If anyone is up there now, hope you are OK and staying safe.
+1. Prayers and well-wishes to folks up north.
ABC news reporting 3 portable bombs with one not detonating.
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I have been reading of even more possible explosives found, I am not sure if they have been verified though.
A sad day in Boston. My prayers go out to those injured and slain and their families in this terrible time. Hopefully this is the end to the explosives and the rest of the people in Boston are safe from this threat.
My sympathy and best wishes go to the people of Boston and to the victims and their families.
Just heard there was a third explosion at the JFK Presidential Library.
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I live in Boston, drive under the site pretty much every day.
Nobody I know was hurt, but man.
Please keep it cool, forums. Don't do the stupid things the rest of the internet has already done. Keep your political hobbyhorses to yourself for 48 hours please, and stand dumbfounded with the rest of us.
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There was pictures and footage of people running towards the explosions immediately to try and help. Just as we see the worst of humanity we also see the best. I hope we see no more casualties and fatalities today.
That's something I hope gets emphasized over the next few days. It's an example one hopes to live up to if the need ever arises.
Thoughts and prayers to everyone out there.
reddit has ongoing updates, along with offers of help if you're in the area.
http://www.reddit.com/r/inthenews/comments/1cfdwa/boston_marathon_explosion s_live_update_thread_4/
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Dear Coward,
Once again we find ourselves for one horrible second at the mercy of a stunted, sucker-punching child. Perhaps you felt like nobody was listening. Maybe it was because what you had to say was ludicrous and childish in the first place. Perhaps you never tried to communicate at all. Hate stewed in you for some reason, and rather than using whatever pain you might have felt to increase your empathy toward others, you decided to act out. Make no mistake, though – you did this. This was your decision.
People were supposed to run and hide and grovel when those bombs went off. And now I expect you think we will all be thinking long and hard on whatever sins you believe us guilty, and change our ways to suit yours. Instead, as always happens when cowards kill and maim and destroy in pursuit of their sick goals, people ran toward the danger. They came to help. People were frightened, yes. Maimed. Some were killed. Nobody groveled. The saddest thing might be that you should have known better. You should have seen by now, as all terrorists should see by now – that terrorism does not work. The more you throw hate out at the world, the more the world will resist you. It can be an ugly, hard world sometimes, yes. But it is not a cowardly world. It – we – human beings, are not a people to be intimidated.
Take this with you to bed tonight: You lose. You will be found and you will pay ultimately, and we will not have been moved by you, even one inch. The course of human affairs will always ultimately be guided by the example of people who run toward the danger, who come to help. By the collective will of people who want to share in something of the human spirit; who want to share in the Olympics, in a marathon, in an electoral process, or in the security of having their children being cared-for in the same building in which they work. None of these things have ended because you and your ilk see no other way to join in the conversation than to throw the deadliest of tantrums.
You have proved nothing today but your own lack of imagination, decency and empathy. Your own inadequacies are now on display to the whole world. And when your name is finally known, some lunatic fringe may call you “hero,” no doubt. But the world will have a new name for impotence and futility.
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"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster’, I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world."
- Mr. Rogers
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Thoughts and sympathies to all and any who have been affected by this horrible event, particularly those who were wounded, their families, and the families of those who were killed.
My thoughts and sympathies also go out to the entire world. Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens the whole world over, all year round. In Western countries, we normally only hear of events in the Western world
I hope that rather than causing more hatred and violence, this terrible, cowardly act can foster more empathy for our brother and sister human beings around the world, in all nations, many of which see this sort of thing happen far more regularly.
Again, my heart goes out to all the victims.
Nobody claimed this. Why not? Normally when something like this happens, there is a misery list of idiots who claim to be responsible. What is different this time?
Nobody claimed this. Why not? Normally when something like this happens, there is a misery list of idiots who claim to be responsible. What is different this time?
thejeff has it. Terrorist groups claim responsibility publicly for a number of reasons, but chief among them is the ability to drive support/recruitment. Lone individuals and small groups do not have the resources to make showy public claims of responsibility, nor do they tend to have a coherent ideology that enables them to attract others to whatever their cause of choice is.
While it's certainly possible that more than one person was involved, right now the signs are pointing to the bombings being perpetrated by a single person.
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FBI says it's looking for these two guys. The second guy does look like he's toting something heavy in that pack, but he's also skinny, so... who knows? I've had textbooks make me walk like that after a long day. We'll see.
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My heart goes out to everyone involved. I'm originally a New Englander myself, and have spent a lot of time in Boston. When I heard, it was like a punch in the gut. I can picture the location perfectly-- I've been there scores of times.
I've never been to the Marathon, but I have been to many of Boston's other massive street parties, like First Night and the Fourth of July. (And when the Sox won the Series in '04.) I was last there in January. Heck, I still have a Charlie Card in my wallet.
As much as I hate to say it, willing to be at risk of random violence is part of the price of living in an open society. I don't want to live in a police state, where people cannot gather in big jubilant crowds. The shock of a terrorist attack is truly chilling, but your danger of serious injury is still highest when you're driving at 70 mph on the highway.
I'll be at First Night in Boston again next December. And I'll bring my wife and kid. Because you can't live your life in fear. If you start to, the bad guys win.
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Bingo, Haladir. Celebrate, do not cower in fear or otherwise become sheep.
Live feed of news coverage from Boston of some craziness happening there now. One MIT officer killed, some explosions, apparently, and at least one eyewitness description of a guy on the ground in the street with a bunch of lasers on him, while they're moving people back out of the area. Many shots fired.Link
EDIT: Oh, and if you live in Watertown, stay the eff inside, say police.
Chechens, huh? Didn't see that coming...
Jeez, total suburb lockdown. Good luck and stay safe, Bostonians!
My sister and three of my best friends from college (and their respective families) all live in the lockdown area. According to Facebook, they're all safe.
I live in New York these days, and am safely in my office-- but I'll be surprised if I get much done today. I've got CNN and NPR open in other windows on my computer.
Stay safe everyone!
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Man, the list of affected regions is basically a list of where I've lived.
Kendall Sq (MIT), Inman Square, Watertown... I can see all of these places exactly in my mind as I listen to the radio.
I'm at work in the suburb of Randolph now, amazed they let people drive under the city this morning. Wonder if I'll be able to get home tonight.
Thanks, moderators, for keeping this thread clear for posting. Stay classy folks.
Man, the list of affected regions is basically a list of where I've lived.
Kendall Sq (MIT), Inman Square, Watertown... I can see all of these places exactly in my mind as I listen to the radio.
Yeah, it's crazy, right? First apartment in Boston was in Inman Square, used to work at the UPS near the Arsenal Mall, sold commie newspapers at MIT all the time.
Anyway, just saw some Mass. FEMA dude saying you could go home and. And then I saw a picture of Tamurlane Tardaev with frickin' Mickey Ward.
I CAN go home, but I wonder what the tunnel will be like.
Might just visit friends in the burbs instead.
Live feed of news coverage from Boston of some craziness happening there now. One MIT officer killed, some explosions, apparently, and at least one eyewitness description of a guy on the ground in the street with a bunch of lasers on him, while they're moving people back out of the area. Many shots fired.Link
EDIT: Oh, and if you live in Watertown, stay the eff inside, say police.
Yes, the shootout was right outside of where I work :(
Staying indoors today as mandated.