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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:25pm PT
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Just found this on the web, what f*#kin bullshit!!
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:28pm PT
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First guess would be a terrorist attack. Lots of people concentrated in one place makes a good target. Luckily no one was killed.
* edit: lots of people in one place plus lots of tv cameras already there ... but it does seem to have happened a few hours late.
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:30pm PT
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Glad no one was killed, not what I heard at first, hopefully that is still the case, surprising though.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:37pm PT
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The Boston Marathon is not an open event. Runners need to qualify, so three hours after the winners should be after everyone finished. Still, I need to withhold judgment until I get more news. Graffiti in Rattlesnake Canyon, Bombing (?) at the Boston Marathon. Is good under universal attack by evil?
John
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Alpamayo
Trad climber
Chapel Hill, NC
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:48pm PT
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THree hours after the winners finished there would most certainly still be lots of people running. There are 27000 people running the event and many people don't start until an hour after the winners start.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:56pm PT
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NY Post reports at least 12 dead.
Other reports floating out there of 1 or more additional devices which did not detonate.
This is f-ked up.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:59pm PT
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Let's see: if I remember right you need to be able to run an 8 min pace for 26 mi to qualify for this race. That's 208 minutes or about 3.5 hours. That should be the pace of the slowest runners.
I just wikipedia'd this and the fastest time for this race was about 2 hours. So if the last runners cross start line 1 hour after the first ones, two hours later, you would still have 30 minutes to go before the slowest runners should be finished.
So, the explosions occurred 30 minutes before the end of the race. It would be a weird coincidence if a gas main blew up then, my guess is terrorist attack.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:05pm PT
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No continuing fire after explosions suggests it was NOT a gas main.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:05pm PT
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two reported dead, 22 injured. all numbers expected to go up.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:10pm PT
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I hope the suspected bombers only have ties to countries or organizations we've already had wars with ...
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:12pm PT
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There are reports of a third explosions occurring but there have also been reports of a controlled one by the bomb squad near the library.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:14pm PT
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It sure looks like an ammonium nitrate explosion to me. Wide and white.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
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Relatively, and thankfully, those things looked pretty weak and amateurish.
I'm going with white supremacists.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:25pm PT
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Isn't today the last day file your tax return?
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:39pm PT
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doh... taxes!
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:39pm PT
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tend to think it was anti government types; tax day and all
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 04:47pm PT
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Cal Fire News @CalFireNews
#BostonMarathon #explosion's #FBI is officially treating this as a Terrorist incident now downtown Boston is closed to public
3 minutes ago
Cal Fire News @CalFireNews
#BostonMarathon BPD said one IED disarmed at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, more IED's found have not been cleared yet
Boston police chief just confirmed a third explosion at JFK Library.
Not committing that the incidents are related yet
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Apr 15, 2013 - 05:00pm PT
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a third explosion at the JFK Library
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Apr 15, 2013 - 05:11pm PT
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tend to think it was anti government types; tax day and all
That's what the Boston news is trending toward, last I heard.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Apr 15, 2013 - 05:13pm PT
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Damnit. They should have made the race a bomb free zone, and updated the library to one too.
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