15th June 2010, 9:37 PM
Sacred Jellybean Wrote:The dumbest 9/11 truther conspiracy theory I've heard was when a girl at a party told me she heard the government orchestrated the collapse of the twin towers because... ready for it? There was GOLD underneath them. No joke, she told it to me with complete conviction.
I told her how ridiculous that was, and her response was, "Well, they did it for SOMETHING under there." Uh... that wasn't quite the point. She wasn't even that drunk.
I've heard that before. The idea is that in one of the collapsed buildings (not the main two WTC towers, but one of the other ones that "suspiciously" fell) there was supposedly a large amount of gold in some bank vault or depository or something, and in the confusion after the towers fell some group(in the government who had of course set bombs in the buildings to make them come down) took off with the gold.
I don't believe it either, but I do know people who believe some of the "Truther" stuff, conspiracy theorists and such on the left mostly...