5 years ago - where were you when you heard?

[underpants]

Bin Laden killed.

I'm trying to find a link to ESPN. They had an interesting piece about the only major sports event going on that night (NHL and NBA playoffs both had no games) a baseball game between the Mets and the Phillies. Fans in attendance were finding out via their phones but the players had no idea what was going on just that it was clear SOMETHING BIG HAD HAPPENED.

CNN has a "Did it matter?" article today

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/politics/terrorism-bin-laden-raid-2016-isis/

[LisaM]

1. I remember that we didn't have the TV on right then.

I turned it on an hour or so later and went and told my SO. I had mixed feelings about whether it eas good or bad (how it happened, not that he was dead). I also remember being absolutely appalled by all the young people rushing to the White House in that kind of flash mob scene. That still bothers me. How did that make us look? It was a sobering event.

[Xolodno]

2. Didn't find out until the next morning.

We were on a mini vacation and doing wine tasting. After the day was done, went to dinner and back to the hotel. Opened one of the bottles we bought and slipped into a wine coma for the night.

[Brickbat]

3. I don't even remember. Was it a Sunday? I think I found out via DU.

[underpants]

4. Yes Sunday night US time

https://m.

[bigwillq]

5. I had just gotten home from work

Saw it on the TV

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Promise not to laugh at me?????

I'll tell you if you promise.

[underpants]

7. I promise

Proceed Meemie

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Prefacing with: I swear I am level-headed and not given to fits of media-induced

panic, but the humidity must have gotten to my brain, or it was my friend's fault because she might be given to panic.

I had a friend and her two boys over for a cookout and a swim in the pool. As we were washing up the dishes, that television announced that Obama had called for a special address of the "American People" (that's exactly how they said it) to happen in an hour. I looked at my friend and said,"I wonder what that is about."

Friend:"Nuclear war?"
Me (wishes I had said):"Nah, that announcement would be immediate."
What Me really said:"I don't know...."

Friend: "Aliens?" (I shit you not)


Long story short, my friend reeled through a list of crazy things (and she SAID them SERIOUSLY) that could be about to happen and then gathered up her boys to run home and be with the rest of her family in case the world was ending.

I finished the dishes, but she had planted a damned seed and I have no idea how she got into my head like that.

Anyway, I did my little freakout (internal) and then laughed like a hyena when Obama came on.

We're still friends, and I still make fun of her.

[underpants]

12. I'm not laughing

but that is funny

[herding cats]

9. A hotel room, same as today oddly.

I'd just gotten in and was flipping channels on the TV. I stopped on a network when I saw the president was expected to speak soon wondering what was up.

I didn't expect it to be the announcement it ended up being.

[gratuitous]

10. The equivalent of clipping toenails

I've gotten probably far too blasé about our country's betrayals of its high-sounding ideals to even make a mental note of where I was when one or another happened. We sent out a cadre of killers to shoot a sick old man and dump his body at sea because our citizens have been terrorized into thinking that we can't afford the extravagance of the Constitution.

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

[underpants]

14. Interesting

Thanks

[ladyVet]

17. I have to agree with you on this, gratuitous.

We sent out a cadre of killers to shoot a sick old man and dump his body at sea because our citizens have been terrorized into thinking that we can't afford the extravagance of the Constitution.

If anything, he should have been turned over to the Hague. I never liked how this worked out, and it was one of the first things that really turned me off about Obama.

[nemo137]

11. I was playing a Dungeons and Dragons Online

I zoned in to the Marketplace, and the general chat there was full of people with names like "Zorgoth the Conqueror" talking about it. It was surreal.

[underpants]

13. Wow

BTW don't f with Zorgoth.

[shanti]

15. No, I really don't n/t

[linuxman]

16. In college, sitting at my computer.

I logged on to DU to check out the commentary.


It was...enlightening.

Afterwards, I went out to the street and celebrated with some fellow classmates. Quite a party.