# 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:** 57
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1121 "2013-04-20T01:21:51Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > I’m a little weirded out by all the clapping and God Bless America-ing. > > Just seems…tacky. Tacky? These people have had terrorists with guns and bombs in their neighborhood all day. They are expressing their gratitude to the police. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1122 "2013-04-20T01:23:20Z")
I didn’t know how he could away from that shoot-out, and their own bombs, without injury. Apparently he didn’t. I’m no tracker or a hunting dog, but I wonder why there wasn’t a blood trial to follow. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1123 "2013-04-20T01:23:39Z")
I haven’t read this whole thread, but that ASSHOLE aunt in Toronto needs to be investigated. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1124 "2013-04-20T01:24:33Z")
Apparently, he was taken in a cop car, not an ambulance. Unless that report was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1125 "2013-04-20T01:25:46Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > Apparently, he was taken in a cop car, not an ambulance. Unless that report was wrong. Either way, he’s already at Mt Auburn Hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1126 "2013-04-20T01:26:04Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Tacky? These people have had terrorists with guns and bombs in their neighborhood all day. They are expressing their gratitude to the police. I know, it just seems like it would be more solemn. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1127 "2013-04-20T01:27:32Z")
Boston P.D. have Tweeted: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody." Boston P.D. are the greatest! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1128 "2013-04-20T01:27:43Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > I haven’t read this whole thread, but that ASSHOLE aunt in Toronto needs to be investigated. Nah, she’s trying to make sense of the insanity going on around her. Not a great response, but understandable. We heard the choppers and sirens, my friends a little closer to the scene heard the gunshots. Apparently the 19-year old was friends with the kid upstairs from me (they were in homeroom together at CRLS) and was probably in my house a few times in the past 2 years. That’s something I really didn’t expect to hear. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1129 "2013-04-20T01:28:49Z")
I’m surprised the police initially missed this guy in the boat. They had even given the all clear for residents to leave their homes. That’s when the homeowner spotted the blood on his boat and looked inside. It doesn’t sound like the suspect was in any shape to go anywhere. They’re reporting he’s in pretty bad shape. That probably saved that homeowner’s life. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1130 "2013-04-20T01:29:37Z")
Fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1131 "2013-04-20T01:31:08Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > I know, it just seems like it would be more solemn. Eh. Let them express their gratitude to the police that put themselves in harms way and ended this terrifying situation for these people. Let them be happy for five minutes ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1132 "2013-04-20T01:34:19Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m surprised the police initially missed this guy in the boat. They had even given the all clear for residents to leave their homes. That’s when the homeowner spotted the blood on his boat and looked inside. > > It doesn’t sound like the suspect was in any shape to go anywhere. They’re reporting he’s in pretty bad shape. That probably saved that homeowner’s life. If I understand correctly, the cops had already searched the area. So it was “clear” and then the suspect snuck back in. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1133 "2013-04-20T01:39:02Z")
Watching the press conference now…Mayor Thomas Menino is really short… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1134 "2013-04-20T01:41:20Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > According to Fox News Closed Captioning, the suspect has been identified as [Zooey Deschanel](https://twitter.com/Paulrfc73/status/325407095765737473/photo/1)… 😃 props to whoever worked on that speech-to-text software! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1135 "2013-04-20T01:42:15Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Watching the press conference now…Mayor Thomas Menino is really short… Unless this is a woosh, I believe he is rather sick and was in a wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1136 "2013-04-20T01:46:01Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Unless this is a woosh, I believe he is rather sick and was in a wheelchair. Wasn’t a woosh, I didn’t know that. It was weird since everyone else was standing and I googled pictures of him to make sure he wasn’t missing legs or something, so that was really odd to imagine he was sitting ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1137 "2013-04-20T01:47:46Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Tacky? These people have had terrorists with guns and bombs in their neighborhood all day. They are expressing their gratitude to the police. Nifty related [gif](http://i.minus.com/ivTjJKLar47j2.gif). ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1138 "2013-04-20T01:49:30Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Wasn’t a woosh, I didn’t know that. It was weird since everyone else was standing and I googled pictures of him to make sure he wasn’t missing legs or something, so that was really odd to imagine he was sitting On the day of the marathon he was in the hospital and left the hospital when the bombing occurred. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1139 "2013-04-20T02:00:23Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > On the day of the marathon he was in the hospital and left the hospital when the bombing occurred. And while he has been quite sick in the recent past, he was in the hospital (and a wheelchair) because he broke his lower leg last week. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781/1140 "2013-04-20T02:00:26Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Nifty related [gif](http://i.minus.com/ivTjJKLar47j2.gif). Very cool! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explosions-at-boston-marathon/655781.md?page=58)