Boston Bombing

Trollheart · 04-17-2013, 05:06 PM

Irish athletes arrived home today. All survived thank god but when interviewed for the news one of them broke down on camera, poor guy. Can't imagine what it must be like.

PoorOldPo · 04-17-2013, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Huffington Post has posted a write up of another one of the victims, Lu Lingzi.

She was a young Chinese student who had come to the US to get her graduate degree. She looks like such a nice person in her photos.

She was very pretty too...

Two young women and an eight year old boy...

TheBig3 · 04-17-2013, 08:32 PM

This kinda freaked me out...

https://twitter.com/Cassis617/status...256576/photo/1

**Janszoon** · 04-17-2013, 11:07 PM

I talked to my mother earlier tonight. She's a nurse at one of the local hospitals and has been taking care of a couple of the victims. She's a very tough person but still sounded extremely shaken up. She had some disturbing stories, though some of her co-workers experienced much worse. One or two of them were right there when it happened.

P A N · 04-17-2013, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

So now we're posting 4chan jokes in here? Not cool.

i don't really know much about 4chan, but i hear they're aimed at humor. regardless of what degree to which that might be true, this 4chan article is based on a reddit thread wherein a guy basically created a place for people to put their photos and point things out in them that may help the cause. it's like an open-source criminal investigation. i'm not saying i agree with the idea of publicly (virally) discussing images of real people under that kinda light, but it's not actually a joke. why 4chan reposted it, i have no idea.

**Janszoon** · 04-17-2013, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by P A N

i don't really know much about 4chan, but i hear they're aimed at humor. regardless of what degree to which that might be true, this 4chan article is based on a reddit thread wherein a guy basically created a place for people to put their photos and point things out in them that may help the cause. it's like an open-source criminal investigation. i'm not saying i agree with the idea of publicly (virally) discussing images of real people under that kinda light, but it's not actually a joke. why 4chan reposted it, i have no idea.

So are you saying the photo with the woman's ass circled with the comment "da bomb" next to it was serious?

P A N · 04-17-2013, 11:33 PM

yeah... no. i'm not saying that. i don't know why that is in there, but in the same photo a dude with a back pack or satchel also has a red circle around him. it's a much thinner stroke on the circle too, which might be evidence of the woman's ass being 4chan's doing and not the group who actually compiled the shots originally. really i have no idea. maybe the original starter of the reddit thread is 15 and his ADD kicked in.

Paul Smeenus · 04-18-2013, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

I'd be willing to bet every MB member owns a backpack. The principal difference is that none of them were at the precise location of a bomb blast. That would also be true of everyone pictured in that gag webpage.

In the interest of backing this up, juxtapose the position of the bag in this image

....with this image

So the contention that any picture of a backpack could just as easily be interpreted as the bomb in question is reduced to a demonstrable fallacy. That package is almost certainly the second bomb

Sequoioideae · 04-18-2013, 05:42 AM

The fact that the person(s) responsible for this act is going to get what they want, regardless makes me sick. What they wanted was attention, but it's not like you can turn the other way, but still. I mean, if it is an extremist group they get the satisfaction of killing and terrorizing innocent people in the name of pushing some delusional agenda, or maybe it's just some deranged ego maniac with a twisted view of the world, either way they're going to get what they want.

I'm not one for politics, but as a person words just fail me as to why someone would think this is really ok.

Trollheart · 04-18-2013, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

In the interest of backing this up, juxtapose the position of the bag in this image

....with this image

So the contention that any picture of a backpack could just as easily be interpreted as the bomb in question is reduced to a demonstrable fallacy. That package is almost certainly the second bomb

Surely not? If it had been, that black post box would have been reduced to a tangle of twisted metal, as it's right beside it, but in both pictures it's virtually untouched.

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P A N DO LIKE YOU. Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 629	yeah... no. i'm not saying that. i don't know why that is in there, but in the same photo a dude with a back pack or satchel also has a red circle around him. it's a much thinner stroke on the circle too, which might be evidence of the woman's ass being 4chan's doing and not the group who actually compiled the shots originally. really i have no idea. maybe the original starter of the reddit thread is 15 and his ADD kicked in.