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Explosions at the Boston Marathon

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theBearJew
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Just saw a friend post on FB about this whos in Boston right now. Whats going on? Anyone have any news updates? I can't find anything online.

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Apr 15 2013 3:05PM
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cjhennessey
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I was a block away when the explosions went off, everyone just started running away it was the most unreal thing ive ever experienced.
Apr 16 2013 12:30PM
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MASkier
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This is terrible, but it happens everyday. We fuck up and kill civilians every day. People are focusing on the bombings at the boston marathon, because it is unusual, and could be the start of something bigger.
Apr 16 2013 12:56PM
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MASkier
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I think pretty much everybody here agrees with you, but can we please just keep this thread to reporting devolepments from boston? If you want to start a thread reporting the daily killing of civilians in the middle east please, go ahead.
Apr 16 2013 1:01PM
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MASkier
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Ar6rider, this is one of the first times I have upped you karma.
Apr 16 2013 1:03PM
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1337
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Warning: article is incredibly upsetting. Some of the victims were very young children :\

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/16/bbs-nails-embedded-kids-treated-boston-children-hospital/oyLj8ZY6pjE86eltrpyHPP/story.html
Apr 16 2013 1:08PM
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fortyvalve
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just going to leave this here. this is the 8 year old boy that passed away
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Apr 16 2013 1:21PM
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ILLinoisance
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:(
Apr 16 2013 1:28PM
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GayWolf420
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Fuck, man. Humans are terrible, terrible creatures.
Apr 16 2013 2:27PM
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El_Barto.
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Oh man
Apr 16 2013 2:38PM
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Dobies.
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This is the guy that was helping the man with the severed leg. You can feel his adrenaline in his voice. Crazy.
Apr 16 2013 2:45PM
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louie.mirags
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they were talking on the latest episode of Joe Rogan that families were taking pictures near the bomb site together..
Apr 16 2013 2:48PM
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Andy_H
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Isn't the death toll up to 3 with around 100 injured? I'm pretty sure they haven't found the bomber, but there is a lot of speculation going on.
Apr 16 2013 2:52PM
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corona
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apparently the bombs were made from pressure cookers filled with explosives + nails, ball bearings, and other pieces of metal. source: CBC
Apr 16 2013 3:15PM
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fortyvalve
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Oh i'm sorry, would you rather stick your tail between your legs and try to tell yourself it's not as bad as it seems? Man up, i wasn't trying to make this as tragic as possible, but rather shed light on what this boy truly wanted. and i know for a fact other people received that post as i intended, sorry you got that jumbled up in your head.
Apr 16 2013 3:25PM
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JeremyClarkson
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Does anyone know which bomb caused the most casualties? I saw the raw footage from boston globe of the first one and  judging by the footage it didint seem to injure that many people. Was the 2nd one worse?
Apr 16 2013 3:28PM
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ILLinoisance
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Yeah, he made it seem more tragic than it was already by posting that. Because, you know, none of that actually happened....
Apr 16 2013 3:52PM
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gregorio
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I go to Northeastern and I was raised about a half hour from downtown Boston and I've been to the Boston Marathon every year of my life. I was at the finish line less than an hour before the blasts and luckily my friend wanted to go get lunch and convinced me to leave. I also know some people that were in some of the pictures that were posted on CNN, one of which is injured and currently at the hospital awaiting surgery.
This was such a messed up day and I still can't believe this happened so close to home.
Apr 16 2013 3:52PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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3 dead over 175 injured. It has been discerned this bomber is experienced considering he used ball bearings, carpentry nails, and other shit inside pressure cookers.
Apr 16 2013 3:56PM
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CrotchKiller
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"It has been discerned this bomber is experienced considering he used ball bearings, carpentry nails, and other shit inside pressure cookers."

Does not compete.
Apr 16 2013 4:01PM
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GuacamoleMane
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that doesnt necessarily mean they are expierenced
Apr 16 2013 4:02PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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“I have done post-attack analyses on attacks around the world, trying to learn lessons. ... The timing here, the devices themselves, the ball bearings used—you know, that’s not some kid in his garage putting something together,” Lynch said.

I summarized, sue me.
Apr 16 2013 4:03PM
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GuacamoleMane
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that sounds dumb to me,firstly the timing was off, i.e. if he wanted more casualties he would have done it when the largest crown was finishing and watching, not when the stragglers crossed. Two the devices were not advanced, there was no plastic explosives, suggesting it was most likely home made
Apr 16 2013 4:10PM
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gigi.d
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They don't resent the US?

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Apr 16 2013 4:11PM
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CrotchKiller
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Not calling you out at all.

Just seems like a bomb that some kid in his garage would make.

I'm probably totally wrong though, i mean this guy is an expert on the subject.
Apr 16 2013 4:11PM
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Titus69
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although this is an awful thing understand that the US army has bombed and killed so many innocent lives in the middle east its just no one knows because they dont broadcast it over there unlike us where we broadcast everything
Apr 16 2013 4:12PM
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XtRemE11
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lol
Apr 16 2013 4:12PM
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CrotchKiller
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This proves nothing, the kid lives in NK and has been fed lies since birth. You have no idea how he would react after leaving NK.
Apr 16 2013 4:14PM
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987321654hgfd
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure ball bearings are a known and effective item to use as shrapnel. That definitely doesn't make him some kind of bomb making genius.
Apr 16 2013 4:15PM
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Royal-bamboo
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I hate to say it but pretty damn true........
Apr 16 2013 4:16PM
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gigi.d
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Touché. But you have no idea how they would react with their subjective minds. You never know though.
Apr 16 2013 4:21PM
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Zimmerman
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Apr 16 2013 4:44PM
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-benedetto
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Pull your head out of your ass.

Apr 16 2013 4:47PM
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Hoppy
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This is a clip from a show we have over here called newswipe. Hopefully its appropriate to post this.


Apr 16 2013 4:50PM
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funk~
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Oh god more idiots with nothing but emotional fallacies.
Where did I state I was an activist for non aggression and avoiding casualties in Afghanistan?
Im not pretending shit, im putting things into perspective. Grow up and learn how to have some fucking public discourse.
And to those saying something that happened 10 years ago is irrelevant, by that logic, 9/11 is irrelevant. Congratulations, you have reached the epitome of idiotic.
Apr 16 2013 4:51PM
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AT-AT
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True anyone, and i mean anyone can make a bomb like this.
Apr 16 2013 4:53PM
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funk~
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Well do you find it an unfitting description of the rhetoric that these kids are responding with?
It's repetitive, yeah.
Anyway I'm done, I don't want to rustle more jimmies in a thread that shouldn't be subject to that, but damn, people need to tone down the emotion a little bit when trying to attack another viewpoint.
Apr 16 2013 5:00PM
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Ben.
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Bravo. But it gets viewers. And lets be honest, the networks hope more people die that have sensational stories, it makes them $$$.
Apr 16 2013 5:08PM
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.AR6rider.
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There was a terrorist bombing in America. We are Americans. Forgive us for being emotional, you sack of dogshit. You want to know my completely honest opinion? I don't give a single fuck about any of the families in the Middle East, nor do I care if a few accidentally got blown up by an American missile. I wouldn't expect anyone living in Afghanistan or Iraq to give a fuck that a few people got blown up in Boston yesterday. Why should I have to consider "other viewpoints" when what I care about is happening here and now. Regardless of whether this is some sort of retaliatory attack or just a psychopath with too much pent up aggression, reading about some remote bombing in Afghanistan 10 years ago is not going to change the fact that we are upset and angry. Do you think when cities get bombed in the Middle East, Rajeev and Ahmed are like, "guys, guys, let's not get too carried away and upset. Remember 9/11? We probably deserve this."

I understand that you think you're intelligent and well-versed in current (or past, obviously) events, but copy pasting some bullshit from Facebook and reciting what you heard in your high school lectures last week doesn't make you special.
Apr 16 2013 5:12PM
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Campeador
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It's a commentary about not giving excessive news coverage to psychopath murderers.
Apr 16 2013 5:13PM
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joshua
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No one is saying this events aren't newsworthy or sad, but those events happened 10 years ago, the Boston Marathon bombing happened yesterday, obviously its a little more attention worthy if it happened yesterday rather than 10 years ago.

Apr 16 2013 5:14PM
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987321654hgfd
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This is how I feel.
Apr 16 2013 5:16PM
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Hoppy
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It happened to be about the German school shooting a few years ago. How the media had mock ups, reconstructions and footage of nothing, just to perpetuate the story.

The best bit is at 1.45. An American psychologist reels off a list of things that the media shouldn't being doing (in the hope it deters other wannabes looking for infamy), they break every suggestion.


Apr 16 2013 5:18PM
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Ben.
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Addressing a bunch of the BS stories floating around. Sad really.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/tech/social-media/social-media-boston-fakes/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Apr 16 2013 5:32PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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I wish we could end this argument on that. Well said, exactly how I feel as well.
Apr 16 2013 5:41PM
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k-rob
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if you're going to bomb something, you could pick a better target than a bunch of random people out running/spectating. they've failed to make any point at all, so this just comes out looking like mindless destruction rather than the actions of someone with a clear motive. yes, america goes around the world starting shit and making enemies they can't defeat, but i highly doubt the people at the fucking boston marathon had much to do with that, the same as civilian casualties in senseless wars don't deserve to die. it's cowards vs. cowards and decent people keep getting caught in the crossfire. 9/11 was an attack on the world trade centre, a building where people from all over the world worked, and now the boston marathon gets attacked, an event which people from all over the world participate in, and none of the people hurt or killed in either situation deserved to be held accountable for whatever made these nuts angry. it's just a shame that the only people with any sense are the ones who stay out of it and yet they're always the ones that get hurt. meanwhile the people who actually propagate this fuckery are literally sitting around somewhere watching it unfold.
Apr 16 2013 5:45PM
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Chinchi
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Spot on
Apr 16 2013 5:46PM
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skiierman
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Yeah that's usually what terrorism is... senseless violence with no point at all.

If you are a terrorist (this goes for every terrorist attack, not saying the marathon bombing was or wasn't), attack the fucking politicians. First off the public wouldn't be so pissed off at you because it'd be like killing lawyers in that who gives a fuck. Secondly, if your aim is to influence public policy through violence then shouldn't you attack those that make the policy? I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really wish terrorists would stop attacking innocent people.
Apr 16 2013 5:54PM
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qeefmasterflex
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North Korea obviously doesn't know where Hawaii is
Apr 16 2013 6:12PM
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GayWolf420
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Id only feel bad for the janitor and his family that was working the day that capital hill blew the fuck up, honestly. Call me fucked and sadistic or whatever but I agree with you.
Apr 16 2013 6:14PM
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