MIT Shooting Thread

[General Patton]

http://emergency.mit.edu/

At 10:48 PM today gunshots were reported near Building 32 (Stata) which is currently surrounded by responding agencies. The area is cordoned off. Please stay clear of area until further notice. Unknown if injuries have occurred.. Although the situation is considered active and extremely dangerous, an investigation is underway. Updates will be provided at this site when more information becomes available.

Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down

Whenever something goes down, try to get a scanner open:
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

There is also a mobile app that's free called scanner radio.

If you're interested in an event you can usually get better information from the scanner than you can from the news.

[psynapz]

Whoa scanner said an MIT officer was shot by, then had his gun stolen by, a dude in a cowboy hat.

[seemslikeadream]

MIT Says There's a Shooter on the Loose and an Officer Down on Campus

[General Patton]

So, dark-skinned white man with a cowboy hat.

[FourthBase]

WHDH reporting: That MIT officer is now dead.

Huge, huge manhunt in Cambridge.

[Luther Blissett]

Any truth in this?

Okay, so, according to tweets, there are 2 dead officers in Boston. Reporters are fleeing the scene as several “heavily armed people with automatic weapons and military grade grenades” advance on police???
What…

From http://sinidentidades.tumblr.com

[justdrew]

Any truth in this?

Okay, so, according to tweets, there are 2 dead officers in Boston. Reporters are fleeing the scene as several “heavily armed people with automatic weapons and military grade grenades” advance on police???
What…

From http://sinidentidades.tumblr.com

only strange unrecognized sites carrying "live" info at this time. odd?

http://www.policymic.com/articles/36339/mit-shooting-major-incident-involving-explosives-and-automatic-gunfire-confirmed-possible-police-fatalities

there appears to be a concerted effort to spread misinformation

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Gunfire-explosions-reported-around-Dexter-Street-in-Watertown/-/11971628/19812240/-/l43of5/-/index.html?absolute=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wcvb

[Hunter]

Another officer down in Watertown. Shots fired, grenades present, and a stolen State Police SUV.

[Hunter]

WELCOME TO GLADIO MY FRIENDS!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

[Hunter]

I have confirmed from my source IT IS THE BOMBERS its confirmed to me that explosive thrown at car was in pressure cooker. Same brand. Same shrapnel.

[82_28]

Perhaps this shit is to cancel us the fuck the fuck out -- people semi "RI inclined" but both left and right. I am feeling cancelled out right now. Because there is nothing I can do to disengage this weird psychological vice that is enveloping us all.

The vice is where we need to look for the clues. It is being applied. I don't really think there is a knowable reason any longer.

Did anyone note that Obama today never spoke of those with injuries, horrible wounds and lost limbs? I did.

You called it, Alchemy. This is not the end and all of this has a reason.

I do not know why. Very, very in a heightened sense of consternation. It's almost like a low grade "shock and awe" but full mental barrage that cannot for the life of us go away because it is coming in differing forms of magnitude, importance, violence and methods of application. BUT ALL AT ONCE.

We Are Being Fucked With. Taken over? I do not know and cannot tell. This is what scares me. And I suppose this is what is the point.

[justdrew]

don't catastrophize. be resilient. Don't assume what you don't know.

[82_28]

don't catastrophize. be resilient. Don't assume what you don't know.

When will enough be enough though? How can you put up with it? How can you defuse it? How can you allow it to be? This is a new reality being overlaid upon us we did not ask for.

Meet the First Digital Generation. Now Get Ready to Play by Their Rules

Nothing to be scared of indeed, but imagine being arrested by a 23 year old who sees the world as this:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/genwired/

Everything indeed, to be scared of.

[Hunter]

The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe
One Marathon bombing suspect has been caught, and another is on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police, officials said.

[justdrew]

I wonder how Wombat's been? I'd like to know what he thinks of all this...

listening to wcvb's livefeed, wild listening to these tv hosts go into trance and channel the infovoid

"explosives are everywhere"

sounds like a two man team, one of them has been captured.

I think.