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[cdyhybrid]

They're playing the gunfire videos on 7. That is a LOT of fucking shots. God DAMN.

 

[benjipwns]

I'm confused: suspect #1 (naked guy, who seemed unharmed, being calmly put into a police car) is now confirmed DEAD in hospital? WTF?

No, that guy was released.

Probably the person "captured" after this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqo1Ad6spkY

 

[Alucrid]

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

They're saying a "controlled detonation" is about to be set off. huh?

They're exploding one of the devices safely.

 

[Blinding]

High school classmate of his "confirming" Sunil claim.

 

[Pikma]

I have stuff to do and I'm tempted to pull an all-nighter.

I have things to do in just 2 hours more, and I'm not just tempted, I'll do it.

 

[MThanded]

did scanner go down?

 

[sangreal]

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

They're saying a "controlled detonation" is about to be set off. huh?

There were a few scattered IEDs after the police chase earlier. They're clearing them out now

 

[CREMSteve]

Someone, please post the link that is informing you of the motions sensors. This is insane

http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s146109/#

 

[kassatsu]

Earlier they said it was 'soupy in the air'

I won't speculate on the source of the soup.

It is overcast at 700ft agl. And there are some reports of fog.

 

[FStop7]

This is from March 28th.

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981864024

The beguiling 'Find Sunil Tripathi' Facebook campaign that instantly transformed a mundane family melodrama into a major missing-persons saga not only showcases the value of mastering social media, but also the disparity in the way rich and poor are treated by the press and police agencies.

To wit: From the start, 22-year-old Sunny Tripathi, the son of a wealthy software CEO, has been shrewdly marketed by his tech-savvy family as a "missing Brown student" who mysteriously vanished one brisk March morning while strolling his college campus.

In reality, however, this young man isn't missing, per se, and he's not a student at Brown University either.

But those calculated embellishments are far more attention-grabbing than the unadorned truth would be: That Tripathi's scholastic career at the esteemed institute of learning he used to attend was derailed by chronic, untreated depression; and that he left a three word goodbye-cruel-world note just before deliberately dropping off everybody's radar.

Sunil is gone. He's not where he's supposed to be. But going into hiding, planning a highly-publicized suicide, being in the throes of a nervous breakdown—whichever—this is certainly not a missing persons case in the sense that the public has come to understand them: An abduction or a murder.

And, while the Tripathi clan's crisis is undeniably sad, a five-state all out manhunt for an emotionally disturbed, underweight youth who "always wears three winter coats" and has a history of mental illness frankly isn't merited.

That such a mindbogglingly humongous search effort now also includes the supremely pricey services of the taxpayer-funded Federal Bureau of Investigations is also objectionable. Especially considering the unlimited financial assets the Tripathis have at their disposal for conducting this mission on their own, and that those resources should obviously have been spent on getting their troubled son treatment before he pulled a Houdini on them.

"The police and FBI are going above and beyond the call of duty to find Sunil," his mother Judy, a health-care professional, recently told reporters, although nobody answered this reporter's request for clarification as to the reason why.

 

[DiscoJer]

It's times like this when you see how awful the national news networks really are when it comes to news, and not talk show things.

 

[Joel Was Right]

I guess this is no longer a capture mission

 

[Blablurn]

Damn, we are almost live at the crime scene. Sick. And yet fascinating :/

 

[Cuban Legend]

cnn to air hologram fight between bear cat and terror ghost

goddamn i lol'ed

 

[Kccitystar]

Police scanner reported that a motion sensor was tripped at 100 Talcott Street.

Some googlefu tells me it's the Scholastic building.

For a guy with a 6 star wanted level, man that's a rookie mistake.

 

[smokeymicpot]

Fox is kicking the shit outta CNN right now.

All the hate Fox gets they are good at live coverage and Shep is a god. Then again CNN is meh at live coverage but Anderson is a Jedi.

 

[Dr Prob]

Christ, WHDH replayed the clip earlier from the firefight and I thought it was live. Scared the shit out of me

I know. Was kinda zoning out for a second there. Back in business!

 

[metalmania4evr]

Zulu clear!

 

[cdyhybrid]

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

They're saying a "controlled detonation" is about to be set off. huh?

Blowing up something they think might be a bomb. So it is destroyed before it has a chance to injure people.

 

[Cousteau]

Are any of the cable news networks even FLOATING the possibility of their names being released?

CNN will be first with naked guys name you can count on it!

 

[SenjutsuSage]

As weirdly guilty as I feel about it, I should pass out now. Fuck those guys, bless you cops.

I feel bad, too, struggling to stay awake.

 

[everyday math]

Heres another stream.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ma-rt-9-window-cam

 

[CRS]

snipers?

 

[phosphor112]

"Standby snipers in Dexter(?)"

 

[Alucrid]

I guess this is no longer a capture mission

Yes, SWAT teams are actually kill squads.

 

[Lord_Byron28]

I'm confused: suspect #1 (naked guy, who seemed unharmed, being calmly put into a police car) is now confirmed DEAD in hospital? WTF?

Naked guy apparently was a guy just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Altgough who knows there is so much information flying around on this forum, social media and massive discrepencies from news places. No one knows exactly what is going on it appears the police aren't 100% certain either going off of the police scanner.

 

[jamesinclair]

Where the hell are the choppas. LA they would have the news choppers poppin right about now.

This started 5 (five!) hours ago. The SF choppers would have been in LA by now

 

[sangreal]

Can CNN survive this? Their coverage tonight was so embarrassing that it makes their post-bombing coverage look Pulitzer-worthy.

They are just terrified after the John King debacle, I think. Notice they haven't woken him up for this one yet

 

[LyleLanley]

I guess this is no longer a capture mission

I imagine they want him alive but not at the cost of more lives.

 

[outunderthestars]

This is fascinating thing to watch unfold with scanner streaming, twitter, social media, traditional national/local media, etc all reporting at the same time.

 

[Nekrono]

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_thread_live_updates_of_boston/

http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s146109/

Thanks!

Try this: http://audio2.radioreference.com/446184308

I can't promise it will work for you though.

It did, thanks!

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

It's times like this when you see how awful the national news networks really are when it comes to news, and not talk show things.

They don't give a crap about fact checking, as long as they're first. :/

 

[golem]

I'm confused: suspect #1 (naked guy, who seemed unharmed, being calmly put into a police car) is now confirmed DEAD in hospital? WTF?

Naked guy was bystander

Suspect 1 was wounded in a shootout, while Suspect 2 got in a car and fled

 

[PopeReal]

snipers?

Snipers. In Dexter or something.

 

[Kibbles]

High school classmate of his "confirming" Sunil claim.

"CNN just called my house" lol

 

[Mortalias]

*Waking up Obama*

"Uh sir... wake up."

"Oh this had better be good..."

"Well..."

 

[The Jason]

High school classmate of his "confirming" Sunil claim.

it does looks like it,

 

[Anton668]

did scanner go down?

still up for me

 

[Heel]

Still curious about details on the first suspect. Dead or alive? Is it confirmed to be bomber #1 in the black hat? He was sent to the hospital, right?

 

[MThanded]

cnn stop showing the naked guy. The hell are they doing.

 

[everyday math]

Issue with Watertown police?

 

[zychi]

This dude is planning a crazy suicide. If he has explosives, they need to be super careful. He might be trying to take as many people with him as possible.

He seems to know this area too well, and is purposely doing this a specific way.

 

[Meier]

High school classmate of his "confirming" Sunil claim.

She is just going off the quote from Twitter that was via Reddit. No one on GAF heard the names on the scanner.

Not to say it isn't him though.

 

[smokeymicpot]

"CNN just called my house" lol

:lol it would be great if her name was Neo. I am now just thinking of Anderson and Neo meeting up.

cnn stop showing the naked guy. The hell are they doing.

They wanna jerk off.

 

[Cake Boss]

cnn stop showing the naked guy. The hell are they doing.

Late night television bro, just giving the late night audience what they want.

 

[Evlar]

Holy shit.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

High school classmate of his "confirming" Sunil claim.

That's the girl who tweeted before that she thought it resembled him, and I'm sure she's just getting the "confirmation" from the same place that we did, despite none of us--including myself--hearing his name on the scanner we've been listening to continuously.

 

[VALIS]

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

They're saying a "controlled detonation" is about to be set off. huh?

Bombs they found.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

it does looks like it,

I dot understand why people are so adamant that its not him. It clearly is. Why do people NOT want it to be this guy-am I missing something?

 

[Heel]

No one on GAF heard the names on the scanner.

Can't be said enough. Some people said they heard the first name, but not Sunil.