I can't even begin to imagine losing my legs.

"and a young man in a gray sweatshirt trying to stand. "He had no legs,"

the poor guy had no idea about his legs at the time

The guy's skin is grey in that picture, he must have been in shock :(

Yeah.. if thats his right hand on his lap it is insanely white/grey

You know, looking at photos like that, it makes you really detest the paparazzi. This man has just lost his legs, his life has been changed forever, a catastrophe has just affected hundreds of innocent people and there's some bloody person with a camera taking pictures of what is likely to be the worst day of your life. I'm a bit disgusted. On the other hand, this photo could go on to become very famous, possibly benefiting the guy who's lost his legs... but he didn't choose to have his photo taken...

i think the real benefit from the photos is the hope that at least one of them will give evidence into catching whoever did this

Okay now there's no doubt in my mind those two did it, he doesn't looked fussed at all in the pic (The White capped guy is walking away from the blast on the left.)

But they would have done that without the photo too. I think photos like that one just feed our desire to see and know everything, even if it's a bit morbid in this instance. It's nothing new, ever since photography was invented, people have been taking photos of things that perhaps the world didn't need to see. There's no doubt that photos like that one make things more 'real' to the rest of the world... you're not going to forget seeing a photo like that one in a hurry - hearing about a guy who ran over to help another guy is one thing, but to see him holding this man's artery shut is on a whole different emotional level.

It's nothing against this specific photo per se, it's more the paparazzi in general. It's kinda grotesque, but having said that, I'm happily looking at these kinds of images too so I guess that's why they're published. People want to see these things, even if they don't think they want to. That's the media's motto.

its a strange one.. my instincts in this situation would be to help and the last thing id want to do is start taking photos.. but like you said we're sitting here looking at the photos. I wonder how they feel at the time walking around with people in need of help whilst they are taking pictures. I appreciate the photos in some ways because its given me an idea of what happened and its made me think a lot about things.. you cant really win if your one of the people that took photos at the time.

i used the word pictures and photos a lot just then.

:laugh: I hate when I think I've used a word too much, like if I use the word 'but' more than once in a sentence, makes me feel dumb. Yeah, like at the end of the day, photographers are employed to do this stuff and they've got to earn their living by doing it, but it just seems a bit sick when you take a step back and think about the context. Carnage going on all around them and they're... taking photos of it.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/bos...html?hpt=hp_t1

crazy as hell

2 suspects firing at cops, and one reportedly threw a bomb. Caught one guy, but the other is on the run

might not be related, but it is a possibility

the person they have in custody seems to be the one of the guys in the marathon surveillance video

Sunil Tripathi and Mike Mulugeta are the two suspects according to police scanners

Reddit guessed Sunil was one of the suspects six hours or so ago before this. He has been on a missing person site for a week or so

Hard to believe two homemade bombs carried in rucksacks could cause this much carnage...!!!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...34_634x476.jpg


pretty sure that is both of them