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Kids save up allowances to travel to Boston to free Jahar
By adamg on Wed, 07/10/2013 - 1:44pm
Bulger in the morning, Tsarnaev in the afternoon. As Channel 25 shows us, it was a regular circus outside the Moakley Courthouse today, especially with a flying wedge of Konspiracy Kids in for the day to support the living Marathon suspect. Also on hand: cab-reservation service Hailo, which apparently thought tourists and Tsarnaev fans would prove good potential customers.
UPDATE: This just in from Hailo: "The street is on their regular route. They should NOT have stopped at the courthouse & we are as upset as you."
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in fairness
most people do not know how to navigate the silver line and parking ain't cheap down there.... and while it seems like a terrible idea to promote your business there on this day (it IS tasteless), most people will not remember the context on how they heard the name of the company, they will remember the name of the company.
Still a wonderful country.
Given a similar fact pattern, I have a feeling that you probably couldn't show up at the courthouse in Tehran, Grozny, Moscow, etc., do this, and not be beaten up or killed by state actors (let alone other members of the public).
Ah, FOX.
Btw, why am I not surprised that it was the local FOX affiliate down there in the middle of it?
Whip 'em up FOX, and remember, you just have to look good, you don't have to be clear. After all, you do need some dirty laundry.
Are you saying
You are siding with the "Free a Terrorist" crowd?
No, they played it fairly straight
It's raw footage, not a polished report. The Globe was there, too.
Ugh this is just taking away
Ugh this is just taking away from all the award winning Whitey coverage.
Not if you're Cullen
He's talented enough to work in Whitey no matter what the topic of his column.
Hail-O is a taxi app, not a car sharing app
that would be Lyft. You know Lyft, the idiots with the big pink mustaches on the cars that lets you be picked up by total strangers driving their own cars? Brilliant idea there...
On topic, though, a lot of people listen to that Alex Jones asshole, it seems...
Fixed
I should know that! Also added a statement from Hailo.
Those people should be embarrassed
While they have the right to be ignorant, pigheaded fuckwits, if they had a single ounce of self respect they would be so embarrassed they'd commit hari kari right on the moakley steps.
The real story:
Our 'intelligence' services dropped the ball. The bombing should not have happened. There were ample red flags and warnings. Ditto 9/11. They effed up, period. Any hot shots and top dogs in our intelligence services receive appropriate punishment for effing up so badly? Not that I'm aware of; no doubt many were promoted and received bonuses. Maybe some low level chumps were punished.
And it was actually local police agencies that shined on Marathon Day, not the hotshot FBI. The FBI once again screwed up royally. But they have some kind of teflon shield and fantastic PR.
Actually the most effective
Actually the most effective detective work was a single guy who noticed blood on his boat, not the legions of swat teams from hardscrabble cities like Newton who locked down an entire city.
Forgot to add
I forgot to add they usually 'retire' and go to work for a private intelligence / security firm, getting rich off of fat government contracts. I suppose our economy really would collapse if the 'War on Terror' and the 'Drug War' both came to an end. No more fat federal grants, no more lucrative private contracts and seamlessly moving from a public agency to a private contractor, no more O.T., etc., etc., etc.,
I don't see what the hubbub's about
Come on, man. When my 2 year old pretends he's a construction truck driver, I don't get in his face and yell "NO YOU AREN'T". I just smile and pat his head and get out of the way as he drives his tonka truck at me. Why are these folks any different, just because they have signs and are old enough to know better?
They're probably either stupid or lazy...
To quote Marc Maron on conspiracy theories:
Why hate on Hailo?
People going to and from a courthouse seem to me like a natural customer base for a taxi (or taxi-like) company.
I wasn't!
I was hating on Lyft, not Hail-O! At least with Hail-O you're getting a properly insured vehicle!
Were there actually kids on allowance there?
^Tittle.
I must ask as to the lack of googlable photos. There was some news reports a while back of such "fangirls". I honestly find that more disturbing than conspiracy theorists.
At least I can view conspiracy theorist as an extreme arm of skepticism (A certain recent movie made this line in a room of 10 men where 9 all agrees, the 10th must always take the opposite idea to force rigor of confirmation, regardless of movie I'm taking this from... it's a reasonable point).
If it actually those reported "fangirls". Well, there's implications about that that depresses me.
OK, hyperbole on my part
I wrote the headline while thinking of those fangirls. I don't know for a fact that anybody actually saved up their allowance to travel to Boston for this.
Confused about one thing
I don't really understand all this - isn't Jahar the villain from "Aladdin?"
Nope
That was Jafar.
Also outside the courthouse
MIT police officers, who vowed to have a presence at every hearing, in remembrance of Officer Sean Collier. Photo by BPD.
Where were the Larouchies?
Haven't they wedged this into their warped worldview just yet?
I was also tempted to take photos of all the media vehicles and private vehicles illegally parked in bike lanes and traffic islands around the courthouse and complain to Citizen's Connect. If I have to pay $15 bucks for the seaport lot, or move my car every three hours in metered spots, they should have to as well!
YOU are why I do not
YOU are why I do not register.
Zero clue on all the myriad hate bombs tossed in your direction.
I'll go out on a limb here....
I'll bet Doug Bennett is infinitely more clueless to all the hate bombs thrown his way, only because he thinks every person who throws them is me.
Because it is you
No one cares about Doug Bennett except you, and it's really sad.
Thanks, Doug!
Always nauseating to hear from you, whoever you are this week....
Dvd is not the only one
Many of us think Doug is a clueless tool. The more you know him, the more you will understand.
Actually...
Doug is not the most popular guy. However, I think at least half of the comments of roughly 100 (of the last post I noticed) was exchanges between you and Doug.
Anon/Swirrly - Likely the Anon is either going to get ignored or snarked. I want to point out that the thing Anon is trying to point out (or I believe) is this comment is an example of what was said in the Jar post. A large tendency inject yourself somehow - whether doing you were hipsters things 20 years before hipsters was identified, mentioning you lived in Portland, or how you were tempted to take photos to report to Citizen's Connect but not willing to pay $15 for parking.
Not to say you can't do that as you responded to earlier pointers. Anytime someone points it out, it tends to be responded with snark (and snark is not witticism). A humor about it goes a long way.
Oh my
A drive-by anon comment!
I'm flattered that you have nothing else to do with your life.
Again...
Again... responding with snark to anon posters is not a rebuttal.
There is no rebuttal
Because there is no constructive to critique (no substance).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Dougl...
The Hipster Jar Thread..
I'm pretty sure the implied context (making the same type of post Vaughn is pointing) is from the hipster jar thread where you also had a skuffle with both pseudonym and anon posters. And the called out the anon as a basement dwelling loser (which is also not a response to either the concurring anon or Vaughn).
Also linking to Lincoln-Douglas format have no bearing. Exchanges does not need that level of structure, but you probably can see that really doing that format would be absurd. So it is more inline of another snarky response.