Posted on 04/16/2013 3:57:37 PM PDT by mnehring
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Not to pick on you but the last time I checked I could put as many cameras around my property as I wanted to and point them anywhere public I decided to. Unlike the U.K. the majority of "big brother" cameras in the US are in private hands.
Please don't take offense:)
What am asking is was the backpack I see in right corner of picture moved to near mailbox and do we have a picture to show us who moved that backpack? Backpack is not located in second picture as was shown on first. Backpack is nowhere to be found in second picture.
I would have expected broken windows, but I don’t see any. Who knows; this could have been a device calculated to injure by shrapnel as opposed to blast.
This is creeping me out a bit.. Your photo is the second bombing and it appears to be much further back than the mailbox. No way that’s the mailbox bomb in that photo.
The black bag you speak of, while conspicuous, would appear to be in the wrong spot to do the damage.
Generally, if it was close to the ground I’d imagine there would clearly be a spherical scour to the surface of the concrete, not that you can see that in the photo.
This is a gruesome observation, but the people adjacent to the barrier likely caught the blaster pressure (like a sail might) and transferred the force fairly uniformly to the barrier, hence the gentle bend -as opposed to buckling (kinking). Again, that pressure was enormous, twenty of us probably couldn’t bend that barrier like that.
The two different bombs. Look at the different buildings. The one in the first is a black and red brick building. The one in the one you were responding to is a white building. The latter is the first explosion, the former is the second explosion.
If that bag by the mailbox contained the bomb look at the proxmity of the number of people right next to it. There would have been alot more victims on the sidewalk! Unless all those people are still MIA!
Looks like there is something hanging from the tree after the bomb went off.
It is definitely puzzling how the barricade is wrapped around the mailbox so badly but the seating at the restaurant hardly looks touched. As matt1234 mentioned they are looking pretty hard at the tree well and that may have directed the blast in a certain direction. Looking for video to confirm.
The viewer who took the pictures says there may be an hour or more between when the first and second pictures were taken.
Bombs were in “black duffel bags” according to WAGA-TV. Photos of bomb remnants here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/16/very-first-photos-of-deadly-boston-bomb-emerge/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
If that bag at the curb was the bomb then that mail box would have been riddled by shrapnel. It looks unscathed.
You would think that he would at least raise his head...just enough to make a judgement where to go...
that’s what I thought, when I saw how the rail was bent
There are people that could build a device like that and easily instruct someone how to place it such that the detonation is shaped in a certain direction.
I see a woman right there holding small bottles of water for the runners. I’m guessing the bag is full of more water bottles.
The barricades were moved like crazy by people assisting victims.. Be far more concerned about the shadow cast by the package compared to the mailbox. FAIL.
If people were sitting on the ground with no aide given for an hour with people still wandering the street, I’d be very shocked. Father and daughter are texting at the tables in the upper left of the first shot, in the second, she is bending away, and her father is giving aide to someone on the other side of the table.
I’d say this was most likely within two minutes. Also, debris I’d still smoking in the street, hard to believe that happened for all that long after.
uuuughhhh, you are reading too much into it. Most of those things are hard to tell with a photo like this because you don’t know everything about where the light source is, reflections, camera exposure, etc.
Don’t fall into that common thinking trap.
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