Some guy on CNN just said they stripped the suspect completely before putting him in the car.
Where did you hear about shots fired at mass general?
Where did you hear about shots fired at mass general?
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I'd probably want to make sure a proven bombmaker had absolutely nothing on him before stuffing him in the back of my patrol car, heh. Hopefully they'll take them both without anyone else getting killed. Definitely seems like a nothing to lose situation with these guys.
That guy looks pretty white. Was he just an unfortunate person in the area or was he arrested?
They are saying they don't have a second suspect in custody, and the first suspect was supposedly on his way to the hospital when that news footage was taken.
Agreed. Just thought it was an interesting bit of information.
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Burnem Wizfyre
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I had a family member who I told to turn that scanner thing on compare it to "It's like a Die Hard movie going on or some shit".
It's pretty sad. They'd be better off playing the scanner stream and paying some guy to spam F5 on reddit.
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It isn't just CNN. It is news in general. 5-10 years CNN/FOX and such will be extinct. People get their news from people more and more and with everyone in the world having video/mic recording capabilities on their phone it'll only get worse as time goes on.
I've been wondering this ever since the Marathon...why don't police forces use encrypted radios when shit like this is going down? Like you can't buy a scanner at Walmart and listen to the Secret Service - why don't police forces have similar equipment? Surely the big city forces like Boston would have the resources, at least.
People still want the nice HD video and commentary though. They'll be around with cameras and pundits, but the actual news will be dead (if it isn't already).
Has anyone found a more stable police scanner stream? This one seems to be having a lot of issues.
Same, my group chipped in and bought a Ham Radio when we were in High School, we always knew where the cops (2 of them, North Carolina) were.
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I was curious as well so looked up some articles.
http://www.gctelegram.com/news/scanner-traffic-7-10-10
Seems it is like radar detectors and other things. Once they do, someone sells a new scanner that can listen in.
So cost of updating equipment , programming and so forth is probably limiting and they may have been using encryption , just a high end scanner was used to listen in.
here it all went digital encrypted 7-8 yrs ago, the price was big, has to be tons cheaper all these years later. scanners are worthless here now.
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Ya I can just see down the line a app for that. Look how things have changed just in the past 5 years. In 5 from now, you may be walking down the street, have your phone buzz, activate screen to see 50 people near by discussing a robbery down the street in real time. When not if it becomes like that, news in general will be history, just a recap of webpages that report it faster and better than any network.
I say bring it on, those bitches get paid millions a year to report like shit anyways.