Girls dress up as Twin Towers, Win halloween costume prize
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Two female students have outraged the families of 9/11 victims by entering a nightclub fancy dress competition dressed as the Twin Towers being hit by planes.
Amber Langford and Annie Collinge, both 19, won the contest and a £150 prize at a Chester nightclub despite lampooning the worst terrorist attack in modern history.
Today, families of those who lost loved ones in the New York terror attack said that they found the costumes distressing.
Patricia Bingley, 79, whose 43-year-old son Kevin Dennis died in the atrocity said: 'It's hard to understand where they've come from to do this.'
Miss Langford, who is studying biology at the University of Chester, and Miss Collinge, a criminology student, wore the outfits to a Halloween event at Rosies nightclub last Thursday evening.
They had modelled their costumes on the North and South Tower wreathed in flames and with victims jumping from windows. Both women also wore hats topped with the wreckage of the planes and U.S. flags.
It's just a Halloween costume!!!
People are so sensitive, it's not even offensive!!!
If you can't comprehend the notion of victims' families from the 9-11 attacks being upset over a Halloween costume glorifying their tragic loss, maybe you should refrain from discussing the issue.
I'm obviously being ironic 9/11 was an awful, awful event
It doesn't surprise me at all though that people are outraged about these girls but act nonchalant about Julianne Hough and everyone else dressed up in blackface and Native American costume.
There is no difference, millions of people died in slavery and millions died in the Native American genocide. A lot more than 9/11. But it doesn't matter since they're not white.
Thoughts?
