Bevendean Hillbilly
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New York in lockdown too. Dear god.
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smudge
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That doesn't mean they suspected anything.
dingodan
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Well it seemed that way to the witness who was there.
“They kept making announcements on the loud speaker that it was just a drill and there was nothing to worry about,” Coach Ali Stevenson told Local 15. “It seemed like there was some sort of threat, but they kept telling us it was just a drill.”
beorhthelm
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that would only be "odd" if sniffer dogs were not routinely at such events, do we know that they aren't? also it is not the standard practice to given in and cancel events to every threat, its kinda surrender to them remember? no doubt this is a false flag to distract from other events, like NKorea. or a local nutter(s). reality is (as anyone with a memory that goes back before the internet) these size of bombs are very easy to make and the people who do so have often the stupidest of grievences.
Yoda
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Which has again been scrubbed and confirmed as a fire and unrelated.
smudge
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I did a bomb drill yesterday, it included a 2 phase search & evacuating the whole crew off the ship. We haven't been told of any threat though, it's just routine preparedness in this day & age unfortunately.
Your talking shit trying to build this up, you should be ashamed, I have friends and family in NYC and I'm sure others do on here, do not try and sitre.
dingodan
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I guess the fact that they reassured people that "it" was just a drill suggests that whatever they were doing would have appeared to those there to be unusual and worthy of concern, so I guess whatever they were doing was not routine security detail. I wasn't there, it's the witness who says this.
I guess when there is a bomb threat, someone has to make a judgement call, I always thought that the sensible policy was that it's better to be safe than sorry.
Lyndhurst 14
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Agreed. The Mayor and NYPD will be taking a “measured response” in light of what has happened in Boston. New Yorkers, as well as Londoners no doubt, take these things in their stride
GreersElbow
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They have sniffer dogs at a lot of high-profile events, this doesn't mean they knew anything at all. Given the recent shootings, I'd suspect a larger police presence would have been justified.
P.S Mises & Hayek > Friedman.
beorhthelm
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the problem is there are so many threats (at least in London, dont know about Boston) that you'd close up shop to be safe. sensible policy is to take suitable measures. sadly sometimes they arent enough - as they used to say they only have to get it right once - but the alternative is giving in.
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junior
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I know all about what is used for shrapnel. I currently hold a British Army Dems qualification (basically making bombs and blowing shit up).
I was just getting some value out of the statement someone made a couple of pages back along the lines of "they've found ball bearings so it must be terrorists".
Btw I think it is terrorists. But the ball bearings had no impact in my thought process.
Scary sounding stuff (explosions) at Boston Marathon
The point being made i assume was that it was less likely to be an accident such as a gas explosion if there were ball bearings present in the street.
The point being made i assume was that it was less likely to be an accident such as a gas explosion if there were ball bearings present in the street.
GreersElbow
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mikeyjh
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Scary sounding stuff (explosions) at Boston Marathon
Meanwhile in somehow less important countries BBC News - Iraq deadly bombings hit Nasariyah, Kirkuk and Baghdad but who cares about Iraqis right?
Meanwhile in somehow less important countries BBC News - Iraq deadly bombings hit Nasariyah, Kirkuk and Baghdad but who cares about Iraqis right?
dingodan
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& Rothbard 
Nobody is saying that bomb sniffing dogs are unusual, just that they were apparently a) searching the start/finish lines just before the devices went off, and b) they made a point of reassuring people that there was nothing to worry about.
So this is not just the presence of the dogs at the event. This is just based on what the witness said and how he felt about it, make of it what you will, but nobody is suggesting that security at a large public event is unusual.
dingodan
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GreersElbow
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Nobody is saying that bomb sniffing dogs are unusual, just that they were apparently a) searching the start/finish lines just before the devices went off, and b) they made a point of reassuring people that there was nothing to worry about.
So this is not just the presence of the dogs at the event. This is just based on what the witness said and how he felt about it, make of it what you will, but nobody is suggesting that security at a large public event is unusual.
Not read enough of Rothbard.
Perhaps I've been reading everything from a different POV. Apologies.
oldalbiongirl
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Just saw the recent footage of this on the news. Really amazing the job the emergency services do at these sort of tragic incidents. People running away but the police remaining there calmly trying to sort everyone out, despite probably being terrified themselves for their own safety.