• Fake 9/11 Hero Admits He Lied
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[release][img]http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thesideshow/bilde-1.jpg[/img] A South Carolina man who told his fellow firefighters he was one of the first responders on 9/11 has admitted it was a lie. Jordan Lifander, a former Cedarhurst, Long Island volunteer firefighter, said this week that he was sorry for telling firefighters in the Palmetto State that he was a captain of FDNY's Ladder 133, which lost 12 men on Sept. 11. "You know, once you tell one lie, you gotta keep up that lie," Lifander told CBSNewYork.com on Wednesday. "I got all caught up in the whole 9/11 anniversary and just lied. I was not a member of the FDNY, was not a captain in Ladder 133." Lifander "did not survive the disaster any more than those of us who watched it on television," CBS 2's Lou Young wrote. Dressed in a uniform with an FDNY patch, Lifander spoke at a 9/11 memorial service in Spartanburg, S.C., last year, telling the crowd he attended "47 funerals in three weeks for brothers who died that day." He received a standing ovation. According to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, current and former New York City firefighters contacted the paper on Monday saying Liflander's story was a "sham." When contacted by the paper, he said he had been "trying to get out of the situation" and "got caught up in the moment." "I wanted to represent what everybody was honoring that day," he said. "I told it from a New Yorker's point of view." "It was that whole thing about portraying something I wasn't," Lifander told CBS 2. "The ego, the lie, keeping up with it, a very big mistake ... It just snowballed into something that was out of my control. I'm truly sorry for misleading and lying." "I'm outraged," Bill Youngson, former captain of Ladder 133, told BlueRidgeNow.com. "I'm sick and tired of people standing up and telling people these stories for a little bit of glory. People have cancer, I have asthma and we paid our dues. In six months, we buried more people than you've ever seen and to read this story—this lie—it has to stop. Put that guy on the wall of shame." "It's sad, and it's disgusting," Billy Goldfeder, deputy chief of Cincinnati's Loveland-Symms Fire Dept. who runs FirefighterCloseCalls.com, told Yahoo News. "There's nothing more sacred than a firefighter's death in the line of duty death. It doesn't get much lower than what he did." Firefighters at Lifander's former Long Island firehouse are, understandably, livid, too. "It's a terrible situation," Cedarhurst FD capt. John McHugh told CBS. "I feel bad for the people of South Carolina and I feel bad for the people in the whole 9/11 system." "It happens a lot because they want to get that hero worship, people telling them 'thank you,'" former FDNY deputy chief Jim Riches added. "It's a sick mind, but he's not the only one doing it. It's out there and I think people should verify who's actually speaking to them." It's not clear if Lifander is currently a firefighter in South Carolina. A call to Lifander's home was not immediately returned. The only positive news to come out of this--if there is some--is that it does not appear Lifander used his faux FDNY status for financial gain. "We've seen 9/11 imposters before, but usually in connection with attempts to defraud the 9/11 victims' compensation fund," Young wrote. "It appears that [he] was interested in glory and not money." Goldfeder added: "Hopefully, if any good comes of this, it's that people will do some work to verify who they get to speak."[/release] Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fake-9-11-hero-admits-lie-fellow-firefighters-192558839.html[/url]
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[QUOTE=smurfy;34854410]cunt[/QUOTE] massive, gaping
At least he admits it. It's still terrible, though.
He's a real-life George.
There is a special level of Hell reserved for the Walter Mittys of the world.
[QUOTE=wewt!;34854435]massive, gaping[/QUOTE] prolapsed
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sponge like
From reading the article he seems genuinely sorry. Still a dick move though, should have come out and admitted years ago.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;34854453]He's a real-life George.[/QUOTE] "How do you live with yourself?" "It's not easy." Fucking love that time George pushed that old lady down to get away from a party fire
People fucking sicken me. Edit: How the fuck is this dumb?
How could you even think to lie about something like that, it's insulting to all the heroic people who lost their lives in that tragedy.
It was a dick move but he lived up to it if he was jealous then I don't know, I guess? still not cool.
Did he work at Ground Zero at all?
I would have kept my mouth shut if I was him this is probably going to ruin his career and life
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;34855577]I would have kept my mouth shut if I was him this is probably going to ruin his career and life[/QUOTE] Oh well, he's a moron anyway. Not surprised he blabbed about it, or lied in the first place.
I am glad that he admits that he lied, there are people that would keep lieing just to keep them selves looking good.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;34854741]There is a special level of Hell reserved for the Walter Mittys of the world.[/QUOTE] dumbest post
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;34854741]There is a special level of Hell reserved for the Walter Mittys of the world.[/QUOTE] The same one reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater?
nothing worse than people like this and military impersonators
Wow, and I thought Richard Henee from the "Balloon Boy" Incident did a worse job at getting publicity like this. Of course he tried, but how could you speak infront of a dozen people at a major 9/11 memorial and fake being a firefighter and NOT get verified first?
ITT: People butthurt about 9/11. News flash, we've done much worse to other countries.
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[QUOTE=Dankie;34857862]ITT: People butthurt about 9/11. News flash, we've done much worse to other countries.[/QUOTE] What does that have to do with anything? Who was being butthurt?
[QUOTE=faze;34855156]People fucking sicken me. Edit: How the fuck is this dumb?[/QUOTE] Because it's silly that you're so easily upset. People lie but there are much worse things going on in the world to be sickened by. He wanted glory in a time where it's hard to come by; this deserves a tsk-tsk, but what harm did he really do? He spoke at people's funerals and at anniversaries for remembrance by victims' families. Even if it was for some stolen glory, he still didn't really do a bad thing.
I'd rather have him tell the truth then know when he finally died, after idolizing him (this is an example) for my whole life to finally find out that there was proof that he was lying.
[quote]Lifander "did not survive the disaster any more than those of us who watched it on television," CBS 2's Lou Young wrote.[/quote] Bullshit.
I don't see why anyone cares. [editline]25th February 2012[/editline] I guess it's just americans that care about 9/11.
[QUOTE=_NewBee;34860142]I don't see why anyone cares. [editline]25th February 2012[/editline] I guess it's just americans that care about 9/11.[/QUOTE] Creating a giant web of lies to make yourself out to be a hero, when there are many more deserving people out there who haven't gotten recognition is generally a [I]really[/I] shitty thing to do. Especially in this case when he's using the deaths of others to further his own name. [quote] "I'm outraged," Bill Youngson, former captain of Ladder 133, told BlueRidgeNow.com. "I'm sick and tired of people standing up and telling people these stories for a little bit of glory. People have cancer, I have asthma and we paid our dues. In six months, we buried more people than you've ever seen and to read this story—this lie—it has to stop. Put that guy on the wall of shame."[/quote] Basically this. It takes a real kind of asshole to pull a stunt like this.
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