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dems_rightnow

(1,956 posts)
2. Grain of salt right now
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:18 AM
Apr 2013

Anyone can say anything, and it will make the news. Initial reports at chaotic situations often turn out to be wrong.

mnhtnbb

(31,373 posts)
3. Now reporting--from speaking to the father in Russia--that the survivor
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:20 AM
Apr 2013

is a second year med student!

One can imagine they had a pact to go out together. Possibly the one driving
thought if he ran over the one with the IED strapped to his chest, it would go off.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
5. How can a 19 year old be a second year med student?
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:21 AM
Apr 2013

Is he in his 2nd year of undergrad? Maybe he is really smart?

Bucky

(53,936 posts)
6. Hurt people hurting people.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:23 AM
Apr 2013

Fuckwits have to do something evil on their way out of this life. They killed an 8 year old kid, a Chinese exchange student who was an only child, possibly a police officer working on the MIT campus. It's like pain is this virus that just wants to spread itself around.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
8. Admittedly the very first thing I thought when I heard they were Chechen...
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:31 AM
Apr 2013

was the brutal Beslan massacre of school children in 2004. They killed adults, too but they murdered over 150 kids, and burned some of them alive. Fucking BRUTAL BRUTAL people.

deminks

(11,014 posts)
9. If his brother had an IED strapped to his body as is being currently reported
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:31 AM
Apr 2013

the brother driving may have been trying to set it off.

Still, a brutal act if this is true.

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