Classmate ‘Can’t Believe’ Tsarnaev ‘Had The Balls’ To Return To School After Bombing

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT 11:53 AM EDT, SATURDAY APRIL 20, 2013

A classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth said he interacted with the Boston Marathon bombings suspect a day after the deadly explosions near the finish line of the race.

Andrew Glasby, who said he took a psychology course with Tsarnaev last semster, said the 19-year-old who was captured by authorities on Friday night "acted like nothing happened."

"He was calm, cool. Cool tempered," Glasby recalled in an interview with ABC News. He added, "I can't believe he had the balls to come back and act like nothing happened."

Glasby said he never met Tsarnaev's older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed during a deadly shootout with police late Thursday night. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Glasby recounted, had spoken with him about transferring from UMass Dartmouth and making an effort to improve his grades. According to academic transcripts, the younger Tsarnaev was failing many courses at the university. The university confirmed that Tsarnaev was on the school's campus and slept in the dorms on Wednesday, a day before the FBI unveiled photos and video footage of him near the site of the blasts.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/classmate-cant-believe-tsarnaev-had-balls-to-return

Video of interview at link, above.

[dkf]

1. Well pot will mellow you out.

[emulatorloo]

2. He seems pretty cold blooded, if this photo is any indication.

Shows him calmly walking away after the explosions, as others run away in panic:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/david-green-boston-marathon-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-photo_n_3118601.html

Direct link to photo:

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[Cleita]

3. Perhaps it was part of the plan to keep suspicions away from them

by going about their daily routine as if they had nothing to do with it. It seems they didn't think it all the way through and the perfect crime seems to have been very imperfect. I'm really curious as to what kind of reading the two brothers did for leisure. When I worked in a bookstore, we had a category of spy/adventure novels that we labeled informally among ourselves as Mid-Eastern Westerns specifically about plots by various factions in the ME and Eastern Europe to blow up targets in western nations or Israel complete with heroes and villians in white or black.

This scenario could easily have come out of one of those novels. The problem is if you are inclined to want to plot out scenarios like this, it would be better to write a novel about it than attempt to do the deed in real life because things will go wrong when they are about real life.

[Kalidurga]

4. As soon as I saw that picture

I wasn't really surprised about any of the events that followed. Him throwing bombs at police officers, running over his brother, hiding out in a boat, and now knowing he went about his daily routine as if he hadn't done anything. He doesn't experience the world the same way most people do. He has zero empathy. Some people call that being a sociopath. I am not even sure this guy can fake emotion like many can.

[Arugula Latte]

5. I wonder if he thought his life would just go on as before ...

Delusional, or just part of the strategy ... Weird, in any case.

[City Lights]

6. Maybe he figured he'd trigger alarm bells if he acted differently.

To stay under the radar, I would expect him to have acted as normal as possible.