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Boston: One dead, one captured, city re-opened

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The old guy is probably nothing. Don't take scanner chatter as gospel
Anyone going out in public right now is a fucking idiot and should probably be apprehended for their own safety.
 
Think of its a button that is held down, and if the guy was to die/knocked unconscious the pressure on the button would be released, triggering it. Thats my understanding anyway.

Trains commonly use dead man's switches, so they won't run without engineers/motormen behind the controls (this probably has nothing to do with a train unless Superman is involved).
 
So what has the news been reporting the past two hours? Seems like no developments but a lot of crazy shit happened that could or could not be related.
 
guy being interview on the BBC about the bombing, should have put his pink dildo away
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Yes, YES, YESS.. This is delicious, wow.


Can someone summarize what happened past hours? Death switch?! I have some family over there and I've been lurking this thread but I didn't think things could get this serious.
 
Police are gathering near the Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.


Fox, I don't think you understand this town. That could be literally anywhere in Mass.
 
Seriously, this is so fucked up. How the hell can anyone say there isn't a problem in America when someone can get ahold of military grade explosives and a fucking DEADMANS SWITCH???

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

A dead man's switch is just a push to open switch. It isn't magic. If you aren't allowed to buy switches then that's basically the whole electronics universe made illegal. Even then, you can make one out of a paperclip.

You can make explosives out of all sorts of every day things. Again, you can't legislate against everything.

People are way to quick too believe that by banning things you can make people safer.
 
The amount of views on that ustream scanner is going up by 50 every second. Unbelievable.

Gonna break 70,000 soon. That's a decent sized town watching this guy's house and scanner. Wonder if there's any ad income based on amount of viewers. If so, he's hit a goldmine.
 
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