Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

Checkmite said:
Identifying the logo on the suspect's hats might've been personally satisfying, but it sadly was not useful; in fact I find it difficult to imagine a realistic scenario in which it would have been useful.
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Knowing exactly what the distinctive (and maybe not all that common) caps looked like could definitely have been useful as a way to identify the suspects, for example when presenting low-quality pictures to potential eyewitnesses. The fact that they were both golfing hats could also be a clue--maybe bought at a local golfing store? Were they both golfers at a local club?

With rear vision it's much too easy to dismiss that information as useless--you never know if it could have helped had things turned out differently.
 
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MattusMaximus said:
Your junior G-man badge is in the mail, Adman.
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Gee thanks, can't wait! And thanks for making this personal. :rolleyes:

Are you suggesting none of the information that the Internet "crowd" came up with had any value for the investigators?
 
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MattusMaximus said:
Your junior G-man badge is in the mail, Adman.
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Sure, if you can't counter Adman's reasonable argument with a reasonable counter-argument, just start name-calling.

Because that's what critical thinking is all about, amirite?
 
AdMan said:
Thanks for clarifying. That bothered me too. Trying to actually ID the suspects publicly like that did go too far.
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I feel sorry for all the missing individuals who people are frantically searching for, and were named as terror suspects. Must've made their parents' lives a living hell. I really hope they find that Sunil kid. My feeling is that he's in a ditch somewhere, or a terrible accident happened. :(
 
Regarding missing Sunil, well at least his face is known to a lot more people now.
Which in the end should help to find him.
 
L.Y.S. said:
I feel sorry for all the missing individuals who people are frantically searching for, and were named as terror suspects.
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I think it was only the one individual, right? Or were others named too?

And yes, I'm also hoping they find Sunil! It was a strange disappearance, from what I've heard.
 
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I think it's been amazing how social media has worked with news media and the authorities during this whole series of incidents. They worked with each other.

For example, The blurry CCTV pictures were released, then social media discovered clearer ones, which in turn were released by the news media and, if I understand correctly, by the authorities.

And Boston Police tweeted that they'd captured the suspect - I gather that's the first place it was announced.

It's been a worldwide technology phenomenon.
 
Some ballsy guy over at ATS sticking his finger in the dike:

reply posted on 19-4-2013 @ 07:09 AM by kazanoom
Enough! They were strapped with explosives and are cold blooded killers. This is not a false flag, mind control blah blah blah. Get a life, this place become a cesspool of paranoids.
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What a party-pooper!
 
AdMan said:
And yes, I'm also hoping they find Sunil! It was a strange disappearance, from what I know.
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I'll "Man up" and apologize for putting that up there here. I too hope that they find the kid and that he can be helped. However a man described as "Depressed" missing under strange circumstances in the state next to the one where the attacks happened, who has some resemblance to what the FBI had put out at the time, who has at least one picture out there with him wearing a Che T-shirt is not an unreasonable person to suspect when there are no persons identified yet in a terrorist attack.

The truther comparison is idiotic. Comparing known living people with known living ones is not even close to being in the same category as comparing someone whose whereabouts are unknown with someone whose identity is unknown.

It turns out that the FBI had the much clearer shot of suspect #2 rounding the corner in their possession all along. The photographer sent it to them on Monday or Tuesday and called them back on Thursday saying that they had missed it. He had gone back and looked at the picture after the Thursday press conference where they released their images and spotted him right away. If they had released that picture instead of the fuzzy ones that they did the whole mix up probably would have been avoided in the first place as the profile shot clearly excluded Sunil as a suspect.
 
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Am I the only one who suspects that the buff guy who got arrested naked on national TV and then released is going to end up getting laid more in the next six months than in his whole previous life?
 
Quinn said:
Am I the only one who suspects that the buff guy who got arrested naked on national TV and then released is going to end up getting laid more in the next six months than in his whole previous life?
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He was on one of the news stations tonight (Fox or CNN, I switched back and forth a lot between them tonight) and he seemed pretty cool about the whole thing (he also had caught the last gunshots at the boat on his cell phone camera). Apparently he was just getting home from doing some work in NJ and the first gunfight broke out (the one where suspect #1 died) while he was getting out of his car. He decided that running to the house for safety was too far and drove off instead. Bad timing on his part.
 
Quinn said:
Am I the only one who suspects that the buff guy who got arrested naked on national TV and then released is going to end up getting laid more in the next six months than in his whole previous life?
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Yeah, I'm sure it was not a pleasant experience as it happened, but I think he's going to carry the video on his iphone and enjoy the notoriety. :D
 
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Written by Sam.I.am:

"If they had released that picture instead of the fuzzy ones that they did the whole mix up probably would have been avoided in the first place as the profile shot clearly excluded Sunil as a suspect".



Yes, that damn FBI people releasing "fuzzy pictures" are the real culprits here, silly me for relying in critical thinking.
 
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