You're not kidding. For someone who was close by when the real 9/11 went down, this must have been awful.

I was, and not really.

i know. I've never understood why people flee in all sorts of random bat-shit directions like that.

Herd movement.

MOO, MOOO, MOOOOO!

Least lemmings have the balls to stampede toward cliffs and jump off in a hard-core badass sorta way. This just makes me cringe and feel ashamed to be of the same species....

What are we running from again? Oh yeah a plane that is moving at 300 mph.. run faster!

Actually, the FAA and WH Military Office instructed those people to keep it a secret and not contact the media about the flyby. So yeah, heads should definitely roll.

Seconded. Where do they think they're running?

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People go to parks here all the time. Where else are you going to get high and have risky sex with a stranger on a tuesday evening?

Besides my mom's house on a saturday morning.

you're an idiot

Considering it was AIR FORCE ONE (or whatever it is called when the prez isn't onboard) ambling along with fighter jets in formation, no lower or more acrobatic than those of us that live under airport approaches see all the time, I dunno I thought New Yorkers would be less shrill and spastic than the response to this has been

I'll bet the real estate agent told you something like, "Well connected to a major transit hub."

Yeah dude on September 11 all of NYC's black people (who I think all live in Harlem anyway) were like "Sheeeet honkey I ain't afraid of no punk ass airplane flyin' into no building" and then they just went on with their day. True story.

Wow, splatter, you are stupid.

Much like Eddie Murphy said about the Amityville Horror, stereotypically you wouldn't see a lot of black folks hanging around to see what the matter was.

Yes, this is stereotyping, but, then, so are the "white people" and "black people" tags.

You think having a military fighter jet following a 747 will make people think its 'less' likely to do with terrorism?

less likely to crash into a building if there's a fighter ready to shoot it's ass down into the water the moment it makes a wrong turn.

The fighter either means it's not terrorist or that it was, but everything's under control now.

Either way, no squealing in panic.

When its two F-16's in loose formation off the wings of a 747 with air force insignia? I would certainly hope if the jets were in pursuit of a rouge airliner they'd be doing more than that

"Oh look honey, a jet fighter's getting ready to shoot down a passenger plane over NYC, there's nothing to worry about."

Seriously, what? In that scenario whether it shoots it down or not, you're in an ongoing terrorist attack involving massive casualties and risk of being killed by debris. And you think that's reassuring? When a guy is running toward you holding a suspicious package, its much more worrying to see a cop pointing a gun at him.

GET OFF MY PLANE!!

There's a couple of subway stations on the border of Battery Park (as I recall). To be honest, I'd probably run to Castle Clinton. 8 foot thick sandstone walls probably wouldn't save you from a jumbo-jet load of burning kerosine, but they'd do a fine job of deflecting shrapnel.