# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/881 "2013-04-19T15:38:59Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > [Here is a good livestream taken from a Reddit news thread](http://reddit-stream.com/comments/1codv1/) and someone is updating it with information gleaned from police scanners. They have a 3rd suspect on the ground right now with an EOD robot removing his jacket. Also a jumper on a nearby bridge right now and EOD has been requested there as well. > > ETA: The 3rd suspect that’s on the ground is an older man, graying hair. If the suspect on the ground is wearing a turquoise colored shirt, it matches what the NBC reporter said he saw. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/882 "2013-04-19T15:42:55Z")
> [@Gestalt](#): > > Y’all think that wishlist is real? It seems a bit too on the nose . . . I can’t say whether that’s his page or someone else with the same name, but it doesn’t appear to have been recently faked. Everything on the list was added in 2006 or 2007. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/883 "2013-04-19T15:47:58Z")
ABC News is now running (nationwide) an interview with someone who wrestled with Dzhokhar in high school who starts off by saying, “I didn’t know him well.” :rolleyes: They’re throwing anything at the screen to fill time at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/884 "2013-04-19T15:48:26Z")
He kind of modified the “losers” comment at the end by saying he was talking about terrorists in general and not his nephews. But I did enjoy the hell out of that interview/tirade and the emphasis on terrorists being losers. He emphasized that these guys had no firsthand experience with anything that happened in Chechnya because they weren’t born there and never lived there. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/885 "2013-04-19T15:49:49Z")
Gotta love that uncle. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/886 "2013-04-19T15:51:54Z")
What are they talking about on that Reddit stream? An old man with a vest being examined by an explosive team robot? ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/887 "2013-04-19T15:52:12Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > This whole thing makes me sad. From everything I’ve heard, Younger Brother was a nice, sweet kid, totally normal and American. Older Brother was a failed student, and then a failed boxer. His uncle called him a loser. > > So, it looks like Older Brother had a good dose of crazy, along with anger and resentment, and bullied/brainwashed Younger Brother. Younger brother certainly had the face of an angel, didn’t he? But it sounds like he may have been a bit of a loose cannon. A woman spokesman for NPR in Boston - sorry I didn’t catch her name - said on MPR that she had hosted her daughter’s graduating class for a prom party and unbeknownst to her he was among her guests. She couldn’t place him at first until she was reminded, “Remember, he was the kid in the car?” Seems he had gotten in an automobile and floored it driving backwards down their one-way street. Then again maybe that passes for totally normal and American these days because I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/888 "2013-04-19T15:56:10Z")
Mods…any chance of getting the two MPSIMS threads merged or both locked and a single thread started? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/889 "2013-04-19T15:57:38Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > Younger brother certainly had the face of an angel, didn’t he? But it sounds like he may have been a bit of a loose cannon. > > A woman spokesman for NPR in Boston - sorry I didn’t catch her name - said on MPR that she had hosted her daughter’s graduating class for a prom party and unbeknownst to her he was among her guests. She couldn’t place him at first until she was reminded, “Remember, he was the kid in the car?” > > Seems he had gotten in an automobile and floored it driving backwards down their one-way street. Then again maybe that passes for totally normal and American these days because I don’t know. That sounds like the kind of stupid stunt a teenage boy might pull, especially if he was insecure and trying to showoff. Not exactly normal but not totally off the map. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/890 "2013-04-19T16:05:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Also, I know reporters want to be on the scene with the first/best info, but come on! Do we really need minute-by-minute wall-to-wall coverage? I think reporters are seriously getting in the way of police, etc., doing their jobs effectively. The problem is, as someone said, that this is REAL reality TV, and the public is addicted to it. I’m waiting for the day when Lester Holt (or some other reporter) is standing on a street corner, reporting about the search for the crazed gunman, when suddently the crazed gunman steps out of the building behind Lester and shoots both him and the cameraman. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/891 "2013-04-19T16:06:57Z")
If that Amazon [wishlist](http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=1PNVMAW2D4CT1) really is Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s. then it’s rather revealing, and backs up the “loser” comments. Books on Chechnya (understandable I suppose, given his background), an obsession with the Mafia, the decline and fall of the Roman empire, guides to forging ID… but also _How to Win Friends and Influence People_, and voice coaching guides. Then again, it almost looks too perfect a “psycho’s shopping list”, so maybe it’s not real? Although the items were added 6-7 years ago. Is Tamerlan a common name in that region? I guess it might be, given the the historic significance. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/892 "2013-04-19T16:08:02Z")
Link to local scanner https://www.ustream.tv/embed/6807252 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/893 "2013-04-19T16:11:11Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > What are they talking about on that Reddit stream? An old man with a vest being examined by an explosive team robot? Yes, they had 4 robots removing his jacket. He was seen with a trigger-like device in his hand. EOD just gave the all clear and EMS is moving in. Adrien Chen (Gawker)[has posted a link to the suspect at larges actual Twitter account](https://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/325269451522068480). Looks way more legit than the ones reported on previously. ---
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/894 "2013-04-19T16:13:25Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Mods…any chance of getting the two MPSIMS threads merged or both locked and a single thread started? I agree. Too hard to follow both. ---
**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 19, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/895 "2013-04-19T16:14:04Z")
That Uncle’s impromptu press conference was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/896 "2013-04-19T16:16:10Z")
I’m guessing that the old man was just some poor guy wearing a (non-explosive) vest or something with a cellphone or something in his hand. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/897 "2013-04-19T16:18:33Z")
> [@Gestalt](#): > > Y’all think that wishlist is real? It seems a bit too on the nose . . . I know, I said in the other thread, it’s about as close to a clichéd “psycho’s shopping list” as you could get, but I don’t think you can fake the dates. How many Tamerlans are there with an interest in Chechnya? It might be a common name, given its [significance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur) in Central Asian history. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/898 "2013-04-19T16:26:28Z")
The aunt of the young men has been on public radio twice this morning claiming that her generation had been exiled from Chechnya as Nazi collaborators and that they were born in Kyrgyzstan. “They are good Christian boys.” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/899 "2013-04-19T16:33:04Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Gotta love that uncle. Yeah, he didn’t hold back his opinion. “They are LOSERS!” ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/900 "2013-04-19T16:33:52Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > The aunt of the young men has been on public radio twice this morning claiming that her generation had been exiled from Chechnya as Nazi collaborators and that they were born in Kyrgyzstan. “They are good Christian boys.” Well Tamerlan at least identified himself as a “very religious” Muslim in that boxing photo story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781.md?page=46)