Was 9/11 Funny? One Site Says Yes

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.

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.

The question is ... Was Hitler a sensitive man?

www.myspace.com/adamsocial412

Don't feed the trolls.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.)

BORING

...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.."

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.

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!!!

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.

Dreamhost won't do anything. I have several gambling and porn sites with them. They believe in freedom.

"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.

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...

that is funny, don't tase me bro

that puts it all into context.

Ignore the wankers and they will go away. I would think Gothamist would know that basic tidbit.

Send the web host a message and complain.

http://www.dreamhost.com/contact.cgi

its not "don't taser me bro"

its "don't tase me bro"

it makes it so much funnier.

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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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.

www.911wasfunny.com

The cops at the University of Florida tasered the wrong guy.

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 register of the domain got a private registration. I wonder why.

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 guy must be making a killing today on selling ads thanks to you guys. How do you feel about putting money into his pockets?

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.

@19:

Seconded.

Thanks Gothamist! You just gave this horrible website exactly what it wanted: Attention.

Uh... you're still linked to the site. Check all of your links there.

"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?

Why would you give this guy the time of day?

Damn trolls.

as a compromise, i've unlinked the website. though i think the site as a whole is worthy of discussion.

We are entitled to freedom of speech

Unless you're heckling a politician (of either party).

"Don't taser me, bro!"

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.

you should just ignore it - its not news just somebody who wants attention

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.

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.

How to get attention:

1. Create site called "9/11 was funny"

2. Notify tabloids/Gothamist

3. Voila! Attention galore!

I bet this site is registered to George W. Bush.

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.

hahahazowie that's so outre just like gawker.

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.

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.

If no one bothers to read it, it will cease to exist.

pfft, tell that to all the people i wished a happy 9/11 to last week. they all laughed.

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.

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