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Alleged bloody naked Logan biter guy remains hospitalized

With all the cuts and bruises he allegedly suffered after the women's room dropped ceiling he'd just climbed into collapsed. So Cameron Shenk is not expected to be arraigned on a variety of charges, including attempted murder, this morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. He could be arraigned later either in East Boston Municipal Court or his hospital room at Mass. General.

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I'm betting he spends about that many more in a hospital setting after spending some time in court.

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I was wondering why there were so many media trucks parked along Meridian Street today on my way to work.

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of "alleged" here? As in "alleged cuts and bruises?" Surpirsed you didn't also say "allegedly in the hospital" as well.

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Did Adam personally witness the events? A close reading of the article makes it clear that, consistent with good journalistic principles, Adam is reporting on that which he personally knows, firsthand, to be true, which is that the police made a statement. That's it. What he is reporting is what the police said, not what happened at the airport, since he wasn't at the airport. Therefore, "alleged" is entirely appropriate.

This has nothing to do with liability concerns, and everything to do with making it crystal clear what it is that you are reporting.

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Shenk then fled from the ladies restroom naked and bleeding.

I'm no doctor, but it's very reasonable to assume that Shenk, having fallen through a drop ceiling, had cuts and bruises, especially as he was admitted to the hospital. I don't need some "reporter" adding an insulting qualifier like "alleged" just because of some "rule of journalism" that lawyers made up to CYA if the reporters get it wrong. As well as another reason why the quality of journalism in this country is steadily declining.

Also consider this - when a person is charged with one or more crimes, why doesn't the word "alleged" appear anywhere in the charges? Answer - no.

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"As well as another reason why the quality of journalism in this country is steadily declining.

Actually, the quality of journalism in the USA is actually pretty good compare to most places in the world Compare an American newspaper with a newspaper from some other countries, and look for articles that are full of unqualified, unattributed statements of fact.

Also consider this - when a person is charged with one or more crimes, why doesn't the word "alleged" appear anywhere in the charges? Answer - no.

Umm... because to charge someone with a crime is to allege that he did it? "Police allege that Joe Smith broke into Jim's store and stole a snowblower," and "Police charged Joe Smith with breaking into Jim's store and stealing a snowblower." are pretty much the same thing, except that the latter is done formally in front of a judge and the former may or may not be.

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I'm no doctor, but it's very reasonable to assume that Shenk, having fallen through a drop ceiling, had cuts and bruises, especially as he was admitted to the hospital.

I'm no doctor either, but it's equally reasonable to assume that Shenk, apparently being in the middle of some sort of bat-shit-crazy episode, acquired the cuts and bruises before he even got to the airport, or at the hands of someone in the bathroom, or during or after his arrest.

I don't know; you don't know, and the reporter doesn't know either.

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The guy is "allegedly" the bloody naked person who bit someone at Logan Airport. Until he is proven to be such, he is alleged to have been in this state. It's the same thing with alleged drunk drivers or alleged shooters.

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and your response. Then tell me how it makes sense to only "allege" that a person who fell through a drop ceiling, which is NOT "alleged", suffered cuts and bruises from the fall.

"It is alleged that Shenk is the person ......" is an entirely reasonable statement. "Cuts and bruises allegedly inflicted as a result of the fall ..." is just pointless and insulting.

And people such as alleged drunk drivers and alleged shooters are different than refering to cuts and bruises - because they're actually charged with criminal offenses.

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Okay, so he was injured. However, the injuries are "alleged" to have taken place while he was perving out in the women's room at Logan. We don't know how the injuries occurred, but we know what people say happened.

It's that legal thing. Sure, we all are certain that he injured himself while falling through the ceiling while naked, and then assaulted a senior citizen while trying to escape, but I think Adam is being right putting the "alleged" tag on the whole thing.

It's kind of like what that asshat tried to do to Ron Newman and those people in Somerville a while back. If the phrase is "allegedly," you are not saying it. You are saying that someone else has claimed it.

By the way, criminal charges might not use alleged, but the concept of allegation is there.

BIG EDIT- my post was in response to the anon's statement, not yours, but still, any excuse for an argument.

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However, "alleged" remains one of the most misused, overused, and unnecessarily used words in journalism today. In some cases, it may be the proper and 'legal" thing to do, but in most cases it's actually just the "lazy" thing to do.

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I'll grant that it's lazy, in that "Cuts and bruises he allegedly suffered while falling through the ceiling" provides less info that "Cuts and bruises that Officer Smith says that he suffered while falling through the ceiling." But it's also fewer words, and news articles are often subject to pretty stringent wordcount limits.

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"Cuts and bruises allegedly inflicted as a result of the fall ..." is just pointless and insulting

Do you, personally, know for a fact that the cuts and bruises were inflected as a result of the fall, as opposed to, say, an outraged inhabitant of the bathroom kicking him, or some calamity that befell him before he even arrived at the airport? If you don't know, then you attribute the statement to a source.

"Cuts and bruises that he suffered as a result of the fall" is sloppy journalism and "Cuts and bruises that police say he suffered as a result of the fall" is better. Is it the word 'allegedly' that bothers you? Would you be OK with "Cuts and bruises that police say he suffered as a result.." instead of "Cuts and bruises that he allegedly suffered as a result..."?

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"cuts and bruises he likely sufferd as a result of the fall".

And yes, the use of the word "allegedly" does bother me. In both high school English and college journalism courses I took as open electives, we were always taught that "alleged" or "allegedly" were to be used only in describing criminal acts or charges against a person.

Meaning no disrespect to Adam, but the fact remains that any reporter who uses the term in other than the context of a criminal act or charge is basically being lazy. And BDC/Boston Glob(e) is the worst - I recall one article where they used the term 28 times in the article.

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This is about a criminal case, hence the liberal use of the word.

Take the charges out of the picture and yes, it is being overused. But much like the defendant, we cannot ignore the fact that a crime took place. A crime did not allegedly take place, but anything involving the defendant is alleged.

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"cuts and bruises he likely suffered as a result of the fall".

'Likely' according to whom?

One of the things they teach in Journalism classes is not to state something as fact just because "everybody knows that..."

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...sounds like this guy is seriously mentally ill.
he's young - 26 - and though unconfirmed, most likely the same guy who is a harvard graduate and hedge fund founder.
he's obviously had some sort of breakdown.
i'm glad to read that the 84 yr. old man is going to be OK.
he must have been terrified...
sad event...

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Or maybe he's the real life American Psycho

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