The Boston Hoaxathon

What is the motivation to fake the bombing?

It allows another conspiracy theory thread to be created on chit chat as we are running out of conspiracies.

Well, I've seen some weird posts on here and read some far-out conspiracy theories but this just about caps them all.

I cannot believe that anybody would see this event as amusing. I wonder if you would have giggled and tittered about it if you had been standing close by!

The disturbing thing about this thread is that YOU seem to think it's funny!

My post was to the OP.

Nothing happens nowadays without someone looking for a different angle.

There's 15 hours of video in those 3 links.

What did go bang then?

Op : how do explain this :

Guardian 16th March 2015

Jurors in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday visited the bullet-riddled boat in which he was captured, hiding under its tarpaulin, days after the deadly bomb attack on the Boston Marathon which left three people dead and 264 injured.

Tsarnaev, the younger brother and only survivor of the two siblings accused of the bombing, is facing 30 charges related to the attack, including several that carry a potential death sentence.

The jurors walked around the outside of the boat and peered inside. Tsarnaev, flanked by three attorneys and US marshals, watched impassively from a table about 50ft away.

The red and white boat is covered with more than 100 bullet holes, marked individually with small pieces of white evidence tape. One of the boat’s two front windows is shot out almost completely, with just one shattered piece of glass remaining.

Jurors walked around the boat, taking notes, and then went two at a time on to an elevator so they could look inside the vessel, which was on a trailer.

Inside the boat, which is called the Slipaway II, they could see the note Tsarnaev wrote in which he denounced the US for its wars in Muslim countries. The note, written in pencil, is speckled with bullet holes and stained with long streaks of blood.

“I’m jealous of my brother who has received the reward of jannutal Firdaus (inshallah) before me,” it begins. (In Islam, Jannutal Firdaus refers to the highest level of paradise.)

“God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat” – the word boat is partly obscured by blood – “and shed some light on our actions.”

On another part of the boat, another equally blood-stained message is partly obscured by more bullet holes, but it reads - “…r actions came with a message and that is … Illalah [sic]. The US government is killing our innocent civilians but most of you already know that. As a m … I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished. Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”

Tsarnaev’s lawyer admitted during opening statements that he participated in the bombings and the later crimes, but said his slain older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind who recruited the then 19-year-old Dzhokhar to help him. Prosecutors say Tsarnaev was a full and willing participant.

The same jury that decides guilt will decide whether he receives life in prison or the death penalty.

The trial began its third week on Monday. It had been expected to last three to four months but is moving faster than anticipated, largely because the defense has not cross-examined many witnesses.

The boat is considered evidence and is impounded by the government. The trial judge ruled that its location could not be revealed to ensure the security of jurors and the defendant.

I'm sure that this boat business and the bombs too are just a big silly old misunderstanding, right? The accused can't possibly be guilty because they are peace-loving lads. 

Case dismissed. Next case please. We can't have the courts clogged up with this sort of frippery.

I'm not sure about this. Do we know what his grades in school were? That's always a great indicator.

All grade A, and could either enter Harvard or become pro-footballers.

Do you think the authorities should keep a closer eye on these Grade A students? They always seem to be getting in bother.

Guess what?  The accused has been found guilty on all 30 counts.

"The conviction was widely expected because his chief lawyer, Judy Clarke, made the surprise admission during opening statements that he took part in the bombing". (Source BBC).

How could the opening poster have got it so wrong?

Looking forward to a comprehensive and mouth-watering explanation for these events in Boston, which the guilty man admitted to taking part in.

For once i agree with Naydam.

I am now away to wash my hands in carbolic soap..

I rememnr ehrn the manhunt was on for this I was glued to my computer for a whole day and got entertainment from it, is that wrong?

I'm often glues to my comp. Tis usually after an afternoon with an xhamster though..

dont you just love posters who , upon realising they have fatally exposed their own irredeemable stupidity fail to return to their own threads . lol at morons everywhere.

lol Guinness,must be exhausting for you !

I am a slave to my cause, treetop..