by backtoiam » Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:57 pm
The Boston thing is known as a "puff" bomb, smoke bomb, or flash bang grenade. Lots of smoke, lots of noise, pretty damn good concussion shock wave if you are near it but no lasting damage which is why the Café in Paris had no damage other than a few chairs turned over in the floor. If one goes off a few feet from you its an ear shocker for sure, and you can feel the percussion for many yards. Once everybody scurries a, way in fright the scene is fairly "secure' and let cameras roll on the acting. They are getting better at this and this latest job proves that. They decided to provide less information because its less info to be debunked and besides people are getting used to it.
They decided to get a LOT LESS sophisticated because the stunt they pulled with the pregnant woman hanging on to a windowsill in Paris was a little too much and nobody bought it. So, they have decided less information is best because it gives less details for people to pick at.
For you old fucks contrast today's footage with the Vietnam war. Journalist crawling through miles of mud to keep up with the action and we got damn good footage of that. Dead bodies everywhere but today in domestic terror we have no bodies everywhere and multiple witnesses because they don't exist. These days its all sterile. Embedded reporters and the like...Respect for the victims, sorry, can't show ya the the details, unless of course, once in a Blue Moon some civilian does actually let his cheese slide off his crackers and kill a bunch of people and then the blood and guts roll on camera all day and night. Problem is, people seldom do that domestic mass bombing and killing in real life, so they have to make it up.
orwell and all that shit............
"A mind stretched by a new idea can never return to it's original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes