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False alarm: State Police send out old press release about body in the Charles
By adamg on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 9:52am
The State Police sent out an alert this morning that a body - which would have been the third this week - was found in the Charles near Boston University. They quickly followed up with this correction:
At this time the Massachusetts State Police has experienced an internal issue with its email system. An older email, possibly stored in the system for delivery, was sent out as a new advisory. There was no new body found in the Charles River. We apologize as this appeared as a new advisory.
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WTF?!
This is unbelievable.
It's starting to remind me a little bit of the Long Island Sniper episode of the early 90s, where a guy was randomly shooting people in order to cover up a planned murder - let's hope that's not what is going on here.
Now hearing report of body was an error
but there seems to be a lot of confusion.
Yes, we've got itchy trigger fingers here at News Central
I've updated my original post with a copy of the correction State Police sent out. Technology's a bitch, sometimes.
I originally heard about this from another reporter, who asked me if I'd gotten a copy and wondering if it was a duplicate. I then got a copy of the original statement from a law-enforcement source who doesn't send me bogus stuff. So I posted it. And then I got a copy of the correction. Grr, sorry for my role in whipping up a mini-frenzy.
False alarm - no third body found
from Boston.com on Facebook:
Update: Earlier report of third body found in Charles River was a false alarm. Police say they accidentally re-sent a press release from earlier this week. There was no body found today.
ETA - by the time I finished posting this comment, Adam had already updated his post to say the same thing
I think this sums it up well:
OOF.
where do these guys learn English?
"At this time"?
Nobody actually talks or writes like that...why are police and public officials so fond of weird bull like that?
We should have a "Best
We should have a "Best Policey English On the Web" contest.
I'll nominate the Medford Police WEB site, which has been designed to provide quality informational services to the general public.
No Biggie
I'm pretty sure there are other bodies floating around in the Charles. Same goes with the harbor. It's the prime location apparently for disposing of corpses, suicides, and accidental deaths.
Weird clusters
Remember last year when there was that string of deaths along Comm Ave within the space of like a week or two?
Bodies in the Harbor
Weren't there a few bodies that were showing up in Boston Harbor like a year or two ago? I remember one being someone who may have been drunk and the others just sort of happening and nothing really being said about it afterwards. Maybe it's not all that odd, but ... is anybody looking into that?
Don't press releases usually
Don't press releases usually contain a date and time?
Here's what they sent out
That's pretty stupid. There
That's pretty stupid. There should be a date and time in the message text (and not a cryptic one like 10082012).