date. They were simulating this exact attack for a long time before it happened. It is said that the dispatchers did not even think it was real at first because there had been so many simulations going on lately.
Second, I watched that man, along with many others, jump from the towers on 9-11. It happened.
People are forgetting also that the point of this website, as stated, is that these images changed the world. Whether or not they are photoshopped or real is irrelevant to its purpose. It is about the public reactions to these photos, just as we are reacting to them now. Just state what you know (or think you know) and get on with life.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
@Tom
Everybody knows that all skyscrapers have a dummy near each windows just to make good pictures in case of emergency… so stupid…
August 27th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
http://www.ae911truth.org/ More and more architects and engineers are convinced things are not as advertised. Visual and physical evidence doesn’t lie.
The buildings were imploded and their occupants murdered by Cheney/Bush.
Truth hurts, probably why so many refuse to accept the facts.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Jessica–
All my research shows that it was Muslim terrorists that attacked the WTC. Please cite your sources.
Anyone else who cares–
The US had a geopolitically legitimate excuse to take out Saddam long before 9/11: Everyone seems to have forgotten that there were no-fly zones in place before the war, patrolled by US and allied planes. Saddam’s military fired on US soldiers regularly, breaking the cease-fire agreement that ended the First Gulf War.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
@josh
The News also said that the air at Ground Zero was clean and safe to breathe, hmm i wonder why hundreds of people died from breathing the air…. You can’t believe everything or the first thing that’s fed to you. You mustn’t take other people’s word for it, you must look for the truth yourself.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
You must all be prepared for the reality that everything you hold dear may one day disappear, and that everything you know, may be a lie.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Anon–
While I agree that you shouldn’t believe the first thing you hear, I also think you’ve watched “The Matrix” one too many times.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Noobs.. One word.. Zeitgeist, watch it. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
August 28th, 2008 at 8:24 am
The C.I.A. pushed this guy out the window.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am
What a shithead…. If you want to fly you need to have your arms wide open and flip them really hard. Darwin Award.
Yeah… The goverment destroyed the twin towers… oh wait.. 3 towers fell that day, and the other one was not even hit by a plane.
If the families of those who died at 9/11 want to play the blind eye Then **** them, ******* red necks, ignorants, all of them can go to hell along with their dead realatives. They should be screaming and fighting the REAL enemy. …instead they see Bush as a messiah and suck his ****.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Evil .. You have no clue. I am an American and can not wait for Busch to be out of office. He has disgraced our country in every way possible, but he was and for now is our president. God help us if the two running turn out to be idiots also. So don’t presume to say we Americans see Bush as the Messiah.. What an idot you are to even say that crap.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Come on people! Everyone knows the mayor was tried of low economic developement and just wanted the towers out of the way. He didn’t want NYC to have to pay for the clean up, no less the cost of taking them down so more projects could be developed. So after a power lunch w/ Bush he realized he could cut cost by hiing the whole thing out to a few arab contractors. Voila problem solved and huge amounts of federal dollars come rolling in. Geeez u guys!? This so evident how could u miss it?
During the breaking news Bush figured out he could use this project to go back and finish up what his dad had failed to do.
O yeah_ Tor…..U are such a creepy moron!
August 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
The Patriot Act, an enormous amount of paperwork, was enacted mighty fast. How did that happen unless it had already been written up? Governmental Acts like that normally take months to create, much less enact. I stopped trusting the government after my second tour in Vietnam in 1968. Nothing has happened since then to cause me to regain any of the trust I lost. It is capable of any evil.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I watched the entire documentary on this today. It’s very moving and I recommend all you heartless tools making rude comments that are completely uncalled for to go and watch it. You can just see the pain in all the people who lost family members.
Think about their pain when you’re making your idiotic jokes.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Heather, are you hot?
August 29th, 2008 at 1:42 am
For the persons that believe in those conspiratorial theories: Continue intelligent like this, and perhaps one day your country will be like mine.
I hope that you understand. Don’t going to be in my skin and others good Brazilians that are seeing his country be corroded in the mud of the radical communism. Our country already was dominated by the idiots, and now they want yours. Sad.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
those lame americans. they could have lied down some medrasses or something soft so a great number of those people jumping would have survived. trampolines maybee. logical.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I’d give this dive 6.5, tops. Points off for poor form.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Clarky Kent? Duper-man! RRRaarrgghhh! V no likey he be fly! V want fly toO! MasH! mASh him! FakeY planEz dat daY!……mE dodGe mizzilEz frOm air-mEn n’ jeT-planez…..an’ BOOM! iT brakE buiLdin’….kill fO no reezon…., whY punY ‘mericans won’t leaVe V alonEE! Rrraaaarrrgghhh!
August 29th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
BUSH… long past assassination!!!! shud have been done in there and then he is a prick. if clinton had still been in the whitehouse this tragedy wud never have happened he had a set of balls although he had an intern lickin em!!!!he still wud have handled it better it may never have happened and 1000s of people wud still be alive. the new york skyline is not the same witout the towers..
August 30th, 2008 at 9:32 am
v-man! go away
August 30th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Tor, your explanation is stupid. If anyone was to put mattresses down, it wouldn’t have worked anyways. Not even a trampoline. Think about it logically. If you were to fall from a 50 story building to land on a trampoline, you would go straight through and die. Same with the mattresses, you would die because your body would be going over 100 mph. The height would kill you as soon as you touched the mattress/trampoline. Bush was an idiot, we can all agree on that. But would you want to have a feminist in office? Clinton is a *****, period. She would feminize America with a sweep of her hand. Do you honestly want your prison garments to be pink and red? She would be such a pain to us all. Obama is worse. No offense to the blacks and Hindus. But Obama isn’t ready. He would only make the war last longer with Iraq, and we all know by now that the war is pointless, they can fend for themselves, that’s obvious. Obama wouldn’t pull us out. McCain would. Though I myself am Independent, if I were to vote, it would be for McCain. So.. Think better on what you have to say about a man leaping from a 50+ story building with two giant 743’s coming up from both sides to crash into your level. I think you would jump too, even if it was to die when you hit the ground at 100 mph.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
some pools then? they could have just dived into. surely it would have been an easy task to set this up pronto to save americans, but noooo, bush was to busy sitting there with his face down in a childrens book!? what’s up with that!
August 30th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
This is sad, I’d rather jump off the WTC then be blown to smithereens.
Hm, quick death.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Did he actually jump or was he just blown out by the explosion?
August 30th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
LOLZ
August 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
911 demolition! ******* consequence of capitalism, comunism,terrorism can’t anybody see that mankind has always used fear to subdue an control the masses! Awesome and very sad picture of modern human sacrifice. I feel like i’m watching a modernized version of “Apocalipto” Simply barbaric…
August 31st, 2008 at 9:53 am
i think he jump because in his mind it was the only way out.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
haha the end of the usa is near
September 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
usa is going down…
September 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am
I can not even begin to fathom the feeling of losing all hope… Unbelievable… These pictures just make you appreciate being alive that little bit more. Maybe for some they have a big impact on them, like me, and you can understand what I’m talking about. Maybe for others you’ve already seen these and they just constant reminders of our world. I still find it amazing we are such a complex society with tragic dilemmas and triumphant celebrations.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
They tracked down this guys family in a BBC documentary and found out who he was.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
[...] The Falling Man [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
If i was trapped i would have jumped.
I would rather jump than be burned alive or die from smoke.
It’s so sad and thanks to whoever posted the link to the documentary, you guys should watch it, it’s very good.
September 1st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Borrow money from Fat Charles and then try to welsh…shit…
September 1st, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Think he stained his undies?
September 1st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
this is so fake, some stripes are even darker than others…
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
pretty phony, he actually jumped feet first but they turned the foto around for aesthetic purposes…
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Damn. This picture is so strong, and the story behind it is so horrible, that it just always makes me wanna cry.
@ gabby: That’s smoke, really, think of it.
@ jerzy city boyz: Really? That’s a stupid thing to do…
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 am
So many insensible comments, this site is plagued by idiotic, ignorant, and unfunny jerks, the admin should either turn comments off or approve comments before posting. This plague really makes this site less enjoyable. And for all of you who are trolling this site, being young is no excuse for being a jerk, you’re an example of what’s f#%#ked up in your society, you have no feelings and no respect for anything, you should be ashamed.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
He is a member of US diving team trying to break the world high dive record…
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
You really think that man was a dummy? Cos thats what everyone does when they go to work now adays, they take in a life size dummy in case their building is hit by a plane. So that they then, before anything else, through it out the window? Of course its a real man, and you dont go limp just yet, you have to fall a fair way for that to happen, which is just after you pass out from the speed to falling from so high up. And i think he’s holding onto something, perhaps a desperate act to try and soften the blow.
Bout all i can think if right now.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
if he passed out how come parachuters dont pass out? And if its real how come theres no color?
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
about veerle, yeah, I guess it is pretty stupid to jump feet first, it doesnt make near as nice a splash
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:31 am
uncle sam’s biggest film scenario with real people views. without bit-players…
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Damn it… Why does nobody tries to explain about the third tower that fell that day???… WHY DID IT FELL??
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
this site is a test for a psych class
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Yeah, McCain, I’m also concerned. WHY DID IT FELL??
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I’m concerned about the fourth, fifth n sixth towers. Why they didnt fell ?
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Photos like this make Micheal Moore happy.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:02 am
YOUR ALL ******* RETARDED
September 4th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Look! That guy is doing an upside down “river dance”!
September 4th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Holy Crap People! Bluefox9er, thanks for the intelligent comment, I agree. As for the rest of you, seriously? If we acted before the attacks then we 1.Wrongfully invade Iraq and look bad or 2.Racially, ethnically, religiously profile people and look bad. If we acted after the attacks then we 1.Wrongfully invade Iraq and look bad or 2.Act like cowards or pacifists who don’t care about our own people and look bad or 3.Racially, ethnically, religiously profile people and look bad.
You can’t win this. It’s all the (insert favorite blame here)’s fault.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:28 am
i agree with tignorantamerican this is not a war.It is like Nam,we are fighting in a country that does not want help.
Bush lets go after thoes who is responsible for this attack.YES that is a good idea ,we spent a short time doing that and went some ware else on a different mission.(the oil) .The man falling is a result of the Bush’s and no one ease
September 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
If everyone would like a real eye opener about September 11 take a look at “Zeitgeist - The Movie”.
You can watch it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197
There are 3 Parts. I recommend watching it straight through, but Part 2 is directly about September 11th.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
its seems pretty obvious that this picture was made of 2 pictures spliced, half of the background is faded.
why hasnt anyone noticed this and pointed it out?
September 5th, 2008 at 12:25 am
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:55 am
mg is an idiot…
September 5th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
@God….God is dead….obviously, what did you think these pictures were about stoopid….
September 6th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Proudly shown at the RNC 2008 convention.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:44 am
@ Lars and Xanz:
You two are the morons. Seeing that it is a dummy isn’t only a child’s view. Anyone mature enough to find this picture can tell it’s a dummy. Like you two.
The human body doesn’t ‘pose’ while they’re falling, and filled with fear. Its a reaction for limbs to be limp.
Go back to school, ********.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
actually the contrivers of this whole affair realized that a dummy would not be convincing so they arranged for several actual live human beings to be tossed off the building until they got the shot they wanted….
September 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Looks very uncannily like “The Hanged Man” Tarot
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/RWS_Tarot_12_Hanged_Man.jpg
September 8th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
it appears to me this is a shot of a man lying on the peak of a roof, taken from above, it seems to slope away from him on both sides.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
If you turn the pic upside down he looks like superman.
September 9th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Geronimo!!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
WHY DONT YOU ALL JUST TAKE IT UP WITH THE GOOD LORD ABOVE HE KNOWS THE TRUTH
September 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
…and suck…..and suck……
September 10th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I suppose you retards will be celebrating 9/11 tomorrow. What a bunch of whinners. It was only 3,000 people. Get over it already.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
just breaks my heart, what was going through his mind? poor soul. dont mock or someday it could be your father, son or brother. i really hope its not though, for another person to have to suffer as this poor man did would be a tragedy.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
@looby101….this happened to my dad yesterday thanx a lot you jinx!!
September 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Todays is 13th of september 2008
to days after the 7 year anniversary of this tragedy and me reading this (mainly because the song fix you by coldplay is on) makes me so terribly sad and filled with anguish and pity for the families who lost their loved ones when this atrocity happened. And to read above those who say its fake just disgusts me this man more than likely jumped to his death because he didn’t want to gradually burn to death he wanted to make his passing easier. So please if you are to make these remarks just remember that it is real and what the man must have been thinking as he did it; of his family; his children if any; his wife if he had one; and how much he loved them.
By the way I’m 13 and it seems that i understand what is happening more than most of the people who have left a reply.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:21 am
@lucas…just wait til your a little older….
September 18th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
President Clinton had a bipartisan commission write a terrorism threat report for President Bush and it was on his desk day one of his term. Bush was made aware potential use of airplanes to attack the USA in that report. Al-Qaeda was the source of this reported threat and had attacked the USA previous to 9/11.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Re **** at number 5. Jumpers from the Towers would be falling at just less than 150 miles per hour. Not fast enough to bring on unconsciousness but fast enough to ensure death upon impact. Unless the faller had an existing heart defect, its entirely likely he was awake for the duration of his fall. So sad…
September 19th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
9/11 obviously happened - however the mastermind was not Bin Laden, it was the Government. Governments have been inflicting fear into the public to get them to vote the way they want them to. fact. Everyone voted to invade Iraq. Oh I wonder if they ever found those weapons of mass destruction…no just oil….oh well.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Its true … search for… incendio en torre santa maria in chile
September 20th, 2008 at 4:23 am
As explained in another post, but repeated here due to popular request is the etymological origin of the phrase ‘..on 9/11′
Originating in France this frog-coined suffix, if you will, was a pre-cursor to the disgusting behaviour of its birth-giving nation as a member of the UN Security Council, but that’s another story.
‘..en neuf onze’ they proudly recite at the end of every sentence relating to the tragic events ocurring that day. Correctly transcribed (not translated) we have ‘Honour Fonz’. Now this is a clear and brazen reference to ‘Happy Days’ and a vague attempt by the French to hide their true colours, later to come to light with that disgusting ‘Vote against’ . Short memories they have. We won’t.
September 21st, 2008 at 2:41 am
Tor, Why don’t you go rot in hell!… That could very possibly be my very good friend. How dare you talk any shit! Look up Jonathan Briley. Many believe it was him. Many like to believe that it could be anybody. Just like the tomb of the unknown soldier is remembered. Yes, the attacks did happen, I saw it with my very own eyes, a quarter mile down the street. You that believe it’s fake are ******* fools. I came two seconds from joining the army over this. This was so horrifying it haunts me to this day! Jonathan was a brilliant fun-loving person. I hope this was him. Therefore I know he died on his own free will, and not at the devastation of a cowardly terorist militia! Tor, I would tear you apart! This brings up so much in me that I could personally fly over there and try to take this on mysealf. So much ignorance, so many stupid people. We need to shut off our borders and get rid of all the anti American semitism, there is no need for your un-patriotic asses here!…..
September 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
This poor guy and some 2500 others who died that day encouraged us to kill at least 120.000 ******** in Afghanistan and Iraq. We truly rock.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
I am no a supporter of BUSH…. But i agree that it was real… coz no country can ever take such a risk…. coz its too damn impossible to keep it a secret. From media, from activists, from zeitgest. And if caught, its a certain death. Its beyond my comprehension tht it could have been framed by american govt. Even the things which really happened gather so much of conspiracy theories and investigations that people are ready to believe that it was a conspiracy. It ll be certain to get caught if it was real.
BUSH is incompetent as a president, ANYWAY.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:34 am
I am surprised that no one thought of another possibility. Could it have happened that Al quida was so good and so ******* intelligent that it planned the attack so perfectly and in such a way that people are made to believe that it was done by BUSH himself. May be the plane that supposedly hit the pentagon, and supposedly believed to be a cruise missile form bush, could have been a cruise missile from Al Quida itself just to frame bush. The missile might have been laden with some airplane wrekage and othe parts to make the case against Bush more logical.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Wow! There are some real ******* idiots posting on this site. If anyone needs a reminder that the average IQ is just around 100, all they need to do is read the crap posted here.
September 24th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
wow, I can’t believe I scrolled through these comments… and left one too.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
why didnt anyone help this poor man?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
amazingly the cat like reflexes of Mr Smith allowed him to twist in midair to the Chubby Checker tune he was humming at the time and deftly land upon his feet. Unfortunately his shin bone was driven through his brain, and he looked pretty funny after that at the reception.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I believe this man in hell because, you know, people all jumped out of these buildings knowing they would die, that is suicide, when they maybe could have lived in the rubble and been found, yall know what i talkin about he probably all extra died in vein and suicide and maybe that wasnt gods plan for him. I think that about every jumper.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:55 am
lol ! wtf !
September 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I believe I can fly…etc…
September 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I believe i can touch the ground….
September 28th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
A trial is too good for any Al-Quida terrorist–shoot ‘em all on sight or saw their heads off with a dull knife and throw the garbage in a pig feeding trough.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:47 am
al-quida girl if that name didnt mean anything bad i’d name my nex baby dat, nigga always lookin for new names got too many jamar’s out there lookin at rashads talkin bout rondel, **** mayne i need some new names i 8munfs pregnate
how about
Quida-alla-deeneekee?
September 29th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
These ******* americans had it coming.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
@ ned “A trial is too good for any Al-Quida terrorist–shoot ‘em all on sight or saw their heads off with a dull knife and throw the garbage in a pig feeding trough.”
if that was the thing (which was exhibited by USA - read “abu ghraib”) there would be no difference between civilized and barbarian.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
hey tor shut the **** up and get the hell out of our country you unpatriotic *******!!!!!!!!!
you should have been the one to jump off a building!
October 6th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I HIGHLY doubt you know where Tor lives.
Oooh five guesses where he doesn’t live.
(Ps, its America)
October 7th, 2008 at 3:15 am
-guy
the american troops went to Iraq for oil,
without a exit strategy.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
i need some attention trolls
October 8th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
when I first saw this I thought, lets go to Iraq and steal their oil….seemed like the thing to do, but I guess I really didnt think it through….now I wonder, should we really go into Iran and steal their oil too, or would it be better to attack Venezuela?
October 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
They tried to identify this man, and beleive it is one of the Window’s on The World employee’s, because of the white kitchen jacket he has on.
October 12th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
This sites gone to the dogs. Anonymity brings the worst out in people.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
hey, that looks like my waiter!
October 13th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Very sad scene indeed!!
October 14th, 2008 at 12:17 am
waddup: yeah i heard that waiter has a part time job as a stunt man, this pic was taken just before they held up the sheet that stopped him hitting the ground
October 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
to Tom in comment #4:
this is 9/11 if im not mistaken.therefore, this picture is real, moron.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
hey, thats the hanged man tarot card!
October 18th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Tarot is a device of the devil, this pagan movement is giving Satan a new foothold in the hearts of sinners, turn away before its too late! Those who are not washed in the blood of the Lamb will not survive, they shall be cast into the pits of hell.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hey at least he had fun before dyiing he got to have a sky dive but just forgot to bring the parachute
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
i know this is a 9/11 photo, but it does look like the guy is wearing a straight jacket!
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
And at the following annual rooftop party; railings were implemented.
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Dear Christian Nation,
Your paranoia about things you don’t understand is humorous. Tarot reading is a sham, just like psychics, Astrology, and the premise of the faith which gives praise and worship Yahweh.
October 25th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
theres alotta shit goinon in the world that is kept sheltered fromour eyes and ears.. 9/11 terrible tradgedy, happened due 2 *** holesfor government… did the president die that day…nope..innocent human lives through the fault of the government…the falling man in my opinion is a breath taking photo… amazing photo… R.I.P to all who perished.. kill islam
October 27th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
If you dont’ care about the colonies, you can giiiiiiit out. 9/11 was an inside job, and those who did it don’t care about the colonies. States rights - gun rights - property rights - freedom. Obama and McCain clearly don’t care about the colonies either. So they can giiiit out.
October 27th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
not sweet… sad.
October 29th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
just imagine what it would be like inside of the building, deciding on whether you want to be burned alive, suffocated or jump to your death…just imagine waiting in line to jump out of the window to your death…blah i don’t like thinking about this
October 31st, 2008 at 4:49 am
Okay just to let everyone know. The attacks did happen. They were done by the US goverment. I’ll point out some of the facts that point very strongly to our own goverment doing this and these are no where near all of them. Want to find the rest look it up yourself. Youtube has a bunch of them. Easily search it there. First the motive.
Do you know how much money was first intially made by the THREE towers falling. Close to 80 billion ( and yes billion with a “b”). Most people do not know of the third building. There are videos of it all over the place. It simply just fell. Nothing hit it, it was not on fire. It HAD NOT been touched. Yet it still fell, because it was part of the insurance agreement. Also, do you know how much wars make goverments? Billions if not trillions. Do you know how much it cost to process a barel of oil over there. Around two dollars. The international cost of a barrel of oil was 125$. That would make a kill of money. So there is a HUGE motive. You have to realize that the goverment is ruthless and doesn’t care about lives. The US has been in a war EVERY SINGLE YEAR SINCE 1812!!! Bet you didn’t know that. Secondly they found melted steel. Now fire burns at around 1700° and won’t get any hotter than that. It takes steel 2500° to melt. Where’s the messing 800°? This would explain the explosives set at the bottom of the building. High explosives get hot enough (more than hot enough) to melt steel like that. They found the steel pillars at the bottom of the tower cut at an angel so that they would fall straight down. Let me ask you a question. What gets hit at the top and falls from the bottom straight down? The twin towers. Because there were explosives to take them out. Notice how the towers fell straight down. That’s how a controlled demoltion is done. Not an attack. How could one plane thats made mostly of aluminum destroy a tower made very recently with the most advanced design of its time? Notice there is not one video of the “first plane hit”? Also, another fun fact. The explosion hole at the pentagon would not fit an airplane in it to save its life. There is NO WAY a plane would ever fit into what a plane supposedly crashed intos hole there. Now back to the WTC. The second plane that hit has been confirmed as a non commerical jet. Meaning how they told you the commerical jet got hi jacked didn’t really happen. Do you know how much money is put into airline security? Billions, so how’d FOUR planes get hi jacked all at the same time by some dumbass terriorists? I think not. Unless it was allowed to happen or didn’t really. For about an hour you could hear explosions at the bottom of the towers going off every 5-15 mins. Now I feel extremly sorry for the people that jumped and fell, but if you think about it. No man would calmly fall to his death. Once you jumped unless your adrelian gland was still working after having gone through all of that you would pass out. Plan and simply. Now with all the explosion going on its very plausible that he was knocked out and was falling uncosiously to his death. In my opion it, in that situation he was quite lucky. READ WHAT I SAID —> IN THAT SITUATUION! You have two choices. Jump and end it. or. Stay and burn to death. <— Falling down while your sleeping wouldn’t be that bad out of those options. Watch all the other jumpers. As they flail about as they fall. Yet he clamly falls 1000+ feet to his death head first. I think not. You would have to have nerves of some subtance we do not know about yet to do that. I am so sorry for the people that lost their lives and every day I remember them. How hard that most have been to go through floors me. I doubt anyone could really fathom the thoughts going through ones own mind when something like that is happening. Looking down 1000+ feet and thinking. Stay and burn/ suffocate or jump and end it quickly? As your body would hit the ground your head would explode from impact. After that your body would be mangled as it bounced about 1-4 feet into the air from the hit. As your legiments would be torn and ripped apart. The side of the body you landed on arms and legs would most like be torn off and thrown away from your body. A very grusome death, but only to those thinking and feeling that. You would instantly die on impact. Luckly you would feel nothing. The reason I state this and let you experince that horror is because the goverment is covering it up and needs to pay for their crimes against the people they are suppose to be protecting, but in the end everyone has their own judgment day and if they dance with the devil the devil only pretends and once you are there will torture you just like everyone else. So they will get what the deserve in the end.
I hope you think differently about what happened. In the light of this new evidence. If you just call me some idiot. Disprove my theories and I will have nothing more to say. Untill then I stand by this case.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:06 am
and as to you “hypie” the media is controlled and run by the goverment… you fool…. how could some third world country like that develope and set into action a plan like that… they arent gov controlled or anything.. they are a group (like a gang like the bloods or crypts or anything to that affect). How the **** would they manage something that perfect… very very doubtful to a great degree.
also “tor” **** off and leave your shit ideas to yourself.. name once and american ever did something so horrid to you they deserved to die like that…? u idiot.. please go play in traffic. wow only 3k people? thats it? really u ******* ******… thats 3000 PEOPLE THAT DIED HORRIBLE DEATHS! you ******* idiot. If I ever meet someone as coldhearted and dumb as you ill make sure to beat their *** twice as hard just for you… ******* moron.
October 31st, 2008 at 7:35 am
Wow guys your attempts at humour have really shocked and astounded me…now that that’s over with, you can go back to helping your mommy with the dishes and taking the garbage out, and when you’re finished that you can go back to your room and jack off over girls you’ll never have on the computer your parents own. One day you’ll be a man but until then, no one cares what you think or say. You are just pathetic.
October 31st, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Not sure why the assertion that this is a “jumper”..
I have not seen one photo or video indicating a person intended to leap from the building.
But then most people assume a lot.
Some have argued that in response to these “3000 people that died horrible deaths” our government decided it best that we vomit 5000+ more into coffins.
What was the mission again?
October 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Were his hands zip-tied behind his back?
Also, could be the concussive blast knocked him out the window, or a shifting floor was no longer exactly horizontal.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
This is just one photo in a collection of about 10 from the same frame. In the other photos this falling man is not as well composed. His body position indicates a lack of control and he seems to be grasping to grab hold of something. There is nothing graceful about the way this man died, although this one photograph may indicate a gracefullness, the rest of the photos, and indeed the full picture, show the desperation and despair of a man falling to his impending death.
I am pleased that some people here are open to debating the truth and facts and false information around this tragedy. I would encourage you to act with respect for other’s opionion and lose the name calling, we can have a discussion and even a disagreement without stooping to lower levels of human behaviour.
Kia Kaha (stay strong)
A friend from Aotearoa/New Zealand
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Such emotion in this picture without even showing a human face; that takes great talent in a photographer.
November 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
hey that looks like fun!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Don’t you guys love the internet? Every kind of scikeningly offensive, racist, hateful THOUGHT of any socially outcast person in the world can be published and seen by millions of people. Completely unedited, unreviewed, with complete anonymity from the writer, facing no consequences of any kind. Sites like this are the worst, with free commenting without any moderation. Back in the good old days some commenters here would have faced criminal charges and treated as mentally ill, but oh no, this is the friggen’ internet.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
God Bless, some people you just can’t reach. terrorism is the scourge of the modern world
November 5th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
an excellent illustration of the need to look where your going
November 6th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
how does he hold so still?
November 7th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Its real foto.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:52 am
no its not…
November 8th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Do you think that Obama is going to win because the Republicans have such a bad candidate?
Why did John McCain make his final argument against Obama… coal?
That’s his closing argument? William Ayers, Rev. Wright, spreading the wealth, Born Alive, meeting dictators without preconditions, etc. all have to take a back seat so that McCain can go to Colorado and New Mexico to talk about coal? Does this more or less explain why he’s going to get his clock cleaned Tuesday?
November 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I love the internet. When a picture of someone jumping off a building is commented with this “Do you think that Obama is going to win because the Republicans have such a bad candidate?” Hey Roy, I’ll take your picture, if you jump off one too
November 8th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
yeah, and **** yer muther too!
November 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
oh yeah and for the record, i don’t hate americans.
i hate narrow minded ****-ups in life, like on this site n the guy using my name. would have you knocked out in about 2 seconds and your picture might end up on this site then!!!!
November 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Zeit Geizt
November 12th, 2008 at 5:4