What were you doing when you found out Osama bin Laden was dead?

I was trying to find something good on TV until I saw the news. And I spilled ravioli sauce on myself.

Fluthering lol.

I was listening to the radio whilst changing my clothes when I found out. I’d just woken up a few minutes ago and had returned from the bathroom.

I was up at the Fortress of Solitude (my Shingletown house). My wife and I just finished a DVD of a silent movie (The Man Who Laughs), and I switched the channel to catch the end of the Simpsons, when I watched the live news feed.
I don’t deny that I felt wonderful hearing the news. A lot of people say they have mixed emotions, but I embraced it as good news. Sure, there will be blowback, but we needed this to end the war in Afganistan.

Is it sad that I was more concerned about The Rock? just kidding, kind of :D

@noelleptc I’ve missed this season. Is it a good one?

I was on Fluther. I heard the news from Fluther.

Shows how much of a life I have!

@Michael_Huntington Lol. XD I see wut j00 did thar. XD

I was on facebook and watching my DVR. I saw a status update that Obama was going to be speaking at 10:55 eastern, I think it was about 10:30 EDT at the time I had not been watching live TV, so I had no idea. Worse, my TV was taping two things, so I could not switch to a live broadcast (well I guess I could have stopped one, but chose not to). My facebook friends told me what was happening, and I watched it later.

My husband was already asleep.

@KatetheGreat Ben and Andrew would be proud. =)

I was on Fluther, and suddenly there were a million questions about it! I googled it, and it seemed to be true, so I quickly showered and got ready for bed then watched Obama speak then went to bed and had weird dreams about Harpo Marx swimming naked in the pool of a panda den while on meth. Phew.

I was watching a recorded PBS special on Cirque de Soliel with my wife. I checked Facebook on my phone and someone had posted that Obama was about to announce Bin Laden was dead. I then told my wife and we finished watching Cirque.

@jonsblond You know you’re an addict when you get all of your current events updates from Fluther. ;)

@Symbeline lol I really did, though! I was eating chef boyardee and there was this one ravioli all the way in the back of the can.,, (well from the angle I was holding it).

I’ll admit that I did feel happy about his death at first, but that was just a knee-jerk reaction. And that USA chant I did was a joke. Can’t believe people actually did that…

Oh, I should have added I went to fluther chat and said something about it in there I think, and then started seeing all the Q’s about it.

I was watching Game of Thrones, and my roommate’s GF shrieked in the living room, so I went to see what was up. It was right before the scene where Robb talks to Bran.

Turns out all her friends were posting the news on FB and she was reading them on her phone.

I was at my g/f’s in Mich. We had no access to cable, nor internet, so, I didn’t find out until this morning when my brother told me over the phone.

First reaction, “that’s crap. I don’t believe it”.

@Michael_Huntington You also eat you rav cold, straight from the can? Man, you get more and more awesome every time I talk to you.

And yeah, that whole celebration thing I find a little morbid and disconcerting, really.

I was on Fluther and Facebook, but I think I heard it first on Facebook.

Mmm ravioli.

Get Low was such a good movie.

@Symbeline Most of the time, yeah. I’m such a lazy bastard. And thanks! Same to you.

@Jude Wasn’t it!? Best least known movie I’ve seen in a long time. =)

@Michael_Huntington Cold rav is the best, and I found this out of laziness myself as well. (don’t try Beefaroni cold though, that’s just nasty)

@jonsblond You and Jon should check out The Fighter (if you haven’t, already). Sorry, won’t go OT with your question, anymore. =)

@Jude No prob. It’s social. Plus, I asked this question so I could plug the movie.(joking) lol

I was driving home from the grocery store (to pick up some cranberry/grape juice 100% juice, no sugar added) and one of the funny talk show hosts in Los Angeles was speculating upon what the President was about to come on to talk about, out of the blue. He thought it might have something to do with Libya. About a minute later, someone from the news dept. at the radio station told the host what actually happened, and he broke the news. I got home about 5 minutes later and my parents were watching it on the news.

P.S. Now I want some ravioli! And you do realize that now all of us in this thread, will remember 20 years from now when and why we started associating cold ravioli straight out of the can with the death of Bin Laden. Works for me.

@Kardamom Lean Cuisine ravioli isn’t bad.

@Kardamom Not only ravioli, but Fluther. Ben and Andrew must be smiling knowing their website was the news outlet for some for such a major event in our lifetime. =)

I havn’t watched or listened to any media intentionally for the last 10 years.

I saw the headline on my home page yesterday morning and the questions on Fluther.

I have yet to read one article.

@Kardamom Haha hell yeah. :) Not a bad thing to have as an association factor when it comes to the darkness that is this world. Real grape juice goes great with the pasta, too. :)

I was on here, of course…

I was on Fluther, I heard the news on fluther like some of the others above.

Laying in bed with my fiance, who happened to be on Twitter. Truly this is the age we live in.

10 years ago I was working in a library when the planes hit the towers, and I spent the rest of the day reading cnn on what seems like an ancient CRT computer monitor.

I had just finished watching The Departed.

I was writing an essay about the evolution of the relationship between the Wehrmacht and Nazi party leadership for my modern European history class.

I had just woken up and my husband told me it was just on the radio. I probably won’t care to remember by then because the world will give birth to another a—hole again.

I was writing about the Holocaust for a history class, since that’s homework, though, I was mostly watching Archer before going to bed.

Watching TV with my husband and our friend. We were trying to turn on the local news when we realized that there was a special report on every station.

I was watching Brothers & Sisters when they interrupted the show for a special report.

I saw it here, the question about whether I believed the story. So I switched my browser to MSNBC, saw that the president was about to make an announcement, heard the announcement, and came back and said yes, I believed it.

I was fluthering.

My partner told me when she got home after her night-shift.
Partner: “Guess who’s died?”
Me: (sleepily) “William Windsor?”
P: “Nope”
M: “Katherine Middleton?”
P: Nope
M: “Oh well….David Cameron?”
P: Nope:
M: “Are they a politician?”
P: “Not really. Think 11th September”
M: “George Bush”
P: “Nope”
M: “Osama Bin Laden”.
P: “Yes”
M: “Oh.” <thinks, “you woke me up to tell me that? It could have waited, he’ll still be dead when it’s not stupid o’clock in the morning”>

I was in the kitchen opening the refrigerator.

We all know where exactly we were on 09/11/2001.

Strong emotions allow our brains to build shortcuts to long-term memory.

Studying pharmacology.

Honestly, my boyfriend and I wear having sexy time when I saw it on the news we don’t have a weird news fetish or anything it just happened to be on when the mood took us!. It made us stop what we were doing for a second in amazement!

watching Celebrity Apprentice

I was kind of asleep. Actually, I’d gotten up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and when I got back into bed my husband woke up. He decided he needed to use the bathroom too (we must be getting old) but then felt too awake to come straight back to bed. He checked his email and went online, saw the news, and woke me up to tell me when he did finally come back to bed. I guess I wasn’t really awake though, because I didn’t remember it until I got up in the morning and saw the news myself. Then I asked my husband, “Did you actually wake me up to tell me that in the middle of the night?” He should know by now that anything I’m told during the night, even if I seem to be awake, probably won’t register.

I don’t know what time the announcement was made on TV. We’d had a busy day and were both really tired, so after we put the kids to bed, we watched a movie in our room, played cards, and fell asleep.

My radio alarm woke me with the news that morning.

I was online, I don’t remember what specific site (probably Reddit). I saw a tweet pop up mention Bin Laden was dead. I shrugged it off as a joke, but then Twitter and Facebook exploded with news about it, so I went and turned on CNN.

We were in California, staying with our son while preparing for his wedding on the upcoming Saturday. They interrupted some game show on TV to announce it.

My son and his fiance’ considered it a good omen right before their wedding, but lots of things can be good omens, right ?

You make three green lights in a row ? Good omen.
Hit an 8-iron shot two feet from the flag ? Good omen.
Get sick the week AFTER a great vacation ? Good omen.