Twin Towers Costumes Take Club's Top Prize, Leads to Outrage and Apologies
There is new controversy brewing across the pond in England after a British nightclub put on a costume part and awarded the top prize to two girls who went dressed as the Twin Towers.
19-year-old Amber Langford and Annie Collinge's outfits included models of the two hijacked planes crashing into the New York City skyscrapers. The costumes were also labeled as North Tower and South Tower.
The two girls were awarded Best Fancy Dress by a DJ at Rosies, a club in Chester, a town outside of Liverpool.
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After swift public outcry, the company who owns the club issued a statement of apology.
"We are extremely concerned that an award of vouchers was made to two young women who were dressed in a distasteful and offensive manner," a spokesman for the Stonegate Pub Company, which owns Rosies, said.
"There was a serious error of judgment made on the evening by a contracted DJ to award such a prize and we apologize to anybody who may have been upset or offended by this. A full investigation by the company is taking place," they continued.
Langford and Collinge also apologized for the costumes and their error in judgment.
"We never meant to be offensive, but we apologize if any offense was caused," the pair told the Daily Telegraph. "The idea was to depict a modern-day horror that happened in our lifetime and was not intended as a joke."
The news comes days after 22-year-old Alicia Ann Lynch offered her deepest sympathies after receiving death threats and overall scorn after dressing up as a Boston Marathon bombing victim for Halloween and posting the pictures on social media.
The picture was posted on Thursday to her Twitter and Instagram account showing her wearing a running outfit and marathon numbers while covered in fake blood.
Lynch said that individuals have obtain her home address and sent vile care packages while also levying death threats to her and her parents. Lynch has since deleted her social media accounts and was also fired from her job, she told Buzzfeed.
