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The White House apologized today after a low-flying Boeing 747 was spotted flying low around the Manhattan area and scared residents and workers into evacuating buildings. The FAA said the aircraft, which was being tailed by two F-16s, was part of a government-sanctioned photo shoot. As would be expected when a low-flying jumbo airliner and two fighter jets are seen flying low over Manhattan, people freaked the fuck out. “I thought there was some kind of an attack,” said Paul Nadler, who sprinted down more than 20 flights of stairs after watching the plane from his office in Jersey City shortly after 10 a.m. “We ran like hell.”

“Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center defies the imagination,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest the residents of New York might have been a little traumatized by 9/11. I dunno, just me? This may quite possibly have been the most poorly thought out idea since that time I tried to mug a guy on Halloween who was dressed like a cop and he turned out to be an actual cop.

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