Why you shouldn’t walk past Mr. Double Check - World Trade Center History
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2022
- Mr. Double Check was created by John Seward
Johnson II in 1982 and placed in Zuccotti Park across from the World Trade Center Site. Learn about Double Check’s unique connection to the World Trade Site, and why you should stop by it. Double Check is currently located on the Northwest Corner of Broadway and Liberty Street in Lower MAnhattan near the new World Trade Center Site.
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“Sir, are you okay? SIR?”
“Officer, this is a statue.”
Man that officer must be so exhausted
hard to see the difference when everyone looked like a living statue back then
😂😂😂💀💀💀
“Your talking to a statue officer”
Statue -
“Sir, are you okay?”
Mr Double-check: 🗿
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@@pinecone683 🧮🖋️📒🗒️🧳🗿
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I bet there are those who were “double checking” something that then miraculously saved their lives.
That's actually pretty sad how the dust was so bad and covered people so thoroughly that he was so indistinguishable from the real people caught in the chaos.
He was double checking his briefcase after they collapsed to make sure he remembered everything he needed for that meeting. Legend is today he’s still double checking his briefcase.
The video didn't mention that he lost his umbrella. There was an umbrella next to him on the bench. I used to work downtown back in the 80s and 90s. I saw him every day.
"Sir are you ok"
"Let me double-check"
We had a statue like that in Brea, California, once. My friends pranked me with it by claiming it was a crazy man who sat on a bench all night long. I think it was eventually stolen.
Wow! I know that place!
motherfuckers stole my statue, cant have shit in california
@@sheivei *know 🤓👍
@@arthurm5d302 Thansk
I thought this was a way too wholesome story for california, but then i read the ending and it made sense
I used to sit down next to him all the time after grabbing burger king for lunch across the street.
That’s so sweet!
That's sad that he was just sitting in the rubble when it fell I still can't believe 9/11 was risky and people risked their lives on the 100th floor to get people out or save them I can imagine what the fire exits look like
The emergency stairwells werent very roomy from what ive heard, there might photos on google
@@anthonyv1971they weren't at all up to code even from the 70s
They weren’t huge but they weren’t bad.. but for the amount of people the building could hold, they could have been bigger!
But even if they were bigger it wouldn’t have been a saving moment. This destruction was planned and they were coming down no matter what. They even blew down build7 at the end of day!
@@Flyyn_Gaming_9they didn’t have to follow the standard code because it was the port authority in charge meaning they only put 7 stairwells rather than the standard of 7 that other buildings of that size had to follow
BBQ?
Pens, recorder, calculator. What’s the square thing in the middle
I remember first seeing him in 1996 i still have the picture i took with him as a little kid
Ok won't lie, thought this was a statue regarding some lucky dude who was fixing to go into a meeting in the WTC sat down to "double check" that he had everything for the meeting and because of that he had escaped the tragic fate.
Me too
I want to sit with him , I have tears in my eyes . Thankyou for sharing this unique information
My daughter and I were in NYC a couple of months ago. He is doing well ❤️.
Interesting. I am going to check this out.
"more than 30 years before the iPhone was introduced"
25 years
That's a man dedicated to his work
Beautiful story.
Thank you. 💛
I agree with another commenter. Your chipper, bouncy delivery is completely inappropriate for this subject. If you had lived through 9/11 in NY, you couldn't have made such a silly, shallow, trivial video.
agree i dont know why she seems so happy about this topic
Nah pls if I tried to help someone and it was a statue I’d hope nobody saw that and take it to my grave
What if someone left an iPhone in the briefcase for real lol
I wached this at 9:11 PM
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Omg! I never looked in his briefcase!! 😂 😂
Never heard/seen anything about this before 😮
That's funny that the firefighters asked if he was okay!
"Hey,buddy. Are you ok?"
"Buddy?"
*Touches double check and finds out he's a sculpture*
"Oh."
I was ready for it to be a real person to jump scare us
Same 😂
This is very cool awesome story awesome video. Thank you for sharing. It was a treat to watch and listen to.
Mr. Double Check = double check check
The narrator is too giggly and giddy talking about this.
She just sounds passionate talking about it
“There are no iPhones 🤣🤣🤣🤣”
I enjoyed her voice
@@azelusnovamore like an airhead
Very cavalier . Perhaps more respect at least .
bro is IMMORTAL
beautiful sculpture
I wanna know what's supposed to be in that briefcase
I missed this when I visited the site. Would have liked to see it.
I will _NEVER_ visit NYC. But, it was nice to meet one of the City’s better Residents 🤠👍
“There were no iPhones” no, really? The timeline adds up: 2007, 2008, 2009, 1982, 2010, 2011
I wonder why he was moved out of Zuccotti Park and onto One Liberty Plaza.
I’ve heard rumors that his watch reads 9:11!? 🤔🤨🧐
The one history nerd of a first responder seeing the statue among the debris: OH MY GOD IT’S JUST LIKE POMPEII!
I imagine a history nerd would be aware that the figures at Pompeii are plaster casts of voids in the volcanic ash. They weren't found like that lol.
Why do they have to tell me there weren't iphones until like 2004
I rate this a 9 out of 11
I remember seeing this years
Love this
My dad was doing EMT on a lady infront of the millennium hotel. He got covered in that dust when the towers fell.
Did he suffer any health problems from the dust?
@@republicofoctania9571 when my dad was blown in the air, when tower fell, he scraped his elbow. He waited 2 days before going to the ER because it ended up infected. We told him to go to ER that night. I told him to go to ER on ride home.
My dad had some health issues before Sept 11, 2001. He already survived cancer from 1988. Around Dec 2011, my dad got pneumonia. Then my dad was said to have a similar cancer again. We're not sure if this is related to WTC where he did EMT from approx. 9:15 am. My dad passed away in 2012.
I believe my dad would still be alive if this surgeon dand dr idn't do a surgery when my dad had pneumonia. The other dr said the pneumonia would take 6 to 8 weeks to get better. My mom had left me out of the decision for surgery. I'd have told her to wait a few weeks because my dad was weak already. About a week after the surgery, they gave him too much chemo. He woke up around 3 am and fell. My mom had to call ambulance to take dad to hospital. He had a heart attack and they put him on life support. After 2 to 3 days they said my dad had no brain activity. We know our dad would not want to live on life support, so we had to let him go.
Thank you for asking. May g-d bless you and your family always. Much success and health to all.
@@republicofoctania9571 yes. The entire 3 paragraph explanation response disappeared after I posted. I'll have to write again as a separate post
Safe to say he didn’t make it to the meeting. But the world sure fell on his shoulders.
Yes, that's what I cross horizontal glide..
Sir are you ok? Uhmmm sir? Officer:why is he not talking? Officer 2: he’s a statue. EMT and Officer 1:🗿🗿🗿
"There are no iPhones"
And yet here I am, thinking about how we might have a little more of the world back without them in society.
Ok boomer
@@NateS917 ok kid
I’m surprised nobody has stolen his coat!!
good luck trying to take of a solid metal jacket
"More than 30 years before the iPhone was introduced"
Apparently she doesn't know basic knowledge that most people already know, that the iPhone was introduced in 2007, not after 2012.
Can you reset that calculator or no?
Yes I have seen him many times before 9 11
If it weren't for him double checking his briefcase then he might have made it to work on time.
Why shouldn't we walk past him though? Am I gonna burst into flames?
Is that an actual lcd
Those numbers looked very unstatue like
Fire fighters are questioning him
I'm all yelling at his calculator
He was late to work :(
I thought there was gonna be a toy plane inside of there
Bro so gen z iphone was released. before any smart phone was!
"There are no iphones"
YEAH NO KIDDING ITS BEEN AROUND FOR LIKE 15 YEARS ONLY AND PEOPLE WANNA JUST JOKE ABOUT HOW PATHETIC THEY CANT LIVE OR THINK OR EXIST IN A WORLD WOTHOUT A PHONE
Preserved This but not the Original Perimeter of the Center !?
1982-2007(iPhone release) that’s only 25 years lol not “over 30 years” lol but I get what you mean. It’s been there a long time meep
Double check a free fall
these are what the destroyed WTC's were WTC-1 (1 of the towers) WTC-2 (the other tower) WTC-3 (a hotel that was destroyed by the towers) WTC-4, WTC-5 ,and WTC-6 (idk what happened) WTC-7 collapsed from WTC-1
They should give him an iPhone
but why shouldnt you walk past him?
She meant don’t walked past it and not stop. 😊
Oh god Mr. double check sounds like mister he shark puppet
Girl don’t know that 9/11 incident happened
It’s like a depiction of our unshackling devotion to work and never ever stop that our employers desire from us
What is secret about that ffs behave
He was bout to do a line
Like so much of NY? No. Nothing came down like the towers. Disrespectful cringe “content creator” get a real job.
First of all, the reference was NYC was shaken by the events yet endured. Pretty sure all of NYC was shaken. Additionally, I have a job as NYC tour guide including giving tours of the site. And finally, this was one of the very first videos I ever made. I hope you see improvement and growth in the newer videos, and anyone looking at your work from several years ago is much kinder. But…hey…even if your comment was negative, thanks for boosting my engagement! (Megan wait for some comment about how all she cares about is engagement and being a superficial influencer, which the commenter doesn’t realize is continuing to boost engagement and help her out in the long term, even if it’s through hurtful words. Pretty ironic someone thinking I didn’t show compassion to 9/11 shares their thoughts with so little compassion. I’ll wait for your comment about I’m stupid and didn’t understand you.)
@@TheMeganDaily wahhh wahhh wahhhh
Looks like he has demolition box me a little joke for the faction of the us and Israeli government
theres no iphones because a person with money and a brain doesnt use apple products