Students sorry for September 11 Twin Towers Halloween costume

[The Straight Story]

Two students have apologised after dressing up as the Twin Towers during the 9/11 attacks.

Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, both 19, were given £150 in shopping vouchers after winning a Halloween costume contest at Rosies nightclub in Chester.

Their matching outfits, which were labelled North Tower and South Tower, featured depictions of flames, explosions and planes hanging from windows.

Ms Langford and Ms Collinge, both students at Chester University, told the Sun newspaper: ‘We never meant to be offensive, but we apologise if any offence was caused.

‘The idea was to depict a serious, modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke.’

http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/06/students-sorry-for-dressing-up-as-twin-towers-during-911-attacks-4175721/

[CBGLuthier]

1. Maybe next year one of them can darken up a bit and go as Jean Charles de Menezes

There's a bit of good terrorism humor not yet exploited. Or perhaps an exploded London bus. Hi lar i ous. I guess depicting an entire street littered with bodies like would be beyond their rather limited artistic skills to properly render.

[leftyohiolib]

2. yea they sure look like they are maling a serious statement . fu

[exboyfil]

3. Tasteless like the woman who dressed up

as a Boston Marathon bombing survivor. Don't these people have friends that warn about this stuff being in incredibly poor taste and will have lasting social and professional implications (the Internet remembers everything).

[SummerSnow]

4. stupid is contagious

[penultimate]

5. "not intended as a joke" "Wasn't meant to offend"

Really? Why not just own up to it? I find it hard to believe that their motive here was not to shock and offend. That's why they did. They thought it would be amusing to shock and offend people. Just own it, don't try to play it off as something else.

The Boston Marathon girl said she wasn't trying to offended either... At least she admitted her costume was meant to be a joke. Costumes like those are meant to shock and offend by their purposeful distastefulness.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. I can understand being sorry for spur-of-the-moment stupid (I have my share) but

this went through concept, design, procurement, manufacture and release -- and there were 2 of them, either one of whom could have paused and said, "Maybe this will get a bad reaction?" How stupid do you have to be to have 2 people go through that much time and effort and not consider the fall-out, and if they did then can they really say they're sorry for the act so much as they're sorry for the fall-out?