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AFAIK, the bombs used were triggered by kitchen timers, not remote detonation.
Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#42I find it very interesting, that there are such websites. I wonder whether it works, but I guess that if only one life is saved by a notice on a website, that is enough
Well if you truly meant one life saved fair enough. So you'd have to deducted the people killed in making sites like these first. So a web site is possibly $40,000. A humans life in the US is probably worth around $2,000,000. So it might cost one 50th of a humans life to create a site like this. I'd guess not, but the figures are complicated, the site is used for other things for starters. I'd suspect a suicide help…
1. Human lives are valued at between $6 and $8 million in the US.
This is not what can be produced in the average human life, which is probably more like $1 million as I estimated recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543848 . Instead, it's how much it costs to save a human life on the margin, which is the applicable number here.
2. My impression from previous things I've read is that suicide lines are largely ineffective.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
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If this had involved known suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, there would probably have been a small platoon of federal officers involved. The officer in this instance is MIT police.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#44Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
When I was at MIT, I don't recall a single on-campus shooting.
Me neither, I was there from 1982-1996. There was one knifing on Mem Drive during that period.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#45"There was a shooting at 32 Vassar St... No suspect description... No direction of flight..." MIT officer was shot and weapon stolen, I think they said the weapon was recovered. Officer is at MGH. Witness in lobby of Stata saw man in cowboy hat. (All that on the police scanner in the last minute or so)
I'm hearing it was armed robbery with life threatening injuries to the MIT police officer: http://www.wcvb.com/MIT-campus-police-officer-shot/-/9849586...
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015157344...
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#46Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell"
The mid-April week has always had a higher-than-normal rate of manic-type (e.g. spree killings) violence, and there are a lot of theories about it (spring inciting grandeur in unstable men) but no one knows why. Those are very rare, high-visibility events, though. Overall, that time is no more dangerous than any other. (There's only about a +/- 5 percent seasonal difference in violent crime, with summer and December being the worst).
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably the one across the street from campus on Main St., for those not from the area. (ETA: And assuming that the police report is accurate.)
Also might have been unrelated incidents... Scanner traffic just reported shooting in Stata, and I don't know why a 7-11 robber would go inside Stata.
Botched the robbery, and panicked?
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#48Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
When I was at MIT, I don't recall a single on-campus shooting.
Seconded (2000-2004). And I've lived near campus ever since, and nothing like this has happened. Some shootings in Central Square, but never on campus. I'd say this is a pretty big deal.
And HN should care - Stata is full of CS people.
Edit: dates
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#49"There was a shooting at 32 Vassar St... No suspect description... No direction of flight..." MIT officer was shot and weapon stolen, I think they said the weapon was recovered. Officer is at MGH. Witness in lobby of Stata saw man in cowboy hat. (All that on the police scanner in the last minute or so)
Live stream of police scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#50Edit again. Much better collection of pics