Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

applecorped said:
Maybe they really disliked marathons .;)
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Just to validate everyone's low opinion of me...

We have an annual marathon here in Los Angeles too. Many years ago, I made the mistake of trying to get from point A to point B in an automobile during one such event. I must have driven down fifty side streets trying to find a route that wasn't blocked off so a bunch of pedestrians could use facilities which were not designed and built for them.

When family members invaded my man cave to tell me the news of the Boston bombing, my reaction was "Somebody must be really upset that they blocked traffic." There was much rolling of eyes all around.
 
BenBurch said:
American ignorance of geography is epic, after all. :boxedin:
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Be careful. If you invade the Czech Republic, I'll get the Bavarian militia mobilized. Living just an hour from the border, and I get some of my favourite beers from there. No blood for oil? Maybe. Blood for beer? Sure! :cool:
 
Fun stuff: Older brother allegedly had a Twitter account, and made a tweet alleging that 9/11 was an inside job. If this checks out, what will Marathon Truthers do?
1) Marathon was clearly an inside job
2) But main guy said 9/11 was an inside job
3) So he is anti-government or suspicious of government
4) So he wouldn't have colluded with the government on the marathon
5) So not an inside job? What the... how can...
6) BRAIN ANEURYSM!
 
Dan O. said:
There really was nothing more to add to L.Y.S.'s post.
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Apologies to L.Y.S. when I went to "first new post" it skipped his/her reply.

zeggman said:
I know I'll be attacked for speculating and not waiting until we get "facts" (which can apparently only be certified by the FBI), but I'm pretty sure "desire to hurt people" was in there somewhere.
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Well that was my question, zegg: what's the cause of said desire ?
 
Shrinker said:
I've mostly resisted posting in this forum for a couple of years now but I had to come out if semi retirement to address this. Can you not see what you did? I used to enjoy the debate in the CT sub forum. Over there I saw many posters incensed at the insensitivity of Truthers who posted serious and hurtful accusations about people who were dead or missing in full view of their grieving relatives. Those accusations were based on nothing but their own sniff-tests and the result of their inability to think critically about their own opinions before posting. It was truly disgusting, as was your set of posts.

Regarding the behaviour if the FBI. They caught both suspects. You have no idea how at this stage. They may already have had their names when they released the photos. Bear in mind what was advertised as a manhunt was also an evidence hunt. The FBI need to keep back evidence for the trial and only release the bare minimum. You're assuming way too much, and drawing conclusions too earliy. Classic CT.
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This ^

Those here defending their Internet sleuthing have offered ZERO evidence that it did any good. All I've seen from them is statements along the lines of "you cannot prove it didn't do any good!" Classic argument from ignorance.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Those here defending their Internet sleuthing have offered ZERO evidence that it did any good. All I've seen from them is statements along the lines of "you cannot prove it didn't do any good!" Classic argument from ignorance.
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Maybe if you didn't have everyone who says something you don't like on "ignore" you'd have seen them.

Then again, maybe if you didn't have your mind set on auto-ignore you'd have figured it out for yourself.

The original images the FBI released were not adequate for identifying the suspects. People who knew the two individuals looked at those images and either didn't recognize them, or didn't trust their analysis enough to finger individuals they knew.

Nothing but what you call "internet sleuthing" was responsible for changing that, and providing clearer images. People had to look at other images and determine -- is this the person the FBI is targeting? Whether those images were online or simply on their own hard drive, the process was one of matching those "fuzzy pictures" with pictures which made identification more certain. That included identifying the logos on the hats.
 
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