Flight959 Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Just watching events unfold in Boston! Hope your all safe Regards
cookieman15061 Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Yeah it's unbelieveable. My brother lives there and has run in past marathons but took this year off. He and his family are safe.
Greg Jacob Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Thanks for posting this. I hadn't known. Hopefully the world finds peace and abandons its hateful ways. Killing innocents will not change anything except make divisions deeper.
Flight959 Posted April 15, 2013 Author Posted April 15, 2013 Thanks for posting this. I hadn't known. Hopefully the world finds peace and abandons its hateful ways. Killing innocents will not change anything except make divisions deeper. The world just seems to get worse! Regards
MissouriPicker Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 This cruel stupidity is what humans do, and you can't fix "stupid." I hope they quickly find all those who are connected with this and I hope those people resist arrest and immediately pay the ultimate price. We live in a frightening world. We have crackpots with nuclear weapons and you can't even go to a foot race without someone trying to kill you.
daveinspain Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 I'm from Boston both my nieces were there. One was with her boyfriend at the finish line but they decided to leave early to beat the crowd... The other was still there but I don't know where exactly she was when it happened... All are home now and safe... Thank God. Sorry for the others who have lost loved ones or have been injured... More info here
Rocky4 Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 We've got 2 choices 1 Get used to these events 2 Allow big brother to violate our privacy
Guest Farnsbarns Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 Wow, this thread was a the first I heard. I despair.
retrosurfer1959 Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 Yeah a terrible tragedy again. Now the Government will probably want to prohibit pressure cookers. LOL -3 for humor and sarcasm huh? no wonder the country is in trouble
krock Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 Truely horrific. BBC has the footage of the blast. I didnt know about this until just now
57classic Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 Chilling scene here. I wasn't near the blast and fortunately no one I know was. I had to drive in and around the city yesterday just as the attack took place. I was about a mile away. Aside from the expected throngs of runners and spectators, there were more police, fire personnel and ambulances than I've ever seen. The sound of sirens for miles around the city was continuous for hours. As I heard about the events unfolding on the radio I had that same sense of shock as on 911. I can't get over the pure evil that exists in the twisted minds of a, thankfully, few social deviants. An 8 year old child was listed as the first of 3, and hopefully not counting, deaths. There were people who suffered horrific injuries such as having limbs blown off and I think the current count of emergency amputations stands at 8. When you consider that Boston is one of the leading medical centers in the world, the fact that limbs had to be amputated with patients getting to hospitals within minutes after the injuries, you get an idea of how savage this was. When something like this happens in your town it's stunning. You feel helpless and vulnerable. Emotions turn to anger. As the situation stabilizes anger turns to resolve that we will not cower to the terrorists! We don't know who did this yet. Whether they be foreign or domestic, it doesn't matter. Life will go on. We will return to the activities we do every day and that will occasionally take me to the scene of the attack. We won't be the same. We won't forget. Every year they run the Boston Marathon hence forth, when this city celebrates Patriot's Day, we will remember. My heart goes out to those personally affected by this tragedy. They can't take our city from us and they can't take our way of life from us.
Bender 4 Life Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 safe here in Alabama, but angry beyond words !! it takes the worst form of decpicable coward, to do this to innocent civillians.
btoth76 Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 That's very sad... I've just read what happened. My sympathy to all of You in Boston. It's a coward action - whoever did that. There's no excuse for attacking civilians for anyone. Best wishes... Bence
kidblast Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 I don't live near the city, we're about 45 miles west. It's hard to believe. shock and anger shared by all right now.
daveinspain Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 We've got 2 choices 1 Get used to these events 2 Allow big brother to violate our privacy Funny you should say that. I was talking to a diplomat from Australia once who shocked me by saying terrorism is ok... I was like what??!! He went on to say how he had found himself in or around terrorist events as they happened on a couple of different occasions but to him being killed by a bomb or other terrorist attack was just part of the equation of the chances of being killed any other way. He said the chances of being killed by a terrorist are much smaller than hitting the lottery for $100,000,000 dollars. He went on to say terrorism is going to happen but many more people, hundreds of thousands more, will die in car accidents or plane crashes or other ways too. So is it worth EVERYBODY losing their privacy for one chance in one hundred million?
badbluesplayer Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 My son works downtown and he was able to catch the train and get home like usual.
daveinspain Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 As it turns out one of the people killed in this heinous attack was, Krystle Campbell, a classmate of my niece Sarah... My heart goes out to the Campbell Family and my niece Sarah...
charlie brown Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 It IS "Senseless, Tragic, Deplorable, Cowardly," and all the other words one can use. It's also, unfortunately, quite common...in OTHER parts of the world, and just as tragic, and senseless, there, as well. "That only happens, some place else," is no longer applicable, if indeed, it ever was. The Cynic in me says, this is only the beginning. The more optimistic, and determined part of me, hopes that's not true, and is determined not to let those "bastards," that would commit these heinous acts, "win." CB
badbluesplayer Posted April 17, 2013 Posted April 17, 2013 My son said one of his work buddies is the guy in the pink shirt running about ten yards in front of that runner who got blown off his feet. He's at the center right of the pic about ten yards from the finish. The guy's fine. Guys in Boston are like "Big friggin' deal!! You goin' to the game?"
kidblast Posted April 17, 2013 Posted April 17, 2013 Guys in Boston are like "Big friggin' deal!! You goin' to the game?" I don't think I can agree with this... but if you say so..
badbluesplayer Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I don't think I can agree with this... but if you say so.. I don't have to say it. They do their own talking - and they're loud 'cause they're from Bastin. Hey, these are bald 40 year old 200 pound guys with high testosterone residual levels who run 26 miles with their shorts riding up their thighs for fun. Do you think they're gonna go all wobbly brained over some dope setting off a bomb? Katie Couric interviewed the guy yesterday or something. My son said they were ranking on his buddy 'cause he finished with a 76 year old guy.
Boston Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I don't think I can agree with this... but if you say so.. Kidblast, you are correct. I grew up in a smallish town just north of Boston, called Stoneham. 4 people that were standing next to the 8 year old boy that died were from my hometown. Three of them lost limbs. Did I know them personally or intimately, not really, but I had seen them before, and knew their families. I can certainly tell you I did not care about the next game in Boston. Of course I understand that badbluesplayer meant no disrespect. I am just confirming that it left some of us numb.
Searcy Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I think we can all understand what BBP was getting at.
badbluesplayer Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 Everybody deals with stuff the best way they can. Some people go numb and some get all excited and a little defensive.
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