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[sho nuff]

Love the conspiracy guys...

Friend of mine again is posting about the National Guard guy and why the one square on what people claim is the backpack looks similar to his. Forgetting that the one picture of him is after the explosion and he is still wearing the backpack.

He also posted this...or shared/linked to it...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=406292716144381&set=a.354982647942055.86672.354126418027678&type=1&ref=nf

Made me laugh.

Ive basically started ignoring the crap...but wanted to post after that..."if by exposing lies...you mean posting things and accusations that are outright lies...good job".

He was also again on the guy next to the blue shirt guy that was cleared and wrongfully accused early on and identified by the masses.

 

[Keerock]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Ugh... that sucks.

 

[Popinski]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From the Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/:

The next step in this information flow is the trickiest one. Here's what I know. At 2:42am, Greg Hughes, who had been following the Tripathi speculation, tweeted, "This is the Internet's test of 'be right, not first' with the reporting of this story. So far, people are doing a great job. #Watertown" Then, at 2:43am, he tweeted, "BPD has identified the names: Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta. Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi."

The only problem is that there is no mention of Sunil Tripathi in the audio preceding Hughes' tweet. I've listened to it a dozen times and there's nothing there even remotely resembling Tripathi's name. I've embedded the audio from 2:35 to 2:45 am for your own inspection. Multiple groups of people have been crowdsourcing logs of the police scanner chatter and none of them have found a reference to Tripathi, either. It's just not there.

 

[Franknbeans]

who is footing the bill for scumbag #2's hospital stay?

 

[culdeus]

The conspiracy stuff is really funny, and harmless at the same time. Giving them attention just gets them more money.

 

[Rayderr]

who is footing the bill for scumbag #2's hospital stay?

All of us.

 

[The Comedian]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Damn. Cue the Smiley Faced Killer theories.

 

[tjnc09]

I posted the part about the boat owner because people want to donate a boat to him and he understands what is really important in life

 

[Wrigley]

Love the conspiracy guys...

Friend of mine again is posting about the National Guard guy and why the one square on what people claim is the backpack looks similar to his. Forgetting that the one picture of him is after the explosion and he is still wearing the backpack.

He also posted this...or shared/linked to it...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=406292716144381&set=a.354982647942055.86672.354126418027678&type=1&ref=nf

Made me laugh.

Ive basically started ignoring the crap...but wanted to post after that..."if by exposing lies...you mean posting things and accusations that are outright lies...good job".

He was also again on the guy next to the blue shirt guy that was cleared and wrongfully accused early on and identified by the masses.

Insanity rules.

I love a conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but this guy is ####ed in the head.

 

[Slapdash]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Hadn't he been missing for a few weeks before the bombings?

 

[Insein]

I posted the part about the boat owner because people want to donate a boat to him and he understands what is really important in life

Yea that got buried. It was nice to see.

 

[Doug B]

The next step in this information flow is the trickiest one. Here's what I know. At 2:42am, Greg Hughes, who had been following the Tripathi speculation, tweeted, "This is the Internet's test of 'be right, not first' with the reporting of this story. So far, people are doing a great job. #Watertown" Then, at 2:43am, he tweeted, "BPD has identified the names: Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta. Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi."

The only problem is that there is no mention of Sunil Tripathi in the audio preceding Hughes' tweet. I've listened to it a dozen times and there's nothing there even remotely resembling Tripathi's name. I've embedded the audio from 2:35 to 2:45 am for your own inspection. Multiple groups of people have been crowdsourcing logs of the police scanner chatter and none of them have found a reference to Tripathi, either. It's just not there.

Hughes (or the Reddit poster, if its not Hughes) really needs to speak to that publicly. Even if just to say "I screwed up and got it wrong". An explanation of just how such a screw-up was made would be nice, too.

 

[BroadwayG]

who is footing the bill for scumbag #2's hospital stay?

Same people who paid for #1's food

 

[Doug B]

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/: ...

Great link -- should be required reading for anyone closely following this case.

 

[Franknbeans]

who is footing the bill for scumbag #2's hospital stay?

All of us.

I say we bill the parents.

 

[culdeus]

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/: ...

Great link -- should be required reading for anyone closely following this case.

They are really overplaying how far out those two names got. I followed this thing wall to wall and only just then reading that article did I see this 2nd name mentioned. The whole missing arab guy thing just seemed so fishy. Only the dumb sub redditors really ran with it.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

 

[Joe Summer]

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/: ...

Great link -- should be required reading for anyone closely following this case.

They are really overplaying how far out those two names got. I followed this thing wall to wall and only just then reading that article did I see this 2nd name mentioned. The whole missing arab guy thing just seemed so fishy. Only the dumb sub redditors really ran with it.

Let the reverse conspiracies begin.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Maybe Alex Jones is a false flag operation

 

[Keerock]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

I don't know this for a fact, but I think the name DID come over the scanner, but it was for an unrelated case.

 

[culdeus]

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/: ...

Great link -- should be required reading for anyone closely following this case.

They are really overplaying how far out those two names got. I followed this thing wall to wall and only just then reading that article did I see this 2nd name mentioned. The whole missing arab guy thing just seemed so fishy. Only the dumb sub redditors really ran with it.

Let the reverse conspiracies begin.

How is this a conspiracy? MSM wants to squash reddit type reporting as dangerous, or misinformed. There is a serious ulterior motive here. One tiny, minuscule fraction of the world ever got this information and an even smaller portion acted on it in any meaningful way.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

Had a great combine and his stock just started rising.

 

[timschochet]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

Had a great combine and his stock just started rising.

man that white guy sure could jump. pride of Lackawanna, NY.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/: ...

Great link -- should be required reading for anyone closely following this case.

They are really overplaying how far out those two names got. I followed this thing wall to wall and only just then reading that article did I see this 2nd name mentioned. The whole missing arab guy thing just seemed so fishy. Only the dumb sub redditors really ran with it.

A bunch of dumb people in here ran with it.

 

[tjnc09]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

What exactly was he doing a month before the bombings without his wallet?

 

[rick6668]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

I don't know this for a fact, but I think the name DID come over the scanner, but it was for an unrelated case.

I was one of the crazy guys who stayed up listening to the scanner feed all night. I definitely heard the name Mike Mulugeta on the scanner, but never heard the name Sunil Tripathi. I only saw these two names listed together on reddit a few minutes after Mike Mulugeta was mentioned on the scanner.

 

[Koya]

You literally can't find people more Caucasian than these two. They were born in the Caucasus to ethnic Caucasians.

too bad they weren't active in Iowa's presidential process.

Flown in from Seacaucus, NY?

Secaucus, NJ http://www.secaucusnj.org/

-QG

Meh. It's Jersey. Doesn't really matter.

/ Strong Island

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Alors, qui prend garde à lui? T-il passer par le système judiciaire? Ce qu'il y aura un procès? Ou veut-il aller à Guantanamo?

 

[Henry Ford]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

Or he was kidnapped and the kidnapper thought there was a manhunt on for him and killed him. Who knows? Could be any number of explanations.

 

[Fennis]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/04/mike-mulugeta-falsely-accused-boston-marathon-bomber/

2. A Boston Police Scanner Named Mulugeta as a Suspect

The false name of the next suspect originated at 2:14 a.m. Friday when an official on the Boston police scanner spelled out the following name as one of the suspects during the drama that led to the real suspects' capture:

"Last name: Mulugeta, M-U-L-U-G-E-T-A, M as in Mike, Mulugeta."

The official didn't directly name "Mike" as the first name, but just "M." And yet, the name of suspect number one was born.

 

[timschochet]

Alors, qui prend garde à lui? T-il passer par le système judiciaire? Ce qu'il y aura un procès? Ou veut-il aller à Guantanamo?

Wouldn't Russian be more appropriate?

 

[Slapdash]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

Is Reddit so dangerous they kiddnapped the guy a month ago? Get the #### over yourself.

 

[Fennis]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

Is Reddit so dangerous they kiddnapped the guy a month ago? Get the #### over yourself.

I heard an interview with his sister yesterday. The whole thing was very sad, from her bothers fight with depression, his disappearance, and the media when social media decided he was a suspect. She said she got something like 60 media inquires between something like 3-5 in the morning the night of the scanner. And there were like a dozen reporters outside her parents home.

 

[Dr. Gobbler]

As I was following the story that night, all these tweets started popping up about how police identified Tripathi as the suspect #2. But although I wasn't listening nonstop, I did not remember hearing his name on the scanner feed. From The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/it-wasnt-sunil-tripathi-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/: ...

Great link -- should be required reading for anyone closely following this case.

They are really overplaying how far out those two names got. I followed this thing wall to wall and only just then reading that article did I see this 2nd name mentioned. The whole missing arab guy thing just seemed so fishy. Only the dumb sub redditors really ran with it.

A bunch of dumb people in here ran with it.

Ooohh, can you sign my autograph book Pickles? Make sure you use your last name 'Holierthanthou' too. Thanks!

 

[ATC1]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

I don't know this for a fact, but I think the name DID come over the scanner, but it was for an unrelated case.

I was one of the crazy guys who stayed up listening to the scanner feed all night. I definitely heard the name Mike Mulugeta on the scanner, but never heard the name Sunil Tripathi. I only saw these two names listed together on reddit a few minutes after Mike Mulugeta was mentioned on the scanner.

Mulugeta was over the scanner. Around the same time I saw the tweet that said he was suspect #1 and Suspect #2 was Tripathi. His story about being missing, found objects that are used in making explosives at Brown University where Tripathi was last seen, there were pictures of him wearing T-shirts with famous radical movement people, and left a note with a suicide type feel. It all fit. When I woke up the next morning and reports said it was not those two. I figured Mulugeta was the naked guy they apprehended and most likely was the person who was car jacked.

 

[Fennis]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

I don't know this for a fact, but I think the name DID come over the scanner, but it was for an unrelated case.

I was one of the crazy guys who stayed up listening to the scanner feed all night. I definitely heard the name Mike Mulugeta on the scanner, but never heard the name Sunil Tripathi. I only saw these two names listed together on reddit a few minutes after Mike Mulugeta was mentioned on the scanner.

Mulugeta was over the scanner. Around the same time I saw the tweet that said he was suspect #1 and Suspect #2 was Tripathi. His story about being missing, found objects that are used in making explosives at Brown University where Tripathi was last seen, there were pictures of him wearing T-shirts with famous radical movement people, and left a note with a suicide type feel. It all fit. When I woke up the next morning and reports said it was not those two. I figured Mulugeta was the naked guy they apprehended and most likely was the person who was car jacked.

except that it didn't.

 

[got_nugs]

No Mr Vice President...YOU'RE a different breed.

 

[Sand]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Ugh... that sucks.

I'm not getting this. This guy:

1. Disappears a month ago

2. ???

3. Somehow gets fingered as #2

4. ???

5. Washes up in the river

I haven't seen mention of how long he was in the river. This whole thing is very odd.

 

[Keerock]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Ugh... that sucks.

I'm not getting this. This guy:

1. Disappears a month ago

2. ???

3. Somehow gets fingered as #2

4. ???

5. Washes up in the river

I haven't seen mention of how long he was in the river. This whole thing is very odd.

Black Flag

 

[snogger]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Ugh... that sucks.

I'm not getting this. This guy:

1. Disappears a month ago

2. ???

3. Somehow gets fingered as #2

4. ???

5. Washes up in the river

I haven't seen mention of how long he was in the river. This whole thing is very odd.

based on what I've read they don't know.. It is conceivable he died back when he disappeared and he was just found now.. Sad day for the family :( but at least they found him.

 

[Nikki2200]

Sunil Tripathi, who was wrongly accused of being the bomber was found dead in a river.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313870/Sunil-Tripathi-Police-body-missing-college-student-falsely-accused-Boston-Marathon-bomber-internet-sleuths.html

Ugh... that sucks.

I'm not getting this. This guy:

1. Disappears a month ago

2. ???

3. Somehow gets fingered as #2

4. ???

5. Washes up in the river

I haven't seen mention of how long he was in the river. This whole thing is very odd.

It's not odd at all. He committed suicide. Probably when he disappeared a month ago. Somehow after the pictures were released by the FBI of the bombers, the 4chan and reddit people scoured the interwebs and found the story about Sunil Tripathi disappearing from Brown University with a picture of him. They declared that he was suspect #2 based on the pictures. This became a fact on the interwebs, even though they didn't look like the same person. I got ridiculed for saying that here. There is nothing odd about it except that people on the interwebs now try to solve crimes better than the FBI can.

 

[HellToupee]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

Or he was kidnapped and the kidnapper thought there was a manhunt on for him and killed him. Who knows? Could be any number of explanations.

Could be a victim of the rumored serial killer

 

[Nikki2200]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

I don't know this for a fact, but I think the name DID come over the scanner, but it was for an unrelated case.

I was one of the crazy guys who stayed up listening to the scanner feed all night. I definitely heard the name Mike Mulugeta on the scanner, but never heard the name Sunil Tripathi. I only saw these two names listed together on reddit a few minutes after Mike Mulugeta was mentioned on the scanner.

Mulugeta was over the scanner. Around the same time I saw the tweet that said he was suspect #1 and Suspect #2 was Tripathi. His story about being missing, found objects that are used in making explosives at Brown University where Tripathi was last seen, there were pictures of him wearing T-shirts with famous radical movement people, and left a note with a suicide type feel. It all fit. When I woke up the next morning and reports said it was not those two. I figured Mulugeta was the naked guy they apprehended and most likely was the person who was car jacked.

Maybe Mulugeta was naked guy. I don't think naked guy was the one who was carjacked though, unless I missed something. I thought they thought he was suspect #1 (wrong place, wrong time) so they stripped him and arrested him by mistake.

 

[badmojo1006]

Dzhokar Tsarnaev Posts Bail, only $2k, and is currently free on bail

 

[Fennis]

Dzhokar Tsarnaev Posts Bail, only $2k, and is currently free on bail

Per the terms of his bail, the suspect will be unable to leave the state of Massachusetts and must check in with officers once a week until his trial date. Should he violate the terms of his release or fail to show up for trial, he stands to forfeit the entirety of the bond.

 

[Nikki2200]

Reddit CAN be dangerous. For all we know, that Sunil guy may have been murdered by an angry citizen who figured he was guilty of something. But there's nothing we can do about it.

Or he was kidnapped and the kidnapper thought there was a manhunt on for him and killed him. Who knows? Could be any number of explanations.

Could be a victim of the rumored serial killer

Or he could have committed suicide based on the note he left in his dorm room, the fact that he left said dorm room without any of his belongings (wallet, phone, keys, etc.), and he was spotted on a surveillance camera walking down the street alone that night.

 

[KCitons]

Dzhokar Tsarnaev Posts Bail, only $2k, and is currently free on bail

Wait, What? Let's let him walk the streets. Someone will kill him.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Where did the name Mike Mulugeta come from if not from the police?

http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/04/mike-mulugeta-falsely-accused-boston-marathon-bomber/

2. A Boston Police Scanner Named Mulugeta as a Suspect

The false name of the next suspect originated at 2:14 a.m. Friday when an official on the Boston police scanner spelled out the following name as one of the suspects during the drama that led to the real suspects' capture:

>"Last name: Mulugeta, M-U-L-U-G-E-T-A, M as in Mike, Mulugeta."

The official didn't directly name "Mike" as the first name, but just "M." And yet, the name of suspect number one was born.

I wonder if that was meant to be some kind of substitution cipher code for the actual last name (same number of letters ... 8). Just speculation on my part, but better than giving out the actual Tsarnaev name over the scanner, which they knew thousands were monitoring.

I've never heard or read that name mentioned anywhere else officially since then.

 

[badmojo1006]

Dzhokar Tsarnaev Posts Bail, only $2k, and is currently free on bail

Wait, What? Let's let him walk the streets. Someone will kill him.

I heard he is already on a plane to the Czech Republic