2 bombs go off at Boston Marathon

[Andre]

Lets get back on point.

These poor innocent people, those balloons floating up after the blast say it all as to how heartless these bombers are and how yellow they are hiding after attacking innocence.

[Andre]

Hang on this was uploaded in 2012!!! The heading on this may have been changed today thats possible,But why would you think of it so soon to do that? What the link? looking at the users name ..Master mind.
Id be checking up on this dude, first be checking when the heading was entered if in 2012 go get him /her

[Spicoli]

Just got home and saw footage. IEDs on the domestic front and its a nasty new realizlation. Smells domestic but terror is terror is terror. You think the parents of a 8 yr old boy blown to bits give a flying fuck what President 'was to blame'! Somethings don't need to be a pissing contest.

[VictorCharlie]

I leaning domestic as well. That explosion isn't what I'd expect from a foreign backed group. There are 16 year old kids in Baghdad that could make a better IED than that.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I leaning domestic as well. That explosion isn't what I'd expect from a foreign backed group. There are 16 year old kids in Baghdad that could make a better IED than that.

didn't look big enough - but then again the meaning of terror is....

[VictorCharlie]

That looked reminiscent of some left over TNT. When size is of the essence (fit inside a backpack) you go with C4/SEMTEX. 25+ pounds of it will cause fatal internal injuries in a 100m radius. With the explosion emanating from that alcove 20 pounds would have obliterated everyone in that screen. I'm pretty sure they were shooting for body count and just are sub-par terrorists. Hard to imagine there are any dumb ones left.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

That looked reminiscent of some left over TNT. When size is of the essence (fit inside a backpack) you go with C4/SEMTEX. 25+ pounds of it will cause fatal internal injuries in a 100m radius. With the explosion emanating from that alcove 20 pounds would have obliterated everyone in that screen. I'm pretty sure they were shooting for body count and just are sub-par terrorists. Hard to imagine there are any dumb ones left.

I've heard them say 50ft. It looks on screen less than that.
Technical question. If the device is placed inside a metal bin - this would effect the explosion? (thickness of bin/material) In terms of funnelling it up or out?

[IamInuit]

I know what point El tried to make and he's right fundamentally. If some sick fuck wants to off a bunch of people he could probably do it with a cast iron frying pan. A gun changes nothing here. The sicko probably used a cell phone from miles away. A teacher carrying a gun may have stopped the gimp at the school or nutbar from Colorado but it kinda begs the question..what kind of society do you want? Fuck the politics. Any society where the individual feels it necessary to carry a gun and where teachers have a need to carry one in grade school is unworthy of its population.