Multiple Explosions at Boston Marathon

[2forme]

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

That's insane... So many pictures from people all around. How do people think that today's digital age wouldn't catch them doing stuff like this....

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by 2forme

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

damn impressive. even if it is just speculation.

I certainly do love crowd sourcing sometimes....

[Dave-ROR]

An arrest has been made reportedly...

[M-17]

Originally Posted by Dave-ROR

An arrest has been made reportedly...

Yeah that's what I've been hearing. Apparently they're going on by video where a guy places down a bag near Lord & Taylor store.

The breakthrough came through analysis of surveillance video from the Lord & Taylor store on Boylston Street. King said his sources claim the video is so clear they can see the suspect’s face.

King said police used also video from a Boston television station to identify the individual.

The FBI has a daily news briefing scheduled for 5 p.m. in Boston.

[Giccin]

BOSTON — When Jeff Bauman woke up in a hospital bed on Tuesday, an air tube was down his throat, both of his legs had been amputated at the knee, and his father was by his side. He tried to talk, but he could not.

He looked angry, as he motioned his arms up and out like shock waves and mouthed: “Boom! Boom!”
Jeff Bauman is the man in the photograph that has become an icon of the Boston Marathon attack, the one showing a bloodied, distraught young man, holding his left thigh, being wheeled away by a man in a cowboy hat. If the world could not identify him immediately, Mr. Bauman’s father — also named Jeff Bauman — certainly could.
That was his son with his legs destroyed, wearing a favorite shirt. That was his son.
When the explosions went off at the Boston Marathon, Jeff Bauman, 52, called his son’s cellphone again and again — no answer. He knew his son was there, to cheer for his girlfriend, Erin Hurley, who was running her first Boston Marathon. For an hour, he kept calling, calling. No answer.
Then his stepdaughter, Erika, called him. “Did you see the picture?” she asked. “Jeffrey’s on the news. He got hurt.”
“Are you sure? Are you sure?” He was shouting now.
“Yes! Yes! I’m sure!” she shouted back.
Mr. Bauman found the picture on Facebook. It was not the whole picture, the one that showed Jeff’s left leg blown off at the calf. He started calling Boston-area hospitals and found his son registered at Boston Medical Center. He and his wife, Csilla, drove from their home in Concord, N.H., and reached Jeff’s side just before 8 p.m.
The surgery was already done. Both Jeff’s legs had been amputated at the knee. He had lost an excessive amount of blood. During surgery, the doctors had to keep resuscitating him, giving him blood and fluids, because he had lost so much.
Jeff, 27, is a good kid, never got in trouble, his father said. He likes playing guitar. He works behind the deli counter at Costco. He plans to pay off his student loans and go back to school at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
During the marathon, he was standing at the finish line waiting for Ms. Hurley, alongside her two roommates. Ms. Hurley was still about a mile away when the blasts went off, far enough away that she did not know what had happened. Why had everyone stopped?
Jeff was the first casualty brought to Boston Medical, his family was told. He went through the first operation and then a second, about 1 a.m., to drain internal fluids caused by the blunt trauma.
That night, Jeff’s half-brother, Alan, called from his boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex. His father told him Jeff had been hurt but did not say how badly. He planned to tell Alan the whole truth later.
The Baumans knew how lucky Jeff had been. “The man in the cowboy hat — he saved Jeff’s life,” Ms. Bauman said. Mr. Bauman’s eyes widened. He said: “There’s a video where he goes right to Jeff, picks him right up and puts him on the wheelchair and starts putting the tourniquet on him and pushing him out. I got to talk to this guy!”
The man in the cowboy hat, Carlos Arredondo, 52, had been handing out American flags to runners when the first explosion went off. His son Alexander was a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004, and in the years since he has handed out the flags as a tribute.
With the first blast, Mr. Arredondo jumped over the fence and ran toward the people lying on the ground. What happened next, he later recounted to a reporter: He found a young man, a spectator, whose shirt was on fire. He beat out the flames with his hands. The young man, who turned out to be Jeff Bauman, had lost the lower portion of both legs. He took off a shirt and tied it around the stump of one leg. He stayed with Mr. Bauman, comforting him, until emergency workers came to help carry him to an ambulance.
He helped only one man, Mr. Bauman.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Baumans wondered what had become of the man in the cowboy hat. They wanted to tell him that their son was alive, that he was moving his arms and legs.
But he might be in the hospital for two more weeks. What would he do when he was not so sedated? They plan to bring him his guitar. What would they say to him when he came to?
The elder Mr. Bauman covered his mouth with his hand. “I just don’t know,” he said, and he started to cry.
Binyamin Appelbaum contributed reporting from Boston, and Kitty Bennett contributed research from New York.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 16, 2013
An earlier version of a photo caption accompanying this article stated incorrectly that the elder Jeff Bauman was recovering from a double amputation. It is his son, also named Jeff Bauman, who was injured.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us...-son.html?_r=0

I don't know about you guys... but that man with the cowboy hat really brought tears to my eyes. I wish there were more people who would just help others.



If TL: DR
- Cowboy man saves runner
- Makes tourniquet from shirt to tie runner's legs because blown off at calf
- Cowboy man's son was killed in Iraq in 04' and went to marathon to support runners by giving out flags
- After first explosion cowboy man jumps over fence barrier and runs to the runner that was hit.
- Never left this guy's side.
- Runner is named Jeff (his dad is also named Jeff we'll call him Sr. Jeff).
- Runner Jr. Jeff wakes up in hospital as the FIRST casualty.
- Moves arm and makes a "boom" hand imagine waving thing
- Sr. Jeff doesn't know who the man that saved Jr. Jeff.

[FnFast]

I was talking to a friend about this and I am not the type of person to follow the news, but certain things push my buttons. It gets you angry, upset and leaves you that feeling of wanting to take action but you don't know what.

[7thgear]

Originally Posted by FnFast

I was talking to a friend about this and I am not the type of person to follow the news, but certain things push my buttons. It gets you angry, upset and leaves you that feeling of wanting to take action but you don't know what.

thats cuz you don't know their motives yet

that's the worst part

[2forme]

You realize that guy in the cowboy hat was holding the guys leg artery shut so he didn't bleed out....

[M-17]

Originally Posted by Giccin

I don't know about you guys... but that man with the cowboy hat really brought tears to my eyes. I wish there were more people who would just help others.

Yeah no doubt. This guy is an upstanding All American Hero.

It helps to know there are still some decent citizens willingly to help others when shit is hitting the fan.

I don't know yet on my part if I would do what Jeff Bauman did, but I feel like I would if I could when the circumstances ever came to that point.

[HunterGreene]

Originally Posted by M-17

Yeah no doubt. This guy is an upstanding All American Hero.

It helps to know there are still some decent citizens willingly to help others when shit is hitting the fan.

I don't know yet on my part if I would do what Jeff Bauman did, but I feel like I would if I could when the circumstances ever came to that point.

I guess the man in the cowboy hat is from Argentina, or somewhere in Central or South America. Listening to him being interviewed was rough.

[M-17]

Originally Posted by HunterGreene

I guess the man in the cowboy hat is from Argentina, or somewhere in Central or South America. Listening to him being interviewed was rough.

I could understand him and even though he's from another country it doesn't change my viewpoint because he deserves all the praise for his right doings.

[HunterGreene]

Originally Posted by M-17

I could understand him and even though he's from another country it doesn't change my viewpoint because he deserves all the praise for his right doings.

You're damn right he does. Every single one of those people that you see running towards that carnage deserves nothing but the biggest respect. The balls on those people!

[WolfsFang]

Leave it to 4chan to solve the mystery before our government, wonder what that says...

[M-17]

Originally Posted by WolfsFang

Leave it to 4chan to solve the mystery before our government, wonder what that says...

I think it means that they still, somewhat, respect our privacy. But I'm not about to get into that due to the forum's policy.


Anyway I'll add this, I think the government is getting the assist like they asked for from anyone who's willing to help. It also shows people care to find and bring the perpetrators to justice whom brought destruction on young innocent lives.

That's what we're focusing on and not who's solving the case first.