Thank you, Colophon. I had to stop watching the news after seeing that photo. “Can’t unsee.” 
It’s amazing watching the fearmongering online. People have never seen a roof terrace? No one sees the plant and lounge chairs with cushions on the roof? Does this rooftop terrorist shop at Pottery Barn?
“They” can’t be looking too hard if you mean the FBI. Property records are public records, and roof access is valuable and spelled out pretty clearly. If you have it, you paid through the nose for it.
Just another small way people are rallying around Boston right now: http://bostonmarathonconspiracy.com/
(It’s not what it looks like.)
Investigators have found a “circuit board” believed to trigger bombs…
True as this is, I’m a Chicagoland resident and have had dinner on a roof deck in a nice part of Boston (near the North End), in the company of a contractor who did not live in said building. So yeah, start with the residents, but they might have to broaden their net a bit if that doesn’t give them any leads.
I was being a bit sarcastic with that. The “they” is Anon, not the FBI. It’s conspiracy theorists and the like that are all abuzz over a man on a small rooftop terrace as if being on your roof on a sunny holiday afternoon during a famous marathon is a hanging offense.
I know what you mean. I had to look, and then wished I hadn’t.
I hope he can recover and lead an active life. A friend of mine lost one leg in a climbing accident, and he’s still the most outdoorsy person I know. (He now runs a rehab centre for people who have lost limbs, and takes them climbing anongst other things!) Prosthetics are pretty amazing these days.
Ah yes, and exactly - it’d be like “OMG those people on the rooftops!!1” if someone did this at Wrigley Field. Um, yeah, they were there to watch the game…
It does seem crazy. As you say, clearly there are chairs up there. It’s a roof terrace.
Looking on Google Maps, this is the roof in question. That’s the 45-degree view, this is the overhead view. Again you can see chairs and a table.
Here is the Street View. 755 Boylston Street, above Starbucks.
Here is the website: http://www.755boylstonstreet.com
And oh look… http://www.755boylstonstreet.com/amenities.html
Weirdly, I’ve just noticed that you can go right inside the doorway where the second bomb went off: a bar called Vox when Google took its images, now seemingly called Forum judging by news pics. Link.
The damaged Lenscrafters sign kept drawing my eye in some of the photos. Pretty much ground zero. I’m surprised no one in the store got hurt. The store windows were blown out.
The blonde lady in red that I asked about earlier is Nicole Gross. The press is doing a good job identifying the victims. According to this report Nicole suffered a fractured leg and had surgery right after the bombing.
Another mystery solved. Her photo was featured in quite a few of the stories that I saw last night.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/16/former-ut-swimmer-nicole-gross-injured-at-boston/
Probably closed. I can’t imagine they would be getting much business on a holiday in the middle of a marathon.
Glad to see the Onion is on the case.
Awesome.
CNN is reporting that a “suspicious letter” was sent to the Senate, and the envelope supposedly tested positive for ricin. The letter was intercepted in a federal mail facility. Two of the bombing victims have been named - the young boy was Martin Richard, and another victim was a local woman named Krystle Campbell. The third victim was a graduate student at Boston University, but his or her name has not been released.
A lot of the stores on Boylston have a cement sill of 1 to 2 feet…if the bomb was on the ground, that might have provided protection. Also, much of that store’s inside is relatively far back from the street.
Thank you so much for that. I’m going to bookmark it, it has cheered me up about this whole awful event.
Exactly! Several times I’ve been tempted to point out to people stating that humanity and/or the world sucks that most of humanity is made of the type of people who were targeted and/or who rushed into the face of danger to help. Same with 9/11, when some people actually lost their lives trying to save others. Humanity in the main is made up of some pretty fine people.
I just learned today that a co-worker was there with her family, in front of the CVS. Fortunately, none of them were injured.