Well, since people were recording the scanners, it should only take you a few hours to relisten, maybe you can get the MP3's, and relocate this exact passage.

Keep in mind, if you don't hear it, either people who recorded it tampered with it, or you mis-remembered something from over a year ago.

You specifically remember hearing the name "Sunil Tripathi" on a police scanner? Were you taking notes, or what?

I was listening to the police scanner as well that night, and can confirm the police were indeed calling the suspect Sunil Tripathi, at least initially. I recall that people on Twitter were saying they recognized the name as the missing Brown University student. I believe that's how Tripathi was initially connected to the Boston attack by the public. My guess is that he was the lead suspect at the time, and police were working under that assumption. I do not recall re: finding his ID, but I may have missed that.

Couldn't it be the mis-identification? At least, that was how the story went. I thought Sunil Tripathi became a suspect on reddit? No?

You're correct, and Sunil Tripathi's name was never spoken over any police bands either. His name first appeared in a tweet made by a former classmate that said the suspect in the photo released by authorities was Sunil. The second mention was another tweet claiming Boston PD named Sunil and a 'Mulugeta' as suspect on police scanners. The third mention was that tweet being cited in the reddit live update thread. It snowballed from there. In every recording of the heavily listened and independently recorded police scanners do not mention Sunil once, they do however mention this Mulugeta person, even spelling the name, on the scanner recordings.

Why are you saying this now?

Maybe Sunil was a handler and once the operation was a success he was eliminated to tie up all loose ends. Do you have the audio for the police scanner? I was listening too, and on Reddit -- what a time -- wish I had recorded though

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I think I found a link It's twenty minutes or so long, let you know if i hear anything

Thanks for posting this. It is is extremely interesting, and the first I've heard about the officials trying to pin the SUV hijack (and by extension, the bombings) on Tripathi.

It supports the hypothesis that Sunil Tripathi was the original, intended patsy of the Boston Bombings. Like the Tsarnaevs (the Plan B patsies) he was completely innocent.

He was likely abducted by the criminal cabal who perpetrated the Boston hoax, and kept in a safe house until it was time for him to be "wheeled onstage" (whether as a corpse or a drug-addled zombie like James Holmes, I don't know)

However, and largely due to reddit, there was huge online speculation about Sunil Tripathi being the bomber, and the cabal got nervous about their script being so obvious, and they decided to switch patsies.

Somebody forgot to tell the Boston PD, however, and their radio messages about finding his ID are strong evidence that the authorities were planning on stitching somebody up - somebody they knew was not guilty.

The reason they knew Tripathi was not guilty is because the bombing was a drill passed off as a real event, and the police were heavily involved in the drill, and the ludicrous lies that ensued from it.

once AGAIN...the cops....flippin everything up...fml.

Boston PD never uttered the name Sunil Tripathi on any police scanner.

Sunil Tripathi's name was not mentioned once in the police scanners. Do you mean Mulugeta? That was the name mentioned on the police scanners at 2:14am.

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Are you sure?

https://soundcloud.com/alexismadrigal/boston-pd-scanner-recording-2

That's the recording from the BPD scanner's during the time it's been claimed his name was said.

First off, I'd like to mention that I think the vast majority of conspiracy theories are a bunch of hoopla...

So fuck us and our interests, but you now deign to descend to our level? Yeah, excuse me if I don't fall all over myself thanking you for being a condescending prick.

Let's calm down a bit. I don't think OP was trying to be condescending, I believe he/she just finds it hard to believe that aliens took apart that flight from Malaysia and reassembled it on Pluto. Seriously, there's not a person who scrolls this sub who believes every single post. You have to wade through a lot of shit sometimes to find worthwhile things. Don't get so defensive about OPs honesty.

I hadn't heard about the pluto connection, interesting... /s

From what I hear, Pluto came into play only moments after the /r/technology mods used invisible spray on the plane. Its all just speculation though.

I have been on here for about a year and there are only a handful of 'whacky' theories, appearing rarely on the front page. These include reptilians and sometimes contrails mistaken for chemtrails. I have never heard of the Malaysian flight and the Pluto connection, probably because you have made it up to prove a point. But this is what others believe when they hear conspiracy, they think 'tinfoil hats' and other exaggerated stories when in FACT this sub is mainly about real worries about governments, banks, corruption and such, which is healthy doubt that is well within the limits of being absolutely possible.

I sometimes wish that there had been conspiracy theorists back in Nazi Germany, but seeing what others think about us, they would have ridiculed them just the same, only to eat their shorts a few years later.

I consider myself interested in injustice, political or scientific or for greed. I am a BSc [Hons.] graduate and completely sane. I have never made a tinfoil hat and never believed that it would do any good. All I am interested in is to find out how much we the public are taken for a ride.

I also believe that the same is true for the majority on here. It will NOT help describing us as loonies and exaggerate our aim with ridiculous statements such as in the above post.

I completely agree with you, and it's people like you and the majority of others on here that make this sub worth our while. I agree, injustice is everywhere and needs to be put into light a lot more than it is. That said, there is still a decent amount of raving tinfoil hat wearers and I've read my share of ridiculousness. I agree, this sub is important and one of my most frequented. The injustice in the world is ridiculous and needs to be seen by more. That said, OP never said most conspiracy theories HERE are bunk, just that most in general are in their experience. I would have to say, though many are true, I've heard a lot of completely irrational conspiracies in my short time as well so I'm wary believing everything I hear. You've got to keep a level head and not just assume everything bad you hear is true, just like everything good you're told isn't. This isn't to say that you personally do that or that the sub in general does, nor is it to discredit the worth of /r/conspiracy. Just some truth.

Yeah, you wouldn't have heard anything about the Malaysian plane being on Pluto. I hyperbolically came up with that as an example of why some people don't believe the majority of conspiracy theories. The simple fact is, many people DO believe preposterous claims simply because they're claiming the government is bad. I thought /u/zebraton was out of line and came back with something similarly out of line. Is that mature? Probably not. What matters is that OP tried to submit something valid and implied they're not a person to believe everything they hear and got insulted for it. I defend people who are shot down by ignorance.