Boston Marathon Bombing Thread

[GDS_Starfury]

this is my ringtone:

today while taking my step dad furniture shopping I got calls and he said someone might think its offensive.
I told him Im somewhat offended when these people blow up civilians, fly planes into buildings and generally piss me off.
humor... generally the best way to deal with shit.

[Atilla60]

this is my ringtone:

I like it. I really do  ;)

humor... generally the best way to deal with shit.

+1

[LongBlade]

this is my ringtone:

today while taking my step dad furniture shopping I got calls and he said someone might think its offensive.
I told him Im somewhat offended when these people blow up civilians, fly planes into buildings and generally piss me off.
humor... generally the best way to deal with shit.

Heh. My dogs went crazy when I played that :)

[LongBlade]

Details emerging about a third person.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/us/boston-brainwash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[MuzzyDev]

Amazing service yesterday For Sean Collier.  About 10,000 cops attended it.  Yes, that's the correct number of zeroes.  One of our guys was coming to work (he lives in NH) and was passed by an endless stream of cruisers from pretty much every town in Maine.

It was only after some friends in the local game industry tweeted about it that I realized I'd actually met Collier at MIT last year when he was assigned to the Festival of Indie Games event last September.  Just spoke to him for a couple minutes, but he seemed like a really decent guy.

Chris--

[Centurion40]

So tragic.  Thanks for the report.

[LongBlade]

A brave man fell protecting the campus. What a shame he was lost so early.

Thanks for letting us know, Chris.

[TheCommandTent]

Now this is coming out

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had Times Square in their sights before law enforcement authorities put an end to their bloody terror spree, according New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"New York was next on their list of targets," Bloomberg said of brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Bloomberg said he received confirmation of the chilling second phase of their plot from the FBI. "The fact is, New York City remains a prime target for those who hate America and want to kill Americans."

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the brothers, Muslims from Dagestan, a breakaway republic in Russia, hatched their plot to attack Times Square while driving the streets of Cambridge last Thursday in a Mercedes SUV they had carjacked from a man who later escaped. Kelly called the New York plot "spontaneous," and said they had six bombs with them in the car, some of which they hurled at police cars hours later when they were being pursued in a chase that culminated in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's death.

One of the bombs the brothers had in the stolen car was a pressure cooker bomb, identical to one used in the marathon attack, and packed with gunpowder and shrapnel, Kelly said. Both Kelly and Bloomberg noted surveillance cameras, a contentious subject in New York, played a key role in solving the bombing in Boston, Bloomberg's hometown. Still, the mayor said there was no way of knowing if the brothers could have pulled off a second attack in America's largest city.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/25/boston-marathon-bombing-suspects-planned-bombs-in-new-york-times-square/#ixzz2RWgmHb79

Thankfully they were stopped before they could kill anymore innocent people.

[MuzzyDev]

This was on boston.com today.  An account of the carjacked driver and how he escaped.  Pretty ballsy move on his part, but, hey, he knew they would kill him at some point.  The only reason they didn't right away was probably that they didn't want the cops to know what car they had if a body was found.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/25/carjack-victim-recounts-his-harrowing-night/BhQWGzarWee8MZ6KtMHJNN/story.html

[LongBlade]

Their mom is now increasingly looking like a suspect.

I'm still waiting to hear about his wife.

The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is a "person of interest" to federal authorities seeking to learn who radicalized one or both of her sons, according to lawmakers, and a separate report said she was on a federal terrorism database some 18 months before the attack.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/26/father-boston-bombing-suspects-delays-trip-to-us-over-health-problems-ex-wife/

[LongBlade]

The noose around that guy's wife just got a bit tighter.

Female DNA was found on bomb components used in the attack this month on the Boston Marathon, a source familiar with the investigation confirmed to Fox News, though the source cautioned that it is too early to draw hard conclusions from that evidence.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/29/marathon-bombing-probe-moves-to-ri-as-fbi-enters-pwidow-parents-home/

It could be from a victim, but I'm going to guess they're going to let this news sink in for a while before they do anything with her. However, expect a warrant requesting her DNA at some point in the near future.

[Gusington]

Is the mom here in the US? She is a piece of work.

[GDS_Starfury]

female dna possibly from the wife Gus.

[Steelgrave]

Seriously, this is too good of an article on the subject to pass up:

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/04/25/swat-nation/

[LongBlade]

Good stuff, Steelie.