Boston Bombing
 

Guys this is terrible. The 26 miles for 26 kids Marathon in Boston has been bombed. Two are dead, 26 injured and cell phone coverage is down to prevent any more remote bombings. A bomb went off in the JFK Library as well. What is going on? Who the hell would bomb the Marathon supporting the Sandy Hook kids?

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Just saw that. Coward ass muther****ers, whoever it was.

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UK posters can watch live on there.

Watching now.

It's Patriot's Day today too... :(
It makes me extra sad because I am originally from New England and I love Boston soo much it is a stones throw from my home town... :(

They're saying they found other bombs too. Who do you lot reckon did this?

America sucks.

My money is on either homegrown terrorists or just a standard psycho American teenage boy. Same thing, really.

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that was my vote homegrown... err and I am not sure it was 26 mils for 26 kids.. it was the Boston marathon the one we have every year.. although there might have been something to remember Sandy Hook... but we run the marathon every year...on the same day...

Not sure what countries the CNN site cover, but I can confirm it covers the US.

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Muslim terrorist group #5948093248098230.

and there is a fundraiser during the Boston marathon in memory of the Sandy Hook kids this year.. my bad...

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

I know this sounds cliche and retarded, but this world really sucks some times...

It would make sense if it's connected to the Sandy Hook kids but if it's not then who knows.

There are some crazy ass Truthers out there that I believe would do something like this

I wonder if Big3 was running? Hope he's OK.
Isn't Janszoon from there as well? I doubt he was running though. (Sorry Jans, I had to)

Jansz is out of Philly. Pretty horrible news. The footage is pretty disheartening.

This picture seriously creeps me out. Do you think it's related or are they rubber necking?

I saw some really graphic pictures of people without legs...

Yeah it's creepy but I dunno, could just be someone who lives there watching the marathon or something. But I read they had a ban on people being on roof tops. Who knows.

Definitely eerie though.

i don't get the logic of ppl who do stuff like this..

they always end up hurting innocent ppl who have nothing to do with their problems

It's all to send a message in their heads and the innocent people that get hurt are just collateral damage.

That's the whole point mate. You gain more attention attacking innocents.

You have to be a proper shitstain to do something like this though.

Guys devestating news...one of the two killed was an 8 year-old girl. So so sad. :(

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I wouldn't wish a bombing on anybody.

Having said that the Irish immigrants in Boston was the IRA's biggest revenue stream during the 70s & 80s while they were bombing mainland Britain.

While i'm sorry it happened to them a part of me can't help thinking now you know what it feels like.

What he said ^

Watch out, the conspiracy theorists are coming out of the woodwork now.

Well.....yeah.


I think it is beyond something as simple as that to be honest.

Sorry if that sounds cold, but admittedly it was the first thought that entered my head on hearing the news in Boston.
BBC News are reporting the device was packed with ball bearings...nail bombs spring to mind.
Very nasty.

Oh **** off. Really? Not surprised you said something like this to be honest. The IRA(thugs) have nothing to do with this. And although the IRA did some ****ing awful things, their circumstances were pretty dire prior and during the troubles. That doesn't justify what they did though, nor does anything justify what the British did in the North either. And it has nothing to do with this event. These were innocent people running a marathon. Mostly Irish Americans, some Irish people who recently emigrated, some actual Irish citizens over for the week. Don't pin the(modern) IRA on the entire Irish diaspora. On either side of the sea.

Where are they getting that info? Haven't heard anything like that on our media.

Oh wait. Now I understand.

They're saying it was in a rubbish bin and reports of the device being packed with ball bearings.

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I didn't know this (the Boston bit.)

Agree with you then.

No i know, but when they decide to blow **** up to get attention they'll only get the wrong kind of attention

their message, ideology or whtvr it is they were trying to prove gets overshadowed by their extremist actions

Weird. I'm watching like 3 different live feeds and there was speculation early on that the bomb could have been in a trash bin and that people found shrapnel in their pockets, but that's as far as it went. No official statements have gone out, to my knowledge, that confirm or even mention ball bearings. The trash bin thing was speculation early on, but just news folks talking about the possibility.

Seems like we'd have some sort of confirmation of ball bearings.

You being from Birmingham...I wouldn't blame you

I'm not watching any live feeds but I read that article that mentioned the ball bearings on the drudge report. Googling comes up with other places too mentioning it like foxnews.

Actually, I just saw transcript of Rep. Mike McCaul (Republican) making a statement about hearing reports of ball bearings, then proceeding to link what amounts to hear-say to the probability that it was a terrorist, which, to me, seems like an attempt to put a pre-conceived notion into people's minds before the facts are actually laid on the table.

I wasn't aware that BBC was reporting a Republican representative's unverified comments as fact. That sorta sucks.