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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by snarf »

spitx wrote: post #230
spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

UPDATE 6: 08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2, the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have identified him as a suspect. Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful…

The update you quoted above has conveniently been deleted from the source now that the AP has done some real reporting and identified the Russian suspects.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by [deleted] »

Udo wrote: post #205
__david__ wrote: post #192

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> Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. This has to really suck for them. I can't imagine what they must be going through right now... Edit: Just 10 days ago his family and friends made this video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Brown-Stud... To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Edit 2: Looks like h…

This is really heartbreaking. By all accounts, that guy had exceptional friends and family who really cared for him. By the looks of it he is/was intelligent, from a reasonably affluent background, well educated, surrounded by incredibly nice and loving people. 99.99% of us would have good reason to be jealous of this background, I certainly am. One can only speculate what insanity drove him to do this.

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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by youngerdryas »

grecy wrote: post #162
jlgreco wrote: post #148

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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.

And the hate America first crowd rolls on.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by Udo »

Udo wrote: post #205
__david__ wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. This has to really suck for them. I can't imagine what they must be going through right now... Edit: Just 10 days ago his family and friends made this video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Brown-Stud... To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Edit 2: Looks like h…

This is really heartbreaking. By all accounts, that guy had exceptional friends and family who really cared for him. By the looks of it he is/was intelligent, from a reasonably affluent background, well educated, surrounded by incredibly nice and loving people. 99.99% of us would have good reason to be jealous of this background, I certainly am. One can only speculate what insanity drove him to do this.

Update: it looks like that was utterly false information, originally spewed into the ether by Punditpress. I'm really glad it didn't turn out to be this guy. I hope they do find him or he decides to go home again.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by intended »

StavrosK wrote: post #237
rikacomet wrote: post #236

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I feel this is horrible way of morphing the two pics, the lips are totally different in proportions, that is the hardest thing to morph. Any wrong assumptions can get someone killed, please refrain. Calm down people.

Oh, I don't know who either of the two is, I was just remarking that they look similar. Can someone clarify?

At that resolution level, the second image should look similar.

Heck video games depended on people filling in the blanks when using low rez sprites to convey information, and it still works swimmingly.

People will see everything from Marlin Brando to the Mona Lisa in low resolution images, while their brain will happily fill in the blanks.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by StavrosK »

intended wrote: post #245
StavrosK wrote: post #237

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Oh, I don't know who either of the two is, I was just remarking that they look similar. Can someone clarify?

At that resolution level, the second image should look similar. Heck video games depended on people filling in the blanks when using low rez sprites to convey information, and it still works swimmingly. People will see everything from Marlin Brando to the Mona Lisa in low resolution images, while their brain will happily fill in the blanks.

Sure, but I mean to ask "who's white hat guy" and "what does Sunil have to do with either of the two attacks"? I saw the name thrown about here but nobody really clarified.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by sgpl »

pinaceae wrote: post #239
spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

Can this please be taken down? AP just confirmed the name of the second suspect and it's not one of those above. You're smearing innocents.

Adding this here since this is the top comment:

Suspects are Chechnyan brothers: 19 and 20.

1. Tamerlan Tsarnaev [dead]

2. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev [still at large]

Dzhokhar is trapped somewhere in a 20 block radius in the town of Watertown, that is being searched by the police.

[1]: Live Google News Updates: https://goo.gl/f5HTZ

[2]: https://aljazeera.com/watch_now

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by asimov42 »

ajju wrote: post #231
spitx wrote: post #230

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UPDATE 6: 08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2, the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have identified him as a suspect. Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful…

"Brahmin"!? His caste is relevant, how, exactly? Only a British (or worse, Indian) newspaper would find the necessity to point out the caste of some person being tried by a public mob based on things heard on a police scanner.

I have never read an Indian newspaper making reference to someone's caste unless it was somewhat related to the story.
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