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World Trade Center 'surfer' struggles to comprehend his survival 20 years later
Yahoo News! ^ | Mon, September 6, 2021 | Tori Richards

Posted on 09/07/2021 11:19:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway

As one of only two people who survived 9/11 by surfing down the Twin Towers collapse, Pasquale Buzzelli has a mixture of survivor’s guilt and gratefulness.

“Here I am given this gift, and I wanted to make the most of it,” he told 60 Minutes Australia. At the same time, he struggles to make sense of why he survived and others didn’t.

Perhaps it was a mixture of luck, divine intervention, and quick wits to pick a place to weather the collapse: curled up in the corner of a stairwell against two concrete walls.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 911; godsgravesglyphs; newyork; newyorkcity; pasqualebuzzelli; worldtradecenter
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1 posted on 09/07/2021 11:19:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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How sadly ironic: He survived this horrific attack on liberty only to end up locked down 20 years later in the new Australian covid penal colony.


2 posted on 09/07/2021 11:22:01 AM PDT by glennaro (Dennis Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never")
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Weren’t a couple firemen who survived also found in a stairwell? The stairwells were the core of the building, so that turned out the “safest” place to be.


3 posted on 09/07/2021 11:23:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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Oh my gosh. People still believe that crap?


4 posted on 09/07/2021 11:24:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: nickcarraway

Not to take away from the story.
But I think think this guy has appeared on multiple media’s including William Shatners Weird or What 10 years ago.


5 posted on 09/07/2021 11:25:15 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!interested in how to land..)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks nickcarraway.

6 posted on 09/07/2021 11:25:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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7 posted on 09/07/2021 11:26:59 AM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: Texas Eagle
It's real. He's the one who took this picture. Sadly, his friend didn't make it.


8 posted on 09/07/2021 11:27:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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>> Shatner

To say he jumped a shark too?


9 posted on 09/07/2021 11:27:51 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BenLurkin

no- this picture is completely fake.


10 posted on 09/07/2021 11:29:06 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: BenLurkin

“Move to your left so I can also capture that incoming 747...”

I remember that photo.


11 posted on 09/07/2021 11:30:10 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BenLurkin

Of course, it’s real


12 posted on 09/07/2021 11:30:25 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Texas Eagle

My thoughts exactly. This nonsense was pretty much tossed aside within a few weeks of 9/11.


13 posted on 09/07/2021 11:30:27 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: PGR88

You may have been thinking about the fireman who saved a black woman when the towers collapsed. There were about a half dozen and the woman was having trouble walking. They escorted her down and when the towers came down somehow the stairwell they were in did not crumble and they all survived: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/21/firefighters-say-goodbye-to-their-911-guardian-angel/


14 posted on 09/07/2021 11:32:24 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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True story, One guy used PBX cable, tied it to a stairs and climbed down to where he could find usable stairs. He convinced 5 others i think it was to follow him and they all made it out. Others on his floor were too scared to climb down slippery PBX cable and it is slippery, plastic sheath.


15 posted on 09/07/2021 11:32:34 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: God luvs America
no- this picture is completely fake.

I think the poster realizes that. :)
16 posted on 09/07/2021 11:36:15 AM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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I watched an interivew NBC did with Trump on 9/11.

Trump talked about how the WTC were the first buildings to be built from the outside. The windows were very narrow.

He described the buildings as being built like cans of soup. Then I saw a clip of what a bird flying into a plane does to the front part of the plane.

What if the Truthers and all the people we mocked in the 2000s were right? Trump even mentioned there had to be bombs in the building, and then you see these magnificent steel structures just turn into dust?

17 posted on 09/07/2021 11:36:29 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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"no- this picture is completely fake."

Being the plane would be going around 500mph I would question if the plane would be in such good focus. Maybe because it's digital but it looks very suspect.

18 posted on 09/07/2021 11:36:55 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: nickcarraway

I had no idea anyone in those buildings survived the collapse(s). Wow! What a story.


19 posted on 09/07/2021 11:37:09 AM PDT by fwdude (If you don’t think you are in a battle w/ the culture for your children then you are already losing.)
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” Trump even mentioned there had to be bombs in the building,”

That’s lunacy. No one put bombs in the building.


20 posted on 09/07/2021 11:38:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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