Pilot Sprays "Last Chance" Over Terrified New York.. Why?

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So, this was 2 years ago, but it's still a topic a lot of people haven't heard about:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfW-XslED0M[/youtube]

The official explanation was this was an "Art project".. To me that seems completely ridiculous.

Why would you write a threatening phrase in the air above a city that went through 9/11 and practically craps itself when a book gets dropped?

"Last Chance".. what kind of sick idea is that?

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'Last Chance' skywritten messages over NYC not warning but an art project

BY Barry Paddock DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Cryptic messages written in the sky over lower Manhattan - part of a kooky art project - mystified and unnerved New Yorkers Sunday afternoon.

Some Twitter users thought the "Last Chance" message was a terrorist threat. Others assumed the Wall St. protesters were behind it.

"How to give New Yorkers a heart attack: skywrite 'LAST CHANCE' above the city," tweeted Peter Mele. "Yeah, they'll love it."

"The sky says last chance," another person tweeted. "I'm skipping town."

Artist Kim Beck, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who lives part time in New York, chose messages from advertising billboards as cryptic comments on the faltering economy.

She watched the project, six months in the planning, from the High Line.

"Obviously people noticed," she said. "Art is supposed to generate a conversation."

Not everyone gave her concept rave reviews.

"There's a skywriter over East River who is scribbling nonsense," Brad Dickason tweeted.

"Call me crazy," Allie Herzog tweeted, "but I don't think ominously writing 'Last Chance' in smoke over NYC constitutes as 'art."

Some New Yorkers panicked.

"I was genuinely scared," said Morgan, 29, an upper West Side actress who declined to give her last name. She was running with her boyfriend in Central Park when the messages began looming overhead.

"I was really concerned there was some sort of terrorist attack," she said. "It's so creepy."

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Reminds me a little bit of this:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixi7fZjUHQE[/youtube]

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What is stupid about asking why "Last Chance" would be sprayed over a terrified New York?

Ironic someone that posts bikini pictures on most every thread is accusing someone else of being a troll and stupid, while completely ignoring the topic.

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What is stupid about asking why "Last Chance" would be sprayed over a terrified New York?

Ironic someone that posts bikini pictures on most every thread is accusing someone else of being a troll and stupid, while completely ignoring the topic.

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I left you a present

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What is stupid about asking why "Last Chance" would be sprayed over a terrified New York?

Ironic someone that posts bikini pictures on most every thread is accusing someone else of being a troll and stupid, while completely ignoring the topic.

Some people have bad, insensitive senses of humor.

[houndawg]

So, this was 2 years ago, but it's still a topic a lot of people haven't heard about:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfW-XslED0M[/youtube]

The official explanation was this was an "Art project".. To me that seems completely ridiculous.

Why would you write a threatening phrase in the air above a city that went through 9/11 and practically craps itself when a book gets dropped?

"Last Chance".. what kind of sick idea is that?

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'Last Chance' skywritten messages over NYC not warning but an art project

BY Barry Paddock DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Cryptic messages written in the sky over lower Manhattan - part of a kooky art project - mystified and unnerved New Yorkers Sunday afternoon.

Some Twitter users thought the "Last Chance" message was a terrorist threat. Others assumed the Wall St. protesters were behind it.

"How to give New Yorkers a heart attack: skywrite 'LAST CHANCE' above the city," tweeted Peter Mele. "Yeah, they'll love it."

"The sky says last chance," another person tweeted. "I'm skipping town."

Artist Kim Beck, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who lives part time in New York, chose messages from advertising billboards as cryptic comments on the faltering economy.

She watched the project, six months in the planning, from the High Line.

"Obviously people noticed," she said. "Art is supposed to generate a conversation."

Not everyone gave her concept rave reviews.

"There's a skywriter over East River who is scribbling nonsense," Brad Dickason tweeted.

"Call me crazy," Allie Herzog tweeted, "but I don't think ominously writing 'Last Chance' in smoke over NYC constitutes as 'art."

Some New Yorkers panicked.

"I was genuinely scared," said Morgan, 29, an upper West Side actress who declined to give her last name. She was running with her boyfriend in Central Park when the messages began looming overhead.

"I was really concerned there was some sort of terrorist attack," she said. "It's so creepy."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cha ... z39w2SESWI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Reminds me a little bit of this:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixi7fZjUHQE[/youtube]

As ridiculous as flying to the moon?