Due to bombings and mayhem right now Boston, it's suburbs and nearby communities are on lockdown.

Don't leave leave your homes, checkpoints on the roads, transit is suspended, nobody gets in or out of the metro.

To search for one man

Los Angeles recently went through a similar yet much less extreme measure on the hunt for Chris Dorner.

I've read similar stories how the entire city of New York was frozen looking for Ronell Wilson

Would it even be possible to pull something off like this in the D?

Maybe the freeways could be shut down with checkpoints but there's so many little roads between city and suburb, suburb and other suburb and it's so huge geographically.

I'd say I'm glad we don't have to deal with that nonsense, but someone did try to blow up a plane over us twice a few years ago.