Explosions at the Boston Marathon

[mobvok]

Originally Posted by GirlsAloudFan

You are editing your posts like a madman.

crazy stuff tonight, man

I hear everything's going to heat up as soon as full daylight hits in about an hour or so.

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Jennifer Griffin (Fox News) says Justice Department is "looking into" foreign national connections. Non-commital.

Reports that MBTA transit service has been cancelled for the day. Now official. No buses and subways.

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my sister lives in one of the neighborhoods they recommended be locked down.

[BoMac]

All of Boston is, more or less, being ground to a halt. Bus and train service has been suspended, police told people waiting for transit to leave, and told everyone else in the city to stay indoors.

[indra]

Originally Posted by mobvok

my sister lives in one of the neighborhoods they recommended be locked down.

A friend of mine does too. He lives about 2 miles away from Watertown. He might think about moving back to Belfast after this....

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this screen cap is ABC right now

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Pete Williams again reiterates that they're legal permanent residents from overseas, mentions for the first time Turkey, or Chechen refugees who came from Turkey. Again, not students.

[bono_212]

Man, Journalism is going to take some major hits when all of this is over. I mean, obviously at this point, someone is very, VERY wrong.

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AP is reporting they're from Chechnya, NBC said on air they're trying to confirm that. But it was one of the options NBC listed

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BREAKING: AP: Surviving Boston bomb suspect identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass. -SS

Chechnyan brothers, 19 and 20. Complete clusterfuck with the two wrong names overnight. Luckily the major networks all held back.

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we will never escape central asia

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According to Russia Today, Dzhokar Tsarnaev from his social network account (Russian FB equivalent)

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Jesus, it sounds like I missed an eventful night.

[bono_212]

Two families /lives ruined by reddit

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Andrew Kaczynski ‏@BuzzFeedAndrew 38s

The bombing the suspect appeared to have signed a petition to allow people to keep chickens on their property. Weird. http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...res-page5.html

he left a comment as well, in 2010:

leave the chickens

[mama cass]

Originally Posted by U2inUtah

All of the pictures I've seen comparing Sunil and Suspect #2 side by side make it seem fairly certain than Sunil is suspect #2.

these comparisons are shite

if i put my brothers' photos next to the suspect's photos they could easily be assumed to be the suspect as well

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by bono_212

Two families /lives ruined by reddit

Stop...

This isn't like Richard Jewel. Their lives are not ruined. People will forget their names by this afternoon.

I already forgot their names. I still remember Richard Jewel.

Remember the first suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing? The guy who changed his shirt? Me neither.

[Hewson]

Originally Posted by GirlsAloudFan

Fucking insane that Reddit found the identity of one of the bombers.

I spend hours on that stupid site every week looking at pictures of Emma Watson and reading about Game of Thrones. And a random user on there cracked the case in the biggest homeland attack since 9/11?

Wow. What a world.

Or not.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by mama cass

these comparisons are shite

if i put my brothers' photos next to the suspect's photos they could easily be assumed to be the suspect as well

Point proven.

[Hewson]

The entire city of Boston now asked to "shelter in place"