I’m sorry, I’m not enough of a computer whiz to know how to show it to y’all, but I’m sure a number of you have received it through the email grapevine by now. For those of you who haven’t: It’s a typical amateur tourist picture of a man posing against the railing on the roof, and behind him is a northward view of New York. An airliner is approaching the building dead-on from what appears to be a few hundred yards off. The camera’s automatic dating show’s the date of 09/11/01 in the bottom right-hand corner. The sender claims this picture was found in a tourist’s camera found in the rubble.
Is this a hoax? It looks extremely real, but I know photos can easily be mocked-up nowadays.
The Snopes link is loading slowly for me, so while I wait… yeah, I just got that pic moments ago from a friend at work (and can I start the betting pool on how many more times I’ll get it before the end of the week?).
The first thing I really noticed is that he’s wearing winter clothing. It was pretty warm out that day, I remember walking through the Bronx wishing I’d worn a skirt to work because it was so hot walking. Granted it’d be breezier up top of the Trade Towers, but who wears a heavy jacket and a winter hat while sight-seeing in early September in New York?
Also the plane does not appear to be casting a shadow, unless I’m mising finer details thanks to a crappy monitor.
Wow is that fake. I love the Snopes write-up on it too. While you are there looking at the picture, be sure to visit the page of ULs related to Sept 11th. I had never heard the bound hands one, and then to find out it was one of the true ones. Yikes.
On top of everything else, I was just heading down into the subway when the plane flew directly over my head. The engines were damn loud, plus there was this high pitched whistling sound, like a bomb coming in. He’d be damn well shitting his pants by this point.
pugluvr Thanks, everybody. I knew you’d know. Excellent point, Rosebud, about the winter clothing. That should have been my tipoff.
Boy, I’m gullible. I also thought those “foreign sports” commercials were real for awhile, at least until the cliff diving one came up /Quote/
What “foreign sports” commercials. I’m missin’ sumthin.
Fox Sports Net has been advertising their Regional Sports Report show (FSN has many regional divisions) with advertisments poking fun at the fact that many national sports shows spend most of their time not only on sports outside of your local team’s area, but outside the United States as well. FSN’s ads have shots of (mocked-up) sports reports featuring absurd sports from other countries. Each commercial ends with the tagline, “Sports from the only region you care about. Yours.”
That was what I was thinking when I saw the picture. If I heard a plane that close I would at least turn around and look. If by some chance the photographer was still there afterward, the only picture he’d get would be a blur of me running for my life.
I’m surprised this hasn’t shown up in my inbox yet.
The other thing about this picture that should be a dead giveaway is that unless this “tourist” happened to have an unbelievably expensive camera with ludicrous-speed film installed, they wouldn’t have taken such a sharp image of a huge mofo jetliner travelling at several hundred mph.
A vaguely plane-shaped blur would’ve been more appropriate.
My question is that was there an observation deck on the WTC like that? I wouldn’t think it would be outside, but rather inside the buildings. And wouldn’t it difficult to stand still if an airplane were that close?
Have you guys seen the picture of the Canadian Radio commentator holding an American flag and wearing a T-Shirt that says “Nostradamus was right!”, on the roof of the WTC. In the background you can see one of the planes heading directly for the building and the face of the Devil in the clouds. It’s creepy.
Well, as expected, this “tourist” photo made its way to e-mail at work. And I dutifully told anyone who would listen to check it out on Snopes. Some day, they’ll check without me telling them.