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One could consider it a given that September 11th was not funny. One website, however, seems to make fun of the day that changed New York so much. 911wasfunny.com has jokes that aren't funny, disturbing images, and is pretty thoughtless through and through. It even has an animated image of an airplane flying into the website's logo. While it may not be too early to remove the reading of the names from the airwaves, it's certainly too early for a website that thinks 9/11 was funny. In fact, we're not sure there's ever a time when 9/11 will be funny.
The operator of the site, who says his name is Henry, introduces his site thusly:
Hi. I'm Henry, but you can call me Hank. I think 9-11 was funny. I really like that little kids lost their mommies and daddies. Now they are orphans and the news will remind them every September that their moms and dads are dead. Let's be friends! Email me at hate@911wasfunny.com. Maybe we can go out for hot dogs... somewhere in New York.At the bottom of his site, he also adds, "September 11th was funny. If this offends you, you need to lighten up. Those people deserved what they got, mostly because people from NY are pompous jerks."This website is for jokes, macros, and funny images and videos of 9-11. September 11th was the bestest day of my life!
While New York has its fare share of "pompous jerks" (really, what place doesn't), we're sure that nobody deserves anything like 9/11...except maybe the owner of 911wasfunny.com. The Daily News noted that the site encourages you to leave comments and send them hate mail. The website already has its fair share of hateful comments from people that have visited.
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this sounds like that same college kid who did the 'were gonna have an abortion if you dont give us money' website, and the other one that was really racist i think. social experimentation at its finest.
pfft, tell that to all the people i wished a happy 9/11 to last week. they all laughed.
If no one bothers to read it, it will cease to exist.
Yeah, why even give this--creature--any exposure?
Anyone remember what to do with the playground instigator from elementary school? Even though he's trying to pour sand down your pants, stand your ground and ignore him.
do you guys really need to link to this? attention is the last thing that site needs. this kid will love all the new hits and hate mail he gets. just ignore the trolls, they'll crawl back under the bridge eventually.
hahahazowie that's so outre just like gawker.
The real asshole here is tien mao and Gothamist for posting this. You remind me of my college paper that published the open letter from the KKK & Southern Nazi Party just to make a point about free speech and how nobody should be censored .... completely ignoring class, responsibility and judgment ... and taste.
I bet this site is registered to George W. Bush.
How to get attention:
1. Create site called "9/11 was funny"
2. Notify tabloids/Gothamist
3. Voila! Attention galore!
Everyone reacts differently to situations. 9/11 was no different. Some people got sad, some got angry, some were moved to join the war, some were moved to protest-- you get the picture. And then there are others who were moved to find tasteless & offensive ways to express what they may or may not be feeling.
We live in America, people. We are entitled to freedom of speech. Even Charles Manson is entitled to say whatever he wants.
If you don't agree with something or don't like it, don't read/watch/access a website about it. It really is that simple.
Gothamist posted this to alert people to what's out there. As NYers, we should know sites like this exist. I commend Gothamist for posting this story and from not shying away from controversy.
Some of the jokes have been around for quite a while. I first heard the "It's a bird" joke no more than a couple months after 9/11.
you should just ignore it - its not news just somebody who wants attention
While I think this is a shitty site that's in more than bad taste, the great thing about our country—freedom of speech and press.
If the founding fathers figured in bad taste to the US Constitution, everything would be banned and essentially, we'd be living in a police state, which thankfully, we're not even close.
We are entitled to freedom of speech
Unless you're heckling a politician (of either party).
"Don't taser me, bro!"
as a compromise, i've unlinked the website. though i think the site as a whole is worthy of discussion.
Damn trolls.
Why would you give this guy the time of day?
"as a compromise, i've unlinked the website. though i think the site as a whole is worthy of discussion."
What the hell kind of "discussion" are you expecting to generate by buying into an attention whore's transparent ploy?
Uh... you're still linked to the site. Check all of your links there.
Thanks Gothamist! You just gave this horrible website exactly what it wanted: Attention.
@19:
Seconded.
I don't have a problem discussing anything controversial - I'm a New Yorker for g-d's sake. I have no problem reading and talking about all the 9/11 conspiracy theories. I'm also not so blinded by '9/11' in capital letters than I can't deal with a joke. However, this site is just poorly thought out garbage , designed just to get a reaction out of people, which is juvenile at best. It reminds me a lot of The Splasher.
The guy must be making a killing today on selling ads thanks to you guys. How do you feel about putting money into his pockets?
Will it ever be funny? Yes, but our generation might not think so. How many times have you seen jokes and sight gags based on that horrific footage of the Hindenburg collapsing into flames or variations on that poor newsman crying out "Oh, the humanity..."? Someone old enough to remember the shock and trauma of that spectacular disaster might be disgusted and/or offended that subsequent generations have made it into a corny joke. But the very act of venerating a tragic event, elevating it to something that must be viewed with solemnity, makes that legend something that people in the future feel the need to puncture; to deflate the pomposity and self-importance with tasteless humor. Putting that halo around 9/11 -- saying that this, or any tragedy, is too serious to ever mock -- is what makes it a target. In a few decades, people will make fun of 9/11 all the time. You and I won't be laughing, but that's the point.
Besides, Gilbert Gottfried made a joke about 9/11 at the Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner in October 2001.
The register of the domain got a private registration. I wonder why.
9/11 was 6 years ago. To a lot of teenagers today, it may as well have been a civil war battle.
They don't have any emotional attachment to 9/11. So expect more sites like this.
As for the site, it was funny.
The cops at the University of Florida tasered the wrong guy.
www.911wasfunny.com
I'm surprised that people are denouncing that site based on all the hate that was directed towards the 9/11 families a here on gothamist.
free speech does not evaporate just because you disagree with it. tien mao you should re-link.
right on #15! that video made me so angry & sad.
Well, Hank has registered the site with privacy on so no one can come after him with a taser, but you can call his hosting company and complain.
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its not "don't taser me bro"
its "don't tase me bro"
it makes it so much funnier.
Send the web host a message and complain.
http://www.dreamhost.com/contact.cgi
Ignore the wankers and they will go away. I would think Gothamist would know that basic tidbit.
that is funny, don't tase me bro
that puts it all into context.
Wow, something tastless and outrageous on the Internet. Shocking. positively shocking.
Hey, you don't like it, don't read it. Moving on...
PS: Good point, edEx...
"While New York has its fare share of "pompous jerks" (really, what place doesn't), we're sure that nobody deserves anything like 9/11...except maybe the owner of 911wasfunny.com."
Nice reaction.
Also, who gives a shit? Some guy is being offensive about 9/11. Boo hoo, go cry.
Dreamhost won't do anything. I have several gambling and porn sites with them. They believe in freedom.
First Amendment is not "absolute." You do not have the right to post copyrighted materials. Many of those images do not belong to you and are not in the public domain.
maybe it's like a social experiment that sascha cohen did with BORAT. Maybe he's inciting people on 9/11 to get the evil people to agree with him and thus actually showing degenerates that they really are but not him cause it was just an experiment just like the genius that is Borat. Get it? He's really a jew inciting other people to be anti-semetic. Hilarious!!!
Jeez guys, have you never heard of Trolling? You kids with your Facebook and Blogs, in my day we just had Usenet and we LIKED it.
...and people would post shit like this and 100 people would respond, and we'd all be like "look at me, I'm wasting my time reading a long conversation with some jerk who isn't even serious, I'm a FREAK."
(I think that's how the Dana Carvey bit went.."
BORING
911 has been funny since the moment it happened:
http://smellslikecher.livejournal.com/2001/09/11
(the people who wrote that post wrote it in an apartment on 25th street.
sometimes finding a reason to laugh is all you can do.
humor comes in all varieties. who cares about one person's website? what do you want your readers to do, go harass the guy? because he hurt your feelings? this is so pompous.)
The jerkoff that created the site is Adam Rahuba.. He lives on 1815 West Liberty Ave in Pittsburgh, PA. His myspace webpage is http://www.myspace.com/adamsocial412
If you see him on the street, you know what to do.
Man, those Hulk Hogan WTC pictures crack me up every time. The rest of the pics are pretty 'eh' though. The internets can certainly do better than that.
Gothamist continues to get worse by the day. HOW IS THIS NEWS? I would have rather read another poorly-written, misspelled piece of garbage by Jen Chung.
Yes, there was nothing funnier than the jumpers. Now who would have thought that on that morning, after a nice breakfast with the Mrs and kids and a traffic-free morning, you would be taking a leap of faith down 100 stories...
Freedom of speech means you have the right to say anything. Taste and decency means you realize that because you can doesn't mean you should. Good job, Gothamist, you're demonstrating just as severe a lack of taste as this site. This post is just troll feed, and you should know better than to feed the trolls.
Don't feed the trolls.
www.myspace.com/adamsocial412
The question is ... Was Hitler a sensitive man?
i said "happy 9/11" to a couple friends on this past 9/11...and they all laughed (at the bluntness and/or surprise randomness of it, came out of nowhere) or made some joke that i'm a terrorist (i'm not).
and on 9/11/01, many kids in my high school just went on with their day, laughed, and made jokes about what happened. then most didn't follow it on the news at all after the day and barely know whats going on in iraq and afghanistan now, or about iran and whats going on with that.
this is america. this is free speech. this is our culture. deal with it or fix it, but it won't be easy.
911 was fucking HILARIOUS! I bought 911wasfunny.com off of that asshole Hank Toms, and I'm bringing it back, and bringing it back strong. Check it out.