explosions at boston marathon
 

still very early in the story, but apparently two explosions were heard, and there are injuries. police and firemen on scene, with runners re-routed to a new finish line away from the chaos.
the explosions were near the finish line. hope noone is seriously injured.

2 dead, some injuries are loss of limb.

Explosions rock finish of Boston Marathon
 

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...s-injured?lite

Turn on the tv if you are not watching...terrible...

eight year old is one of those lost. many critically injured. just awful.

Just recieved this from a friend. I did not know this.

A Tragedy. Prayers are to all those involved.

The Boston Globe is saying 3 dead, 133 injured. I couldn't stand to look at a lot of the footage. Just terrible.

I love that City.

I have a cousin that's lives in the city..My daughter called her minutes after the tragedy and she had taken the day off and was in Maine skiing..
Prayers go out to all..

i haven't watched any, just reading. i don't want or need to see it. just saw the latest on the number of casualties, just awful. up to at least 140 injured.. and i had read right after it happened that there were people there from sandy hook, sitting in the vip section-like that haven't had to deal with enough already.
i hope they find who did it, and soon.

Here's an interesting question I was wondering. If they picked the time to detonate why did they pick 4:09 as I clearly saw the time on the footage. Certainly with time requirements to enter the Boston Marathon if you really wanted to hurt the most people you would do it earlier as most people would be around the three hour mark.

Maybe this nut wanted the time to mean something so I googled 4/09 or April 9th and this is what I found:

2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces;Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces

I know this is a stretch but......

April 20th is Hitler's Birthday....Events between 4/15 and 4/20:

Boston Marathon: 4/15
VA Tech Massacre: 4/16
OK City Explosion: 4/19
Waco Standoff Fire: 4/19
Columbine 4/20

Pretty amazing pattern though, even if it is co-incidence. Throw tax day in there for good measure.

i think the other occurrences around this date are just coincidence. i'd imagine you can find tragedy in any week of the year.
my thoughts were that either it's anti-government americans who did this, to coincide with patriot's day.
or it just happened to be patriot's day, and they focused on a big crowd being around for the marathon, which just happens to be held on the holiday commemorating lexington and concord.

just read that there were just the two bombs, that reports of unexploded devices isn't true. the bombs contained bb's and ball bearings, to cause as much injury as possible. at least 2 dozen people suffered amputations from the shrapnel. others may lose limbs due to the severity of their injuries. it's horrible.
a 20 year old saudi man is being questioned, a rental van is being sought, and an apartment was searched, with bags of evidence being removed.
i hope they find the bomber(s) quickly. i think if it were a terrorist group, they'd have claimed responsibility by now, but no one has.

This is last year's results. The time of the explosions may only be significant in that it's right around when most people finish the race.

Lumpy passed 4/13

You just keep worrying about your little kobe...

Where have we seen this before?

http://www.dailypaul.com/282011/bost...ton-bomb-squad

Answer:

WTC / 9-11-01
OKC Building
Aurora CO
Sandy Hook

Live terror drills conducted the same day, same scenario - Either on location or very close.

Completely ignored by the media.

I'm now a D12 fan :p

i was wondering how long before conspiracy theorists started spouting. less than 24 hours.

Sick people in this world.

Very sad stuff.

Rutherford?

Impressive - few knew his last name on the show :tro:

Oh now I notice the avatar! God I'm an idiot.

Yes mah dear one I always like the 2nd, 3rd or in his case maybe 6th banana types.

One of the gresat things about being sick and staying home from school.

Adieu, Lumpy.

(Sorry if I seem disrespectful to the events in Boston. I am not heartless. Really).

explosions at boston marathon
 

I predict it's going to be a "lone wolf." Probably some college kid (God knows plenty of them up there); NY Post will designate him "The Boston Mangler."

Something doesn't sit right with me about the Injured kid they consider the suspect. Why would he hang around and put himself in harms way after putting bombs in trash can?

April 15 was the 65th anniversary of the birth of the country Israel. That seems like a possible motive. My guess is that they have the right guy in custody. The people in the area said he was acting suspiciously and then he took off running right after the blast. They tackled him before he could get away. I'm sure he wasn't the only one who took off running. However he was the only one that the people tackled and held until the police got there. Is it possible that they tackled him simply because he looked foreign? Sure it is possible but I would say it is more likely that there was something suspicious about his behavior.

My guess is that they have the right guy but you never know. Richard Jewell looked like a good suspect in the Atlanta bombing and he turned out to be totally innocent.

to see mayhem ensue that he caused?

You can see the blast and mayhem from a couple bocks away then walk closer after the blast. Why stand close enough to get blasted yourself?

well, he may not be the guy. they might have grabbed him because of how he looks.
and maybe he's really stupid? many criminals aren't exactly bright.

just saw that a letter sent to a miss. senator contained a substance that has been found to be ricin.

sh!t.

we will catch them. and will catch them now. they fcked with the wrong city.

It never ends...what's next..

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...y-poision?lite

just saw they have a suspect for the mailing.

You see this..

Letter sent to Obama tests positive for ricin, officials say.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...cials-say?lite

I'm not trying to be glib here but have any of these poisoned pieces of mail ever worked? I know there have been successful mail bombs but these "poisoned letters" seem like a sure way to get arrested without any meaningful results.

The Associated Press ‏@AP 4m BREAKING: Law enforcement official: Arrest imminent in Boston Marathon bombing, suspect to be brought to court.

This means they have the suspected bomber. They would not risk him killing himself.

Some much for being imminent, still no arrests have been made.

heard about it, but have been swamped at work much of the day-til now. playing catch up.

i believe some people were sickened from some poisoned letters in the past, which is why they do the extra screening now for govt addressed mail-or maybe all mail?

edit~ found this:

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on Tuesday, September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.

I stand corrected. Thank you. I thought a few people became ill but there were no fatalities.

hey, i wasn't sure either...glad i looked.