Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

William Parcher said:
Jeff actually described black hat guy looking at him and placing the bomb bag at his feet.
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Are you sure?

A man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet, his brother, Chris Bauman, said in an interview.
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I thought the hoodie was worn by the white-capped, not black-capped, suspect.
 
zeggman said:
It's unlikely that any of us will crack the case, because it's unlikely that any of us have first-hand knowledge of who either suspect is or where they may be.

We're examining evidence, just as people do in dozens of other crime-related threads on this forum. If that bothers you, maybe another thread would be more to your liking.
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If my criticism bothers you, maybe another thread would be more to your liking.
 
LTC8K6 said:
I agree with that and I think it's too early to be desperate.

Enormous pressure to solve the case, I guess.
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Yeah, this was another concern of mine: political pressure to solve the case, possibly forcing the FBI into making an unwise decision.
 
LTC8K6 said:
I agree with that and I think it's too early to be desperate.

Enormous pressure to solve the case, I guess.
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I disagree that it means they're desperate. It means that they want to identify these people as quickly as possible, and that they have no other means of doing so. How is that desperation? To me it seems like a rational act. Assessing a situation and being realistic about one's options.
 
They didn't seem to do anything to hide themselves or use disguises. If they are local guys... how did they know they wouldn't accidentally run into people they know in the crowd? It almost seems too bold and brazen for local guys who really wanted to get away with it.
 
Checkmite said:
No; the scientific method is the entire process of forming a hypothesis, testing it, and then drawing a conclusion about the hypothesis from the data gathered.

What's happening in this thread is people making a lot of uneducated guesses which none of us is in a position to test even if they could rise to the level of actual hypotheses. What is happening here has nothing to do with the scientific method.
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This ^
 
MattusMaximus said:
This is the second time someone has implied that I'm saying there was no bomb.
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You compare efforts to identify suspects to efforts to find evidence for a mythical creature. The problem would seem to be in your comparison.

MattusMaximus said:
My criticism is with the methods of "investigation" you and others seem all to willing to employ here, along with your deluded mentality that you are in the right in doing so. And when I point that out, you react by implying that I thought there was no bomb.
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My method is to look at photographs and videos taken at the scene and attempt to see if either of the two individuals in question appears in them. Do you have a better suggestion?

MattusMaximus said:
And the FBI gets to slog through every last tip from these wonderfully enlightening Internet investigations.
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I haven't called the FBI. Have you?
 
Doghouse Reilly said:
I disagree that it means they're desperate. It means that they want to identify these people as quickly as possible, and that they have no other means of doing so. How is that desperation? To me it seems like a rational act. Assessing a situation and being realistic about one's options.
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However, they might not have known they were suspects, and therefore had not run or covered their tracks yet.

Releasing the pics means they will be running and hiding, if they are guilty.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Ftfy
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yes, thats true, innocent til proven guilty, but the FBI have said they have extra video of suspect 2 putting his bag down on the site of one of the bombs.

the point being, they must have a good reasons to suspect these two men in particular. and they have released some of the footage.
 
LTC8K6 said:
However, they might not have known they were suspects, and therefore had not run or covered their tracks yet.

Releasing the pics means they will be running and hiding, if they are guilty.
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This was a risk I'm sure the FBI weighed very carefully before releasing the images.
 
Checkmite said:
You are wrong. The FBI when they released the images today explicitly said they want people to see if they personally recognize the men depicted.
The FBI has not released any raw video or photos or asked the public for their opinion. They have only asked the public to send any and all photographs or video they took at the location to the FBI so that the FBI's trained experts could examine them.
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So... did or did not the FBI release any images to the public? I'm still confused on this one.
 
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