They actually brought him in alive

So, the massive and unprecedented manhunt has ended when they found him hiding inside of someone's  boat in a backyard, injured and who the fuck knows. Hopefully he is kept alive and they are able to glean some answers. I wonder if he will end up an enemy combatant and get locked up in a brig on some ship somewhere in the middle of the ocean?

There have been seriously worse things to happen to this country but this one being in the public as it was and so thoroughly documented just brought with it a new level of surreal. The instant newsification I mentioned in the last post and the fact that the whole thing, more or less, was wrapped up inside of a week is impressive. So, so many surreal images from this week but I think the one that may burn into my mind could be this one:

"Suspect 2" Dzhokar Tsarnaev passing by "his allegedly" dropped bomb while his about to be victims look on...Just fucking insanely surreal that we have reached a day and age where everything is captured on some camera somewhere. The only thing left will be the advent of civilian drones buzzing all around everywhere and everyone. The notion of privacy is rapidly becoming a quaint memory but all the same is a useful tool for these sorts of events. All the same, I hope they hang this image in Dzhokar's cell.

Frankly, I am surprised there haven't been more of these kind of attacks as I mentioned the day of the bombing this shit is pretty regular in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya, Israel and many, many other countries. An important distinction though is that we are willing to shut down one of our largest metropolitan areas in the country completely and hunt you down if you blow shit up like that.

Deadspin has been pretty good at covering this whole shit show, kind of above and beyond for a sports blog, they put out a great collection of some of the images from the last couple of days as seen here:

To gun nuts who like to say they need their guns to overthrow the government if things go south...You ain't got enough guns to contend with something like this. This was what a police state would look like. not to pick on the police and say they shouldn't have done what they did...Looking at these kinds of images it reads as an even bigger miracle that they brought Dzhokar in alive, shot, but alive. This is heavy duty shit and for two dudes aged 26 7 19. Granted those "dudes" decided to have a firefight and throw bombs at the cops so one can't be too judgmental. 

Overall, aside from whatever endless speculation on the whys and all the motivation oriented questions this incident is, more or less, over. It was surreal, it was weird, and as mentioned in the previous post a main event for a really fucked up week in April. Let's all have a nice weekend now, eh?