Runners: Should I be outraged at the Boston Marathon "Bandits"? Help me decide

I probably can't link an article yet, but.......(shit I can't- google "search for four boston marathon bandits)If I can....

Four runners, took the image of a bib off of twitter, they used it to enter the Boston marathon and get runner medals at the end.  The article I tried to link shows their pictures and there is some massive search for who these four people are.  

If they ran the whole damn thing, should we be outraged that they stole a bib of the internet made a perfect copy of it and ran in the marathon?   I'll be outraged if someone tells me why I should be.   The running mags and stores are going bonkers over this.

Yeah I really have no idea why anyone would give a phuck. A manhunt? Are you kidding me?

I'm all for publicly identifying them for being douches.

gHost Spartan wrote:You have too much time on your hands

I'm 52 brah, I have little time, and a finite amount of hate and outrage to spew. So, I'm asking a legitimate question. Are these runner world magazines trying to stir up something that just isn't worth my ire? Why is this such a big crime? I must be missing something here. And I'm willing to get damn angry if I can be convinced of it. One girl "Lauren" has been outed on Facebook but she shut her page down. I guess she has the twitters too, it's only a matter of time before the other three desperado's get their comeupits. I'll help light the fire if we determine they should be burned at the stake for this heinous crime.

Yeah. They poop themselves and get mad respect for it.

Having watched how hard my brother-in-law has worked to qualify and run Boston three times, it's a bull-shit move for someone who hasn't qualified to print a bib and just jump into the race. If you aren't willing to put in the work to qualify, you deserve to have your ass publicly shamed by the folks who did.

Also, the organizers of the marathon need to find a way to address and put a stop to this happening again. If anyone can print a bib off the internet and run the course, that poses a huge safety issue for the runners and spectators.

Evidently, they were doing it for a charity, but being dumbasses, missed the cut off for applying, so they went ahead and did it anyway, and still did it for charity. They are known in the area's racing circles, ran in college, are supposed to be good people who did a very stupid thing.

Charge them with trespassing and be done with it.

Minnie wrote:Having watched how hard my brother-in-law has worked to qualify and run Boston three times, it's a bull-shit move for someone who hasn't qualified to print a bib and just jump into the race. If you aren't willing to put in the work to qualify, you deserve to have your ass publicly shamed by the folks who did.

Also, the organizers of the marathon need to find a way to address and put a stop to this happening again. If anyone can print a bib off the internet and run the course, that poses a huge safety issue for the runners and spectators.

Big deal. There are maybe 20 people in each bracket that have a legit chance of winning. The rest are just out for a jog. Somebody sneaking in takes nothing away from someone who "qualified" to go for a run with 35,999 other people who qualified and 4 who sneaked in.

To me this is a kind to purchasing 10 dolls tickets to the Msu vs prairie st football game from s season ticket holder.

if you want to be outraged, look a little bit harder and you'll probably be able to find more valid things to be outraged over..

blanch32 wrote:To me this is a kind to purchasing 10 dolls tickets to the Msu vs prairie st football game from s season ticket holder.  

Blow up? Don't you only need one?