NEW: “We thought it was a cannon….then people came screaming.”
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Proper Slice on Newbury Street, formerly Upper Crust pictured here, was the scene post-explosion chaos today in Boston.
Natalie S., a Harvard pre-med student, was handing out flyers outside of the Proper Slice on Newbury Street when they heard the first explosion.
"We thought it was a cannon, the way they usually fire them at the 4th of July, or athletic events."
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She said that people then piled into the pizza parlor. "We were afraid to be on the street at that point." She noted that the Proper Slice was inbetween the two explosion locations, one block away.
After a half hour, Natalie said that people began taking off on foot -- and that the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge had been shut down, so people started making their way over the Longfellow Bridge.
