What the Flying Fuck, MIT?

[underlankers]

Police: Campus officer shot at MIT

William M. Welch USA Today12:06 a.m. EDT April 19, 2013
A campus police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology outside Boston was shot Thursday night, a Cambridge, Mass., officer said.

MIT campus police referred a caller to the campus news bureau, where no one answered calls.

The school posted a statement on

Comments

[wonderpup]

Uhhh

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shooter-loose-and-officer-down-mit/64379/

??

WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

[wonderpup]

Also:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/36339/mit-shooting-gunman-on-the-loose-in-kendall-square-officer-reportedly-down

[underlankers]

I'm not sure. I thought that the hoax was the same incident, but I may have been mistaken.

[underlankers]

I'm going to wait until this is confirmed. If MIT pulled this hoax once, then this one had better have a real body behind it.

[lovedforaday]

The shooting sounds like it's real: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/18/shooting-reported-on-mit-campus/

An officer has been shot according to all the sources I've found.

[underlankers]

Evidently this one is real. My mistake. But if there is one hoax, I'm remaining skeptical that this second one is real until it's confirmed. Once bitten, twice shy.

[lovedforaday]

The officer has died according to a local tv station: https://twitter.com/NBCConnecticut/status/325094897596112898

[underlankers]

In that case it was a big goof on my part. >.<

[teacup_werewolf]

What the everloving fuck is going on?

[underlankers]

I'm not sure. I thought that this was the incident going on now, but it seems that this was a stupid moment on my part, as there really is a real incident going on at MIT now. Evidently the new incident has photos involving blood. Right now I think it's more failure to check the date on stories posted, and thus a goof on my part connected to mistaking one incident for another.

[wonderpup]

Would you mind replacing the article with a correct/updated one?

[underlankers]

I have done so. I am truly sorry for that particular boneheaded mistake. I should have checked the dating more thoroughly. >.<

prob not a hoax

[tnganon]

this article is citing an event that happened in february (check the links to the AP they have), the author got confused & thought it was about the situation tonight

seems the threat is real still