[youtube]046MuD1pYJg[/youtube] Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Still don't know if it's a terrorist attack or not. Hope not, security airports is slow enough as it is
this is probably the scariest event I've witnessed personally. I was literally 10 minutes away when that happened. My friend and I didn't even know at first as we were just going to the gym. Half an hour into our workout our gym had to be closed down for precautions. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed something so scary so close to home. After I went back home, I found out that Tufts (1 minute away from my gym) were blocked by the SWAT team... definitely very scary, my thoughts and prayers goes out all those who were affected.
A plain spreadsheet with a simple title: "I have a place to offer." my condolences to all those affected by this tragedy. if anything, this event reminded us that there are far more people willing to do good than bad, and people opening up their hearts and homes to complete strangers is a testament to that.
I am praying for those gone to RIP, victims to recover soon, and those SOB who did this to be caught ASAP.
i could relate to some of yall, it's indeed scary if u've seen this for the first time... my time was 9/11... i was like 14 when i witnessed it and i was half an hour away from ground zero...scary...
Very tragic day, my heart goes out to all the victims and their families, I praise everyone that was so quick to respond to the blast to help those injured. I work out of the city but I have friends and family that work not more than a block away.... it was a relief to hear they were all safe and sound.
This was a truly horrific tragedy.. No words can describe the amount of anguish and suffering that occurred on that day. However one photograph struck me: In a photo where a man whose legs were shredded was being wheeled off, another man in a cowboy hat ran side by side with him, clamping the victim's artery shut as to not bleed to death. You can see frozen shock in the victim, and you can also see the fear in that hero's eyes, doing his very best to save the victim's life. It's unbelievable how the course of one's life can change in a fraction of a second..
Some of these photos were in fact shopped... that guy in the wheelchairs legs were indeed still attached..... if you saw him missing limbs..... it was sadly a photoshop that surfaced with possibly a fake story to get attention on social media sites.
Are you kidding me? Are you frigging kidding me? If only I get my hands on that fuckwad who would make a viral shopped pic in the midst of such a tragedy. However I am very relieved if his legs are still attached..
Sorry my mistake, it turns out that one story has been confirmed to be true. There were just so many false stories I didn't know which one to believe. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobil...r-both-legs-amputated-dad-says_n_3094882.html Again, sorry to misinform. Sad to hear it was the worst situation that was true :(
I hate to be morbid, but there may be a silver lining to all this that many people fail to appreciate; that, despite the crowd density; the low placement of the bomb and the proximity of well seasoned emergency medical personnel acting almost immediately, in effect, limited the number of casualties. The low level of the explosion focused the majority of wounds to the legs. Further, in any other similar situation, I suspect that many (of those whose limbs were subsequently amputated) would have simply hemorrhaged to death before help arrived. The well established concept of 'the Golden Hour' first coined by the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, finds that immediately after serious injury, there is a narrow window of opportunity to render medical assistance with the greatest effect in preventing death or saving lives. Previously, and especially before ambulance services became widespread, most serious trauma cases died during transport, ie. while waiting for medical care. Thus, in terms of terror events, Boston managed to dodge a more serious death toll simply because of the event logistics; it was a sporting venue that required hundreds of medically trained personnel with essential equipment (life saving intravenous solution) to be already at the scene. Kudos to the medical personal for doing a spectacular job at the marathon, in effect, limiting the scope of the catastrophe.
Of course Ralph.. it could have been worse..... the other package(s) could have went off, the explosion could have been bigger, but thank lady luck, they did not. It's nice to see the silver lining but it should not have happened in the first place.
I'm going to agree with Akki on this one.. We can argue that it could always be worse in any and every incident.. But it didn't. At this very moment though, a few of the most critical of cases (except for the deaths), are those whose limbs are amputated. And those are the cases that we (or I at least), feel most saddened about. We can say "at least they still have their lives", but we're not in their shoes. The couple who lost both their legs now have a drastically different life ahead of them, filled with suffering. To them, they might equate it to losing their lives altogether.
Akki and Dan, allow me to clarify, I agree with the both of you, that even one innocent lost, is one too much; and yes, those too, that have suffered traumatic amputations, or surgical amputations as a result of the trauma, will be burdened with lifelong struggles, both emotional and physical; I get all that. What I was driving at is the sense of 'military accomplishment' that a terrorist feels in terms of lives lost. The World Trade Center destruction was an astounding terrorist coup, in the sense of both number of victims and political value for their cause. But imagine instead, had the terrorists been overpowered on the planes, and despite having the planes crash, it would have saved thousands of others on the ground? What I'm referring to here is, in terms of absolute success from the Boston terrorists' eyes. I'm sure they were hoping for much more to have been killed or maimed. Instead, the numbers were relatively light when viewed on the terrorist's metric of planned mayhem. Thus, IMHO, those who did this are likely gnashing their teeth and lamenting, given the potential, that they didn't get a higher body count. Had the terrorists been tactically prescient, they would have set one of the bombs at the medical tent instead, and killed or incapacitated the bulk of the medical personnel so that other wounded would more easily die too from their wounds. I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks this way; I would suspect that the next race would have very tightly controlled access to the event's medical venue in order to prevent just such a possibility. That is how warfare is; you dispassionately plan to kill and or hurt the other guy as much as possible. From the eyes of the terrorist, we are that other guy. That is why one must think like a terrorist in order to anticipate, preempt and mitigate their criminality.
POS deserves their fate.....looking at their pic just makes me wanna shoot them dead and then rip their heads OFF!
