Boston Marathon Bombing: BEAHCAT & BRUINS, 'MURICA

[rezn0r]

i was about 200' away from the second explosion and now i'm depressed. i didn't even want to be in there but my sister's fiance was running. it was chaos in there. what a god damn buzz kill.

[Fhloston]

The finish line is a completely gated off restricted area, having police K-9's from Boston and the state police at the finish line is normal.

Thanks for the response. I knew that would set off the conspiracy horns, but figured security like that might be a norm for big sporting events like this marathon. Anything on said "drill" that was occurring supposedly?

PS: Hats off for all you do out there, be safe!

[Correction]

Some gory as fuck images on liveleak. NSFL, not joking.

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if all you want is a description then it's a pic of wheelchair guy pre wheelchair, pre tourniquet as well as other folks missing limbs.

[Pikarya]

Some gory as fuck images on liveleak. NSFL, not joking.

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[Correction]

Updated with link to gallery.

[Tarage]

For one thing why the hell are people posting pictures of this? The dude is in the hospital after losing his leg. No one seems to stop and think "Hey, maybe we shouldn't take pictures of this right now" or "Maybe we shouldn't publish these until after we've asked the dude if it's okay to make money off of his sorrow.

I hate the news.

[kuronosan]

For one thing why the hell are people posting pictures of this? The dude is in the hospital after losing his leg. No one seems to stop and think "Hey, maybe we shouldn't take pictures of this right now" or "Maybe we shouldn't publish these until after we've asked the dude if it's okay to make money off of his sorrow.

I hate the news.

I hope you hate it when people in the middle east post pictures of bombing victims. If you don't, kindly shut up.

[archibaldcrane]

The news' job is to show and tell us what happened.

That's what I want them to do.

[Correction]

For one thing why the hell are people posting pictures of this?

It's news and for people covering the news there is a duty to inform. It's up to you to look or not look, I'm just sharing the things I find.

[Tarage]

It's news and for people creating the news there is a duty to inform. It's up to you to look or not look, I'm just sharing the things I find.

I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming the people uploading this.

Yeah fine, people want to know, but why can't words suffice here? Do people honestly need to see these pictures?

[Correction]

From Globe's Kay Lazar:

Boston Children’s Hospital received eight patients injured at the explosion at the Boston Marathon. Patients’ conditions ranged from good to serious. There were no patient deaths among the patients brought to Boston Children’s from the scene.

Our patients included:

• A 9-year-old girl with leg trauma who is in the operating room.
• A 42-year-old parent of a patient is being treated in the ED.
• A 7-year-old boy is being treated in the ED for a minor leg injury.
• A 12 year old with a femur fracture has been admitted.
• A 2 year-old-boy with a head injury has been admitted to the Medical/Surgical ICU.
• Three additional patients in good condition were treated in the ED
According to Boston EMS, we will not be receiving any more patients from the Boston Marathon scene

I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming the people uploading this.

Yeah fine, people want to know, but why can't words suffice here? Do people honestly need to see these pictures?

Knowing the extent of the damage is best communicated visually. Reduce everything to numbers like '2 fatalities, dozens injured' and you risk abstracting the suffering and that only serves to shelter the audience from the shock of things. I'm not interested in keeping people's world views pretty and sanitary.

[Bregor]

A 2 year-old-boy with a head injury has been admitted to the Medical/Surgical ICU

Fucking hell.

[jmc]

Thanks for the response. I knew that would set off the conspiracy horns, but figured security like that might be a norm for big sporting events like this marathon. Anything on said "drill" that was occurring supposedly?

PS: Hats off for all you do out there, be safe!

The drill sounds like bullshit, our K-9's train weekly. They wouldn't be conducting a drill during a large event that's already going on.

[Moridam]

Shit's pretty messed up.

Definitely gonna have to stay away from FB for a while. I normally don't see too much dumbassery pop up on my feed, but I see a lot of friends-of-friends adding chatter about the NYPost's mythical Saudi bomber, which is pretty much guaranteed to end poorly. Everyone I know that was out there today is fine, so that's good I guess. Glad I don't live in the city though, I'm sure everything's a total clusterfuck out there.

assuming this is the work of rogue Quebecis

Infinite Jest reference? Nicely done.

[Bregor]

I'm at work right now, on shift with three other guys. They just changed the channel because they "don't get why the news has to go on and on about this." They are now watching Criminal Minds.

[kuronosan]

I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming the people uploading this.

Yeah fine, people want to know, but why can't words suffice here? Do people honestly need to see these pictures?

Yes. Would you rather live in a fantasy land?

[Necronus]

So I decided to put on AM radio in the car for some news ... and wow, I wanted to headbutt my steering wheel in response to the shit coming out of politicians mouths.

First guy was a Maryland congressman who constantly kept referring to it as an "attack" and explained that it may not be organized terrorism but a "lone wolf" terrorist who was sent to live here. Remember before 9/11 where bombings and such were just crazy people or bombers until motive was found? But I digress, this was rather par for the course.

Then the second guy ... oh the second guy ... no idea who he was but he was talking about how we need to swiftly apprehend the person responsible and send him to Guantanamo bay for torture and interrogations right away because they don't deserve rights. I don't even know how to respond to that.

[Pabst]

Thank god they didn't have it lined with ball bearings
fucking pussy ass faggot bombers...

RT @jaredbkeller
CNN: 132 bombing victims so far, at least 10 amputations. Doctors are pulling ball bearings out of victims.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MotherJon...47188067639299

[Correction]

Boston Globe is updating their photostream with less graphic imagery of the survivors.

[Bregor]

So I decided to put on AM radio in the car for some news ... and wow, I wanted to headbutt my steering wheel in response to the shit coming out of politicians mouths.

First guy was a Maryland congressman who constantly kept referring to it as an "attack" and explained that it may not be organized terrorism but a "lone wolf" terrorist who was sent to live here. Remember before 9/11 where bombings and such were just crazy people or bombers until motive was found? But I digress, this was rather par for the course.

Then the second guy ... oh the second guy ... no idea who he was but he was talking about how we need to swiftly apprehend the person responsible and send him to Guantanamo bay for torture and interrogations right away because they don't deserve rights. I don't even know how to respond to that.

Being from DC and going to school in Fredericksburg during the DC Sniper shootings, I remember everyone and their brother had a theory on who was doing it and why. But that won't stop people for shoehorning a tragedy into their world view and agenda.