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Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon [W:162, 896, 911]]

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MSBNC reports that they still don't know what caused the explosion

I once had a manhole cover fly up right in front of me from an explosion in the sewer. When it came down it smashed the front end of a car bad.

The explosion (mine) was caused by an exposed wire shorting and igniting sewer gas, so this could be anything

Lets hope this was the case. It's bad enough to have this happen let alone if it was done maliciously.
 
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We should ban organized sports to less than 10 people.
 
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I have friends who were on the finish line volunteering/watching. Sadly I cannot get in touch with them yet :(.
 
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The only way it makes sense as a terrorist act is if Al Shabaab claims it as a strike on Ethiopians and Kenyans.
 
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I have friends who were on the finish line volunteering/watching. Sadly I cannot get in touch with them yet :(.

I haven't heard a report of anyone dead. I'm sure their first priority is not to contact/respond to you (see bold).
 
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A witness has reported seeing two unattended bags at the site of the explosion, but this is unconfirmed

Boston's bomb squad is now on the scene
 
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I have friends who were on the finish line volunteering/watching. Sadly I cannot get in touch with them yet :(.

Hope you here from them soon.
 
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I haven't heard a report of anyone dead. I'm sure their first priority is not to contact/respond to you.

Me neither thankfully.

Here is the NPR link from the local Boston station if anyone is interested. Live Stream | WBUR
 
Re: Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon

MSBNC reports that they still don't know what caused the explosion

I once had a manhole cover fly up right in front of me from an explosion in the sewer. When it came down it smashed the front end of a car bad.

The explosion (mine) was caused by an exposed wire shorting and igniting sewer gas, so this could be anything

Geez that sounded bad. But the sewer explosions in Guadalajara Mexico back in the 1990s were far worse. Gasoline leaked into the sewer system and set off a series of explosions that leveled a entire city block.
 
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I have friends who were on the finish line volunteering/watching. Sadly I cannot get in touch with them yet :(.


I hope you hear from them soon and they are unharmed, soccer.
 
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Me neither thankfully.

Let's not bother their phone given family to contact.
 
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Terrorist bombing in Boston. So what City is next ?
 
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A witness has reported seeing two unattended bags at the site of the explosion, but this is unconfirmed

Boston's bomb squad is now on the scene

That's what I heard too. Was hoping that no one else would have heard that.
 
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I can not fathom what would bring someone to do something like this. I guess the only thing I can come up with is the number of people. What a horrible act.

Bad people do bad things.
 
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Terrorist bombing in Boston. So what City is next ?

No one's saying terrorists yet. If it was something intentional, it was some jamoke, not related to terrorists in the way we usually mean. That would have been a massacre -- and there'd be a real danger of other explosions happening right about now.
 
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fawx news says at least 3 killed
 
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Bad people do bad things.

Yeah I realize that but a marathon really doesn't make much sense. Maybe I am missing the point?
 
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First bomb was supposed to cause casulties and bring in people to assist, second bomb was supposed to cause more casulties.

Typical terrorist. Also timed to go off when the majority of runners would be crossing the finish line.
 
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Yeah I realize that but a marathon really doesn't make much sense. Maybe I am missing the point?

Anywhere there are a lot of people gathering, especially a recreational event where folks aren't expecting it, makes a good place to instill fear. It takes their day to day safety away from them.
 
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No one's saying terrorists yet. If it was
something intentional, it was some jamoke, not related to terrorists in the way we usually mean. That would have been a massacre -- and there'd be a real danger of other explosions happening right about now.

We'll see I suppose. But the subsequent bombings are typical of a terrorist attack.

The second bomb may have been set off prematurely.
 
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If this was a terrorist bombing, Obama would already be blaming G.W. and Janet Napolitano is going to have a lot of explaining to do why the Department of Homeland Security was spending more time on pushing food stamps for illegal aliens and immigrants and calling for amnesty for all foreigners who are illegally in our country instead of securing our nation from such attacks.
 
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Yeah I realize that but a marathon really doesn't make much sense. Maybe I am missing the point?

The objective is to inflict mass casualties in the least obvious place.
 
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No one's saying terrorists yet. If it was something intentional, it was some jamoke, not related to terrorists in the way we usually mean. That would have been a massacre -- and there'd be a real danger of other explosions happening right about now.

EOD and SWAT are now on the scene. I have a hard time imagining an accident that would cause two explosions of that magnitude 10 seconds apart in separate locations. This looks purposeful.

I would also guess it's not foreign terrorists at this point as the time of the explosions isn't right. A terrorist would have detonated the bomb when the crowd was largest, ie. when the winners were approaching. This seems more like it was targeting someone specific rather than calculated to maximize casualties.

Or the fuse wasn't set right.
 
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