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ToastyPotato
Jun 23, 2005


ComradeCosmobot posted:

Reportedly this was near the Shell station down near the Micro Center (Magazine and Memorial).

Where is that in relation to the 7-11?

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 3, 2004


ToastyPotato posted:

Where is that in relation to the 7-11?

Depends on which one. It's probably not close at all. If the robbery was related to the shooting, it's probably the 7-11 in Tech Square. But who knows? It could (unlikely!) be the one in Central Square too.

The Shell station is basically on the other side of campus (and then some) from where the shooting happened.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012


Not really very near either of the 7-11s in Cambridge, but the car was carjacked elsewhere, so.

AltoidsAddict
Sep 13, 2007


God damnit.

Monday, I leave class to find that some fuckhole bombed the Boston Marathon.

Tuesday, I find out my neurologist suspects that my twice-weekly mild seizures are in fact ministrokes and I likely have multi-infarct dementia.

Wednesday, my job turns to comforting my students and helping them make sense of Boston, because many of them have formed a running club with my marathon-running boss and they are running the Bolder Boulder in a month. It's my job to be aware of the cruelest images they are likely to see and the most odious responses they may read so I have some way to answer for this ugliness.

After class, I find out about the Texas fertilizer explosion.

Today, M.I.T.

I hope that in four years when I am dribbling into a cup and swearing jihad on Cookie Monster, this week will not be my sole remaining memory. I'm just telling myself that this is hard because it has to be. We can't avoid tragedy and sorrow, but we can learn to enjoy every single day we have left because of it.

Tomorrow I am spending the day on my beloved plains. I will walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs and rest in caves and shelters broken out of the canyons by long-departed nations. We've had to contemplate life and death far too frequently than any of us should. I think I need to spend a day with eternity.

caldrax
Jan 20, 2001


What the fuck, world.

And as if it's not bad enough I'm in this thread and this is what I see when I reach the bottom:

Forearm
Nov 14, 2005


So is the carjacker a different person then the shooter now. Jesus Christ, how many people are running around town tonight with guns out?

Feranon
Sep 10, 2011


why can't people ever just knock it the fuck off

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012


Forearm posted:

So is the carjacker a different person then the shooter now. Jesus Christ, how many people are running around town tonight with guns out?

It's a big city, sadly neither armed robbery nor carjacking are super rare here. Shooting campus police is fortunately rare.

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 3, 2004


Forearm posted:

So is the carjacker a different person then the shooter now. Jesus Christ, how many people are running around town tonight with guns out?

Unclear. As of two minutes ago, the shooter is still considered at large.

Mozi
Apr 3, 2004


Feranon posted:

why can't people ever just knock it the fuck off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs

Amos Moses
Oct 13, 2012


Forearm posted:

So is the carjacker a different person then the shooter now. Jesus Christ, how many people are running around town tonight with guns out?

Guy who got carjacked just told officer this possibly is relating to the shooting at MIT and that suspects are possibly going to New York.

This thread moves fast.

Petey
Nov 25, 2005


ToastyPotato posted:

Where is that in relation to the 7-11?

About a mile and a half by the most direct route. I don't know that they are related although I may have missed something.

Hockles posted:

Why do I have a feeling that this is also very near Petey.

I'm home, now, so the only thing I'm in immediate danger of is an Armenian uprising. Which would at least be delicious.

Priapus
Feb 16, 2007


caldrax posted:

What the fuck, world.

And as if it's not bad enough I'm in this thread and this is what I see when I reach the bottom:



Where does it go when you click on it? It may be a clue.

Stolen SUV is possibly heading to New York.

gfanikf
Jun 22, 2012



Come on no reason to make things worse by playing the dreadful song.

Petey
Nov 25, 2005


ComradeCosmobot posted:

Unclear. As of two minutes ago, the shooter is still considered at large.

Yep.

Carjacking details:

quote:

Listening to police radio now - reports that two "Middle Eastern men", both armed, hijacked a Mercedes SUV license plate 137-NZ1 at 831 Memorial Drive in Cambridge (at the Shell station).

Police say vehicle then took off toward Harvard square.

Lord Chumley
May 13, 2007



You can't go blaming Yoko Ono for this, come on now.

Amos Moses
Oct 13, 2012


Shots fired at other officers now. The ones that were in pursuit of the carjackers.

If I'm hearing this correctly.

There was also some radio chatter I didn't quite get.. something like State police(?) were clearing out from Mass General (?) fast. The guy talking made some emphasis on the word "fast".

Fabulousity
Dec 28, 2008


Sounds like they may have found the Mercedes and the drivers are shooting at the police...?

Paper Jam Dipper
Jul 14, 2007



This would have been an incredible scene if it wasn't for the fucking music.

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003


Just heard tons of sirens outside of Harvard Square. Police are hauling ass to wherever things are going on.

E: I'm never leaving my apartment again

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 3, 2004


Petey posted:

Yep.

Carjacking details:

Given that you're reading csail-related, I'll have you know that you only reposted the NBCConnecticut link because I read it in this thread before you even saw it.

Amos Moses
Oct 13, 2012


The cops REALLY want this SUV right now.

All these units reporting in to dispatch that they're going to the chase, holy shit.

Teddybear
May 16, 2009


Getting reports from twitter that the carjackers(?) are exchanging heavy fire with police in Watertown.

I think they're reacting like this on the chance that these guys are either the MIT killer, the bombers, or both.

Deadpool
Apr 28, 2002


Teddybear posted:

Getting reports from twitter that the carjackers(?) are exchanging heavy fire with police in Watertown.

What the fuck? I thought this was relatively over. Wow.

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003


Teddybear posted:

Getting reports from twitter that the carjackers(?) are exchanging heavy fire with police in Watertown.

That's consistent with what I just heard - tons of cops heading west on Mass Ave through Harvard.

E: HOLY FUCK GRENADES?

ToastyPotato
Jun 23, 2005


Amos Moses posted:

The cops REALLY want this SUV right now.

All these units reporting in to dispatch that they're going to the chase, holy shit.

Holy fucking shit all these cops joining the chase.

Volume
May 2, 2008


Amos Moses posted:

The cops REALLY want this SUV right now.

All these units reporting in to dispatch that they're going to the chase, holy shit.

Some one post a live feed to the chase when it gets on TV.


Also cause I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs it The general feel good thread: Cute, Adorable and Uplifting Mk. III thread.

cstang
Oct 27, 2005


Whoever the dispatcher is needs to train all the other dispatchers in the country. She's on top of everything.

Amos Moses
Oct 13, 2012


Anyone know what police band they're all using for the pursuit?

OFFICER REPORTING GRENADES

SHOTS FIRED, EXPLOSIVES.


GRENADES

Priapus
Feb 16, 2007


Grenades?

ToastyPotato
Jun 23, 2005


FUCKING GRENADES. HOLY FUCK.

Forearm
Nov 14, 2005


Teddybear posted:

Getting reports from twitter that the carjackers(?) are exchanging heavy fire with police in Watertown.

I think they're reacting like this on the chance that these guys are either the MIT killer, the bombers, or both.

Just heard a boom in Brighton.

12_String
Feb 27, 2007


It sounds like every cop in Boston is responding to this SUV chase/shootout.


Edit: Grenades?

General Battuta
Feb 7, 2011


Holy shit, shots fired, something about explosives and grenades.

Jeff Wiiver
Jul 13, 2007


People on twitter saying that the cops are working under the presumption that the carjackers are the Marathon suspects. Not sure how true any of that is.

cyphr555
Feb 20, 2011


Holy fuck.

Globo-Corp
Dec 13, 2008


Holy shit did they say someone had fucking grenades??

mrs. nicholas sarkozy
Jan 1, 2006


They just said they have grenades, what the fuck? And near houses, too

Petey
Nov 25, 2005


Petey posted:

I'm home, now, so the only thing I'm in immediate danger of is an Armenian uprising. Which would at least be delicious.

I say that, and then there are sirens outside my door.

Scanner just announced they have grenades and explosives. Shots fired.

They're down the road from me.

Teddybear
May 16, 2009


I'm in Brookline and I'm hearing a lot of sirens go by. I think they're reacting under the assumption that these are related.

WHAT THE FUCK THEY HAVE EXPLOSIVES.

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