# Explosions at Boston Marathon **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781 "2013-04-15T19:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/541 "2013-04-18T21:21:31Z")
FBI briefing live on CNN now. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/542 "2013-04-18T21:23:56Z")
photos on [fbi.gov](http://fbi.gov) I’m surprised that the photo that myfoxboston was showing looks accurate ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/543 "2013-04-18T21:32:29Z")
I could not pull up the pictures on [fbi.gov](http://fbi.gov), and it’s hard to tell much from the versions shown during the briefing. Both suspects appear to be young, I’d say college age. Neither appears to fit the profile of a McVeigh type… ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/544 "2013-04-18T21:34:56Z")
UGH! One of the stations in boston [wcvb.com](http://wcvb.com) is showing video footage of the suspects walking along the street with the backpacks one behind the other. Right in front of suspect one is a woman in a light blue coat carrying yellow balloons that look exactly like the ones floating away after the blast. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/545 "2013-04-18T21:41:25Z")
[Link](http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston) to FBI pics and video. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/546 "2013-04-18T21:46:59Z")
At least on my phone the photos seem very grainy and low res. surely with all those crowd shots out there someone will be able to find better pics of these men? ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/547 "2013-04-18T21:50:07Z")
It’s making me crazy! I was on the road listening to the press conference, and cannot get any link to the pictures to load! The FBI website is down, I’m sure because of traffic, and they did not release the pictures to media prior to the conference, so the websites don’t have them either! ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/548 "2013-04-18T21:51:48Z")
[boston.com](http://boston.com) has some of the pictures in their blog to the right of the site [myfoxboston.com](http://myfoxboston.com) is still showing their original picture of suspect number 2 with his backpack on the ground [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com) has at least one picture of each suspect as well ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/549 "2013-04-18T22:00:07Z")
Looks like a couple of Muslim Tea Party Wall Street Occupiers to me. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/550 "2013-04-18T22:04:10Z")
This is going to be solved soon. Those pictures and video aren’t perfect, but they’re good enough. Lots of people are going to recognize those twits. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/551 "2013-04-18T22:06:15Z")
Okay…got them… Very surprised. Wouldn’t have been surprised by Bathrobe guy, or young Middle Eastern guy, or some skinhead-y type. But two frat looking boys… Also surprised they’re identified right off the bat as suspects… Apparently, conventional wisdom among cops in this type of case, with photos and videos, is that these guys will be caught by sundown. I just hope we can avoid a Ruby Ridge type event. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/552 "2013-04-18T22:08:42Z")
I can just imagine these guys got together and the one guy said, “OK, make sure to wear a baseball cap so you are harder to identify by any cameras.” The other guy, distracted, busy texting, “Yeah, sure, baseball cap, got it dude.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/553 "2013-04-18T22:09:04Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Looks like a couple of Muslim Tea Party Wall Street Occupiers to me. I hate Massachusetts Muslim Tea Party Wall Street Occupiers. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/554 "2013-04-18T22:59:09Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Looks like a couple of Muslim Tea Party Wall Street Occupiers to me. Aha! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/555 "2013-04-19T03:24:54Z")
Holy shit, wheelchair guy helped identify one of the suspects. from the article, his brother said: > [@](#): > > “He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, ‘bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,’” Chris Bauman said yesterday in an interview. [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/556 "2013-04-19T03:32:01Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Holy shit, wheelchair guy helped identify one of the suspects. > > from the article, his brother said: > > [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html) That’s awesome. I’m speechless. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/557 "2013-04-19T03:35:28Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Holy shit, wheelchair guy helped identify one of the suspects. > > from the article, his brother said: > > [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html) Holy shit, how fortunate that Carlos Arredondo was there to help save the guy’s life. Wouldn’t that be an amazing ending and tribute to these guys who got blown together in this mess? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/558 "2013-04-19T03:39:15Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Holy shit, wheelchair guy helped identify one of the suspects. > > from the article, his brother said: > > [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/boston-bombing-victim-in-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html) So cool. They should let him put the last nail in the coffin. ---
**Author:** ![Mame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mame)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/559 "2013-04-19T03:59:23Z")
[http://www.smh.com.au/world/gunshots-reported-at-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-20130419-2i4iv.html](http://www.smh.com.au/world/gunshots-reported-at-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-20130419-2i4iv.html) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/560 "2013-04-19T04:03:09Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/gunshots-heard-massachusetts-institute-technology-campus-school-website-032912007.html](http://news.yahoo.com/gunshots-heard-massachusetts-institute-technology-campus-school-website-032912007.html) Wonder if this is related to the marathon bombs, or just a very unfortunate coincidence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781.md?page=29)