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Two explosions near end of boston marathon. Unknown details right now. Looks like a nasty bloody scene from the helicopter pictures. Two explosions twenty seconds apart. Set one off wait for help to come and set off second...when are we going to learn.
Thanks BC...turning on the news.
Thankfully they did not allow enough time between explosions for that to be effectiveQuote:
Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER
Third device found by Boston PD and detonated by bomb sqd to neutralize it.
terrorist attack
My girlfriend is in boston visiting family. When I heard about the explosion and tried calling to see if she ok and then couldnt get thru. 10 minuts I spent darn near in a panic diorder mode fearing the worst and thank god she text back they were far enough away from it but man was I scared. My heart and prayers goes out by all those affected this is a terrible thing to happen and whoever is responsible for this I can promise you this where youre going youre gonna wish for a cold glass of water!.
Patriots' Day in Boston AND tax day? Are you sure this isn't a homegrown terrorist?
Boston area shut down the Cell phone towers in case there were other bombs that would be triggered with an incoming callQuote:
Originally Posted by IAscrapper
Do you have to jump to racist lingo before we even know what happened?Quote:
Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER
With all the info already been released. It is for sure a terrorist attack.Quote:
Originally Posted by beedubz
YAH, But what kind, at this point I tend to lean towards OldBarnzQuote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeB
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Originally Posted by Oldbarnz
Excuse me for the non pc comment...its just that after watching 2000 plus innocent people and 23 co-workers incinerated a few years back I get a bit cranky when this happens. Home grown, foreign grown whatever we all know the birth place of terrorism. This is the last I will comment on this topic. Feel free to pm me if you wish to discuss this further.Quote:
Originally Posted by beedubz
Your guess is as good as mine. Could be Al Qaeda, or another one of the 1,000 out thereQuote:
Originally Posted by JohnC4X4
I'm concerned, certainly for the victims and their families, but also for what it might mean to the country going forward. I truly hope the culprit is determined to be one of the subset alluded to by the OP, and not, as I fear it will be, by a disgruntled American citizen.
With this happening on tax day, I can't help but believe it will end up being tied to the Tea Party, and if there were ever a movement that's gotten a bad rap in public opinion, they're it.
If this is determined to be the work of a domestic terrorist with some twisted idea that this is how you go about making a patriotic statement, that could spell the end of the Tea Party & set back all libertarian leaning movements perhaps irrevocably.
This is a scrap metal forum so I don't want to lose sight of this and get wrapped up in politics. Lets just keep in mind that most of use haven't met each other in real life so it's important to be especially respectful when it comes to peoples nationalities considering for all we know our good friends on here could be part of the group that we have offended.
Business and politics don't mix so i'll let it rest with this!
Btw Brasscatcher hope there's no hard feelings, us scrappers gotta stick together!
That's why it was posted in the off-topic area.Quote:
Originally Posted by beedubz
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Originally Posted by Oldbarnz
My thoughts exactly - add in the fact that the bombs were IEDs and I wonder if it wasn't someone who'd been in Iraq or Afghanistan- maybe even lost a limb there - since he targeted runners.
Timothy McVeigh on a personal scale.
I'd betcha dollars to doughnuts the FBI is all over that angle as we speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrapette
Things are unfolding quickly this morning...one down one to go.
Beat me to Kz. Darn you!
But it does bear(see what I did there bear?) repeating...one down, one to go.
Sirscrapalot - "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Einstein
It can't end soon enough. Only hope that the second one gets taken alive so we can make an example out of him but I doubt it anyone dumb enough to try a stunt like this usually meets his/her fate by way of the gun.
you can run but twitter/youtube/facebook/fbi/police/national guard is faster.
thank you police fbi and national guard for all your hard work to keep america such a great place to live!
As young as the guys are they must be part of a larger cell/family.
Not to minimize this horrible tragedy but it puts me in mind of the gun debate.
Are they going to try to regulate the sale of pressure cookers now?
The rationale behind controlling automatic weapons and high capacity magazines is that they are able to kill a lot of people quickly. However, a well placed and well made IED also kills people very efficiently. And from what I understand the instructions are available on the web.
My point is that evil will find a way-any way-and even if you take away conventional weapons, people bent on death and destruction will find unconventional ones.
However, I still believe in background checks mostly to keep the people who have protection orders against them and the truly psychotic from getting weapons - however we all know that the real criminals will get them anyway.
But background checks wouldn't have stopped Newtown. Not unless you ban relatives of the mentally ill from getting weapons.
I feel bad for the folks in West,Texas...death and destruction everywhere but little coverage about it and I would be surprised to see the prez make his way down there.
That story really did get overshadowed. It was a terrible tragedy and so many of the victims were first responders.Quote:
Originally Posted by KzScrapper
One plus..Westboro Baptist Church won't be picketing this funeral. Between the Boston Teamsters, Anonymous(yes the hacker group), and the bikers that went to Newtown to shield the families from the hate of WBC, will be visiting Boston today to form a wall around the folks burying the young lady who died.
As far as Anonymous...while I don't agree with all their actions..This one I do. An I must admit a little part of me on the inside had to snicker when I saw Anonymous has already begun hacking, and screwing with the WBC, and have been since Newtown.
Karma is a *****, an she's coming for you WBC.
Sirscrapalot - Giving Karma the gps cords for WBC.
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Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot
Anonymous is calling for another Internet blackout to protest CISPA.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417993,00.asp