# Why WTC 7 Sabotaged **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649 "2010-09-13T20:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/21 "2010-09-13T23:23:31Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > CLEARLY WTC7 was an evil Taliban AT-AT and the cables were attached to our brave American snowspeeders. Piloted by American wombats. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/22 "2010-09-13T23:48:35Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > > What’s with the cable crap? It was wombats! WOMBATS! > > And how, exactly, do you expect wombats to pull down the WTC? With cables, obviously. Wombats sneer at your puny cables. Or at least they always have in the past at our poker games. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/23 "2010-09-14T00:48:11Z")
Here is my theory. There are undiscovered conspiracies out there, and the conspirators want to discredit those who would uncover them. So when two planes crashed into the WTC in view of millions of people in NYC, and 10s of millions on TV, they decided that they’d come up with the absolutely ludicrous theory that it was anything other than a terrorist attack from hijacked airplanes. This has been really successful, and now conspiracy theory buffs for anything else are lumped in with the clearly insane Truthers. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/24 "2010-09-14T01:16:14Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Midichlorian. Your incorrect spelling shows that deep down you ARE fighting their reprogramming. FIGHT IT, DAMN YOU! FIGHT IT! > > -Joe I have no idea who you’re fnord talking about. Nothing untowards happened fnord in Manhattan that you should concern yourself about. There were no, I repeat NO sentient potatoes involved in any capacity whatsofnordever. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/25 "2010-09-14T01:21:00Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > There were no, I repeat NO sentient potatoes involved in any capacity whatsofnordever. That’s just what Devo WANTS you to think! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/26 "2010-09-14T01:26:05Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > There were no, I repeat NO sentient potatoes involved in any capacity whatsofnordever. Well, of course not. Anyone with sense knows that there aren’t any such thing as potatoes in the first place, just disguised giant spiders that look like potatoes. Why else would potatoes have so many eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/27 "2010-09-14T01:41:27Z")
It’s very clever actually. “They” caused WTC 7 to collapse precisely because it is inconsistent with the conspiracy. That way those silly people who believe the whole thing was caused by two hijacked aircraft crashing into WTC 1 and 2 would point at WTC 7 and say, “if it was a conspiracy, how come WTC 7 collapsed?” It’s like the Babelfish. It proves God exists and therefore He doesn’t. WTC 7 collapsing proves it wasn’t a conspiracy and therefore it was. QED. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/28 "2010-09-14T01:46:30Z")
Let’s face it. There’s a very simple reason why WTC 7 was demolished. After WTC 1 and 2 were destroyed by nanothermite and C-4 coated rebar (triggered by a hurricane powered space laser) in the concrete central core, you can’t very well go calling WTC 7 WTC 7 anymore. There aren’t 7 buildings anymore! WTC 7 was all that was left. What are you going to do, call it WTC 1? I don’t think so! They had to tear it all down and start over. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/29 "2010-09-14T01:47:38Z")
This is a parody of a couple of WTC-related discussions in Great Debates, but since it’s not a debate on its own I’ve moved it to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/30 "2010-09-14T01:57:23Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This is a parody of a couple of WTC-related discussions in Great Debates, but since it’s not a debate on its own I’ve moved it to the Pit. You’re just trying to discredit the Truth! They’ve gotten to you, haven’t they?! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/31 "2010-09-14T01:57:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This is a parody of a couple of WTC-related discussions in Great Debates, but since it’s not a debate on its own I’ve moved it to the Pit. If you look closely, you can see the wombat puppet master pulling Marley’s strings. You’re betraying your people! [Shakes fist] ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/32 "2010-09-14T01:58:44Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > There were no, I repeat NO sentient potatoes involved in any capacity whatsofnordever. Particularly not any clandestine or surreptitious ones. _whistles inconspicuously_ ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/33 "2010-09-14T03:25:44Z")
I came up out of the subway Saturday to go to the Gene Siskel Film Center to see a couple of movies (including [La Verite](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054452/) with a beyond gorgeous Brigitte Bardot…ooh lala!) and was confronted by a bunch of idiots waving “LOOK!! I’M AN IDIOT!” signs. Like Teabaggers, they deserve nothing but scorn and ridicule. I love this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/34 "2010-09-14T03:29:20Z")
Cthulhu had awoken underneath the twin towers. Making them collapse was the only way to block the ancient one’s entrance into this world. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/35 "2010-09-14T03:49:03Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > This is a parody of a couple of WTC-related discussions in Great Debates, but since it’s not a debate on its own I’ve moved it to the Pit. Mister Marley, tear down this tower! Ich bin ein wombat! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/36 "2010-09-14T04:12:45Z")
Well, since it’s in the Pit now and all, and since I was thinking of opening a thread in the Pit on this, let me just take this opportunity to speak to the various Truthers and pretend Truthers here on this board and out there in the greater universe. From the bottom of my heart I want you guys to know that I really, REALLY loath you people. With the heat of 10,000 suns. Of all the loony CT fuck heads, you guys definitely take the cake. You are loathsome toads, the scum of the earth, and some of the stupidest, most stubborn assholes ever to be spawned from under a rock or shit out in a nasty public port-a-potty. From the bottom of my top, and with all the sincerity I can muster, I just wanted to say: fuck you, you slimy bastards. Oh…and these days there are many decaffeinated beverages that are just as tasty as the real thing! Just thought you should know that. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/37 "2010-09-14T04:13:52Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Cthulhu had awoken underneath the twin towers. Making them collapse was the only way to block the ancient one’s entrance into this world. **That** one I like! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/38 "2010-09-14T04:38:24Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Oh…and these days there are many decaffeinated beverages that are just as tasty as the real thing! But the tastiness is just to hide the poison! They use decaffeinated beverages to get the people missed by vaccination and fluoridation programs. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/39 "2010-09-14T04:56:43Z")
Hold on a minute, has something happened to the WTC??? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wtc-7-sabotaged/553649/40 "2010-09-14T04:58:20Z")
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