He has tourniquets on both legs.

Companies need to start selling more see through backpacks.

Lol @ Waldo

What you said really doesn't make sense in context to my post.

These guys look like security to me. Short hair, tactical pants, almost identical clothing, earpieces.

Of course they could be some militia nut trying to play Army. But you'd think if it was them they'd try to blend in better.

Are you a ****ing expert in how blast wounds operate? Did you see all the blood all over the ground? Do you think 1000s of people standing around who saw this are all in on the conspiracy? Do you think the cowboy hat guy who held his artery to keep him from bleeding out is lying too? Do you have anything resembling a coherent motive for faking something like this that's .000001% as likely as something like "the guy bled some, then they put a tourniquet on him, and he's still awake because that happens all the time when people lose limbs".

No of course not.

Do you think this is staged too?

NSFW WARNING I CANNOT OVER-EMPHASIZE HOW GRAPHIC THESE PICS ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Get help for your paranoid fantasies.

He's in shock. That's how he is awake.

People saying that that dude wasn't in schok are just lol...

I'm in shock looking at him in shock.

I think we should grant conspiritards their wish and start a shadowy multi-national organization just to wipe them all off the face of the earth. It's such a horrible offense to the victims, grieving families and actual heroes involved in situations like this. Try to imagine if someone you loved was just maimed or killed and some moron on the internet is yelling "Where's the blood?" or "He's acting!".

Having Wookie ban them all would help them build up their being-silenced-for-being-right cred also.

l really should not have looked at those pictures.

We used to have a containment thread. Time to exile them to that.

I almost never look at that stuff. But for some reason I did this time. My brain almost can't process that it's real. I think that must be a defense mechanism. We get freaked out by someone breaking a bone, but seeing that is so over the top our brain just shuts down. What's weird is people seem to be helping everyone but him. I wonder if they're just too freaked out, or think he's already gone, etc. This must be seconds after the blast.

Oh god have I just given fuel to the conspiratards?

cowardly imo

Some serious crowd-sourcing investigation going on at reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/

I don't even understand the motivation. There's no financial gain, there's no recognition, no anything. just straight trollin.

Not sure how I feel about that stuff. Making potentially innocent people look bad from inexperienced "investigators" can turn out pretty bad.

is the kid in the yellow box the boy that died?

I'm in medical school and even I refuse to look at bad injury pics, watch replays of athletes breaking legs, look at pics of dead people after bombings, etc.

I don't know why so many people have a sort of sick fascination with having to see this stuff. (And this is coming from a guy spent 6 months dismantling a corpse and sees all manner of terrible stuff at the hospital)

Its clearly obvious that conspiritards are plants put in place to make us more skeptical of any real conspiracies that are alleged.

Basically they just have broken brains.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...n-conspiracies

I could find better cites, but I'm lazy.

believing in conspiracies is one thing

generating conspiratard stuff to feed the crazies is on a whole nuther level

Mixed feelings about the reddit/4chan thing. What if Blue Robe Guy is just some random? If they ever find his name he might be ****ed.

Why would you blow up a marathon and not claim it or send some creepy manifesto to a news paper? Do not understand.

Rudolph never sent in a manifesto. Not everyone has the same MO.