How the hell does a piece of airplane shrapnel hide in a corner of NYC for 12 years?

[Gravitycollapse]

Truth truly is stranger than fiction.


http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/us/new-york-9-11-plane-part/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22319253

[Xipe Totec]

1. Link? nt

[Gravitycollapse]

2. Sorry, here's the link.

Not a lot of information right now. Guess it was wedged between two buildings?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/us/new-york-9-11-plane-part/index.html

[Xipe Totec]

4. That is weird. Thanks!

There's not enough description to assess the size of the piece of landing gear.

Big enough to call 911, but other than that...

Hopefully we'll hear more later.

[pintobean]

3. ...

[gateley]

5. Yeah, you'd think they'd combed every inch of the place.

Think I'll grab a seat next to Gravitycollapse.

[Gravitycollapse]

7. What's with the popcorn? We don't have DU truthers, do we?

[geek tragedy]

9. Scores of them. nt

[Gravitycollapse]

12. Well then I'd like to clear one thing up now. I'm not a truther. I just thought this was weird.

[geek tragedy]

13. It is weird. nt

[jberryhill]

14. Lots of them

Apparently, this piece of metal was supposed to climb out of a crevice and walk away...

[Gravitycollapse]

15. Well now I understand why nobody noticed. Looks like a tiny trash dump.

[gateley]

16. Oops -- I meant "pintobean" -- not you, Gravitycollapse. Sorry!

I wasn't intimating you were a truther, honest! Ha! No wonder you were confused!

[sabrina 1]

24. We sure do have a lot of DUers who are terribly afraid of any discussion of the Bush lies

from back then. I like the word 'truth'. Do you have a problem with people thinking for themselves rather than accepting Bush's tin foil theories? Here's my position, anything Bush said was a lie. I can't think of a thing he ever said that turned out to be true.

And at one time, most DUers were aware of that. Now we have DUers who would rather accept Bush's propaganda, and yes he even admitted that this was his job, to spread the propaganda around, than ask questions of their own. I wonder about that.

From my pov, if Bush told us something, we know it was a lie.

Btw, what is a 'truther'? Would you prefer 'liar'? We sure have plenty of them in our government. Sounds like one of those 'talking points' desigend and paid for to stop people from daring to ask questions. Shame to see it here where we generally dismiss those bought and paid for talking points.

It hasn't worked, the more time passes the more people are questioning, and the fewer there are who believe a word told to them by the Bush gang.

[Gravitycollapse]

25. Because Bush lied does not mean that literally everything he said was a lie.

[liberalmuse]

27. I've noticed this too.

People on DU these days have to be really careful what they post or put in their comments if it's in any way questioning the "official story", or they're apt to be accused of being of the tinfoil sort. One little deviation and you get jumped on. I've been a DU member for about 10 years, and have been coming to this site longer than I've been a member, but have noticed this trend more and more in the past few years. It's a bit disturbing. I don't like it.

[hootinholler]

30. There's an authoritarian bend to it as well. n/t

[choie]

28. Agreed, Sabrina

I can't tell if some du'ers are accepting bush's lies because Obama is continuing many of his policies or what... Also, do people forget that bush refused to open an investigation or hearings on 9/11 AND when he finally acquiesced he refused to testify unless Cheney was with him - for only an hour? Doesn't that give people pause anymore??!

[HockeyMom]

29. By the MOSQUE Community Center????

Hmm. Really? NOW of all times? If they found it in the Hudson River 12 years later, I could see that, but this???? There are millions of people walking all around there day by day. It is also a very SMALL area down there. Nobody noticed this until now?

Wanna buy a bridge?

[geek tragedy]

6. The most dangerous place in NYC right now is between

Rudy Giuliani and a television camera now that 9/11 is in the news.

[treestar]

11. noun, verb, 911

[gateley]

17. I laugh EVERY TIME I hear/read that! I howled during the debate!

[olddots]

8. Will Wolf Der Blitzer have graphs and and charts for us ?

[geek tragedy]

10. Wolf Blitzer: it appears that the engines are from a Hyundai SUV. nt

[pintobean]

22. This is CNN.

[alsame]

23. A dark skinned man was seen placing the

piece between the buildings

[Catherine Vincent]

18. That's what I want to know

How strange that is.

[Tx4obama]

19. Addtional article on link below

Here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/photos-911-plane-landing-gear-found-near-world-trade-center-site/

[El Supremo]

20. Hell, I have dust bunnies in my closet that are older than that.

[Posteritatis]

21. Cities are big, complex things. (nt)

[Lawlbringer]

26. Plus, all these years later, it's hard to get around in that immediate area

Lots of stuff blocked off until only a year or so ago, so not much foot traffic.

[elehhhhna]

31. Does it have a note from Saddam Hussein taped to it?

Probably.

[Recursion]

32. Lots of niches and alleys, and lots of random crap lying around

Lower Manhattan is kind of its own thing.

[Brimley]

33. It doesn't

Islamophobes like Geller put it there last month.

[RagAss]

34. Rent Control.