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Tip: If you're going to take photos outside John Kerry's house, leave the alcohol at home
By adamg on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 9:01am
WBZ reports on some guy's arrest outside Kerry's Louisburg Square manse yesterday.
Even in this day and age, of course, taking photos in public is not necessarily enough for an arrest, no matter how angsty it might make a State Department security guy inside the Secretary of State's house. That car in a no-parking zone with an open container of alcohol, in Massachusetts, however? You are so booked. That pellet gun police say they found didn't help, either.
Vladimir Romanov, 29, of West Roxbury, is scheduled for arraignment in Boston Municipal Court today on a charge of consumption of alcoholic beverages in public, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Innocent, etc.
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No parking zone outside John Kerry's mansion?
At Kerry's mansion? Definitely not a hydrant violation. What's wrong with having a beer in a parked car? After all, for some people it's their living room. Wasn't Kerry living in the Buick that car dealer Bob Brest gave him, payment free? That's before his colleague, the very wealthy Sen. John Heinz died in a plane crash and Kerry decided to "console" the widow. I believe that Kerry calls living in the car and on friends couches, "the wandering years." Would that it were, would that it were.
Wow, John Kerry Sucks
Volunteered to kill commies in Vietnam and did so, Anti-War Activist, Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney, Lt. Governor, US Senator, Democratic Nominee in a year that the Dem's had no chance, and now US Secretary of State.
Does he have the social skills of a paper plate? Yes, in my interactions with him, very much so yes.
Also, a good drinker, great sailor, and married money, but truly seems to love his wife.
I'm sorry, but this guy is great. Everyone has flaws, including my god, angry cops. I have flaws but I have not dedicated my life to public service and the microscope of the mouth breathers.
If I or many of you could have gone to war, fought against that war, be learned, serve the public, sail, windsurf, and happen to hook up with a ketchup heiress, I would do it in a second and so would have many of you.
He is a major cabinet figure in the government of the most powerful country in the world, of course I would be suspicious of someone with a pellet gun and PBRs outside of his house. Jimmy Carter still gets protection while hammering away to the Allman Bros. Good for the cops picking this guy up.
Re: Wow, John Kerry Sucks
You left out how Kerry volunteered to bring his own video camera (rare in the 60's) to film his brief "heroics" in Vietnam then fled after receiving a mosquito bite (or the equivalent thereof) for which he nominated himself for a Purple Heart. Otherwise, spot on.
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FALSE
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/service.asp
I do so wish....
... this forum had a MINUS button -- and not just a PLUS one.
I wish...
Adam would just delete comments that didn't add anything to the discussion of the news item at hand. It tends to be mostly a certain few commenters who just see a public figure's name mentioned in a story and go flying off the handle about how democrats suck or republicans suck or transgender people are perverts or black people are criminals or whatever.
I wish...
A post about illegal parking in front of the Kerry-Heinz mansion doesn't deserve a link and history of their own illegal parking and hydrant moving in the same area? Um, ok. Flying off the handle or a mere response to some loyalists defense of the indefensible?
Censor
You like censorship? Who is to decide if something does or doesn't 'contribute' to a discussion? You and your friends?
In no particular order...
If AG had to delete irrelevant/AC comments, he'd go crazy, run out of time, then quit the blog. I wouldn't blame him.
OK:
1. Kerry's not the issue here. He's the Sec of State. They have an obligation to protect him. They're gonna call the BPD and they will show up in force. We lost an ambassador and three other guys in Benghazi. I'll bet MSP and Nat'l Guard were on speed dial. All as it should be in light of recent events.
2. Possession of a pellet gun is not illegal. Firing it across a public way is quite illegal.
3. Taking pictures in a public way is not illegal, there's a million posts here about the MBTA rules, etc.
4. Drinking in your car is illegal.
So, busted for drinking, then it's really show and tell with the folks responsible for keeping John Kerry alive.
but...
I don't think I could handle that much rejection.
Haters
O-F-L and other Swiftboater right wing conspiracy haters are either intentionally lying or complete morons for believing the intentional lies of others. Either way, they poison public discourse and have caused great harm to our country. Kerry has been a sometimes flawed but on balance superb public servant and has accomplished much in his career, as John Costello pointed out quite well.
1. The actual line is, "The
1. The actual line is, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
2. The quotation comes from Queen Gertrude from Hamlet. She is watching a play which vaguely imitates the circumstances of her husband's death, and she utters those words in response to the promise of the Queen-Actress (who represents Gertrude herself) not to remarry-- "protest" does not have the same meaning we tend to give it now. It's meant to be a bit of a funny, because she doesn't know she is commenting on herself.
Now, please explain how the actual meaning of the quotation is at all relevant to John Kerry.
Because...
...it's all done with cliff notes.
We're sorry
It would have been better for all of us had you not missed the Swift boat and had to take the Crazy Bus instead.
Shouldn't you be off tying an onion to your belt?
Make up your mind
In 2004, Republicans complained that Kerry was elitist, the classic fortunate son. Now he's poor and would be living in his car if not for Mrs. Kerry? I guess the recession really did hit everyone.
Re: Make up your mind
I have made up my mind and so have the voters who rejected Kerry as Presidential material. He is elitist, you just have the timeline backwards. He admitted sleeping on couches and apologized for "forgetting to pay" for the Buick in the mid 1980's, shortly before the plane crash that killed Sen. Heinz and gave new life and more comfortable sleeping quarters to Kerry.
Since pellet guns are legal, I'm glad the BPD nabbed this kid on the city ordinance violations (Open Container, Illegal Parking). Any word on the Beacon Hill rapist?
Voters Rejected Him?
He won the popular vote, didn't he?
You kid yourself if you think your ilk are in the majority. If you were, your favored party wouldn't have to cheat all the time by disenfranchising voters, getting extra votes for small states that don't deserve them, and even coming up with redistricting plans that protect idiots, don't add up in population, and even disinclude entire precincts from being in ANY district.
Yup
BPD probably has 5 minutes of questions. Feds definitely interested. My call? Lone moron. Possibly trying to stalk his ex and got the wrong neighborhood.
Or, (wait for it) he's a foreign national, associated with the Taliban, that wants him to have a fourth Purple Heart.
Yer Slipping, Fishy
Where's the outrage that a RUSSIAN and IMMIGRANT was hanging around outside the Secretary of State's house with a pellet gun, drinking in the car after TWO RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS just bombed Boston in April?
You are slipping old dude!
Chestnut hill???
So, shitfaced, wrong hood, I'm gonna roll with Russian version of 'drunken Irish Boob'.
Actually they were Checknyans (sp). Russians hate them. So do some US Marines.
Official Nationality of Record
The Tsarnaev family is Russian, save those who have naturalized.
Sure
And I nominate you to go tell ethnic Chechnyans that they're Russian. Tell us how it goes.
Oh that's why there was a TV truck parked there last night
Last night I walked from an Outside the Box event on Boston Common to Charles station, via Louisburg Square, and wondered why a TV 4 or 5 truck (I don't remember which) was parked on Mount Vernon Street.
Some more from BPD
Boston Police Arrest Suspect for Drinking in Public on Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill:
Since there's no state law
Since there's no state law against public drinking (when no cars or state parks are involved), are there any towns around here that allow it? I'd like to have a glass of wine in a park.
Update: He gets to stay behind bars for awhile
This just in from the Suffolk County DA's office:
Cops
"taking photos in public is not necessarily enough for an arrest," but possession of a Tom Tom GPS is?
What I said and what police said
I interjected the part about photos in public, in part because I was thinking about the last time a Russian guy was arrested for taking photos in public.
For some reason, when BPD writes about a case like this, they often like giving us a fairly complete inventory of what they found. But even they aren't saying he was arrested for possession of a GPS - or, for that matter, for possession of the pellet gun. Instead, he was basically charged with public drunkenness.
Louisburg Square
Ii believe the two (cobblestone) roads in Louisburg Square are private ways, so in theory I guess, anyone who goes in there is "trespassing".
I can't complain about this specific incident. It seems as though the police took the appropriate steps. It should make us all nervous about the heavy hand of the law but a reasonable person would think the police took reasonable action.
I assume the increased coverage at the Kerry homestead began upon his appointment as Secretary of State. There certainly weren't any police cars or security there in past years. On Friday there was one state police officer and two BPD officers and three black SUVs. Presumably they are only there when the Secretary is in town.
A fair question is, how come the media/press always gets a free pass? There were media parked on the private way last week yet they aren't asked to move on.