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Man tagged for graffiti in Green Line tunnel

A Mission Hill man walking out of a Green Line tunnel around 4:30 a.m. today aroused the suspicions of a passing Northeastern University police officer, who started an investigation that ended with the man under arrest for allegedly using spray paint to profess his love for hot sauce inside the tunnel.

Alex Wan, 23, was charged with malicious destruction of property and standing, walking, or riding vehicle on railroad property, according to an MBTA Transit Police report.

According to police, a Northeastern sergeant driving inbound on Huntington stopped Wan when he spotted him walking out of the Green Line portal just past Mass. Ave. Police did not buy his story that he'd gotten off at Symphony and was just using the tunnel as a shortcut home. Wan allegedly told the sergeant he "wrote only one thing" in the tunnel. The report says arriving transit officers noted white paint on his hands and then took their own walk into the tunnel:

Approximately 100 feet into the tunnel there was red graffiti on the left side that stretched approximately 50-75 feet in length. In the stretch of graffiti there was the word "hot" in red lettering along with a word that was not identifiable. Further down from the end of the red graffiti, in black "writing" was the word "SAUCE". A few feet further down from the word "SAUCE" was another unidentifiable word written in red paint. On the opposite side of the tunnel directly across from the word "SAUCE" was the word "HOT" with black "bubble" lettering and filled in with what appeared to be white or silver paint. On the right side of the tunnel next to the word "HOT" was the word "LOVE" written with red paint, which was tacky to the touch and had a strong odor of paint emanating from the wall. Sgt. Rae was advised of the findings and took 16 pictures of the graffiti with a department issued camera.

According to the report, an inventory of his backpack showed:

2 Brown Shoe Polish bottles, 1 White shoe polish bottle, 1 NOKIA cell phone, 1 Sony Cyber-shot camera, 1 red/black bandana, 1 pair of work gloves, 1 business card for KHMER INK, 2 permanent markers, 3 paint markers, 2 spray paint caps, 1 aerosol spray paint can-unknown color, 1 aerosol spray paint can-gloss white, 1 aerosol spray paint can-black and 1 aerosol spray paint can-aluminum, Keys with a sensor tag.

Innocent, etc.

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I mean, the train starts running at 5 am...isn't 4:30 cutting it a little close? He had all night to tag the tunnel.

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Subway service starts about 45 minutes later on Sundays than it does the rest of the week.

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The first inbound trip is 5:20 on the B line and 5:35 on the E line on Sundays. It's only 20-30 minutes later.

But still...they move empty trains and work trains at all hours of the day.

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Man charged with destroying property; PROPERTY STILL STANDING.

But seriously, wouldn't it be fun to load up your bag with sex toys just so when they go through for the inventory they have to write about everything they found in it?

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what if we confiscated their thumbs as well, that might give the lil scribblers something to write home about.

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this isn't just funny, it's a good idea to keep porn and sex toys in your bag if you have something to hide. You can feign embarrassment and hopefully avoid a search, and if they continue to search you can try to embarrass the cop by drawing attention to the fact that they're holding gay porn (in my experience a lot of cops are outwardly homophobic). If that doesn't work, you can also hide stuff inside the vibrators and smear melted chocolate all over them so they dont wanna touch them. If all that fails, hey... at least you have a funny story for your cellmates!

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Two questions can campus police arrest on mbta property? Didn't the MBTA spend millions of dollars on security cameras and alarms to prevent terrorists and others from gaining entrance to the tunnells?

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If I had to guess, NUPD "detained" the suspect and waited for Transit PD who then made the arrest.

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...whether he loved Cholula, Tapatio, or Sriracha!

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Siracha is good...There are times when one must learn. *Sigh*

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...is: sugar. Some "hot sauce" that is. Made for the US market, of course.

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Even an Asian person can be a lying scumbag. Equal opportunity offenders!

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You bigot, how are you not banned?

Cripes

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Cripes.

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What part of "equal opportunity offender" eluded you? That's what makes me so enlightened...I recognize that bad people can come from any race and nationality...and they do!

And Eeka, I thought you of all people would understand what I meant. I'm disappointed.

As for "why I'm not banned," I'm going to guess "because Gaffin's a businessman and he knows that my comments = hits."

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Wow, I'd say by the contents of his bag that he was absolutely the culprit. 4:30am isn't cuttin' it close. Geez. Trains start at 5am. EEK!! -Mea www.hertrainstories.blogspot.com

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