http://www.levelrenner.com/2014/04/14/suspect-on-the-run/
Interesting story.
Interesting story.
What a great read... reminds me when I got stopped on the US/Mexico border on a run... barely escaped with my life from the Border Patrol.
i wouldve loved to have been there when they asked if you had any weapons, while wearing just short shorts. so many jokes there that would probably not make the officers happy
so how long were you in custody for?
also, were you wearing a gps watch? or a road i.d.?
Dude needs to keep his shirt on.
Running around a soccer field for fifty-minutes? Sure hope he changed directions.
He wasn't arrested.
This is really an interesting footnote in the story of that week in Boston. I hope Dan finds some humor in it even if it was scary at the time.
If you look at the timeline of what happened that Thursday night, you'd see that the younger one wasn't even in pinned down yet. I'm not surprised that a shirtless guy who shares a resemblance to the bomber running through town at 6AM, at 6-minute pace, in 55 degree weather raised suspicion - that was a very highly-charged and paranoid week, as I'm sure this one will be.
Common sense: Wear a shirt and bring ID if there's a terrorist attack in your town, not that this advice will ever be relevant again. I think runners (especially the college/"sub-elite" crowd) can be a little dense when it comes to understanding the sidewalk. Not judging, I'm the same way - but it's true.
Unbelievable that any of those idiots are working in law enforcement.
So I am calling BS. I don't believe for one second Dan isn't testing authority/showing he's a rebel by ignoring the shutdown. It may look legit in another part of the country, but not if you lived here that week. Not with the media attention and not with the collective community trauma.
Describing fat cops, after a cop his Dan's got killed a day earlier is despicable. We all can judge why folks don't take care of themselves, but the cop puts his life on the line every day so Dan can run safely around the city.
Dan could have headed out to the Fellsway or sticking north of the city. Somerville was not part of the shutdown.
Civil libertarians can question the concept of the shutdown. I for one am glad no one else was hurt by Tsarnaev.
Letsrun giving Dan the QOD versus all of the possible quotes available one year later should be ashamed.
Most cops had been working 36 hours straight (at least) and even Dan acknowledged in the article that the photo the police had to work with looked exactly like him. What the police did was reasonable enough.
Was the route choice questionable given the circumstance? Sure.
But cut the guy a break. And it's very easy to say what you would have done or Dan should have done 1 year after the fact.
Let's all just be grateful that time is in the rearview.
Dan simply should not have talked to the police in this situation. I know he did not have anything to hide, but that doesn't matter. To anyone who would say otherwise, look at why he was released (they found his passport on file). Nothing he said helped him get off--it actually only hurt him by making the officers suspicious.
malmo wrote:
Unbelievable that any of those idiots are working in law enforcement.
Sounds to me like good police work.
reed wrote:
i wouldve loved to have been there when they asked if you had any weapons, while wearing just short shorts. so many jokes there that would probably not make the officers happy
so how long were you in custody for?
also, were you wearing a gps watch? or a road i.d.?
I posted this, but I'm not him... Just used his name in case people happen to have heard of him.
neighnotney wrote:
Dan simply should not have talked to the police in this situation. I know he did not have anything to hide, but that doesn't matter. To anyone who would say otherwise, look at why he was released (they found his passport on file). Nothing he said helped him get off--it actually only hurt him by making the officers suspicious.
You think if he stood there, mute, the officers would have been less suspicious?
Sally Vixxxens wrote:
malmo wrote:Unbelievable that any of those idiots are working in law enforcement.
Sounds to me like good police work.
Yeah, I don't see that the cops did anything wrong. Were they just supposed to take his word on who he was? Just a bad situation to be caught up in for everyone involved. You can say he shouldn't have been running during this time but the police officers didn't have an issue with him running.
He simply 'fit the profile' and the cops had to follow up on it.
I remember when he texted me later that afternoon about it. I thought he was joking at first.
I want to say that the FBI went to his parent's house in the IL suburbs (or called them) to follow up
Now this guy knows what it is like to be black, except we get stopped and detained for no other reason than the color of our skin. This idiot happens to look exactly like the bomber and is running around Boston during a lockdown. Why are runners so f*cking obsessive? Missing one day is not going to hurt. "But, but, but my schedule says so!"
Well it makes perfect sense why he was detained:
Bombing suspects had been identified.
A bomb threat had been called into the federal courthouse.
An individual closely matching the suspects description is seen running within a quarter mile of that courthouse.
Dan had no identification on him. It took a while to track his info down because he is from another state.
Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:
Now this guy knows what it is like to be black, except we get stopped and detained for no other reason than the color of our skin. This idiot happens to look exactly like the bomber and is running around Boston during a lockdown. Why are runners so f*cking obsessive? Missing one day is not going to hurt. "But, but, but my schedule says so!"
i KNEW Dennis was going to somehow relate this to black people and how unfair they have it
typical victimhood mentality
hahahahahahahaha
Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:
Now this guy knows what it is like to be black, except we get stopped and detained for no other reason than the color of our skin. This idiot happens to look exactly like the bomber and is running around Boston during a lockdown. Why are runners so f*cking obsessive? Missing one day is not going to hurt. "But, but, but my schedule says so!"
The shutdown was for a few days.