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Where were you when... thread (Megamerge)

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  • #92
    danniemcq
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    Working as airport security at Newark Airport but fell asleep for a while. Hope nothing happened


  • #93
    seamus
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    I was in Rome, sightseeing. It was a beautiful day in Rome and this was pre-smartphones and roaming wasn't possible on PAYG, so we had been out all day and were oblivious. I rang home at 8pm that night just to say hi and my mother was hysterical down the phone. They had thought that my brother could have been on one of the planes (he wasn't) and she was still a bit fragile even though they knew at that stage that he was safe.
    It was a little bit frustrating because we were trying to watch TV in the hotel to figure WTF had happened, but they kept overdubbing GWB's press conferences in Italian. So we could only see the images.

    Had to buy a US newpaper the next day (NY Times I think) to get some information.


  • #94
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Elessar


    I was in school, out on the side of the pitch, forget what exactly I was doing. I remember it was a hot sunny day.

    One of the lads came out of the school and told me the WTC had been attacked and that 50,000 people were dead! I was like WTF.

    Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.


  • #95
    Sanjuro
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    I was watching Neighbours on my holidays from college. Was sitting there, in boxers and a dressing gown, a bowl of cereal on my lap. Was about to walk into the kitchen when BBC news came on and I sat watching the entire thing unfold for the next 3-4 hours. It was unbelievable. Especially since I had been in the WTC a mere 5 months previous.


  • #96
    Lemsiper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    I was here posting in this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055675490
    thread :rolleyes:


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  • #97
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Are you serious?

    You know he's joking........ right?

    Anyway, I was asleep on the couch in the living room when my brother came running in and told me to turn on the news. This was just after the first plane had crashed. Sat there watching the news for most of the day.


  • #98
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Are you serious?

    9/11/01 is November 9th for all us non yanks

    You should have said September 11th attacks on America or been more precise in your original question. After all if there is a European terrorist attack on 9th November threads like this will get awfully confusing


  • #99
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭Motley Crue


    The day she died I was 12, we had just moved house a few weeks previously actually, and I came down to Breakfast to find my Dad watching the TV - which meant he was obviously not working that day and was perhaps starting a few days of nights....since we worked shift work....in any case, he told me that Princess Diana had died

    A few weeks later we went over to England, to see some of my relatives in Manchester, and I'll never forget how my Aunt phrased it when my Dad spoke to her about Diana's death, she said "I just couldn't believe it when [my Uncle] told me...the fairytale had ended...."


  • #100
    easyeason3
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    Elessar wrote: »
    I was in school, out on the side of the pitch, forget what exactly I was doing. I remember it was a hot sunny day.

    One of the lads came out of the school and told me the WTC had been attacked and that 50,000 people were dead! I was like WTF.

    Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.


    Because maybe she knew someone working in the WTC. Maybe she knew someone flying to New York on that day.
    Or maybe she just has a bit of humanity.

    And I like the fact that now & again a newsreader on RTE can show a bit of emotion. It proves they're not just robots with wonky voices.


  • #101
    prinz
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    Elessar wrote: »
    Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.

    Ah yes because he couldn't possibly have had family or friends in New York :rolleyes: The same reason myself and some others got taken home from school when the news came out.


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  • #102
    Hoofball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭Hoofball


    I'd just finished my driving test and was on my way to get my licence when the brother rang to tell me it was happening.


  • #103
    Hank_Jones
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    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    At a house party until 8am, wondering where the hell the night just went, then off to early house till 10.30am then off to pub where we heard the news, 2.30pm back to house where house party was to see was there going to be another house party in the house that night. 3.30pm back to pub to see could we possiblally drink some more cos walking around outside during the day wasn't a great idea after all. 8.30 woke up in pub, went to bathroom washed face and hair had a few drinks while planning things like when were we going to the house where the house party was.

    13 years later and you remember the exact times you did something on that day?

    That's some memory you have there Superman.


  • #104
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    I remember I was in 6th year, then we came out of school at 4 and this absolute knob end in our class was going around telling everyone that world war 3 had started. Everyone told him to fcuk off and cop on. Went home and saw it on the news then.


  • #105
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,380 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    In work speedin off me head, heard the news but wasn't fazed until the collapse and even then wasn't too fazed due to chronic sleep deprivation...


  • #106
    thebigbiffo
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    i'd taken a day off work (sickie) and went to an early showing of some dodge movie in the savoy o'connell street. when i came down the stairs after the movie there was a crowd gathered around the bottom of the stairs listening to a radio. i asked someone what was going on and he said 'they're after attacking new york and the pentagon'. i immediately thought WW3 had started, knew the twin towers were hit etc. went to a pub and saw both towers burning, they were replaying the second plane hitting and showing the pentagon burning.

    it was at that stage i knew it was terrorists - but those 5 minutes between that realisation and thinking a sovereign country had attacked the states was the most surreal of my life. i seriously thought the world was about to be totally devastated (not just afghanistan!).

    watching those ****ers fall though was the most dramatic thing i'd ever seen.


  • #107
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,380 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    danniemcq wrote: »
    9/11/01 is November 9th for all us non yanks

    You should have said September 11th attacks on America or been more precise in your original question. After all if there is a European terrorist attack on 9th November threads like this will get awfully confusing

    what a waste of a post


  • #108
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭Motley Crue


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    And she didn't die at the scene, she died later in hospital.

    That's correct, yes

    A Dr. Maillez was first on the scene, just by chance, and he took care of Diana who was very much alive. He said she had no visible injuries and treated her for shock and she kept saying "Oh My God" and when the photos started to be taken all she could say was "leave me alone....please...." to the photographers

    She was taken to Theatre and they tried to save her for 3 and a half hours, but sadly failed

    I do remember The Sun printed a headline that she had been injured, and was critical, but this contradicted all the other papers that morning and the news reporter said this had been the first hopeful report....I can remember a guy on Sky News almost crying because of it


  • #109
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    what a waste of a post

    you quoting that post to say that and now me quoting you will make this three wastes of posts!


  • #110
    thebigbiffo
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    Elessar wrote: »
    I was in school, out on the side of the pitch, forget what exactly I was doing. I remember it was a hot sunny day.

    One of the lads came out of the school and told me the WTC had been attacked and that 50,000 people were dead! I was like WTF.

    Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.

    if you are of the opinion a broadcaster should show no emotion, you should look at this as an example of how a commentator during a disater can bring humanity to the event, thus creating a milestone in popular culture and creating an enduring picture of the event itself

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA


  • #111
    [Deleted User]
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    I was in work, people were hsyterical, but what I really remember about that day was I got a lovely curry for dinner!


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  • #112
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    what a waste of a post

    Postcount +1

    hey you asked the question i was just answering it


  • #113
    Beckett Dirty Wolverine
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Beckett Dirty Wolverine


    I was in a clothes shop trying on jeans. The shop had BBC radio one on, the Chris Moyles show, and the news was breaking. I wasn't sure at first if it was some sort of sick joke, because he was always doing sick jokes, but I realised it couldn't be. I got home and turned on the TV and was totally in shock. It was like watching a disaster movie.


  • #114
    Greyfox
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    Was in the Jervis shopping centre walking towrds Lifestyle sports and noticed a lot of people in Dixons which made me check it out. The place was packed and silent, I could see the headline "America under attack" and after about a minute I seen a replay of the first tower going down and just went numb with shock...can't put into into words just how surreal and shocked I was seeing the 2nd tower go down live, their was gasps and some crying...stayed in the shop for a couple of hours, their was certainly nobody buying anything. By an absolute mile the most shocking event in world history, I remember it like it was 6 months ago, spent the next week glued to the tv at home!


  • #115
    jackiebaron
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    General Zod wrote: »
    what happened on the 9th of November?


    :P


  • #116
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Diana dying seems to have made a lot of people catch the ghey. I honestly can't see how she could have mattered so much to any Irish person. Yeah she did charity work and she had kids, but seriously. wtf!?


  • #117
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭Motley Crue


    I was in History class....16 years of age, so that would be Transition Year....and a teacher walked in, he was very much the politically minded type. I remember he stopped, looked at the class, took a deep breath and turned around. He cleared his throat and then turned around again to announce to us that a plane had just crashed into the world trade centre.

    One of the guy's in the class went "cool" and he shot him a look that said "don't utter another syllable"

    After that class, I went home for Lunch....which I did in those days....and I remember it being so very quiet on the walk home, with few cars on the road. Got into the kitchen and Mum was watching it on the TV. Saw the first news reporters speak about it and then I believe I went back to school. I can't remember staying off for it.

    It struck me a little because our first real major family holiday had been the Summer beforehand, in 2000, when we went to New York and Toronto. My Dad still has the camera footage to this day of him standing on Liberty Island with the WTC behind him.

    Anyway by the time I got back the 2nd plane had already hit (that probably happened during Lunchtime, but if memory serves me correct, lunchtime was 12.45 to 1.45 so maybe someone can clarify that?)

    I don't remember much of the evening other then an update from the French teacher. She had family in New York at the time and was too upset to even teach, I don't blame her, kudos for her even coming in under the circumstances. I went home that evening and I presume I watched some of it unfold.

    I do remember there was a guy in my class who had been up the top of the World Trade Centre the weekend before it happened....and I think Channel 4, for some bizarre reason, showed the WTC episode of the show that evening.....

    I know TMNT had an episode with the WTC in it and I know Spiderman delayed its release and re-filmed a trailer featuring the WTC


  • #118
    jackiebaron
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    Abrasax wrote: »
    Sitting in Sarphati Park in Amsterdam when my friend got the call about the first plane.
    We made it to a coffeeshop on Van Wou Straat in time for the first collapse.
    There was just me and four Muslims in the shop at the time. Two were in delirious celebration, whilst the other two were both shocked and disgusted.
    Surreal.

    Did you have a shoarma for the munchies?


  • #119
    hidinginthebush
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    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    you quoting that post to say that and now me quoting you will make this three wastes of posts!

    Exactly, think about how many internet trees have been cut down to create these posts

    (also this makes it 4 wastes)


  • #120
    Carry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    I was overjoyed that day, dancing around the house and celebrating, because...



    .... it was the day I got the phone call from the bank that my mortgage application has been approved! :D

    In between I watched a bit of tv and mumbled 'how awful' and stuff like that, of course. But it couldn't wipe the smile off my face.


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  • #121
    Greyfox
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    At home, looked at the news for two minutes and went out, it wasn't really all that news worthy to me.


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