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[OnkelC]

or just a well thought-out camo.

 

[phosphor112]

Girl texted mother saying she's being held by man with gun.
On the scanner.

 

[segasonic]

he's got a hostage!!!

 

[Various Artists]

But you better believe that sleazy politicians and lobbies on all sides will politicize the fuck out of this issue.

To be honest with you I would bet more than anything they will take the Muslim angle. Still wrong though

 

[GavinGT]

"Woman texting mother"

Will this turn out to be another case of Twitter fakery?

 

[JacksUsername]

Holy shit, woman texting her mother saying she's being held hostage by a man with a gun?!

Yeah, that was kind of creepy hearing on the scanner.

 

[Persona7]

yea maybe he got that toxoplasmosis mind control parasite thingy, that cats carry.

Humans carry that too.

 

[XenoRaven]

I'm having trouble keeping up with all this.

Last night, before I went to bed, there was a guy lying face down in the street with more police vehicles than I had ever seen in my life surrounding him. Who was that guy and what happened to him?

 

[ptolemy]

Woman being held by a man with a gun?

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

Was looking up news stories and completely forgot about this:

http://www.ibtimes.com/4chan-false-...oston-marathon-bombing-arrest-friday-1202073#

Seems really creepy/weird when those tweets seem to be against violence and terrorism. \

/tinfoil

 

[sangreal]

What was that on the scanner?

someone held at gunpoint? could be any random going-ons in the city

 

[Zebra]

Hostage!!

I was wondering if I misheard that...

 

[Vire]

Girl texted mother saying she's being held by man with gun.
On the scanner.

Fuck...

 

[BigDug13]

People have right to discuss things, sure. They also have the right to look at pictures of people they've never met then start scouring the internet in an effort to identify those people, and I have the right to call them irresponsible bottom-feeding scum-sucking pieces of shit for doing so.

I'm not sure you understand how the internet works. Something posted on Reddit may not still just be on Reddit when someone sees it, so the context that it's just random speculation from a public internet forum is totally lost. They are culpable.

But as information flows even more freely as time moves on, as we're able to check sites like Reddit using an eyeball implant, I mean this stuff is never going to get better no matter how much you argue for it to be so. It's only going to get WAY worse as technology improves.

 

[Wickerman]

Jahar ‏@J_tsar 10th of August 2012
@therealAbdul_ boston marathon isn't a good place to smoke tho

https://twitter.com/J_tsar/status/234019953613893634

Code?

If so, this could be part of a bigger conspiracy.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Well, it looks like this is about to end one way or the other unfortunately. :/

 

[vatstep]

I'm not believing anything on the scanner anymore

 

[CrankyJay]

Girl texted mother saying she's being held by man with gun.
On the scanner.

Could be any man tho...some other criminal getting nervous.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Classmate on BBC: Friendly and kind in high school. No signs. Average kid with a lot of friends.

(not sure which classmate she's talking about)

 

[whitehawk]

His tweets (most of them) can be found here: http://www.allmytweets.net/?screen_name=J_tsar

Who is this supposed to be?

 

[maquiladora]

Fuck. This is disturbing.

 

[Stumpokapow]

I'm sure there's a larger group that's behind this. Besides the fact it's so odd for young guys like this to organize and take such a hateful action, where'd the money for it all come from?? Building bombs, full auto rifles (= black market, or smuggled in), massive amounts of ammo?? (There has hardly even been any ammo available for sale for 5 months)

Timothy McVeigh, age 27 at time of Murrah building bombing
Bernardine Dohrn, age 28 at time the Weather Underground declared war on the US government
Bill Ayers, age 25 at time the Weather Underground declared war on the US government

 

[MThanded]

SPECULATIVE INFORMATION IN ALL CAPS, BOLD AND MOTHERFUCKING ITALIC SO YOU'LL READ IT - NO SOURCE

don't make me use the red font

They had the dates for the flights. It is confirmed that he was gone for 6 months. No speculation. You can take that condescending nonsense somewhere else home slice

 

[vagabondarts]

Based on his tweets only, it seems like it doesn't line up with someone that would drop a bomb behind innocent people.

very weird.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Wouldn't surprise me if he already has killed himself by now.

It would be yet another thing that jarred with his twitter:

To be honest, I don't care for those people that wanna commit suicide, your life b, do what you think will make you happy #selfishbastards Jan 19, 2013

 

[Sanjuro]

We are man. We are. You okay?

I graduated from Watertown High. So freaking out a little! Lol

Nah, I'm fine. My biggest dilemma is if a ballgame is going to occur tonight.

Other than that, I'm with the rest of you. Watching this madness.

 

[segasonic]

no threat at langdon st

mit pd on scene

 

[Joel Was Right]

I dunno man. Reading those tweets and hearing his friends describe him, I'm starting to wonder if this kid was dragged into something he didn't want to be apart of.

Alas, he did the deed.

Based on his tweets only, it seems like it doesn't line up with someone that would drop a bomb behind innocent people.

very weird.

That seems to be the narrative from those who have commented it; the older brother influenced/manipulated him. But you cant feel any sympathy for someone who left that bag and murdered/maimed those people. It's important we capture him alive to understand what exactly happened. He doesn't seem radical at all from his tweets

 

[Dorimukyasuto]

someone held at gunpoint? could be any random going-ons in the city

except everyone is supposed to be inside

 

[Gary Whitta]

And that matters for this case, how?

I think when law enforcement is trying to solve a gunpowder-based bombing, stories about factor that makes gunpowder-based bombings more difficult to solve are pretty relevant.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

I'm not surprised that he's seemingly normal, and that he might just be dragged into this by his brother.

I can empathise, but it doesn't make him less dangerous and he has to be captured as soon as possible.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

I'm not sure you understand how the internet works. Something posted on Reddit may not still just be on Reddit when someone sees it, so the context that it's just random speculation from a public internet forum is totally lost. They are culpable.

I know how the internet works, but I think you've correctly pointed out that most people don't and that's where the trouble starts to brew. Again, I don't think that's Reddit's fault but we'll just have to disagree.

 

[Vilix]

This has so little to do with immigration or gun control.

Watch gun control proponents us it as an excuse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqo1Ad6spkY

What's ironic is that if none of this was happening this would just be another night in Chicago.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

They had the dates for the flights. It is confirmed that he was gone for 6 months. No speculation. You can take that condescending nonsense somewhere else home slice

I think what he means that there was no source attached. A more than reasonable expectation.

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

is this possible hostage situation related?

 

[statham]

oh shit! hostage

 

[sangreal]

except everyone is supposed to be inside

Yeah, I'm just responding to the seeming lack of urgency about it

 

[Persona7]

I'm having trouble keeping up with all this.

Last night, before I went to bed, there was a guy lying face down in the street with more police vehicles than I had ever seen in my life surrounding him. Who was that guy and what happened to him?

He was a random dude in the wrong place at the wrong time, they searched and questioned him and then released him.

 

[ironcreed]

This son of a bitch better not take one more life.

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

Was looking up news stories and completely forgot about this:

http://www.ibtimes.com/4chan-false-...oston-marathon-bombing-arrest-friday-1202073#

Seems really creepy/weird when those tweets seem to be against violence and terrorism. \

/tinfoil

The NBC story yesterday about how bombings are more difficult to solve due to NRA blocking the use of traceable elements in gunpowder was pretty illuminating.

is there an article?

 

[Bachner0000]

possible hostage situation??

 

[pulga]

He re-tweeted a FUCK BARCELONA tweet.

You dumb cunt, hate to lose a soldier against the true evil in the world.

 

[Zozz]

It's all FUD and here this is from the Buzzfeed article linked in that story:



This never happened.

it actually did, many of us heard the names come up, transcribed on reddit. It was very confusing, I was shocked to hear that the suspects changed after I went to sleep, which was only like a 3 hour break.... YEA I been following this thing since shit went down at MIT

 

[Ricker]

Boggles my mind seeing all the armed forces there,FBI,Police,City in lockdown for what is it now,8 hours or so and they still haven't found anything...what are those planned explosion talk also...reporters on FOX are saying they are doing a second one now...?

 

[Batman]

NYPD is currently at sisters' home in New Jersey.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

But as information flows even more freely as time moves on, as we're able to check sites like Reddit using an eyeball implant, I mean this stuff is never going to get better no matter how much you argue for it to be so. It's only going to get WAY worse as technology improves.

Sure, we can agree on that. I'd just like for people here to stop defending this internet detective witch hunt activity because I'd really like to believe that, at the very least, we as a community should be able to behave in a more diginified way.

 

[F!ReW!Re]

Summary:

Collection of live/audiostreams:
http://live.producermatthew.com/


Live streams:

4 streams;

http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1155606219001/
http://pix11.com/live/#axzz2QucNpQCg
http://boston.cbslocal.com/cbs-boston-live-stream/
http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/

All Police scanner sites down: Found a new one:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ma-rt-9-window-cam

Events since last night:

For those waking up here is the summary of what happened in Boston overnight. Attempted to rob 7-11, they killed an MIT police officer, hijacked a car, stole a police vehicle, threw explosives out of window during chase, got into firefights in neighborhood, one of them died from being shot to death by the cops and a bomb vest going off(suspect 1), and the other is hiding and there's supposedly bombs planted all over the place(suspect 2) .

timeline:

Suspect at large atm:

from: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-wanted-poster-for-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-2013-4

Summary:

Quote:
Better summary:

Originally Posted by EmCeeGramr: View Post
yes, they killed cops, got into firefights in neighborhoods, threw bombs from windows, stole police cars, one of them died from being shot to death by the cops and a bomb vest, and the other is hiding and there's supposedly bombs planted all over the place
Originally Posted by CNN's EmCeeGramr: View Post
also a naked man, his uncle, and a missing college student all turned into ghosts and rode away on horses to escape from LEOs
This was the DA statement and press conference earlier, may be off since I just jotted it down, but is generally what I heard across those sources:

Quote:
-something at MIT (Building 32? led to shooting of MIT cop (died))
-carjacking in cambridge, kept hostage for 30 minutes
-robbery attempt at 7-11
-another carjacking at some point (?)
-car chase (?), grenades thrown out, explosives maybe of some sort
-shootout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqo1Ad6spkY
-suspect #1 (black cap) dead
-suspect #2 (white cap) still on the loose


Also note that the first suspect was run over as #2 tried to escape. According to news sources now.

Stray bullets from earlier firefight:

The bullet actually went through his chair.

REDDIT Thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1co395/live_updates_of_boston_situation_part_2/

Suspects uncle, interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqR2BbY5i8

More pictures:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...cher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/picture.html

Some photos from Watertown, MA.

Well this is new:

EDIT: Removed first picture

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...cher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/picture.html

From earlier this morning:

Picture on twitter:
http://distilleryimage0.ak.instagram.com/e750d362a8d711e28a3222000a9f17b2_7.jpg

 

[Mung]

oh shit! hostage

Where is this from? NBC? Weren't they the ones who said the suspects had overseas military training?

 

[Enco]

Classmate on BBC: Friendly and kind in high school. No signs. Average kid with a lot of friends.

(not sure which classmate she's talking about)

That's what everyone says about all psychos and killers.

 

[phosphor112]

Was looking up news stories and completely forgot about this:

http://www.ibtimes.com/4chan-false-...oston-marathon-bombing-arrest-friday-1202073#

Seems really creepy/weird when those tweets seem to be against violence and terrorism. \

/tinfoil

Yeah no...