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Police: Angry man on bus spits on driver, uses fist to smash bus window, attacks cops

By adamg - 10/17/12 - 10:53 am

Ramirez-RodrigueMBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say went even more berserk than he already was when ordered off a bus in Dudley Square for swearing at the driver.

Police say that around 7:45, a route-45 driver picked up Carlos Ramirez-Rodrigue, 38, at Blue Hill Avenue and Dudley Street:

Ramirez-Rodrigue entered the bus and immediately began yelling and swearing at the driver who asked Ramirez-Rodrigue to get off the bus which he did. While exiting the bus Ramirez-Rodrigue spit in the direction of the driver multiple times. When Ramirez-Rodrigue exited the bus, the driver closed the front passenger side door. Ramirez-Rodrigue then began punching the front passenger door with a closed fist and shattered the window.

When offered the choice between being a banana and a Mario Brother, he'll take Luigi every time

By adamg - 10/16/12 - 10:52 am

Luigi

Statue locked up in shuttered Green Line entrance gets new life on college campus

By adamg - 10/15/12 - 8:32 pm

MBTA photoMBTA photo.Forty years ago, artist Dennis Kowal loaned the MBTA his "Constellations" statue for installation at the Hynes Green Line station.

The soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the station

By adamg - 10/15/12 - 8:06 pm

Jackson Square

Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko checked in tonight from the Jackson Square stop on the Orange Line, where CharlieMachines stayed up even as the lights went down.

DA: Young teen had help in attacking man he stabbed to death, used T stop to escape, left key behind

By adamg - 10/15/12 - 4:15 pm

Ernest Watkins IV was arraigned today on charges he stabbed a man to death outside the Fields Corner T stop last week. Watkins is 14.

Watkins was among a group of four people spotted attacking Cherby LaJoie around 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 6, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. MBTA surveillance footage shows the four entered the T stop - one jumping a gate after his CharlieCard wouldn't work - then fled out an emergency exit, the DA's office says.

LaJoie died from multiple stab wounds to the head and chest, the DA's office reports, adding that police recovered a key on a shoelace near LaJoie's body.

Fellow passengers rescue woman who fell on tracks at Kendall station

By adamg - 10/15/12 - 9:46 am

A Minnesota visitor who fell on the Red Line tracks at Kendall Square last night was helped out by other passengers, the MBTA reports. According to an MBTA Transit Police report on the incident, shortly before 7 p.m.:

Is there no condition for which a clinical study can't be advertised on the Red Line?

By adamg - 10/14/12 - 7:02 pm

Apparently not.

Via Boston Reddit, which manages to turn it into a Yo Momma crack.

Police: Rush-hour Red Line groper arrested

By adamg - 10/12/12 - 8:29 pm

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Maynard man on charges he indecently assaulted a woman - twice - on an inbound Red Line train around 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 3 after the train left Charles/MGH.

Ashish Mittal, 38, was arrested yesterday on a charge of indecent assault and battery, police say.

Innocent, etc.

Another T bus driver attacked: Slappy spitter sought

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 3:42 pm

Man wanted MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who allegedly slapped and spit at a bus driver for passing him by.

Police report the route-428 driver was attacked around 6:30 p.m. yesterday at Main and Forest streets in Malden. They provide this account:

Man sought for spitting at bus driver in Charlestown

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 12:53 pm

SpitterMBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who spit at a T bus driver around 2:30 p.m. on Oct.

Officers didn't buy man's story he'd wandered into the Arborway bus yard just to take a dump

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 9:46 am

MBTA Transit Police report that when they asked Dennis Banks what he was doing inside a stairway in a building at the Arborway bus depot yesterday evening,

Banks replied he was "taking a s***" or better stated Banks claimed he was going to the bathroom on the stairs.

Then officers noticed "a freshly cut four foot section of half inch copper resting on a back pack." A quick survey revealed the pipe would have fit exactly in a four-foot gap in a section of pipe on the wall:

Why there's plenty of blame for yesterday's Brigham Circle derailment

By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:30 pm

Boston to a T considers yesterday's Brigham Circle trolley-vs-trolley incident.

Orange Line rider charged as self-groper

By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:25 pm

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Boston man for allegedly masturbating in full view of other Orange Line riders from Oak Grove to about Wellington, around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.

Guy's scheduled for arraignment today on a charge of lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct.

No doubt he ruffled the driver's feathers

By adamg - 10/8/12 - 7:13 pm

Harvard Square turkey

ChinatownKicks watched this turkey in Harvard Square yesterday.

Trolleys bump, derail in Brigham Circle; three hurt

By adamg - 10/8/12 - 4:14 pm

Collision scene. Photo by Michelle Murray.Collision scene. Photo by Michelle Murray.

Remembering Mr. Tagliaferro

By adamg - 10/4/12 - 6:37 am

Elise Ramsay says goodbye to the guy who gave her a copy of the Metro every morning at the Davis Square T stop:

Davis Square Red Line riders shocked to learn of death of beloved Metro hawker

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 10:29 pm

UPDATE: Boston Metro eulogizes Tagliaferro.

Earlier today, Anthea noted the absence of the normal Metro guy at the Davis Square T stop for the past two days. The Somerville Journal tonight posts a photo of a simple sign posted in the T stop:

In memory of David J. Tagliaferro, 1945-2012. Rest in peace, David, you will be missed.

Red Line? More like Dead Line, amirite?

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 7:56 pm

Three trains died on the Red Line between 4:30 and 7 p.m. today.

Bet you didn't know Green Line trolleys can do 65

By adamg - 9/29/12 - 9:38 am

Green Line trolley on the turnpike

Roving UHub photographer Will Bussiere was roving all the way out in Charlton yesterday when he spotted a Green Line trolley on the back of a flatbed on the turnpike. No clue why.

Earlier:

When it rains, it pours - in the Quincy Center T stop

By adamg - 9/29/12 - 9:22 am

Rain, rain's gonna fall

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