Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

khalid_sl said:

Setting up these kinds of bombs isn't hard, I think pretty much any person that has access to the internet could figure it out. The shocking thing is this kind of stuff doesn't happen way more often.

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Noodleface_sl said:

You act like making bombs is a hard thing. Shit, some 12 year old could figure it out if he went on the internet. These weren't even massive bombs like we see in other countries either, they were relatively small. I hate to think if these people actually had brains what they could create.

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Im not talking about the bombs so much as getting into the marathon, making your way to the most popular spot of a 500,000 person event (the finish line), leave a big suspicious bag there in such a way that no one notices it for long enough to blow up. Then having someone else do exact same thing a block down the street to detonate 12 seconds later.

Araysar_sl said:

Im not talking about the bombs so much as getting into the marathon, making your way to the most popular spot of a 500,000 person event (the finish line), leave a big suspicious bag there in such a way that no one notices it for long enough to blow up. Then having someone else do exact same thing a block down the street to detonate 12 seconds later.

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Sounds pretty easy tbh.

edit: I also like how you needlessly injected the size of the event but left out how they didn't detonate at the peak of the crowds.

Tuco_sl said:

Sounds pretty easy tbh.

edit: I also like how you needlessly injected the size of the event but left out how they didn't detonate at the peak of the crowds.

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how is that needless?

the mention of the size of the event was meant to illustrate the scope of security that would be devoted to it.

as in the difference in security devoted to a 200 person event in bumfuck, MI vs. a half a million person event in boston at the finish line. in the photos, there's at least a dozen uniformed cops standing next to the finish line, and thats the just the cops that can be seen in photo, in uniform. and no one caught or saw anything at the time

Anyone doing this who was serious about getting caught would not have any identifiable printed shit in the pack with the bomb. The person they are looking for most likely has nothing but a water bottle in the side pockets. That outline does look suspicious, but could just as easily be something dumb like a jar of some shit stretching out the pocket compartment.