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Sin
04-22-2013, 07:49 PM
http://www.stuartwilde.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/554702_10151330303920685_53541600_n.jpg


(If you guys can post this post to the social sites and make it go a bit viral that would help, these papers that sell fear and lies need to be exposed. It’s disgusting that supposedly reputable papers like the New York Times print such blatant lies.)

New York Times Fake Story Here Below
In Grisly Image, a Father Sees His Son
Charles Krupa/Associated Press
Evan McGlinn for The New York Times

Jeff and Csilla Bauman at the medical center where the younger Jeff was recovering from a double amputation. More Photos »

He looked angry, as he motioned his arms up and out like shock waves and mouthed: “Boom! Boom!”

Jeff Bauman is the man in the photograph that has become an icon of the Boston Marathon attack, the one showing a bloodied, distraught young man, holding his left thigh, being wheeled away by a man in a cowboy hat. If the world could not identify him immediately, Mr. Bauman’s father — also named Jeff Bauman — certainly could.

That was his son with his legs destroyed, wearing a favorite shirt. That was his son.

When the explosions went off at the Boston Marathon, Jeff Bauman, 52, called his son’s cellphone again and again — no answer. He knew his son was there, to cheer for his girlfriend, Erin Hurley, who was running her first Boston Marathon. For an hour, he kept calling, calling. No answer.

Then his stepdaughter, Erika, called him. “Did you see the picture?” she asked. “Jeffrey’s on the news. He got hurt.”

“Are you sure? Are you sure?” He was shouting now.

“Yes! Yes! I’m sure!” she shouted back.

Mr. Bauman found the picture on Facebook. It was not the whole picture, the one that showed Jeff’s left leg blown off at the calf. He started calling Boston-area hospitals and found his son registered at Boston Medical Center. He and his wife, Csilla, drove from their home in Concord, N.H., and reached Jeff’s side just before 8 p.m.

The surgery was already done. Both Jeff’s legs had been amputated at the knee. He had lost an excessive amount of blood. During surgery, the doctors had to keep resuscitating him, giving him blood and fluids, because he had lost so much.

Jeff, 27, is a good kid, never got in trouble, his father said. He likes playing guitar. He works behind the deli counter at Costco. He plans to pay off his student loans and go back to school at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

During the marathon, he was standing at the finish line waiting for Ms. Hurley, alongside her two roommates. Ms. Hurley was still about a mile away when the blasts went off, far enough away that she did not know what had happened. Why had everyone stopped?

Jeff was the first casualty brought to Boston Medical, his family was told. He went through the first operation and then a second, about 1 a.m., to drain internal fluids caused by the blunt trauma.

That night, Jeff’s half-brother, Alan, called from his boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex. His father told him Jeff had been hurt but did not say how badly. He planned to tell Alan the whole truth later.

The Baumans knew how lucky Jeff had been. “The man in the cowboy hat — he saved Jeff’s life,” Ms. Bauman said. Mr. Bauman’s eyes widened. He said: “There’s a video where he goes right to Jeff, picks him right up and puts him on the wheelchair and starts putting the tourniquet on him and pushing him out. I got to talk to this guy!”

The man in the cowboy hat, Carlos Arredondo, 52, had been handing out American flags to runners when the first explosion went off. His son Alexander was a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004, and in the years since he has handed out the flags as a tribute.

With the first blast, Mr. Arredondo jumped over the fence and ran toward the people lying on the ground. What happened next, he later recounted to a reporter: He found a young man, a spectator, whose shirt was on fire. He beat out the flames with his hands. The young man, who turned out to be Jeff Bauman, had lost the lower portion of both legs. He took off a shirt and tied it around the stump of one leg. He stayed with Mr. Bauman, comforting him, until emergency workers came to help carry him to an ambulance.

He helped only one man, Mr. Bauman.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Baumans wondered what had become of the man in the cowboy hat. They wanted to tell him that their son was alive, that he was moving his arms and legs.

But he might be in the hospital for two more weeks. What would he do when he was not so sedated? They plan to bring him his guitar. What would they say to him when he came to?

The elder Mr. Bauman covered his mouth with his hand. “I just don’t know,” he said, and he started to cry.

Binyamin Appelbaum contributed reporting from Boston, and Kitty Bennett contributed research from New York.

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/04/boston-bombing-story-unravels-fake-new-york-times-article/

senrath
04-22-2013, 08:02 PM
I'm disappointed that you believe such ridiculous nonsense, Sin.

Sin
04-22-2013, 08:08 PM
I'm disappointed that you believe such ridiculous nonsense, Sin.

Wait what? I'm just the reporter D:

senrath
04-22-2013, 08:14 PM
Wait what? I'm just the reporter D:

You, uh, kinda didn't make that clear given the lack of commentary, poor formatting, and no link when I first posted that.

Anyway, not only is Stuart Wilde kinda crazy and not at all a legitimate news source, his claims to a great disservice to both Jeff Bauman and Nick Vogt. And because of him (and others who believe and repeat this tripe) both men are being attacked on Facebook as well as through other avenues.

Edit: Also, sorry for being a bit terse originally. I've been dealing with people who actually believe this shit and it's making me rather cross.

Sin
04-22-2013, 08:17 PM
You, uh, kinda didn't make that clear given the lack of commentary, poor formatting, and no link when I first posted that.

Anyway, not only is Stuart Wilde kinda crazy and not at all a legitimate news source, his claims to a great disservice to both Jeff Bauman and Nick Vogt. And because of him (and others who believe and repeat this tripe) both men are being attacked on Facebook as well as through other avenues.

Sorryyyyyy it's hard to format from a phone >_<

Btw, I went on his page on FB and it seems that alot of people are giving him compliments :O
Either way, regardless if it's been forged or not, lives have been lost and that's a cause for mourning in itself.

x[Warrior]x3500
04-22-2013, 08:21 PM
im not even going to read the article. after looking at the picture and reading "boston marathon bomb victim is actually" means that all the other bomb victims are irrelevant. the picture itself degrades those that have suffered from this bombing, and that is pathetic.

senrath
04-22-2013, 08:22 PM
Okay, I'll admit that I simply assumed that Bauman was being attacked over this, since I know that Vogt is. But I guess the people who believe this don't think Bauman's a real person, so why would they attack the fake persona?

Neznam
04-22-2013, 08:52 PM
Now I don't think that it IS a conspiracy BUT a few reported facts don't make sense...

The 2nd bomber and the younger of the two brothers was caught, and it was reported that he was shot in the neck and most likely wouldn't be able to talk and that the shot probably came from him attempting to commit suicide....

Does that make sense to ANYONE? He shot himself in the throat?? Who commits suicide by shooting themselves in the throat. Head shot bam you're gone. Now that he "wont be able to talk" and seeing as his family is convinced he was framed, how will we ever get out of him if he in fact did it or not?

Again I'm not saying this was staged or the government did it blah blah blah, but the details that were reported just sounded.... off and suspicious.

senrath
04-22-2013, 08:55 PM
Yeah, the thing is he's "talking" just fine with pen and paper.

Neznam
04-22-2013, 09:04 PM
You can't really force someone to write with a pen. Can't really torture them and then say, WRITE IT DOWN!

Ian
04-22-2013, 09:08 PM
I don't think that he would have been in a good enough mental state to shoot accurately, and he was also injured before. And he was in a firefight with police, perhaps one of them shot him inthe neck.

senrath
04-22-2013, 09:09 PM
Two things. First, there's been no official word on whether or not he was shot in the neck by himself or by police. Second, I mean it when I say he's talking fine with pen and paper. He's already answering official questions via writing.