9/11 Twin Tower Halloween Costumes Win Costume Contest, Cause Uproar

Halloween’s a time for people to dress up as monsters, “sexy” anything, and something insanely provocative. This year, the award for more outlandish goes to two British girls who thought it would be a fun idea to dress up as the Twin Towers, complete with fake explosions and fake people falling out of buildings. But it’s not just the costume that’s angering people, it’s the fact that the nightclub they attended awarded the two girls the prize for “best dressed.”

British tabloid The Sun splashed an image of the two teens on the front page with the caption “TOWERING STUPIDITY.”

The Sun‘s report spared no detail in publicly shaming the Annie Collinge and Amber Langford for their provocative costumes.

“I didn’t know anything about it, but I’m not happy at all,” Collinge’s father told The Sun after the pictures emerged Wednesday.

The English nightclub that awarded the prize, Rosies, said in a statement that it is “extremely concerned” about how people “dressed in a distasteful and offensive manner” were selected.

The women, both students at the University of Chester, later apologized, saying the costume “was not intended as a joke,” but rather meant to “depict a serious, modern-day horror.”

Not. Helping.

[photo via The Sun]

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