How would you prevent 9/11? - (If you were a time traveler.)

[Very Expensive]

It is midnight on September 11th, 2001. You have just emerged from a time portal, wearing nothing but the clothes on your back as you stand in front of the World Trade Center. Hours remain until the first plane hits. How will you prevent the 9/11 attacks?

 

[The Last Stand]

Tell people to not fly any planes.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I'd get on one of the planes and subdue the attackers, becoming a hero, monetizing my heroic efforts.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Where exactly do I emerge? Cause if I end up where I am just on 9/11 there ain't really much I can do from Brazil you know.

If you are dropping people on NYC proper though, then my guess would be get a knife/gun and wait until about 6 to 7 o'clock and start a hostage situation. I then make the demand that the WTC complex should be evacuated and once that is done I will surrender after one hour. That is gonna confuse the fuck out of the negotiators, and probably be easy enough to do that they might comply. Gonna be really funny when the plane hits and after a while Building 7 spontaneously catches fire and collapses.

 

[winterfag]

I'd wake up Seth MacFarlane

 

[ChefBourgeoisie]

Since when did this become redditard writing prompts?

The answer is simple, you call in a tip to the FBI hotline. You describe how the attackers intend to take down the buildings, how the planes themselves will be deliberately crashed, that they will kill the pilots and that they have enough pilot training to steer into the buildings themselves. That each plane has 4-6 attackers, they intend to use blades or boxcutters, that they believe the passengers won't fight back because they'll mistake it for a hijacking. Given the flight numbers of each of the 4 planes. Mention that the targets might well be variable if they take longer to get control of the cockpit. You could even memorize the attackers' names, but you would want to point out that there may be backups/sleepers you don't know of. If you rehearsed this, the message could be under 30 seconds long, wouldn't even have to talk to a person.

For bonus points, accuse the Mossad of knowing about the plot but that they intend to keep quiet to try to steer the United States into war in the Middle East.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I'd tell Kevin Smith to not miss his plane.

 

[smartypants302]

Load both towers up with Jews and turn a negative into a positive.

 

[LeChampion1992]

I wouldn't I would In fact make it worse. I would want the full scale Bojinka plot to go ahead.
I know it would sound bad but the west would take a firm handline stance against Islam. Edgelord atheism+ wouldn't take hold because you actually attacked and killed the pope.
The Phillipines would go full remove kebab, the middle east would actually have a secular revolution triggered by Islamic atrocities, and people would be far more unapologetically Christian in the west and Asia.
I kinda wish the twin towers and pentagon didn't get hit but the rest of the bojinka plot happened.

 

[twinArmageddons]

call in and say a terrorist will hijack 4 planes with knifes otherwise i'd look like this

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Since when did this become redditard writing prompts?

The answer is simple, you call in a tip to the FBI hotline. You describe how the attackers intend to take down the buildings, how the planes themselves will be deliberately crashed, that they will kill the pilots and that they have enough pilot training to steer into the buildings themselves. That each plane has 4-6 attackers, they intend to use blades or boxcutters, that they believe the passengers won't fight back because they'll mistake it for a hijacking. Given the flight numbers of each of the 4 planes. Mention that the targets might well be variable if they take longer to get control of the cockpit. You could even memorize the attackers' names, but you would want to point out that there may be backups/sleepers you don't know of. If you rehearsed this, the message could be under 30 seconds long, wouldn't even have to talk to a person.

For bonus points, accuse the Mossad of knowing about the plot but that they intend to keep quiet to try to steer the United States into war in the Middle East.

The FBI could just bury it. Better to call them and then keep making calls, to the NYPD, NYFD, FoxNews, CNN, Telemundo, local christian preacher AM Radio, and post it on Something Awful as well just for the cherry on top.

 

[William Murderface]

I will convince the Indians to not sell Manhattan for 24 dollars and some beads to the Dutch in the first place.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

Nuke Israel.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Tell Nickelback to release Silver Side Up a month later. It'd be the less catchy 10/11.

 

[Justice Tony]

Tell the Crusaders to not listen to the Venetians

 

[Taser Confetti]

The FBI could just bury it. Better to call them and then keep making calls, to the NYPD, NYFD, FoxNews, CNN, Telemundo, local christian preacher AM Radio, and post it on Something Awful as well just for the cherry on top.

The NSA would party van you and you'll wake up in GITMO being water boarded by CIA agents who aren't gonna buy the time traveler story.

 

[Dawdler]

I'd get on one of the planes and subdue the attackers, becoming a hero, monetizing my heroic efforts.

Both twins still come down
Restart mission?
[Y]es [N]o

 

[Calandrino]

I'm sure the charges were set long in advance and I'd have no idea how to diffuse them. I suppose I'd just set up a stand to sell water to first responders, easy money even with massive markup.

 

[Rapesputin]

Convince Barbara Bush to abort her first son

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

I'd hijack a couple of planes on 9/10 and crash into the towers first, preventing 9/11 from ever happening.