Wednesday, November 6, 2013

A World Gone Berserk

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"Two British teenagers had an unconventional Halloween costume last week: the burning Twin Towers.
Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, 19-year-old students at the University of Chester, dressed up as the Twin Towers for Halloween. The pair donned American flags on their heads and wore tower outfits that featured planes, explosions, smoke and people jumping to their deaths from the upper floors.
Langford and Collinge won the “best dressed” award at Rosie’s nightclub in Chester that night, and received about $240 in shopping vouchers.
“Both the University of Chester and Chester Students’ Union utterly condemn the appalling photos which have been shared on social media,” said the University of Chester and Chester Students’ Union in a joint statement".

More significant to me was the response of the young ladies. Granted, they were around seven years old when 9/11 occurred but Mother in Heaven, how silly and immature can they be? As a fifteen year old, twenty-one years after the Pearl Harbor bombing I doubt I would have dressed up at the U.S.S. Arizona. I think the word 'bimbo' applies quite well in the case of these dimwits.

"The teens said in a statement, “We never meant to be offensive, but we apologize if any offense was caused. The idea was to depict a serious, modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke".

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