Was 9/11 Funny? One Site Says Yes

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.

This website is for jokes, macros, and funny images and videos of 9-11. September 11th was the bestest day of my life!

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."

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.

June photo of Ground Zero from 55 stories up by dorkasaurus_rex on flickr

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By tien mao in News on September 19, 2007 1:16 PM

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MarkHuntingdon

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.

guest

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.

guest

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

guest

www.myspace.com/adamsocial412

guest

Don't feed the trolls.

AHT

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.

guest

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...

guest

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.

guest

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.

guest

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.

guest

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.)

guest

BORING

bklynd

...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.."

bklynd

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.

guest

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!!!

bandit

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.

guest

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

paul

"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.

Tim N.

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...