9/11

[RICEY]

Anniversary today of the 9/11 attacks.

What were you doing when it happened?

I was at work at West Australian Newspapers and without warning all the presses stopped. Word quickly spread about the plane hitting the tower and we all went to the lunchroom to watch the live news broadcasts. Something you dont forget in a hurry.

[Frenchy]

Anniversary today of the 9/11 attacks.

What were you doing when it happened?

I was at work at West Australian Newspapers and without warning all the presses stopped. Word quickly spread about the plane hitting the tower and we all went to the lunchroom to watch the live news broadcasts. Something you dont forget in a hurry.

Driving a 793 on nightshift at the Kal superpit.
Remember people calling up dispatch for locations and the dispatch operator telling everyone to 'shut up...shits just gone down big time in the US" LOL

Was a pretty crazy feeling listening to all the news reports etc live, then coming home and seeing nothing but the image of the planes flying into the towers...over, and over, and over, and over, and over again....for the next week!

[TJ]

Watching Rove whilst writing up plans for the classes I was teaching the next day.

Then the world changed forever... I didnt sleep that night.

[shifted]

Was in class in year 6 I think. Fark I am old. Didn't really hear much, but school was nuts with memorial shit for a week or so, I think I still have the West Australian from around then or so with their cover story on it. Unless I ditched that somewhere.

[RICEY]

Was in class in year 6 I think. Fark I am old. Didn't really hear much, but school was nuts with memorial shit for a week or so, I think I still have the West Australian from around then or so with their cover story on it. Unless I ditched that somewhere.

I kept a copy of the west, the kalgoorlie miner and the newsagent poster from the next morning.

[mehow2g]

I remember waking up in the morning for school year 6 and DBZ was cancelled I was fucking pissed, Also remember saying to my mum that "wow they fell down really quick must of hit the buildings perfect"

/Conspiracy :D

[Jase]

Woke up for school and saw it on TV, some weird shit to watch

[mitchy]

ditto.. woke up for school and thought there was a movie on or something.

[DRKWRX]

was in bed watching T.V. and saw on the news and was pretty nuts! watched till early hours.

[sam5709]

Woke up and went to school, I was in year 8, The whole school had a big assembly about it until lunch time and normal classes were cancelled to educate us about what had just happened.

[TJ]

Ive still got the West Australian, Time and a heap of other things from it.

[Syncope]

Got pay tv that exact day, ran home from school planning to watch it all night but every single channel was doing updates on the attacks.

[Silencio]

watching rove and chatting on mIRC, when someone said somthing on mirc, i raced to the tv in the lounge room and thought it was a rove joke......next day at school it was like someone ahd died....

[kurbn]

I was in bed asleep

[Frostitute]

Was in year 6 as well, many people here 1990?
I remember everyone in my class saying world war 3 is gonna start and the teacher got mad and said it wasn't gonna happen lol.

But yeh I was just home that night and dad called from work and told us what happend and just watched the tv till midnight.

[shifted]

I remember hearing that Thorpe didn't go to the tower that day or went the day before?

And then that newspaper clipping of the woman who rang her husband and was like, "yeah I am fine, in the office..." "the towers just fell..." "oh shit"

lol

[INSINR8R]

Was watching Rove also, Bret The Hitman Hart was supposed to be on, then they crossed to what was happening. I didn't sleep either, stayed up all night to see what was happening.

Was watching it then all of a sudden the next plane hit.

School the next day and everyone was talking about it. I don't think we actually had a proper day class wise.

[Wozzernux]

Was watching the season finale of Lock, Stock on ABC and the last 15mins was cut off when the news reports started coming in. I thought it was a massive hoax/prank or a movie clip etc. then the reality set in when every channel started showing footage of the jetliner crashing into the building. Creepy.


Was in class in year 6 I think. Fark I am old.
Italics required? Christ, half of you lot were still in primary school haha... how old do you think I feel? :p

[Mister Two]

Was driving to Uni when I heard it on the radio.

[[Jacek]]

I was watching Rove too, reading the ticker at the bottom of the screen thinking, that's weird, i wonder what the world trade centre is? Then my uncle called and explained to me that this was a massive thing so i woke my parents up and we spent the rest of the night watching the updates, followed by a full day at school the next day watching too

[Niva]

was young enough to have a bed time as i remember parents not thinking it was a good enough excuse to stay up..pingpingpingpings

[Fukushima]

got a text message to turn to channel 10 news, watched for about 15 minutes everyone was trying to work out whether it was an accident or not

then the second one hit on live tv, then they collapsed

the next day I cancelled my november trip to new york, was business class tickets and everything

[Torquen]

Was in year 7 and got to spend the whole day watching TV at school :)

[pgc]

Came home from a friends house. My sister rang me to tell me what had happened. My parents were supposed to be in New York that day but changed their plans at the last minute - they didn't tell us, of course, so she was looping out.

It's probably the most surreal experience I've been through. Watching people jump to their death on live TV is not something you forget in a hurry.

I can only imagine what people who experienced WWII would have gone through.

[YOUR MATE]

Was out for a driving lesson, came home and thought it was a movie. Thought it was shit until I changed channel and saw it was real. Rang the mrs, woke her mum up and told her what was going on.

And those going on about being old because you were in year 6, I was in year 11...

[Joe]

I remember clearly, I was procrastinating on a 1st year uni assignment, sitting on my PC on mIRC when someone mentioned it, so I flicked the TV onto SBS and lo and behold.. there it was.

I was watching the broadcast when the second plane went in.. I remember feeling sick to the stomach watching it.

[Joe]

watching rove and chatting on mIRC, when someone said somthing on mirc, i raced to the tv in the lounge room and thought it was a rove joke......next day at school it was like someone ahd died....

LOL as above, same same.. in fact I'm sure we were in the same chatroom.

[Sully]

I was in year 12, was sitting at my desk at home doing my English home work when my sister told me to come in and watch the telly NOW.

I sat there watching the thing until about 2-3am kinda stunned and worried. The next day at school was all a bit weird. Half the place talking about what happens if war is declared, why would someone do this. We had a band rehearsal in the afternoon with girls from Santa Maria, their reaction was all a bit different. None of them wanted to talk about it and all seemed a little more traumatized than we did. The impact it had on them was a lot greater than it was on us guys.

Everyone was just finding it hard to comprehend exactly what had happened and the story behind it.

[HIKARI]

was back in year 6, woke up n it wasn't cheeze tv/dragon ball z playing :(

[summoner]

Driving home Leona's after we had a bit of a falling out. Get the sms "we fight and the world goes to shit".

Got home switched on tv and watched the chaos unfold and saw the 2nd plane hit live. Sat on IRC chatting with most of you old school muppets about it most of the night :p

Personally it is just another day now for me and I don't particularly care. It has been used as an excuse for other actions much like christmas/etc is just used for commercial satisfaction.

[Silencio]

same boat as brendan - was in yr 11 at the time aswell

[shifted]

Yeah, seeing people jump out of the windows was fucked up to say the least - would hate to have to decide to jump and to go through with it, saw images of the bodies splattered after they hit the ground... fark...

[jaybee]

was also watching rove. it was nearly 10 years ago but like most people have mentioned, it's not an easy thing to forget - actually watching live coverage of the 2nd plane hitting the building, tower 1 collapsing, and people jumping to their death because they didnt want to burn or be crushed...my god.
the next day at school was certainly different, we had the tv on in just about every class. was in year 10 at the time. the conspiracy behind it all has always made me wonder, the real reason for 9/11 will never be known.

[hoony]

Watching Rove whilst writing up plans for the classes I was teaching the next day.

Then the world changed forever... I didnt sleep that night.

Was also watching Rove and was looking forward to that episode all week because Bret Hart was going to talk about his brother Owen's death earlier on in the year. Then the commercial break was on and Rove was not to be seen again that night... Was pretty pissed off but was too young to have a clue what was going on.

World did change in a sense of Team America and Terrorist jokes though lol. - In all seriousness though I never saw footage of the people jumping out of the buildings and stuff, would have been traumatic to witness.

[duste]

Woke up early because it was my birthday, didn't even get a chance to watch cartoons FML. All I remember at school is people claiming that "World War 3" had started.

[schnoods]

Came home from Tafe (doing welding night course), sat down at about after 9ish, watching ABC show Lock Stock (series after the movie), Some black guy shooting with a piston in each hand then it was interrupted by a news bulletin.

Was freaky to say the least, Dad walks past and asks what movie i am watching.

Was also interesting to note as well, flicking from every channel after it happened, SBS and channel 7 were still playing regular programming when it happened, sbs came back 15 minutes later with a bulletin, channel 7 were still sleeping.

[TheChad]

I remember being woken up by my mum crying, pretty early like 6am? thought for sure one of my grandparents had kacked it...

Also in year seven... I rember thinking we were the most grownup kids in the world being the oldest at the school. Still looking back nobody knew how to deal with it, especially since alot of the teachers were so upset.

[evoeata]

Was in technical training at HMAS Cerberus in Victoria. Woke up and it was on tv. Everyone thought we were going to war till the captain told us to pull our heads in. Was duty that night doing patrols of the base waiting for someone to attack.

[Lonewolf]

Also watching rove, doing uni work when it interrupted.
Same as you guys, was watching when the 2nd one hit and I could turn off the TV all night.
RIP to all those that lost their lives, a world changing event.

[TargaHatch]

Was in a pub in France, it came up on the tv behind the bar, place went silent. Next day in Biarritz and got talking to a yank who had only recently quit his work which was in one of the towers.

[LooneyToons]

yea i was in yr 6 also

[miksta]

I was passed out spastic drunk by about 8 o'clock so was completely oblivious to it all until the next day at work.
So in 2 weeks today it will be 9 years since i last had a drink.

[2nd2nun]

Woke up to get my Cheeze TV fix, and was bombarded by images of planes hitting buildings and people jumping out of them...

[ben351]

I was in Bali @ the Sari CLub with a 32yr old british chick and i was only 19 at the time :)

came back to hotel absolutely written off at about 3am and turned TV on ... woke up room mate telling him this wikkid movie was on i think its the new die hard one ... pingpingpingpings are flying planes into buildings n shit ... then i passed out :)

[Jizz-Lebrity]

I was also in year 6. It was a hot topic before school started, followed by an 'emergency' assembly to discuss.

Was just after us upper school kids got our centenary of federation medallions IIRC.

[Tre-Cool]

I'll probably get flamed for this but meh...

I was living in Tom Price, best mate living in paraburdoo called me on my mobile and told me to switch on the tv.

turned tv on, I say cool what movies this? (actually thinking it was a die hard type film) mate goes its not. shit is happening now..

started watching while talking to my mate, then boom 2nd plane hit.

I still remember what i said to my mate...

"awesome" with a some what wierd feeling in my gut.

watched until just after the buildings collapsed then went to bed.

Didnt bother turning tv on for a while after that.

p.s did any watch the 9/11 program that was on tv the other night?

[Risk10k]

I was trying to watch SE01EP04 of the lock stock and two smoking barrels tv show and the news was on, with the first tower in flames/smoking. I thought, these guys have taken it a bit too far.

I was in year 11, the world changed so fast it wasn't funny. It went from not needing a passport to fly to new zealand to getting scanned for bombs if you had some stubble on your face - and brazilian electricians getting shot on subways.

[Brockas]

Was in year 9... was watching CNN for no reason before going to bed... and next thing they cut to a building smoking with a breaking story.


Was unreal watching it all live.

[urban]

I think i watched the live reports, then when to school, i think we talked about it with the teachers then it was back to school work.

Any fans of family guy know seth macfarland was ment to be on one of the planes.


On the morning of September 11, 2001, MacFarlane was scheduled to return to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts. Suffering from a hangover from the previous night's celebrations,[87] and with an incorrect departure time (8:15 a.m. instead of 7:45 a.m.) from his travel agent,[88] he arrived at Logan International Airport sometime around 7:30 and was unable to board the flight as the gates had been closed.[88] Fifteen minutes after departure, American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked,[89] and at 8:46 a.m. was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, obliterating the airplane and destroying the building.

half an hour between living or dying.

[S133LTR]

Was at home having a few drinks with the boys when the first plane hitting the towers came on FOX8 so we turned over to the yank news channels and watched the coverage all night until the next three planes had gone down.

You see alot of random graphic carnage in the media/on the net these days but watching people start jumping out of those towers live was very hard to watch.

[HANS YOLO]

to be honest i can't remember exactly what i was doing/watching at the time, but was at home when the news broke

had to work the following day and i can honestly say i was scared of the ramifications...scared that it could mean epic war...i guess scared of the unknown...laugh if you will but i guess i read too much :)

in hindsite i guess some of my fears came true...the world did change and i don't think the dust has really settled as yet

[VRX]

Was at a mates place in bunno watching a movie on the projector when my mate got a txt saying to turn on the news and yer the whole wall was just a smoking building..didn't know what to think.

Something interesting though Seth MacFarlane (creator of family guy) was meant to be on one of the flights that hit one of the towers but misssed the check in.

[adrenalin]

Watching Rove whilst writing up plans for the classes I was teaching the next day.

Then the world changed forever... I didnt sleep that night.

ALso watching rove

think we were going on a year 10 school camp the next day when it happened.

[Scaf]

I was in bed, year 8 so I had a bedtime..

Remember waking up and I just thought the world had gone nuts and there was going to be some epic war. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
We did nothing at school that day. I remember all the kids saying that we are going to have to fight against little afghan kids that smoke and have AK's, and me thinking I'll be safe because I will just get dads 22 or shotty hahahaha

Waking up and seeing the tv that morning will firmly be inprinted in my mind for the rest of my life, you don't forget a feeling like that.

[S133LTR]

had to work the following day and i can honestly say i was scared of the ramifications...scared that it could mean epic war...i guess scared of the unknown...laugh if you will but i guess i read too much :)


I can vaugely remember having the same thoughs as the second plane went straight into the other tower.. something like uh oh... this wasnt a random fuck up of epic proportions these pingpingpingpings are doing this on purpose..this is going to change things... at work the next day everyone just was just floating around in abit of shock.. alot of fear of the unknown was going on I think.

[FranZ]

Amazing the number of people that were watching Rove - I too was one of them, though I wasn't in Year 6 or 9 whatever. Man I feel old now!

[mantou]

Was in year 5, doing who knows what. Hoping to wake up to 'Cheese TV' which never came on =[

[HANS YOLO]

http://btjunkie.org/torrent/102-Minutes-That-Changed-America-HDTV-XViD-FQM/4114bd5fa12e346dbb34094ee186d123ce60050e0c0a

mate sent me this link...crazy footage

[RELEASE]

Watching Rove whilst writing up plans for the classes I was teaching the next day.

Then the world changed forever... I didnt sleep that night.+11tybillion

watching rove...interrupted rove to the news first plane hit
was pretty pissed that they interrupted rove for it, not knowing that it was world trade centre...
second plane hit and sinking feeling hit.

was year 12 that year

[Halle Terry]

Was in year 7, got to school and everyone was watching the TV.

Pretty full on event, I think the most disturbing footage I've seen was the people jumping out of the towers, that weird silence watching someone just falling to the earth was pretty disturbing, it's always left a very strong visceral image in my head.

The world changed a lot that day, it's a sad reminder of the animals we really are.

[peter_piper]

Working nightshift at coles, Titmeat came in to tell us all that the US had been attacked (only the first plane), my first thought was "I'll bet Bush did it" even though I had no idea what actually happened.


Intuitive thought, perhaps?




We now all know that it was the flying spaghetti monster.

[gav_wah]

another one that was watching rove and on Mirc at same time.

saw the flash on bottom of screen "plane hits building in us" and thinking what fool would do that saw the footage and went oh shit negro please!

[fourseven]

Was watching repeats of Lois and Clark The new adventures of Superman. Fuck your untalented, unfunny Rove shit.

They never finished showing that episode. pingpingpingpings.

[Adr3naL1N]

lol was watching rove as well, i was in year 11 at the time, was fkn amped to see brett the hitman hart on rove!! Then was interupted with this before he came on!

[INSINR8R]

Was watching repeats of Lois and Clark The new adventures of Superman. Fuck your untalented, unfunny Rove shit.

They never finished showing that episode. pingpingpingpings.

Hahaha. Was only watching him for Bret Hart.

Rove is a talentless and unfunny hack. Glad he's fucked off to the US.