Boston Marathon Bombing: BEAHCAT & BRUINS, 'MURICA

[Boyiee]

Guess that picture before was legit, 8yr old girl among the dead.

[Waraji]

One of the alleged dead was an 8 year old.

[Boyiee]

TOO SLOW

[Pharaun]

Too Soon Joke:

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Anybody else realize it was a Patriot's Day thing, then instinctively blame the Vox Populi?

Urdoinitwrong

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It was the La Li Lu Le Lo

Seriously though, this is tragedy and my heart goes out to anyone affected by this. My fiancee's family is from the Boston area and they are all freaking out over this.

[Correction]

Janet Johnson ‏@JJohnsonLaw 6m
Reports saying an eight year old child is one of the confirmed dead. Speechless.
Details

Christ.

[Correction]

National Guard deployed, getting orders in commons

[FNH]

3rd one didnt go off, because the bomber injured himself in the second one? Person of interest in the hospital is what I've read.

[Dimmauk]

Oh ... jesus. That's fucking ... god.

Fuck. As a father, seeing that is gut wrenching.

[djzombie]

boston college, 400-500 stranded runners

[Rakiel]

Explosives looked to be 5-20lbs of explosives, judging by the white cloud they produced, perchlorate based (the kind you make with shit from wal-mart). Negative on any additional shrapnel because more windows would have been shattered.

Talk about flipping a god damn switch in me and my buddies brains...

This is what fucking afghanistan is like, in just how fucking ridiculously devestating IEDs are.

2nd one sounded louder/looked bigger than the one that happened right at the finish line.

I hear you...I'm an intel analyst, active duty 2001-2005, active duty National Guard in West Virginia since then. The whole shop started looking at windows, the shape of the blast, the color of the smoke, everything. We turn into some smart fuckers when shit gets real and we drop our normal admin crap to do real analyst work.

the first one is the trap you see it you turn around and run backwards (can't escape from the sides due to the bollards) as you run backwards second one is bigger get a larger spread on taking out people, Panic is a bombs best friend

In this instance, the blasts are too close together to be intended to do something like this, I believe.

I also have a friend who works in a FBI office in the Boston area. He's fine, but going to be busy as hell for the foreseeable future.

[Eurell]

3rd one didnt go off, because the bomber injured himself in the second one? Person of interest in the hospital is what I've read.

Boston police confirmed this to be bullshit.

[kuronosan]

I really hate to do this but it really seems as though the marathon had quite the explosive finish.

[FNH]

Boston police confirmed this to be bullshit.

Like right after I posted it...MSNBC took it off their page too

[elison]

I really hate to do this but it really seems as though the marathon had quite the explosive finish.

Too soon, man.. Too soon

[Bregor]

I really hate to do this but it really seems as though the marathon had quite the explosive finish.

Too soon, man.. Too soon

Not too soon, just unfunny.

[Correction]

UK Tabloids have gone to print, so enjoy the madness.

[Melena]

I have a feeling anyone working dispatch in any city tonight is in for a long night. Friend of mine does it for San Francisco and he said the phones already are lighting up with random shit and bomb scares.

And I just now noticed that my avatar may be the worst possible one for this thread

[Tarage]

Pretty fucking sickening. And again, these tabloids are about as bad as the 24hour news networks.

[Aksannyi]

Ugh, 8 year old girl ... heatbreaking. My son is eight. This is horrible.

[Callisto]

so does this mean we have to re-invade Iraq?