Boston Marathon bombingFollow

Have a little tact, man. They should have potato sack races.

I can guarantee you every single victim of the bombings & their relatives would have been celebrating in the streets with everyone else if they could have been. If you genuinely feel that celebrating the end to this 5 day long terror filled nightmare was wrong; you're a douche.

"Boston Strong" is kinda a lame slogan, though.

It's pretty weird to wake up 4 days after bombs went off where you, & many of your friends & family could have been, to find your city on lockdown after the 2 dudes who set off the bombs decided to play GTA In Real Life & one of them is on the loose. And by lockdown I mean no public transportation, no taxi service, & orders to "shelter in place". Add to that the constant news coverage and I don't think "terror filled nightmare" is all that overly dramatic in describing what most Bostonians were feeling.

The celebrations after #2 was caught was an expression of relief. Feel free to be a douche about it, though. For some of you with verying degrees of success at attempts at being an ******* on an internet forum, I understand it's probably all you have to cling to. Whatever makes you feel better, I suppose.

Drinking heavily & hugging strangers sure helped me!

Honestly, I think it had more with the rest of the city being pretty much completely devoid of local & state police while they were all in Watetertown while Homeland Security held the fort in the city. Shelter in place was more so the cops didn't have to deal with anything else while they all worked together to do 1 thing, which they almost didn't do. Overreaction? Sure. But no one in the city is complaining, since they got him.

It was a really weird day at work as I took a Cab in around noon when they opened back up, the highway & streets were almost completely empty, about 5 restaurants within walking distance could even open due to staff not being able to get in (You could drive in, but all the garages in the city were closed), 1 Dunkin' Donuts, & 1 7/11 were all that were open at all.

Relief that it's all over, sillybuns. Until #1 was killed & #2 was caught, it wasn't over.



Sure.



Making an observation that makes you seem like a douche to any & every Bostonian, sure.

For three people in hunter camo pretending to be soldiers?

http://imgur.com/gallery/9ykuOdh

That too.

Or this one

http://imgur.com/gallery/Asgdb

Edited, Apr 21st 2013 10:14pm by rdmcandie

And again, no one had any issues with this besides an internet troll in Canada. All is right with the world.

If by "did" nothing, you mean is seen placing one of the bags at the feet of the 8 year old he killed. He also got into two shootouts with police, {3 if he shot the MIT cop)}, & threw IEDs at them. He can be charged without being read his miranda rights, they just need to know if there were other bombs first. Sure, anything he says cant be used to convict him, but the evidence collected due to those statements certainly can.


What freedoms did we give away? We weren't ***** to cops for four days & happily assisted them in any way possible so they could catch the guys that tried to ruin our god damn holiday. I'm sure even Toronto would be shut down if after a bombing, the guys went out & shot up the city, threw some bombs around, & then 1 of them escaped.



They killed 4 & injured 180. Of those 180, I think in the neighborhood of 12 lost appendages. However these two ******** got their guns may lead to some sort of new regulation regarding guns in Mass, but we're already heavily regulated, so they probably got them through illegal means anyways. Not everything in the world is right, but the wicked will be punished & there will be justice. All is right in our neck of the woods for the moment and I can get married next week with virtually no risk of some ******* trying to blow me up for whatever stupid reason he had for doing so.

Awesomsauce. I'm sorry if what I feel was a very, very good thing pisses in your cheerios?

Don't be bitter just because nothing ever happens in NZ except for hobbitses.

We literally all felt like victims? I know Boston seems to be ground zero for St. Patty'd day, but believe it or not Patriot's Day is a big ******* deal here. It's our holiday. For me, it meant getting up & heading down to Copley to cheer on strangers that have the ability to do something that I'll never be able to do. Run 26.2 miles, on purpose, & sometimes up long hills. The Red Sox play early, so you get up early {or if you work overnights like I do - you stay up} so you're drinking my 9:30a - 10a.

You watch the Red Sox game, drink some more, then head down & cheer on the marathoners. Not the ones that win it, mind you, but you're friends that take in the 4-6hr range. If you keep drinking, you eat, then usually head down towards Copley. Drink & cheer some more. Then, there's hockey, or drinking with friends. Sometimes I've had relatives & friends to meet & cheer on as well. I've had two cousins and an uncle run it. Maybe a dozen co-wokers, couple of friends.

This is my first year in the last 5 or 6 years that I wasn't somewhere in and around where the bombs went off in. At 3pm, you can usually walk around that area, since the winners are all in. Everyone you know could have been a victim. And for 10 seconds we were.

Despite the shutdown, we were all glued to the tv much as you were. My job doesn't shutdown though, so I went in. Only one guest was upset there was nothing to do besides walk around and go to a couple of restaurants. I shrugged & went back to spamming f5 on Reddit & Boston.com and chain smoking cigarettes for 8 hours. After the T opened back up, I went home & got in just in time for his capture.

It was ******* awesome - not because of the G.I. Joe aspect, but because it was ******* over. We were safe again. Now it's time for the conspiracy theorists, have fun with that. I don't give a **** why he did it, what he did personally insulted every person in this area, and he can go **** himself.

The G.I. Joe Aspect was kinda cool though. If this was some sort of coordinated attack, they would have had their asses kicked. But it was just two guys, nothing too crazy.



Your "team" ever win a championship? It was kinda like that, but the team was Cops, First Responders, Internet geeks, and pretty much every person who wasn't one of these two jerks. And You, RDMCandie & Paulsol apparently?

I don't even really agree with this. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to gasp and swoon that you'd use an armored vehicle in attempting to apprehend people who detonated two bombs and (from reports) the first one killed was throwing some sort of explosive during the fight. Or that the SWAT guys would (oh no!) have scary looking helmets and vests.

Cheers to the people who stayed inside for the day when requested. These days it seems hard enough to get people to pull over for an ambulance if it's going to momentarily inconvenience them much less stay out of the picture and let the police do their job.