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Title: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: General Battuta on April 19, 2013, 12:00:59 am
Unclear if this is related to the killing of an MIT campus officer a couple hours ago.

Suspects have a stolen police vehicle, explosives, hand grenades, automatic weapons. Some people saying they may be the Marathon bombers. Full SWAT rollout and a huge police response, at least two officers down
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: deathfun on April 19, 2013, 12:07:16 am
Everything is just going to **** these days aren't they
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: General Battuta on April 19, 2013, 12:10:18 am
They're telling cops to shut off their cell phones for fear of triggering explosives, this is really awful. Perimeter going up and EOD called in. A guy I know who was close friends with one of the kids killed in the Marathon bombing lives inside the perimeter  :(

e: sounds like one of two suspects in custody, the other down but not in custody
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Mongoose on April 19, 2013, 12:12:21 am
Seriously, the week from hell.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: watsisname on April 19, 2013, 12:40:19 am
Seriously unbelievable.  I hope these bastards are caught.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: TwentyPercentCooler on April 19, 2013, 12:45:26 am
http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s146109/#

Wow. Just...wow.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Hobbie on April 19, 2013, 12:46:18 am
Rumour has it, over here in Australia anyway, that they've got both of them. One's en route to hospital after being injured and the other's currently being held at gunpoint.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: yuezhi on April 19, 2013, 12:48:53 am
worlds turnin to **** during exam week. :manicly depressed:
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: General Battuta on April 19, 2013, 01:01:05 am
Rumour has it, over here in Australia anyway, that they've got both of them. One's en route to hospital after being injured and the other's currently being held at gunpoint.

They have 'arrested' the second suspect a few times but it's turned out not to be him each time so far. Still hunting last I knew
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: TwentyPercentCooler on April 19, 2013, 01:02:15 am
I think at this point they're just arresting everyone on the streets. It gets them out of the way if they're innocent and they can sort it all out later.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: TwentyPercentCooler on April 19, 2013, 01:13:19 am
May be a third suspect? Damn Boston accents on the scanner.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Mongoose on April 19, 2013, 01:50:51 am
Just heard something on that scanner like "the person outstanding is the suspect with a white hat in the photo."  If they mean that photo, then this might really be it.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: General Battuta on April 19, 2013, 01:56:30 am
Yeah I think they're pretty certain the remaining suspect is one of the two Marathon bombers (e: may be wrong about names). The other may be DOA at hospital.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: General Battuta on April 19, 2013, 01:59:38 am
I heard the first shots fired/grenades call and it was absolutely chilling.

e: hahaha unbelievable, some people are saying one of the suspects is in fact that missing Brown student, Tripathi this did not pan out
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Nuke on April 19, 2013, 02:35:12 am
im listening to it over marduk, makes it sound more brutal.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: MP-Ryan on April 19, 2013, 09:12:19 am
Washington Post has more details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/massive-police-operation-under-way-in-boston/2013/04/19/979ec6dc-a8c6-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html?hpid=z1

One brother dead, Boston is locked down while police search for the other.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Frak_Tastic on April 19, 2013, 09:06:02 pm
They just bagged the other guy.  It's over except for the cleanup and the parenthetically  long and expensive trial for someone who deserves to just be shot in the head.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/police-go-door-to-door-in-hunt-for-boston-bombing-suspect/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/police-go-door-to-door-in-hunt-for-boston-bombing-suspect/)
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: sigtau on April 20, 2013, 01:08:59 am
I can't wish death on the guy, but the ****er probably needs it if he thinks his actions were justified.

I just want to know why.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: redsniper on April 20, 2013, 02:19:46 am
Sometimes that doesn't help any. It might turn out he just doesn't like Mondays. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(San_Diego))
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Mongoose on April 20, 2013, 03:32:23 am
From what they've been able to dig up about their backgrounds, I can't help but wonder if the older brother was the one who wound up initially dragging the younger into all of this.  The latter seemed to be pretty well-adjusted and had plenty of friends over here...not that that's ever a guarantee against going crazy of course.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Suongadon on April 20, 2013, 07:44:04 am
I just want to know why.

Because, like the uncle said, they're ****ing losers. Everything else just serves to make a tasty sound-byte.
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: StarSlayer on April 20, 2013, 01:48:23 pm
If ever there was a day to speed on 128 yesterday was it, I think the entirety of the French Blue and Grey was deployed in Watertown.


Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: achtung on April 20, 2013, 02:28:44 pm
Chechens!
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Mongoose on April 20, 2013, 02:45:21 pm
Apparently the latest funtimes on social media is geographically-challenged people confusing "Chechens" with "Czechs"...to the point that the Czech Republic embassy issued a statement about it.  :headdesk:
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Phantom Hoover on April 20, 2013, 03:33:31 pm
i wonder if this is like how #nowthatchersdead quickly devolved into jokes about cher not being dead without there ever being any significant confusion over it
Title: Re: Firefight underway in Boston
Post by: Nuke on April 20, 2013, 05:51:52 pm
I can't wish death on the guy, but the ****er probably needs it if he thinks his actions were justified.

I just want to know why.

death, no. torture, yes. the kind we had under bush. actually we should do experiments on them to see what makes em tick. let the vivisections and brain (and rectal) probing begin!