[Mongoose]

Come to think of it, this is the first time I have actually heard about a terror attack on a sporting event?  This sort of thing seems to be surprisingly rare even for prominent sporting events like the Olympics and the World Cup.

Um, the Olympics in Munich and Atlanta say hi, along with multiple other examples I'm sure.

Also, only 17 casualties?  Again, I am (pleasantly) surprised that there were not more.

...where are you getting that number?  Three people were killed, but more than 170 were injured, including at least a dozen with amputations.

In other shocking news, the media's doing a bang-up job on this.  There were reports all over the place earlier today that a suspect had been arrested, all of which the FBI later refuted.

[An4ximandros]

 The bombing has resurrected a sense of vulnerability the United States has not felt since 9/11. People are easily scared and now that we have Facebook & Twitter, it's easy for someone to start a fire without gasoline.

[karajorma]

AFAIK McVeigh didn't make any attempt to take credit for the Oklahoma City bombings?

Pretty hard to when you get arrested within 2 hours of the bombing for something else and have a card in your car where you've written down the going rate of TNT.

[Phantom Hoover]

Ah. Sadly I can't really read his WP article for very long because, besides being repugnant, the man was also incredibly annoying.

[karajorma]

Well the irony is that it was McVeigh's own "**** the law" attitude which got him caught.

He was stopped for driving a car with no number plates ("**** you DMV! You're not the boss of me!")

He was arrested for having a concealed weapon ("Second Amendment! Woohoo!")

Once arrested his car was searched and they found a card from an army surplus store with "TNT at $5 a stick. Need more." written on the back ( ........... ) Nope, I've got nothing. I can't imagine what was going through his mind over that one.


I suspect they would have caught him otherwise as he left quite a paper trail, but had he been sensible enough to otherwise follow the law when committing a crime he might have evaded capture for longer than 90 minutes.

[Phantom Hoover]

karajorma you've just made me even more annoyed at him

[Wobble73]

So McVeigh was quite an idiotic dickwad! At least the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had a little more sense than that if a little unstable, but he still got caught!

[Alex Heartnet]

Also, only 17 casualties?  Again, I am (pleasantly) surprised that there were not more.

...where are you getting that number?  Three people were killed, but more than 170 were injured, including at least a dozen with amputations

From listening to Fox News, whom apparently forgot to add in that extra zero.  Reporting as usual for that channel :/

[Scourge of Ages]

At one point, I heard that there were only 2 reported casualties. Somebody forgot the difference between fatalities and casualties (which can include injured). 

[Aardwolf]

Oh hey... last week's xkcd "what if"

Edit: link

[Phantom Hoover]

oh my god randall munroe did it

[Nuke]

So McVeigh was quite an idiotic dickwad! At least the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had a little more sense than that if a little unstable, but he still got caught!

the unabomber lived in the woods, he stayed completely off the grid which is why he evaded capture so long. on the other hand he didnt have the same bodycount as mcveigh.

[Alex Heartnet]

Apparently the TV news outlets keep contradicting themselves.  There was arrests, there was not arrests, the suspect is a brown male, the suspect is a white male...

There's a short article and accompanying video here that sums it up nicely.

[deathfun]

Oh hey... last week's xkcd "what if"

Edit: link

That's so awesome

[StarSlayer]

The media has been in rare cock up form over this one.  I think my favorite part was when they reported that the Police and Federal investigators had acquired images of the subjects that they where distributing internally so that the suspects wouldn't know they had them...

[Wobble73]

Hasn't one of the bombers been shot and killed? I'm hearing that they were found on a college campus in Cambridge, a police officer was shot and killed and one of the bombers, another got away. There was also a car chase involved where the bombers were throwing bombs out of the car at the pursuing police!

[Klaustrophobia]

The media has been in rare cock up form over this one.  I think my favorite part was when they reported that the Police and Federal investigators had acquired images of the subjects that they where distributing internally so that the suspects wouldn't know they had them...

i'd hardly call the media ****ing up everything they report rare.  you could maybe say this is a rare case of getting called out on it though.

[StarSlayer]

The media has been in rare cock up form over this one.  I think my favorite part was when they reported that the Police and Federal investigators had acquired images of the subjects that they where distributing internally so that the suspects wouldn't know they had them...

i'd hardly call the media ****ing up everything they report rare.  you could maybe say this is a rare case of getting called out on it though.

I think the internet and full time coverage really exacerbated it in this case.  Typically I think they would have a better filter but when they need to fill air time and try and keep up with the speed of rumor and speculation on the web it just ends up being information diarrhea.

[JCDNWarrior]

Apparently there's now martial law over in Boston. Can anyone confirm this? There's a buncha photos that seem to be from Boston.

Example.

Curious to hear what you think.

EDIT: Looks like MP-Ryan mentioned this in the shooter thread.

[watsisname]

Complete bull****.  Residents have been advised to stay indoors and police are sweeping neighborhoods looking for the remaining suspect.  Nothing more.