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A region shut down as hunt for suspected killer continues
By adamg on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 9:05am
The heart of Downtown Crossing at 9:50 a.m. Photo by Gary Waldeck. Note plucky banana vendor in lower left.
The MBTA is closed. Boston residents get emergency robo-calls from police warning them to stay inside. People in Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge also told to "shelter in place." Courts in Cambridge, Brighton, Newton and Waltham are closed. Businesses are urged to not open. Amtrak stopped service to and from Boston.
Also shut this morning: The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth: "UMass Dartmouth has learned that a person being sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing has been identified as a student registered at UMass Dartmouth."
Logan Airport, however, remains open. Also on the job: Cambridge garbage men. Also, their counterparts in Boston. Around 10 a.m., Boston Police let taxis resume service. Dunkin' Donuts, of course, remained open, even in Watertown, because we do have our limits.
From Boston this morning:
City-wide shelter-in-place is advised. As this investigation unfolds, we are advising all city-wide to shelter-in-place. Please understand we have an armed and dangerous person(s) still at large and police are actively pursing every lead in this active emergency event. Please be patient and use common sense until this person(s) is apprehended. We will continue to update the public with more information as it becomes available. All MBTA service remains suspended at this time.
The Globe identified the dead fellow suspect as Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan.
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perhaps an even more recent photo of dzhokar
http://vk.com/id160300242?z=tag160300242
posted last night, if that's the same person
Is this for real? Does anyone
Is this for real? Does anyone speak the language?
Helicopter traffic over west Brookline near Boston/newton line
At 9:15 am there is Suddenly there is a tremendous amount of helicopter traffic over my house near the chestnut hill waterworks just south of beacon st - and north of rt 9, west of chestnut hill ave and east of Hammond. Anyone know what's up? Also just got reverse 911 call from town of Brookline telling us to stay inside "because of events in Watertown overnight and in Boston today".
I'm seeing that too at
I'm seeing that too at Cleveland Circle. I'm thinking they might be on standby. one looked like channel 5. Maybe they can't get to the crime scene so they are waiting around
Thanks.
Thanks. I couldn't actually get a visual on the helicopter.
Sounds
like there position units to respond should the perimeter change.
"Airspace over Watertown is
"Airspace over Watertown is restricted." -WBUR 9:22am
Constant Helicopters Here
From Watertown, about a quarter-mile from largest police presence. Constant drone of helicopters overhead.
Edit, 11:20 - Helicopters not as present overhead here. Still here them, but sounds as though it is more towards Cambridge.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Boy, it'd be nice...
If the guys working on the house down the street from me on Peter Parley road maybe didn't use the NAIL GUNS this morning?? Not sure if they're fully understanding the "lockdown" concept or the notion that people might be a little jumpy this morning.
Yeah, we have guys doing work
Yeah, we have guys doing work on a house near Hyde Square too! Like it can't wait. My poor upstairs neighbor is having a hard time convincing her kids (all under 7) that they can't go outside now.
They stopped.
Guessing that someone probably told them to knock it off.
Perspective is useful antidote to fear
I understand being on edge about all this (I was up till 3 watching the coverage). But Franklin Park is nearly ten miles from Watertown. To get to your neighborhood, the bad guy would have had to get across the river without using a bridge, and head more or less towards the most densely populated part of the city, making his way on foot across Brighton, Brookline and JP.
This loser may be a murdering nutjob, but he's not Lex Luther. A full-metro lockdown may be sending the wrong message to other nutjobs who dream of having a big impact on a world they feel powerless in.
My thought as well. These
My thought as well. These two nutjobs have managed to shut down all these cities and why? If you're in watertown or Cambridge then maybe there's good reason to be wary. But if you're in dorchester or roxbury is there any real reason to be worried about these guys?
Get out from your basement Anon
As Adam reported, the rest of the city IS NOT shut down. People are going about their business. No one went to the office today because the transit system was shut down at 5:30AM.
You'd know that if you left your basement and stopped swigging that Mt Dew.
I know...
And I'm not sitting here biting my nails. But yeah--call me crazy, but having rapid fire bangs stopping and starting on an unnaturally silent day seemed a little...strange. And yes, frankly I wondered who is heading this crew that didn't tell their guys to stay home--who knows where they're driving from?
To digress from my own (apparently) spoiled "yuppy" whine, I know this guy isn't Lex Luthor but I'm a little amazed right now to keep seeing images of all this firepower and law enforcement--the sheer numbers--how on earth did this kid give them the slip? Crazy.
Boy, it'd be nice if uppity middle-class idiots STFU'd
Roofers, and other low-income and day laborers, don't have the luxury of being some uppity yuppy JP resident who can use vacation time and sit in her pajamas watching TV.
They need to work to put food on the table and gas in their truck.
The only reason they stopped was probably to eat lunch.
Oh shut UP
No, most of us who make less than most contractors are home because work is closed and there's no way to get there anyway.
"contractors" aren't on the roof
...day laborers are.
They found their job for today by hanging out at a park, something I guarantee you never had to do, just like I guarantee your white, overeducated, female ass never had to work on a roof hammering shingles.
Claiming you are in any way more disadvantaged or have it rougher than them is so fucking ignorant it defies belief.
Brave words
You're awfully sure of yourself for someone who won't put a name to your words.
Oh, come now. I'm sure anon
Oh, come now. I'm sure anon here worked his way through Ditch Digger School bogging out slaughterhouses - not abbatoirs, mind you, motherfuckin' slaughterhouses - and tarring roofs on his holidays (using only his cupped hands and tongue, natch). His blue-collar credentials are impeccable, which gives him free reign to hurl pig-ignorant insults on internet message boards during city lockdowns. It could be no other way, for the brave men and women of the 101st Fighting Keyboards.
roofers don't make much eeka
Their boss who owns the biz may make a very nice living, but the roof jockeys get paid by the hour, and not as much as you seem to think.
Letting the entire city get closed down by one crazy who is on foot miles away on the other side of a frigid river seems to be a bit of a backslide from the "stand up and move forward and don't let the b*astards get us down" attitude everyone was expressing just a day ago.
Did you stay locked inside all yesterday, when there were two healthy and anonymous terrorists still at large?
Another good point. There's
Another good point. There's people who need to work today and for whom losing a days pay is going to hurt a lot. Is there a good reason to keep people locked inside miles away from where this is happening.
Couple different points there, though
Right, roofers don't generally have much in the way of benefits unless they're union, and are likely to be losing pay today. I do know though that their annual income is in the same range or slightly above the range my job pays people with master's degrees; we have to look at people's income documents as part of my nonprofit job. Union construction workers make quite a bit more than we do and have better benefits. For what it's worth, I also get paid based on the work I do, and don't get paid if I'm sick, there's a lockdown, there's snow, or someone no-shows their appointment.
Honestly, I'm tired of the "people with graduate educations make tons of money and don't know anything about hard work" attitude that too many people in this city have. And yes, I'm aware of the additional issues besides just salary that are tied into educational privilege, but I just want to debunk the whole culture of imagining that anyone with a degree makes tons of money and sits around sipping lattes instead of working.
The lockdown might be overblown; I'm not sure. Until I hear further, I'm trusting that the intelligence folks who made the decisions know more about such things than I do.
But really, the point is that most of us who are at home aren't home because we have trust funds. We're home because work is closed and there's no way to get there anyway. If it would make some of you happy, I could walk across town and stand around in front of my locked workplace. But I really don't see what that would accomplish, so, yes, I'm sitting at home using the internet. Your point?
Boy...
You make a lot of assumptions for an anonymous idiot. Hope it makes you feel like quite the big man as you sit in your pajamas in front of your laptop. Protector of the poor and oppressed. Somehow I suspect that the impetus behind doing work today probably has to to with the developer's schedules and not the noble goal of keeping food on these guys' tAb,R's. But honestly--thanks for taking the opportunity to be a pathetic dick.
Boy...
Think once was probably enough...
Lock Down
Stay safe up there, everyone! I think we're all holding our breath and waiting with you in spirit.
Newton Police closing all roads INTO Watertown
I was listening to the radio with a coworker and the media was saying that all Newton roads are closed. That is not the truth. Their Facebook said that only the roads into Watertown are closed. I work in Newton and several of my coworkers were freaking out trying to figure out how they were going to get their children.
Didn't take long for the lowlifes to show up....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/19/189538...
Yeah, this is going to be raw
Yeah, this is going to be raw meat for the "Cambridge Librulz luvs the terrists!!" crowd.
Stop, take a step back, and think for a second
This is a state rep.
From Arkansas.
Do you care what he has to say? Really?
Not that simple.
I don't.
An unfortunate majority of the country, however, does.
The responses on Facebook...
to his groveling apology are hilarious. Don't think he's getting any "no harm done!" gift deliveries from Dunkin'Donuts anytime soon.
CB Radio
edit Doesn't see true
I'm not sure if this is
I'm not sure if this is related to what's going on but does anyone know what's going on North of Boston. I'm in Revere and about 15 mins ago power went out for a few seconds. On the Alertnewengland twitter page there are reports of outages in Malden and Medford. Also, seems to be a lot of listeners on Scanner Radio for the area FDs.
Sounds like power's already coming back
At least, in Medford.
Just our
Failing Infrastructure?
Why shut down everything? Travel plans? How many days shut down?
a) Why shut down everything so completely?
b) What should folks do about travel plans this weekend or Monday?...
c) For how many days could everything be shut down so completely?
go take ya pills Zak
the adults are at work.
Might be at work...
...if 1) our places of employment were open and 2) we had a way to get there.
I'm also highly skeptically
I'm also highly skeptically of shutting down large parts of the city. They just told people who were at work that they can go home. So clearly theres no imminent danger to people heading home. So why stop the whole city from going about its business? If this guy escapes the police dragnet today will they keep the city on lockdown tomorrow? The whole week? The whole month? And if not then why do it for today?
a) So people stay out of the
a) So people stay out of the way of the cops so they can catch the guy and bystanders don't get shot.
b) Wait for the all-clear.
c) Probably only one.
a) Why? Really? Turn on the
a) Why? Really? Turn on the news.
b) Forget about your travel plans. there are more important things afoot.
c) For as long as it takes.
As anon2 already mentioned, take your pills and let's hope the FBI and police can bring this to an end today.
A) as a couple of people have
A) as a couple of people have mentioned already the action seems to all be in Cambridge and wateryown. So why do people in far flung parts of the city have to cower in fear?
B) there are always "more important things afoot". Did you not travel when the Iraq war was going on? When Whitey Bulger was on the lam? Because the former was "more important" than this and the latter killed more people. So why cancel travel plans? The only reason would be presumed danger. But unless you're in watertown there's probably no danger.
C) as long as it takes? So if they don't catch this idiot are you going to stay hoped up in your place all week? All month? All year? As someone else said; were you staying locked in your house in fear yesterday when there were two healthy and anonymous terrorists on the loose in unknown parts of the city? So why should people be more afraid now that one of them is dead and the other is subject to the biggest manhunt in the country in a small well defined area of the city?
There's this thing
it's called "common sense" and most adults are capable of using it in situations like this.
Shutting down the whole city
On the off chance that shutting down the city for one day will help the police catch this guy and take this obviously very dangerous person off the streets today, I don't think it's asking very much for people to just sit tight. There are more important things than money and "going about your business" right now.
Think this sums up
Our cooperation:
That presumes that shutting
That presumes that shutting down the city helps catch this guy.