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Apartment 9-11 of the Day: Set to open in Seoul’s Yongsan Business District in 2015, these MVRDV-designed luxury residential towers have what is meant to be a pixelated cloud-shaped bridge connecting the two high-rises.
From this angle, however, it looks rather like something else. Something that happened on the 11th of September, 2001.
What do you think? Poor taste or pareidolia?
[gizmodo.]
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: On Sunday, September 11th, two passenger planes had to be escorted to their destination by F-16 jets after suspicious activity was reported on board.
One of those flights, Frontier Flight 623, landed at Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport, and was met on the runway by FBI agents and a SWAT unit. Three passengers — two men of Indian descent and a woman — were removed from coach in bracelets, and taken into custody.
The female detainee, as it turns out, was Jewish Arab blogger Shoshana Hebshi.
“Silly me,” Hebshi writes in a post describing her ordeal, “I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy.” Hebshi says she had never been profiled before, despite the Arab features she got from her Saudi Arabian dad.
“Because I am my father’s daughter I am aware of the possibility of anti-Arab and anti-Semitic sentiments that have increased dramatically,” she says, “but luckily no members of my family nor myself have had to endure what so many others have gone through in this country and throughout the world.”
All that changed Sunday when Hebshi was handcuffed, locked up, and strip-searched — all because a passenger aboard her plane thought she looked suspicious.
“You understand why we have to do this, right? It’s for our own protection,” said the female officer responsible for administering the search. “Because I am so violent,” Hebshi thought to herself. “And pulling me off an airplane, handcuffing me and patting me down against a squad car didn’t offer enough protection. They also needed to make sure all my orifices were free and clear.”
After all was said and done, an FBI agent apologized to Hebshi and thanked her for her cooperation. “It’s 9/11 and people are seeing ghosts,” the agent told her, adding that the FBI “had to act on a report of suspicious behavior, and this is what the reaction looks like.”
But to Hebshi, who says she won’t be flying on September 11 any time soon, these excuses ring hollow:
In the aftermath of my events on Sept. 11, 2011, I feel violated, humiliated and sure that I was taken from the plane simply because of my appearance…We live in a complicated world that, to me, seems to have reached a breaking point. The real test will be if we decide to break free from our fears and hatred and truly try to be good people who practice compassion–even toward those who hate.
[ap via lasvegassun / shebshi.]
Terrible Typo of the Day: Like many family members of 9/11 victims, Jeffrey Schreier’s sister was at the National September 11 Memorial this past Sunday to see her brother’s name among those permanently etched into the panels along the site’s memorial pools.
Instead, however, Janice Hart was greeted by a jarring typo: “Jeffery.”
“As I was looking at the name, all of a sudden, I realized this name was not quite spelled correctly,” Janice’s husband David told NBC New York. “You feel as though Jeffrey’s soul is now looking down and saying, ‘Can’t you get my name right?’”
9/11 memorial spokesman Michael Frazier blamed the typo on a database entry error and said the mistake would be repaired, though how long that might take was unclear.
As Schreier’s remains were never found, the family lacks a proper grave site to visit. “It would just be a beautiful thing for us to come down there and see everything perfect and know his soul is at rest,” said Mr. Hart.
Santa Jesus 9-11 of the Day: “Remembering” by Fran Lagana-Brooks. From the “Weeping Santa” collection.
Say what you will, but that’s one painting I’ll never forget.
[jnnpr / christiannightmares.]
Suspicions On A Plane of the Day: In two separate instances yesterday, fighter jets were scrambled to escort commercial airliners following reports of bizarre bathroom behavior.
In the first incident, a passenger aboard an American Airlines en route to JFK from LAX alerted a flight attendant to three men — later identified as two Israelis and a Russian — who were making “frequent” trips to the restroom.
Air marshals sounded the all clear after it turned out they were using the bathroom to, you know, do bathroom stuff.
In the second apparently-scramble-worth event, three people were removed from a Frontier Airlines flight in handcuffs after crew members reported that at least two of the troublemakers were spending “an extraordinarily long time” in the plane’s bathroom.
Turns out they were just making out in there.
It was unclear how the third person was mixed up with the Mile High Club members, but I like where this is going.
Photo of the Day: The 88 searchlights of the Twin Towers’ Tribute in Light shine brightly while the half-built One World Trade Center, the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex, stands tall nearby, bathed in red, white, and blue.
[ap via atlanticwire.]
In Memoriam of the Day: Paul Simon sings “The Sound of Silence” at this morning’s 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero.
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Aborted Suicide Mission of the Day: Washington Post reporter Steve Hendrix recounts the story of Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney — an Air Force combat pilot who took to the skies on 9/11 in an unarmed F-16 ready to ram United 93 with her jet.
[wapo.]
Ten Years Later of the Day: Park Slope Redditor rebeccalmighty says: “Just took this on my rooftop, though I prefer the view I had 10 years ago.”
[reddit.]
