Things go boom

[Cain]

The BBC's David Willis, outside the hospital, says the suspect is suffering gunshot wounds to the neck and leg and has lost a lot of blood, so it could be a while before investigators are able to talk to him.

Shot in the neck?

CBS News quoted investigators as saying that a wound to the neck may have been a suicide attempt.

May have been?

Apparently unable to communicate yet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22232196

There were reports that he came in heavily injured yes.

You'd think they'd be able to say definitively if he'd been shot in the neck or not, that kind of thing does seem fairly cut and dry.  But he is in fact in the hands of the High-Value Interrogation Group, and like all spook outfits everywhere, they hate giving out any kind of info at all.

[Suu]

Not to mention, they announced they were taking him to Mass General, a hospital that is currently treating a lot of his alleged victims. Security has got to be INSANE, there's no way the press is getting in there for a correct statement.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

OTOH, there's this (not mine, yoinked it):

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Remedial common sense. I can't believe they let this be said on FOX.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/21/ex-cia-deputy-director-boston-bombing-more-like-columbine-than-al-qaeda/

[Cuddlefish]

http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/

That's great!


And this cop with the milk thing? Fuck him. Because you know what's better than a fucking cop bringing you milk? NOT BEING CONFINED TO YOUR HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE, and being able to get your own god damned groceries.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/

That's great!


And this cop with the milk thing? Fuck him. Because you know what's better than a fucking cop bringing you milk? NOT BEING CONFINED TO YOUR HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE, and being able to get your own god damned groceries.

Yeah, he sounds like a nice guy, but that doesn't somehow make everything OK.

[Bu🤠ns]

I'm reposting this here because my father deserves a wider audience:

Did you ever witness such a grandiose scale and magnificent display of collective incompetence as that which took place yesterday in the search and capture of the Marathon bomber in Watertown, Massachusetts? It does not make me sleep better at night.

To me, the so called authorities were nothing more than a back-thumping mob of trigger happy doughnut engorged buffoons apparently suffering from small penis syndrome, each trying to puff-up bigger than the next buffoon with a single mindset goal to waste as much ammo as possible. I am surprised they didn't accidentally kill more people - but that confirms my belief, that even that was not within their ability to successfully accomplish.

Then at the end they congratulated themselves in a macabre sort of manner for all that bungling and misadventure!

Lets look at this:

    This was a nineteen year old kid, apparently the meanest and orneriest mofo the country has ever witnessed.
    Perhaps thousands of police authorities were outwitted by this doofus for an entire day.
    He was hiding only several blocks away from where the biggest manhunt in the history of the USA was taking place.
    He was eventually found and visually ID'd - by a US citizen who was checking a rip in his blood stained boat cover.
    He was apparently half-dead before authorities engaged him in a flurry of gunfire and were then proudly able to collar this hombre.

Think about it, the perp was able to carry a bomb into the marathon, place and set it off, knock over a 7-Eleven, kill a baby-faced school cop, hijack a motorist and ride around with him for an hour or so, declare to the hijacked guy he was the marathon bomber, let the guy go free, outrun the cops in a running and raging shoot-out across a five mile stretch of North Boston, shoot his way out of being corralled in a cul-de-sac surrounded by trigger happy buffoons who were vigorously lighting up his brother, where he apparently sent one cop to intensive care, and escape in a Honda SUV.

I want to say amazing, but it is just not the right word to describe this five-hundred megaton cluster f**k.


ETA: You know...#shitmydadsays.

[Suu]

http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/

That's great!


And this cop with the milk thing? Fuck him. Because you know what's better than a fucking cop bringing you milk? NOT BEING CONFINED TO YOUR HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE, and being able to get your own god damned groceries.

No, it fixes nothing, but he didn't have to do that either.

[Cuddlefish]

we luvz master. he bring us foodz

[Cain]

Perhaps thousands of police authorities were outwitted by this doofus for an entire day.

Which raises a good question: why wasn't Boston PD's communications encrypted?  Given they found him only a block outside the stop-and-search zone, it seems very likely he was listening in on their radio calls.  You know, like most of the internet was.

[Suu]

I can see this now...next terrorist attack in New England = run out for milk and bread before possible lock down. At least we'll have comfort Dunkin Donuts will be open.

Because if Dunkin closes, the terrorists win. Like this guy says:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/lust-during-wartime

Perhaps thousands of police authorities were outwitted by this doofus for an entire day.

Which raises a good question: why wasn't Boston PD's communications encrypted?  Given they found him only a block outside the stop-and-search zone, it seems very likely he was listening in on their radio calls.  You know, like most of the internet was.

They actually shut it down several times and others started picking up the broadcast. THAT was kind of weird.

[Bu🤠ns]

Perhaps thousands of police authorities were outwitted by this doofus for an entire day.

Which raises a good question: why wasn't Boston PD's communications encrypted?  Given they found him only a block outside the stop-and-search zone, it seems very likely he was listening in on their radio calls.  You know, like most of the internet was.

Don't private scanner owners sometimes help law enforcement with intel?  Maybe this was a situation where having it public was, in their mind, was in their best interest?

[Banned User 1]

Perhaps thousands of police authorities were outwitted by this doofus for an entire day.

Which raises a good question: why wasn't Boston PD's communications encrypted?  Given they found him only a block outside the stop-and-search zone, it seems very likely he was listening in on their radio calls.  You know, like most of the internet was.

Don't private scanner owners sometimes help law enforcement with intel?  Maybe this was a situation where having it public was, in their mind, was in their best interest?

Well, by the way they were channel hopping like crazy, and then released statements directly telling people NOT to listen, I'd say they definitely didn't wan't people to "help with intel".

[P3nT4gR4m]

Perhaps thousands of police authorities were outwitted by this doofus for an entire day.

Which raises a good question: why wasn't Boston PD's communications encrypted?  Given they found him only a block outside the stop-and-search zone, it seems very likely he was listening in on their radio calls.  You know, like most of the internet was.

Don't private scanner owners sometimes help law enforcement with intel?  Maybe this was a situation where having it public was, in their mind, was in their best interest?

That's definitely my experience of cop-logic. It's kind of like human logic but back to front 

[Banned User 1]

This whole thing did seem to pop off pretty quick too...

I mean, it went from a "routine" 7-11 robbery to "OMG it's THEM" pretty quickly. Perhaps they didn't have time to set up encrypted comms.