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Chinese carjack victim of Boston bombers only escaped when they stopped for Red Bull and (trunc)
Daily Mail ^ | 23 April 2013 | Paul Thompson

Posted on 04/23/2013 4:00:14 AM PDT by Zhang Fei

A man taken hostage by the alleged Boston bombers after he was car jacked was able to escape after they stopped to buy cans of Red Bull at a gas station, MailOnline can reveal.

The carjacking victim, whose name has not been revealed, has told authorities that being Chinese almost certainly saved his life, saying that the brothers told him they would not kill him because he was 'not American.'

The victim was able to jump out of the car and flee while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, looked to buy cans of the energy drink and chocolate bars.

From interviews with the staff at both gas stations and court records, MailOnline has been able to piece together the frantic events of the early hours of last Friday.

The terrifying sequence of events began when Tamerlan carjacked a Mercedes SUV car at gun point barely 40 minutes after MIT campus police officer Sean Collier was killed as he sat in his patrol car.

Tamerlan jumped into the passenger seat of the Mercedes and told the driver: 'Did you hear about the Boston explosion... I did that.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: asianamericans; boston; bostonbombing; braking; carjacking; china; marathon; redbull; tsarnaev
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To: Zhang Fei

It tastes exactly like some kind of soda that was around when I was a little kid. Didn’t like it then and don’t like it now.


21 posted on 04/23/2013 5:32:39 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: 2001convSVT
the guy had a coexist bumper sticker on his SUV

You are kidding?

22 posted on 04/23/2013 5:34:58 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Zhang Fei
The coolers in the many (read numerous!) 7-Elevens here all have st least 2 complete shelves dedicated to "Red Bull"-like 'energy drink' products.
I don't drink any of them - I like coffee - but the one with my favorite name so far is "Come Best."
Its gotta be a winner.
23 posted on 04/23/2013 5:40:46 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Zhang Fei
The carjacking victim, whose name has not been revealed, has told authorities that being Chinese almost certainly saved his life, saying that the brothers told him they would not kill him because he was 'not American.'

That didn't work so well with the Chinese student they killed a few days before.

24 posted on 04/23/2013 6:05:47 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Zhang Fei
Do you think the Chinese victim will have an epiphany about ‘government can't protect you’ and ‘coexist doesn't ward off evil’?

Since we are talking about Boston, maybe the carjack victim will get some form of self-protection (bats? sprays? firearms?) as a result?

25 posted on 04/23/2013 6:18:24 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Zhang Fei
is this story even verified now?
26 posted on 04/23/2013 6:26:03 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: Drawn7979
Case title: USA v. Tsarnaev
27 posted on 04/23/2013 6:33:59 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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28 posted on 04/23/2013 6:40:23 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: annalex

No kidding.

http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/car-hijacked-by-boston-bomber-had-a-coexist-bumper-sticker-61686/


29 posted on 04/23/2013 6:42:40 AM PDT by jehardy
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To: CMB_polarization

Case title: USA v. Tsarnaev>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Boston v. Tsarnaev would be a VERY different case.


30 posted on 04/23/2013 6:43:20 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: TArcher
“Red Bull” for the dope-smokers.

And folks wonder why Generation X-Box is running on Psychotic fumes.

I drank two Red Bulls this morning, and haven't smoked any dope or gone psycho. I have however, loaded and unloaded eight big old honker bags of potting soil, worked in the garden, and done four loads of laundry, cleaned the fridge, and am fixing to go work in the garden some more.

I love Red Bull.

31 posted on 04/23/2013 8:30:37 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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To: 2001convSVT

he did LOL


32 posted on 04/23/2013 9:07:42 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Boston and MA one of the most screwed up yet elitist, yuppie far left cities in the country who still can’t grasp we’re fighting a war but they come out and have signs saying we won, it’s over Boston strong.

I would not mind if the folks from MA , or most of them just stayed the hell in their state but instead after maikng their state a place full of nuts they then move to AZ, TX, NC, VA, FL and try to change our states


33 posted on 04/23/2013 9:09:34 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: annalex

coexist, the irony of all ironies LOl, only in socialist cess pit MA, and I guarantee that the idiot will still have that sticker on thinking he;s cool


34 posted on 04/23/2013 9:11:09 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

States like CA and MA are like socialist tumors, the people their like cancer cells. Unfortunately it is metastasizing.


35 posted on 04/23/2013 9:11:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Do you think the Chinese victim will have an epiphany about ‘government can't protect you’ and ‘coexist doesn't ward off evil’?

Based on his bolting his captors the first chance he got, I'd guess that this fella (1) figured that the Borat brothers were gonna off him once he was no longer useful to them and (2) government wasn't gonna rescue anything but his cold, dead corpse.

36 posted on 04/23/2013 9:49:47 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: central_va

I wouldn’t mind if they stayed there but they don’t , they move on mass to other states like mine and yours and then demand to have our states look like the crap they left.


37 posted on 04/23/2013 10:07:18 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: 2001convSVT

And the terrorists’ roommate had a “Terrorista!” license plate.

We’re going to lose this war.


38 posted on 04/23/2013 10:19:17 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Lucky guy. Hope he doesn’t let it go to his head (’bout not being killed because he’s not American)


39 posted on 04/23/2013 10:35:28 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: keats5
Wanna see something (not) funny? Check out some of our states D.M.V. lists of "forbidden words" you cannot put on license plates!

I'm pretty sure COM-E H8R is on the forbidden list in Cali.

40 posted on 04/23/2013 10:42:05 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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