breaking news Boston Marathon explosions

Django x2 · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:04

randal said:
Why do media outlets feel the need to release them in the first place?

Last time I checked, other people bar the media were able to purchase and use cameras.....

LateX'Dog · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:05

Locky said:
Treated perfectly fine if he has just committed this act.

loopylou · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:05

jimferno said:
Why hide it? It's real life, people are injured and dead, would you rather be wrapped in cotton wool your whole life?

There is a difference between seeing pictures of someone's legs being blasted off and wrapped up in cotton wool. I personally would have rather not seen the photo. I imagine the last thing that that man wants is a photo of him in his most vulnerable moment going viral.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I know what happens in bomb blasts. I don't want to see it.

Oh Ed not again. · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:05

Burnsy2023 said:
I think it came from social media in the first place.

Ah OK, I saw it posted on a media site so they must have picked it up from there.

jimferno said:
Why hide it? It's real life, people are injured and dead, would you rather be wrapped in cotton wool your whole life?

Normally I'd agree, but that's a guy with his leg missing in a somewhat gory and life endangering position. Cotton wool wrapped or not, there's just some things that don't belong in general media circulation in my opinion. Also, do you think they asked that guy for his permission before splashing it across the Internet?

Azza · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:06

JFK Library fire is confirmed as unrelated.

LOAM · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:06

Sky have just said the library explosion was a fire and just a coincidence.

Kristoph · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:07

Good to see a form for individuals needing a place to stay in Boston, and a form for individuals offering a place to stay, up online already.

Cavallino · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:07

Some coincidence.

Cavallino · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:08

Unbelievable:

Fake charities taking donations set up on Twitter within minutes of the Boston explosions.

Or so someone has said on the Sky news website.

Kristoph · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:09

Cavallino said:
Some coincidence.

I'm sure somewhere in the USA, there was the likelihood that a fire may occur, through accident, at a public place. It's not exactly a small place!

edit; I'll take some of that back, as I guess it happening in the same state is a bit more of a coincidence.

Akagi · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:09

This world...

Westyfield2 · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:09

#PrayForBoston

Kenai · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:09

LateX'Dog said:
Have you seen the picture? If that's a cap, its a bloody big cap.

I've seen the pictures, plural, none looked like a bag over his head :confused:

muon · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:10

Cavallino said:
Some coincidence.

Maybe not a coincidence. I can imagine accidents happening where people rush out of a high profile public building.

Cavallino · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:10

Kristoph said:
I'm sure somewhere in the USA, there was the likelihood that a fire may occur, through accident, at a public place. It's not exactly a small place!

At the same time and proximity?
Not sure.

FTM · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:11

amazing that theres so few dead at the moment when you see the crowds there.

Kristoph · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:12

Cavallino said:
At the same time and proximity?
Not sure.

True, only 5 miles.

http://goo.gl/maps/Q7bFt

dpbadger · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:12

I snipped it.

LateX'Dog · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:14

Funny looking CAP!!??

int · 15 Apr 2013 at 23:14

dpbadger said:
I snipped it.

Looks like a hoodie under his jacket.

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