Bombs go off at Boston Marathon

Always has kid. Fortunately my tastes and that of my girl don't bring us to big crowd events. I catch all sports stuff at sports bars and the musical acts I pay money to see aren't that big yet. Movies are tricky, since the Colorado thing homegirl refuses to see anything on opening night even dumb art house shit like Admissions. We catch most of our movies on a Tuesday lol

 

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http://www.local15tv.com/mostpopular/story/UM-Coach-Bomb-Sniffing-Dogs-Spotters-on-Roofs/BrirjAzFPUKKN8z6eSDJEA.cspx

 

I understand where your girlfriend is coming from, but you can't live your lives in fear. Because that means all of the psychos and terrorists have won.

Being cautious is good, but not seeing movies on opening night because of one incident is silly.

That's like saying: a plane crashed last year, I won't fly anymore.

Millions of people fly safely every day. Millions of people see movies in theaters every day without incident.

We can't let them win by changing our behaviors.

 

Trust me I hear you but as her man its my job to make sure she feels safe and sometimes that means me doing things I don't agree with but will do to give her that feeling of safety. What's funny about it is all the movies we see together are never popular movies. Its always shit like Compliance or Arbitrage or Koch. Its usually me her and 25 people over fifty lol.
Also we're older I think when you get to your 30s you have a better understanding of death. By that point you've lost someone/someones and know this shit ain't forever and accept it.

 

glad we got that covered

now if you could apply your aforementioned manhood to the forums.............................

 

light skin is on a role tonight lol

 

The Boston Marathon

World's oldest annual marathon - 2013 was the 117th event
Second biggest single-day sporting event in the US behind the Super Bowl, in terms of media coverage
Organised by the Boston Athletic Association, the course is 26.2 miles
This year there were 28,000 runners, representing athletes from every US state and more than 90 countries
More than 500,000 spectators line the course every year
$806,000 (£527,000) in prize money offered in 2013
In 1975, Boston became the first major marathon to include a wheelchair division
A Kenyan or Ethiopian man has won the Boston Marathon 23 times in the last 25 years


The majority of my life, including my childhood, was spent in greater Boston. I've been working downtown many years when the marathon was run. It's a major holiday atmosphere, with the subways crowded with tourists, runners and supporters. There is no way to protect 26 miles effectively, with over half a million people watching the race in person. It's a carnival on Marathon Monday. My people are all safe, but my heart is hurting for my hometown tonight.

 

Huff Post:

RIP baby boy

Praying for his mom, sister and entire family.

 

It is heartbreaking when a horrific act of violence hits a public event that has gone on for years. Marathon runners from all over the country and the world come to participate. I pray for the victims and I hope and pray that the authorities find who was responsible. I have no doubt that it is the work of a domestic terrorist. My sociology teacher once explained that the reason we, as people, enjoy viewing sporting events is because sports, by and large, is a substitute for war. Does was come to sporting events. Of course, there are hooligans and other troublemakers at sporting events. But, they don't plant explosives. Or, do they? Human nature/desire is most unpredictable.

 

This makes me so mad. My heart & prayers go out to the victims and people in Boston.

 

Can you imagine?
What devastation rained down on this family yesterday.

Dad is running the marathon, starts out, has no idea that before he reaches the finish line, his son will be dead, his daughter's leg amputated, and his wife with a brain injury! Seriously, this is a nightmare from hell!

 

This day will forever be tainted. Honored also, but the joy of the BM can never be the same, at least not for a long time to come.

A noted sports photographer was there and he just happen to capture a participant in a wheelchair ....whose both legs had been blown off. The photographer was later weeping as he relived his photos. Now the shock is wearing off...the trauma is setting in.

There were also SANDYHOOK parents who had lost their children present. They bore witness to the carnage because they were invited to be at the finish line. Some may have even been among the 120 injured.

 

I'll quote Strictly Ballroom (and probably a million other things): A life lived in fear, is a life half-lived.

I was in a midnight showing of TDKR and I was packed into the theater like a sardine. I was near the front, I didn't have either armrest and the rows are very narrow. (In fact, me as a 5'3" woman can't stretch out her legs in the rows and I feel there isn't enough leg room).

All I could think of before the movie started was how f*cked I would be if there was a fire or something.

And the next day when I heard about the shooting, I also had the knee-jerk reaction of: I'm never seeing a midnight show again. I'm never seeing a show on a Friday night again. I'll go see them on Saturday afternoons.

But as time passed, I realized how reactionary that was and I've always felt like - when your time is up, it's up. Which is why those Final Destination movies hold so true to me.

And I also think that if a person appears to have "cheated" death, they were really meant to learn a lesson and that their time really wasn't up yet.

Your girl needs to relax - it's been 9 months already. Jeez. You need to have a talk with her. Her fear is unwarranted and you enabling it, is only making it worse. (My two cents, nothing more)

I'll end with a status update my brother posted (and I shared) yesterday:

My heart goes out to those injured or killed in Boston. All I can say in reaction to this is, do not live in fear. That is the desired effect of terrorist acts. Fear. When you give in to fear, when you alter your life because you've become fearful, you've lost. And they've won. I do not live in fear. Besides, a drunk driver can take me out tomorrow. I could have a massive heart attack. Any number of things can happen at any given moment. I want to enjoy what little time I have.

 

"A life lived in fear, is a life half lived." That quote was also featured at the very beginning of the film, Australia. I agree with that sentiment.

 

You think Final Destination is a good example lol. Death doesnt need to seek you out. Heart attack on the spot no lurking around the shadows instant death. Death sounds inefficient lol

 

I have an 8 year old and an almost 5 year old and I in no way can imagine what the acts of yesterday did to this family. Truly breaks my heart. I cant wrap my head around the utter disregard for human life.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/two-brothers-lost-leg-boston-marathon-blast-171701992.html

 

I'm thinking there's going to be too many stories like this in the coming days.