Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

NoahFence said:
How are you, applecorped? Ok?
This is friggin bizarre.
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My first thought was for several of my co-workers who ran today. We found them after the fact safe and sound. Everyone seems to be in a daze and the constant speculations as to motives and perpetrators is a bit exhausting. It is a bit overwhelming.:(
 
AdMan said:
This is another view, and probably even worse. Should probably NOT be viewed by most people. I'm posting the link because the guy in the cowboy hat is a true hero, given what he's doing.

[qimg]http://i.imgur.com/I5LY4w9.jpg[/qimg]

He is Carlos Arredondo, an immigrant from Costa Rica and the guy in the picture in this article (safe to view):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...n-marathon-tragedy-and-what-others-are-doing/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arredondo
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Unbelievable. Is that the guy's femoral artery he's holding in his hand as they wheel him along? ETA: I see someone earlier in the thread said it's a tourniquet. Sounds reasonable to me, but I can't say for sure.

There are several very, very graphic pictures here:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=072_1366065507

I think that it can be important to visually see the actual nature of these types of things, sometimes, so as to not become complacent about the darker aspects of human nature. It is certainly a personal choice, though.
 
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applecorped said:
My first thought was for several of my co-workers who ran today. We found them after the fact safe and sound. Everyone seems to be in a daze and the constant speculations as to motives and perpetrators is a bit exhausting. It is a bit overwhelming.:(
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Very overwhelming. 'Somewhere else' is here now.
Crazy
 
Last night (around 11pm Perth time) I was standing on a bus platform with an unattended bag sitting on a bench near me.

Neither I nor the driver of the bus I was catching gave it much thought, never again...
 
Doghouse Reilly said:
Unbelievable. Is that the guy's femoral artery he's holding in his hand as they wheel him along? ETA: I see someone earlier in the thread said it's a tourniquet. Sounds reasonable to me, but I can't say for sure.
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Tourniquet, you can see that it's wrapped around the leg. But there are a couple other things hanging down that look like tendons or blood vessels.


Doghouse Reilly said:
There are several very, very graphic pictures here:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=072_1366065507...
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No one is helping that guy with no legs, but I wonder if he isn't the same one in the wheelchair picture? At least one of those women looks dead, looks like her entire legs are missing, except when you look closer, there's a foot under her.

It's really not like I would have pictured with a leg cut off lying next to the person. There is nothing left of the missing limbs.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
Tourniquet, you can see that it's wrapped around the leg. But there are a couple other things hanging down that look like tendons or blood vessels.


No one is helping that guy with no legs, but I wonder if he isn't the same one in the wheelchair picture? At least one of those women looks dead, looks like her entire legs are missing, except when you look closer, there's a foot under her.

It's really not like I would have pictured with a leg cut off lying next to the person. There is nothing left of the missing limbs.
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The shrapnel shredded them, think shotgun blast at point blank range.
 
Graham2001 said:
Last night (around 11pm Perth time) I was standing on a bus platform with an unattended bag sitting on a bench near me.

Neither I nor the driver of the bus I was catching gave it much thought, never again...
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Why should you give it much thought?

That kind of paranoia is extremely unhealthy.
 
Courier said:
This may not have been a terrorist attack.
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:wwt

triforcharity said:
(He's still trying to say that someone mentioned it BEFORE it happened!)
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"Sir, if you have any information about this attack, we'd appreciate it if you would tell us everything you know." [motions to another officer to escort the individual out to make a statement]

Graham2001 said:
[...] and is that 13 second timing (13 States?) between the blasts significant or as is much more likely just a co-incidence?
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I think you might be over-analyzing that particular detail...
 
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