I live in Charlestown, which is Boston's northeasternmost neighborhood, which is actually across the Charles River.
For the past hour I've nothing but ambulances going down 99 or along 93.
Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
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#102Can someone just run a plain marathon without having to worry about this in modern civilized life? Come on. This isn't even crime, this is just insanity.
I'm willing to bet that running in a marathon is still statistically safer than taking the same trip in a car. No more how much modern life keeps improving, tragedies will happen, whether by natural disasters or nutjobs. Actively fearing that which is outside of your control is pointless.
And yet I'm sure we will all see some more civil rights displaced as fearmongers jump at the opportunity. :(
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#103North Korea, Al Qaeda, racists, or something else? I honestly think anyone could claim responsibility but given the high explosives and the seemingly professional nature of the attack I'm guessing either NK, AQ, or a false-flag to start a war on the Korean peninsula. edit: Nice downvotes? We cannot speculate who?
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#104Edit: Boston police reporting at least 2 dead, 22 injured and 10 people losing limbs. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near... Looks like there were two explosions. Picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fCgFCQAERWMB.jpg:large More details http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-nea... "Witnesses said several victims lost limbs, and the area was being evacuated. Many of the in…
For some reason this reminds me more of the Atlanta Summer Olympics or Moscow than the attacks on the World Trade Center. [edit to add links for clarity]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings#Ryaz...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing
Condolences to friends and families of the injured and dead.
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#105I am seeing a lot of comments which makes assumptions about this being detonated explosives. Has there been any confirmation about this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/BostonDotCom/status/3238868777467...
This tells me the Boston PD found one or more devices and are in the process of detonating them.
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#106Can someone just run a plain marathon without having to worry about this in modern civilized life? Come on. This isn't even crime, this is just insanity.
I'm willing to bet that running in a marathon is still statistically safer than taking the same trip in a car. No more how much modern life keeps improving, tragedies will happen, whether by natural disasters or nutjobs. Actively fearing that which is outside of your control is pointless.
I've made no claims of my fear of marathons or that I will not attend them, I'm afraid of the total risk of conducting such affairs in life, I'm not the person who avoided planes because of 9/11 forever afterward. It was merely a simple remark of disgust.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Random person with mental problems? Like all of the other shootings, stabbings, etc that have occurred in the last 10 years.
But it is so professional. Two explosions, within seconds of each other. And these were decently powerful too considering they had to be small enough to hide in the crowds. You might be right, but something about this just makes me thing /organised./
Casualty count seems low for something "professional" I would have thought - though certainly I'm no expert.
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#108Short video right before second explosion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMYObtjToU&feature=youtu...
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#109Yet another example of how "News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5549054
Or, for the people who are in Boston or know anyone who is in Boston, this news is a very important notification. I don't think the news media was responsible for this incident.
I don't think w1ntermute was suggesting the news media were responsible for the incident.
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#110I am seeing a lot of comments which makes assumptions about this being detonated explosives. Has there been any confirmation about this?
I wouldn't call it "confirmation" at this point, but emergency services have been reporting the discovery of "secondary devices", so it does appear to be something intentional and not something along the lines of an accidental gas line explosion.