Bomb Exploded at Boston Marathon Finish Line
 

I've heard an unconfirmed report (a co-worker's girlfriend called him) that there was a bomb at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, with people injured. I am hearing multiple sirens, though I'm not in the Copley area.

@News #Bomb goes off in Marathon confirmed

Ugh.

@RapSheet: Oh no RT @BostonDotCom BREAKING NEWS: Multiple people injured near the Boston Marathon finish line after explosion

@AlbertBreer: Holy crap ... RT @Toucherandrich A giant explosion just blew the glass out of my building. Someone tell me what is going on!

Holy shit.

****.

hopefully pioli was there

this is going to be bad....

Does not look good.

damn!

This will turn out poorly. Shame.

BOSTON —Two explosions have been reported near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, and there are reports of injuries.
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Crews were sent to 617 Boylston St. at about 2:30 p.m. Witnesses said several victims lost limbs, and the area was being evacuated.

Many of the injured appeared to be spectators who gathered for the 117th running of the race.

NewsCenter 5's Sean Kelly said the blasts happened across the street from the Lenox Hotel.

The victims were being taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro...#ixzz2QYqAnjmy

What the hell?

Two explosions, I'm seeing . . .

Awful...but good news is I've only injuries heard of injuries so far. Could have been a lot worse.

Holy shit...

BOSTON —Two explosions have been reported near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, and there are reports of injuries.

Crews were sent to 617 Boylston St. at about 2:30 p.m. Witnesses said several victims lost limbs, and the area was being evacuated.

NewsCenter 5's Sean Kelly said the blasts happened across the street from the Lenox Hotel.

Many of the injured appeared to be spectators who gathered for the 117th running of the race.

The Fire Marshal's office has been called to investigate.



Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro...#ixzz2QYqUHhaV

Damn.....RIP

Yeah, I've got many sirens going for background noise, though I'm not near enough to Copley to hear anything going on over there. Emergency vehicles responding to.

Hope they catch whoever the ****ers were that did this. Seriously demented.

Pic not for the squeamish.

https://twitter.com/theoriginalwak/s...864128/photo/1

That what speed do...

Definitely. People definitely pack in for the marathon. If nobody died then that's a pretty major blessing.

Take your political stupidity into DC, thanks.

Watching the news now. Looks like Baghdad.

**** I am tired of this type of shit.What teh **** is wrong with people.

I am supposed to run the OKC Marathon in 2 weeks and now my wife is going to not want to go.

I reckon we should have background checks for bombs now...

****ing Stevie Johnson.

hard to run in your bad idea jeans

This is just crazy. Who would want to do this? There are a lot of sickies in this world.

I can't stand this shit. People killing innocent people. It just pisses me the **** off. ****ing terrorist pieces of shit.

it's probably the BEST time to go now

security will be nuts and it wont happen a 2nd time so soon

Well this is an explosive situation!

My daughter goes to Berklee there. Just called me crying. She is fine, calling friends. Sirens all over. Damn

watch NK claim responsibility or somethign

Glad she is ok.

That's the worst news I've heard all day. You'll be in my thoughts.

I'm shocked I was the first. And you're welcome.

Seriously though, people are sick. Horrible that this happened.

Bombs are still less dangerous than molasses.

Has to be terrorist.... right?

Twisted.

One of the attorneys from my office was supposed to run in this, but had to cancel because of a funeral.

well duh

if you bomb a building you are a terrorist

Seems plenty violent enough that it would be highly unlikely it was an accident.

Had to reach for that one, eh?

Not what I meant asshole.

Not now asshole.

Nothing against the OKC marathon, but let's be serious, the Boston Marathon is very high profile. OKC is, well, not. Whatever sick bastards did this wanted publicity, and I doubt they had their list as (1) Boston, (2) OKC, (3)...

:shrug:

it's amazing that's all that it got

I was meaning someone from another country.

Here is the irony, its the OKC Memorial Marathon, you know a memorial for the terrorist attack in OKC.

I agree, but OKC people might be a little sensitive to terrorist acts.

Of course it's WAY too early to know anything, but isn't it al Qaeda SOP to have 2 explosions? 1 draws in people to help, and the 2nd is the killer.

Yeah, because God knows nobody would ever blow anything up in Oklahoma City.

Oh wait....

:shake:

I'm glad to hear that.

That's just about how everyone does it.

While your joke is a bit early to be tasteful, I appreciate the clever use of history.

For those of you who are like "umm, WTF is he talking about", he's referring to the Boston Molasses Disaster, which killed a couple dozen and wounded over a hundred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster

Let's just hope there aren't even more.

Great school. Glad to hear she's fine and best of luck.

tasteful haha. I see what you did there.

im sure they recruited someone that already lives here. there are plenty of disenfranchised citizens to use.

Loochy, I have found out this is I PC thread, therefore there should be no profiling in this thread.

My brother and his family live across the river, and neither were near the explosion when it happened. He's telling me that people are all pretty shaken.

There's a lot of Muslims in Boston. If this is terrorism, this is very, very bad. Could mean another ten years of war.

Fair enough.

Though I suspect we'll find out soon whether this was domestic terrorism, as OKC was, or foreign, as 9/11 was.

Whoever they are, I hope they DIAF.

There's alot of everything in Boston. It's nowhere near the size of NYC or anything, but it's incredibly diverse.

You're right though -- if this gets tracked to some specific country...

I am not sure which would be worse. Domestic I suppose.

Interesting. I'd never heard of that.

im still going with NK operatives

I just don't see Terrorism ever stopping.

This is ****ed up.

Royally.

Latest from CNN is below. if they had timed it to happen as the early runners were crossing the finish line, I'm sure the casualties would have been much worse.


Boston (CNN) -- A pair of explosions rocked the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, injuring at least a half-dozen people, a CNN producer at the scene said.

The blasts occurred a few seconds apart, shrouding downtown Boston's Copley Square in smoke. Paramedics were treating several victims at the scene, and police ordered onlookers to back away from the area, CNN Producer Matt Frucci reported.
The explosions occurred about 2:45 p.m., about an hour after the first runners had crossed the finish line, Frucci said.

It was probably one of those damn "Southies" like Damon or Affleck

I can see Buckner finding the fuse in time to save the day only to have it go through his legs as Ray Knight comes around to score.

i can LOL at that

Reports of a second device found in front of a hotel

Whose reports?

It does seem like odd timing? Horrible that it happened, but seemingly fortunate that the effort was a little half hearted.

If it's international terrorism they'll take responsibility and gloat about on their airwaves.

When exactly did the bombs detonate? I have a friend who just finished the race and last posted on Facebook 22 minutes ago but hasn't been heard from since.