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Gary Walker from Leeds and his wife were just metres from the explosion, waiting for their daughters to come out.

He told BBC 5 live: "We heard the last song go and then suddenly there was a massive flash and then a bang and smoke. I felt a pain in my foot and my leg.

"I turned around to my wife who was standing at the side of me and she said, 'I need to lay down.' She’s got a stomach wound and possible a broken leg.

"I’ve got a bit of a hole in my foot where I’ve got a bit of shrapnel. I was surprised I got away so lightly."

He said he saw metal nuts that could have come from the device, and that people were using tables as stretchers.

05-22-2017 , 08:36 PM

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Maybe dwarfs got rustled by the word grande, possible link between Little People UK and ISIS?

05-22-2017 , 08:40 PM

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Maybe dwarfs got rustled by the word grande, possible link between Little People UK and ISIS?

Is there any way you could see your way clear to just not?

05-22-2017 , 08:46 PM

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lol

05-22-2017 , 08:52 PM

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The problem with gallows humor is that if you aren't actually funny you come off as a huge *******.

This story is horrifying. jfc

05-22-2017 , 08:54 PM

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The problem with gallows humor is that if you aren't actually funny you come off as a huge *******.

This story is horrifying. jfc

It keeps getting worse. At first reports were saying it was balloons popping (the explosion happened right after balloons were dropped). Some were saying it was pyro backfire.

05-22-2017 , 08:54 PM

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lol

They were probably skinny jeans and an Aeropostale polo. Good for the police to make an example out of ****ty fashion trends.

05-22-2017 , 08:56 PM

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They were probably skinny jeans and an Aeropostale polo. Good for the police to make an example out of ****ty fashion trends.

I'd rather some innocent clothes get exploded vs. an actual nail bomb going off.

05-22-2017 , 08:57 PM

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I've seen multiple pictures of people with their pants blown apart - like the Boston Marathon bomb.

05-22-2017 , 08:58 PM

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Elena Semino, from Lancaster, was with her husband waiting for her daughter by the arena’s ticket office when the explosion went off. She has a wound on her neck and her leg is bleeding. She hasn’t been seen by a doctor yet as her priority was finding her daughter – which she now has.

“My husband and I were standing against the wall, luckily, and all of a sudden there was this thing. I can’t even describe it. There was this heat on my neck and when I looked up there were bodies everywhere.”

Her husband stayed behind to help an injured woman and has a minor injury. She ran to find her daughter in the auditorium.

Semino’s 17-year-old daughter Natalie and her friends said the performance had just come to an end when the explosion went off. “It went off and then there was a moment’s silence and then there were screams,” says Megan Ryder, 19. They say security guards initially tried to calm them down, saying it was a popped balloon or a technical difficulty.

So that's where the popped balloon thing came from.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...and?CMP=twt_gu

05-22-2017 , 09:02 PM

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I've seen multiple pictures of people with their pants blown apart - like the Boston Marathon bomb.

Yeah. This is no ordinary bombing.

In all honesty, I don't think I'd want to see video of the bombing if it does exist.

05-22-2017 , 09:05 PM

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Yeah. This is no ordinary bombing.

In all honesty, I don't think I'd want to see video of the bombing if it does exist.

Why are you being sincere at a time like this? More jokes!

05-22-2017 , 09:06 PM

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I'm already cringing at Trump speech about this and it hasn't happened yet.

05-22-2017 , 09:07 PM

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Nice guy. Supposedly works for CBS and Yahoo!

05-22-2017 , 09:09 PM

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Why are you being sincere at a time like this? More jokes!

Can't force jokes.

05-22-2017 , 09:11 PM

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Nice guy. Supposedly works for CBS and Yahoo!

Yikes.

05-22-2017 , 09:13 PM

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Can't really follow this in RT so I'm watching some guy named David Leavitt commit career suicide on social media. I guess don't check his twitter unless you want to see the world record for verified accounts telling one guy to off himself.

Edit: damn my pony just a few seconds late

Yikes.

Based on the time of that tweet, there was quite a lot known about the attack already. At least I think so. I suck at time zones.

05-22-2017 , 09:14 PM

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I think there are some occasions when people tweet stupid stuff and it gets overblown with people calling for them to be fired and the like. This is not one of those occasions. David Leavitt deserves all thats coming to him.

05-22-2017 , 09:15 PM

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Nice guy. Supposedly works for CBS and Yahoo!

Don't think he'll work for them long. Not that the faux-rage tweeters should have the power to get him fired but it's very predictable how it's going to play out so he's a dumbass.

05-22-2017 , 09:17 PM

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Radical islamic terrorism!

05-22-2017 , 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Yikes.

Based on the time of that tweet, there was quite a lot known about the attack already. At least I think so. I suck at time zones.

6:56 PM in Boston was something like 25 minutes before Gizmo started this thread.

05-22-2017 , 09:18 PM

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Wow you're going to bring your made up nonsense to this thread as well.

In case anybody possibly cares about what fly makes up - the above is untrue.

**** off.

05-22-2017 , 09:19 PM

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Private citizens and comedians can get away with comments like the one Leavitt made.

But yeah you'd think public figures who have been using social media for years would know better.

05-22-2017 , 09:20 PM

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Seriously though, was there any reason for four pages of thinking up possible scenarios that didn't involve terrorism? Are you guys competing at who can look the most liberal by showing you aren't assuming it was terrorism?

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