[BNM] [OT] Conspiracy solved

[Joe Aliferis]

I was working in an office with a JP Morgan guy next to me (desk sharing)

joe

> I remember there being a lot of talk about the US military having to
> shoot down planes, but don't remember hearing that they actually had. I
> thought that was the plane where the passengers / crew caused it to
> crash, rather than it being shot down? (I'm guessing not as you point
> out the debris field.) 
>
> When the first crash happened I thought it was some "stupid American" in
> a light aircraft or something, then we had it on TV in reception, I
> couldn't have been more wrong. I couldn't bear to watch it live with
> some of the other people so went back to the IT office. People jumping
> off buildings rather than burning to death is not something I really
> need to see, especially live.
>
> Still surprises me how many people in the office knew someone either
> working in or near the WTC. One friend of a friend went to the gym for a
> change that morning, best decision they ever made.
>
>
> Paul
>
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:56:36 +0100, "james" said:
>   
>> If they were trying to counter any conspiracy theories I'm not sure why
>> they 
>> bothered as you can't see the plane at all!
>>
>> I was at work when the events of 911 unfolded. It was a new media company
>> so 
>> everyone had fast Internet access on their PCs obviously and knew lots of 
>> different news sources to look at. We had a big telly on too. We were 
>> calling out details to each other as things happened and we found bits of 
>> news (there was about 10 of us in the office). I distinctly remember a 
>> colleague Dave who sat opposite calling out to us all, "Oh my God, this 
>> report says that US military have had to shoot down another hijacked
>> plane 
>> somewhere over Pennsylvania." A couple of people jumped up and read the
>> same 
>> news report, I didn't.
>>
>> I never heard that news again ... I guess it never happened.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom Coady" <tom.coady at gmail.com>
>> To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:40 AM
>> Subject: [BNM] [OT] Conspiracy solved
>>
>>
>> Glad it's all been cleared up now.
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4988022.stm
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4987716.stm
>> I specially like the handy real video made by Aunty.
>> Party line carefully shrouded in faux impartiality, eg
>> concluding with Gov case that disproves the paranoid.
>>