Ground Zero Tickets

[Smoker]

My aunt just returned from New York. She had in mind of going to ground zero where the towers used to be but she couldn't get in. She said the you have to buy a ticket to even see the place. You have to buy tickets a day in advance just to get to go she said. It might have just been something special that was going on while she was there; I don't know. I just sure hope that they are not trying to make a profit by commercializing an area where so many died. That would really get to me.

 

[Doc Tinker]

That really bugs me too, Smoker



Doc

 

[ACoyle]

The purpose of the tickets is to guarantee the people seeing the site time to do so without crowding. I have not been downtown reently, I understood that the tickets were free. If there is a fee, it is going to relief funds. My understanding. I really thin they are free.



I read that the ticket process is to prevent long lines of people from forming and to prevent people from getting "shoved about".

 

[Shovelhead]

It's very possibly the same thing that happens at the Washington Monument ticket booth.

The tickets are free, X-number per person, X-number of tickets issued per day. Ticket are gone rather quickly.

Scumbags stand in line each day, are issued their X-number of tickets, then go and sell them to tourists.



Jerk-offs making a living by scamming tourists.

What a novel concept.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

My co-workers brother-in-law was a NYPD cop that helped search ground zero shortly after the 11th. He didn't wear any king of breathing protection. I think he's 52.



2 years ago he was complaining of shortness of breath.



Long story short: He's in the ICU now breathing w/ the help of a machine. He's already had a lung removed. He is on the lung transplant list. My co-worker feels he won't live through the holidays.

 

[p-Bar]

My friend was 1st officer on flight 7 AA . Now with the Lord. I admired all those brave men who went into those towers and never came out. Your co-workers brother-in-law is a hero and I will be praying for him.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

My co-workers brother-in-law was a NYPD cop that helped search ground zero shortly after the 11th. He didn't wear any king of breathing protection. I think he's 52.



2 years ago he was complaining of shortness of breath.



Long story short: He's in the ICU now breathing w/ the help of a machine. He's already had a lung removed. He is on the lung transplant list. My co-worker feels he won't live through the holidays.

He finally died last Wednesday, Jan 24.



I was shocked to see it made the Front page of the New York Post!



The picture is his family meeting w/ President Bush.



Video: http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_027084215.html

 

[d90boy]

When I was in NY in the spring, there wasn't really much of anything to see. It looked like not much more than a construction site with some pictures and signs on the east side I think? What have they got there now?