Explosions at the Boston Marathon

[martha]

This is why old people, like me, like print media. Sure, it's not immediate, but at least there's time to get the story somewhat straight before it goes to print.

[Hewson]

Tough to run a business here today. Had 2 employees working last night at MIT, started at 10PM, on Vassar Street a couple of blocks from shooting. Building got locked down, they were told to stay inside, so they were able to work. Had 2 more scheduled at a jobsite at Harvard today, cancelled (after they were there waiting to be let in), got them shifted to another job at a hotel in Waltham, that got put in semi lock down as they were on their way and told not to come...fun times.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

CNN really wants us to know that they don't know if the islamic Chechens did this over Islam or Chechnya.

All the conclusions that have been jumped to since Monday afternoon, and NOW they're going to err on the side of caution?

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Shit is going down on CNN

[Jive Turkey]

So the Internet fucked up again after fucking up 24 hours earlier? Maybe it's not their thing

[Jive Turkey]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

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.

You might have different feelings if you were the one being fingered (wacka wacka). It's not about lives being ruined (though that could still be a potential), it's about idiots trying to be heroes when they should stay the fuck out of it

[Hewson]

Just got a reverse 911 call here at my office from the city about the shelter in place order.

This is like living through an episode of 24.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by Jive Turkey

You might have different feelings if you were the one being fingered (wacka wacka). It's not about lives being ruined (though that could still be a potential), it's about idiots trying to be heroes when they should stay the fuck out of it

Give me a break.

The majority of people in America have no idea what reddit even is.

Nobody's lives have been ruined, other than the victims of the bombing and now shootings and their families.

Just the other week the same "idiots" identified a mugger that was caught on camera here in NY by matching the shirt and wristband he had on to his Facebook page, in which he was wearing the same thing. He was arrested the next day.

The FBI asked for the public's help. They got it. Some help was good, some was bad. The only irresponsible ones are the media who run with unconfirmed reports off a web forum.

[Jive Turkey]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

Give me a break.

The majority of people in America have no idea what reddit even is.

Nobody's lives have been ruined, other than the victims of the bombing and now shootings and their families.

Have you already forgotten about yesterday when 2 innocent people's photos were plastered on the front cover of a national news paper? Give me a break with defending the dog shit reporting that's been going on over the past couple days

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by Jive Turkey

Have you already forgotten about yesterday when 2 innocent people's photos were plastered on the front cover of a national news paper? Give me a break with defending the dog shit reporting that's been going on over the past couple days

That's not the internet's fault... That's the New York Post's fault.

[Jive Turkey]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

That's not the internet's fault... That's the New York Post's fault.

It's also the internet's fault for pretending to be detectives. Their brand of vigilante detective work could've easily led to some idiot hurting an innocent person. Again, easy to brush it off when it's not you

[Jive Turkey]

The Internet isn't some obscure form of media. Those 4chan/reddit photos made it onto Facebook. It was being spread much further than the original source, as I'm sure you're painfully aware

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by Jive Turkey

It's also the internet's fault for pretending to be detectives. Their brand of vigilante detective work could've easily led to some idiot hurting an innocent person. Again, easy to brush it off when it's not you

Everything is easy to brush off when it's not you. That's the lamest excuse in the history of the world.

[Jive Turkey]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

Everything is easy to brush off when it's not you. That's the lamest excuse in the history of the world.

Lamest excuse for what? That doesn't even make any sense

[anitram]

I said very early on in this thread that identifying people is really irresponsible, particularly of the media.

I did read in an article somewhere that apparently there is a whole community out there called Websleuths that does nothing but this type of "work" with all crimes that are in the news. I don't have enough initiative to go over there and check it out but I do wonder how they have that much time on their hands.

[martha]

So are these guys jihadists or not?

[bono_212]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

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.

Maybe "lives ruined" was an exaggeration, but don't tell me that the last few days for that high school boy and the grief that missing boy's family must now be feeling even more now isn't going to be quite heightened.

[Imperor]

Never change, CNN.

[The_Pac_Mule]

So are these guys jihadists or not?

If they're from Chechnya I would say with 99% certainty they are. Chechnyan militants are pretty hardcore, as far as Jihadists go. They attacked a school in 2004, and killed 300 people, mostly kids. Many militants from Chechnya came to Afghanistan to fight US troops. I see no other possible explanation or motivation.

Of course CNN and the rest of the media will be afraid to say that though, as I'm sure they're very disappointed it wasn't some crazy right wing anti government white guy.

[ntalwar]

Originally Posted by The_Pac_Mule

If they're from Chechnya I would say with 99% certainty they are. Chechnyan militants are pretty hardcore, as far as Jihadists go. They attacked a school in 2004, and killed 300 people, mostly kids. Many militants from Chechnya came to Afghanistan to fight US troops. I see no other possible explanation or motivation.

They're from Kyrgyzstan supposedly (conflicting info), and immigrated here at ages 9 and 16.