6:35 That photo is cropped. I do not believe you've seen the uncropped photo.

Anonymous wrote:The OP warned about the links graphic multiple times.

You are a pain.

Someone posted the full photo as an embedded and therefore unavoidable image directly in the thread. No one is complaining about the link.

Anonymous wrote:WARNING: Link contains a cropped version of the photo in question.

Good story about the person in the photo, and the man in the cowboy hat on the NYTimes website right now:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/in-grisly-image-a-father-sees-his-son.html?hp&_r=0

Um, that ain't cropped. Maybe bc I am logged in as a NYT subscriber? I'm ok with it but wanted to give fair warning to those who might not be.

WARNING: Link contains a cropped version of the photo in question.

Good story about the person in the photo, and the man in the cowboy hat on the NYTimes website right now:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/in-grisly-image-a-father-sees-his-son.html?hp&_r=0

There is a website set up by the young mans friends to raise money for his medical bills and recovery. I don't know if I'm allowed to post the link or not.

I'm not PP, but he's from a town that I lived in for a while, so I have several FB friends who know him.

P.S. And just because the photo's there, it doesn't mean we have to click. We can know without seeing.

OP here. That's not my response. When I read that a man's legs were blown off mid-calf, I get it. I do not need the photograph. To me, it violates his privacy as well as any sense of journalistic decency. There's something prurient about it. The Atlantic's posted it, no cropping but his face is blurred. What's that about. Also troubling is the unexamined double standard that operates here. If the PP who'd posted the link knew the man, would he/she have posted it to illustrate the horror of such acts? Probably not. Ditto the Atlantic editors. But since he's a total stranger, not only is he a man without legs, he's a man without a name, she applies detachment rather than heightened sensitivity to a man in what is surely the worst moment of his life. That's bogus to me. Think about it. If this were your brother or husband or son, would you like his photo plastered all over the Internet? I certainly would not.

I don't understand the desire to hide from the reality of this tragedy. Why is your response "stop, I don't want to hear about it"?

Jeff,

OP here. Thanks for considering my request. Yes, the Carlos Arredondo story is amazing. As for the man in the photo, thanks to the poster who's updated us.

I am not inclined to remove the graphic. I think there is sufficient warning and the blurred graphic gives a pretty good idea of what to expect.

Also, the story of Carlos Arredondo is amazing. Thanks to those who posted information about him.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know who that man in the cowboy hat is. Doesn't look to be a medical person. Yet he is clamping what appears to be the femoral attery with his fingers. That man is a hero.

This is the man in the cowboy hat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arredondo So much trauma in his life. Definitely a hero. He jumped right in and moved the fences and helped a number of people.

Thank you so much for the link. What a story. So many tears flowing I can hardly type.

Another post on the hero. With a cropped version of the photo.
http://civic.mit.edu/blog/petey/boston

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Anonymous wrote:somebody describe it? Is it the guy in the orange top lying on his back in the road?

No. It's a younger man with both of his lower legs blown off, being wheeled away in a wheelchair. It appears that one of those attending to him is holding on to a blood vessel, squeezing it shut.

Just as an update, the young man is alive and in stable condition as of right now. His family first saw the picture on the news but have now reposted the cropped version on their own online pages.

How do you know? Are there specific updates? I hope he improves.

A link to his father's facebook page was posted on another site. Also friends of his have been postings updates as well.

Anonymous wrote:I want to know who that man in the cowboy hat is. Doesn't look to be a medical person. Yet he is clamping what appears to be the femoral attery with his fingers. That man is a hero.

This is the man in the cowboy hat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arredondo So much trauma in his life. Definitely a hero. He jumped right in and moved the fences and helped a number of people.