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Some crime happens on a college campus probably every day. Most likely hundreds of violent crimes a year. But the reason this is on HN is MIT, nothing more.
i was a bit surprised seeing this on top of HN - i feel its out of place. anyone else?
There is a serious problem with HN when stories like this get so many up-votes. This story is against the site guidelines. There isn't anything deeply interesting in the comments.
"The MIT officer, a member of the Cambridge Police Department, died from his wounds just before midnight."
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When I used to live in Philadelphia, summer holiday nights used to be very unnerving. Previously I had thought that firing guns wildly into the air in some form of celebration was something that was only done in underdeveloped countries... I grew up in a very rural area where there were lots of guns, but nobody was that irresponsible with them.
> I had thought that firing guns wildly into the air in some form of celebration was something that was only done in underdeveloped countries... ...it is.
More accurately stated I suppose, I had previously thought I lived in a developed area.
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Live WHDH coverage Streaming video: http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive Live WCVB coverage Streaming video: http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marat... UPDATE: ------- [1] Image of Suspect #1 lying on the ground earlier suspected to have explosives underneath his clothing. [2] Took into custody only after fully undressing. [3] Was put in police vehicle naked. https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/stat…
Isn't this insane? I'm watching http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive muted along with the police scanner. I cannot believe these crazy TV news people... I believe news 7 did a live report in front of the family's home of a person that died at the marathon...at 11pm. They really are heartless.
Anyone else get the feeling we are we making HN become like every news/forum site now? Reporting every and any shot fired anywhere in the world?
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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.
Wow, my hyptohesis was correct, the events were related to each other.
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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…
Julius Caesar was murdered in March/April, as I recall!
It seems one suspect (at least) connected to the shootings (as heard on the BPD scanner) was identified by reddit user yesterday ID'ed the brown male guy - Sunil Tripathi. Wow!