How did you find out Osama was dead?

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Lifer
Oct 24, 2000
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Woke up. NPR on the radio.

Fell asleep before the news hit last night, otherwise would have walked over to the WH.
 

fire hazard

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Was in my car listening to the radio. The DJ said "This is just coming in through the wire. Osama bin Ladin is dead. His body is in US custody LMFAO. Lets start the party." Then they played party music. Wasn't sure if they were being serious untill I got home and saw it on the news. Shit was SO cash.
 

rudeguy

Lifer
Dec 27, 2001
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I fell asleep pretty early last night, so I woke up to it on the news this morning on tv
 

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Lifer
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Happened to click on P&N here while watching CSI Miami because they started talking about Obama making a speech...

saw the rumors...
 
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watching something on MSNBC, they broke to cover the presidents address ~10PM, they reported what it was about sometime before he actually took the podium
 

rudeguy

Lifer
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Was in my car listening to the radio. The DJ said "This is just coming in through the wire. Osama bin Ladin is dead. His body is in US custody LMFAO. Lets start the party." Then they played party music. Wasn't sure if they were being serious untill I got home and saw it on the news. Shit was SO cash.

when are they putting in the age/iq filter?
 
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I got a text message from my buddy asking if I heard about Osama. I was playing pool at a bar at the time. Looked up at the TV that was tuned to the Phillies game and there was a ticker at the bottom with the breaking news.
 

techs

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Happened to click on P&N here while watching CSI Miami because they started talking about Obama making a speech...

saw the rumors...

Yeah, I was on ATOT and I did a double take when I saw the thread Osama Bin Laden is dead. It didn't click for minute, then I saw there had been a bunch of replies to the thread, and I thought wtf is this about.

Clicked the linked and went holy shit, mutherfucker. Out lout.
 

rudeguy

Lifer
Dec 27, 2001
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Yeah, I was on ATOT and I did a double take when I saw the thread Osama Bin Laden is dead. It didn't click for minute, then I saw there had been a bunch of replies to the thread, and I thought wtf is this about.

Clicked the linked and went holy shit, mutherfucker. Out lout.

kind of the same thing for me. One of my monitors is my tv and the other had ATOT up. Fox News was talking but I wasn't paying attention until I saw the ATOT thread. My brain does not process information well at 6am.
 

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Lifer
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I first saw the news of Obama's press conference in P&N, followed shortly by Osama speculation (which never crossed my mind) before the news had broke.

Then I was checking various news sites and twitter, obviously, and I guess I saw it confirmed on twitter first.

So 1/2 vote twitter, 1/2 vote web site.
 

Leros

Lifer
Jul 11, 2004
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I actually heard about on ATOT first. If it wasn't ATOT, it would have been Reddit.

:( I'm sad now.

I'm actually surprised my dad didn't call me. He's reaching that age where he's starting to talk about politics a lot.
 
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techs

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So far, the results are really indicative of how much has changed since 9/11/2001. I found out about the WTC from someone on the street and immediately went home and turned on the tv.

Of course, I only had dial up back then.
 

rudeguy

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Dec 27, 2001
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So far, the results are really indicative of how much has changed since 9/11/2001. I found out about the WTC from someone on the street and immediately went home and turned on the tv.

Of course, I only had dial up back then.

you had dial up in 2001?

Turn in your nerd card and leave immediately.


I found out from the people I was playing online spades with.
 

uhohs

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i was refreshing on a japanese image board and around 7:45pm pacific time osama pictures started popping up. ~_~