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Explosions at finish line of Boston Marathon

Considering they've reportedly found undetonated devices, it certainly sounds terrorism-esque. It should be noted that it's Patriot's Day in Mass., the marathon is a massive international event and the explosion took place in what is a fairly popular part of town. Definitely a prominent target.
 
People are awesome, lets not these sickos warp our overall perception. The following choked me up a little.

NBC Sports Network

tweets: Reports of Marathon Runners that crossed finish line and continued to run to Mass General Hospital to give blood to victims.

 
With all of the disgust that comes toward the people who committed this act. 

Absolute praise for the individuals, police, marshals, and runners who immediately ran toward the explosion and were going to help the injured. 
 
L K said:
With all of the disgust that comes toward the people who committed this act. 

Absolute praise for the individuals, police, marshals, and runners who immediately ran toward the explosion and were going to help the injured. 
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Absolutely! No amount of terrorism can destroy human nature.
 
awful...2 more bombs didn't go off.. I live about 15 minutes from where the bombs went off.. Just a sad sad day for all involved. Is thee anything safe any more
 

...more than 140 people remain hospitalized, some in critical trails of blood, severed arms and legs and other body parts littered the scene nearby...

At least 144 people were hospitalized, with at least 17 in critical condition and 25 in serious condition, officials said. At least eight of the patients are children....

A terrorism expert briefed on the investigation said doctors are "pulling ball bearings out of people in the emergency room," suggesting the bombs were designed to propel shrapnel.

But Dr. Ron Walls of Brigham and Women's Hospital, which received 31 patients, said the debris found in some patients' wounds did not appear to be from ball bearings.

"Everything we saw was sort of ordinary ambient material that could have been propelled by the blast but was not added to the device," Walls said. "It was not the kind of things that would be added to a device to make it more injurious than it otherwise would be."

...the fact that the blasts took place near the end of the race "seems to indicate this was not geared toward maximum damage," said a former federal law enforcement official who now works in the intelligence community.

"It may speak volumes about the (level of) planning that went into this," the source said. "It raises questions ... why didn't the bombs go off when the crowd was packed in like sardines when the winners were crossing the finish line? It could mean the people behind it couldn't get access to the area when they originally intended."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/boston-marathon-explosions/index.html


 
With none of the major terrorist organizations taking credit, I have to think that this is domestic terrorism. There's always some nut job trying to outdo the last one...
 
This one got me:
martin.jpg

Picture of 8 year old lost provided by his teacher
 
cw said:
This one got me:
martin.jpg

Picture of 8 year old lost provided by his teacher
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As the father of a soon to be 8 year old, I can't even fathom what this is like. Tearing up here.
 
Patton Oswalt had this to say, pretty apt.

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Patton Oswalt had this to say, pretty apt.

Boston. friging horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
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I think it's a good quote but personally I am very Hobbesian in my view of the world. People don't do bad things because there are consequences against those things. It helps to work together, but this is especially true in a society that will basically punish you for life if you've killed someone. On the other hand people will have no problem killing others if their moral authority tells them its the right thing to do.

Things are a lot more complicated than is suggested by that quote.
 
Fu*king cowards who did this.

8 year old boy waiting for his dad at the finish line with his mom and sister got killed. His sister had her leg blown off. Mother is in very critical condition.

F*ck that.
 
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