Kid shot in Somerville

...but the kid's father is going to have a stern talk with the parents of the kids in the car, about how they shouldn't let their kids play with handguns around his kid.

A Somerville councilor has commissioned a study of Dodge vehicles. It showed that the situation would have been vastly improved had occupants been in a smaller, more fuel-efficient Dodge Neon- or if they had been in a rideshare program and given 3 pushers a ride to Medford in a minivan. Or if they'd ridden bikes. A neighborhood meeting will be held to decide if the Party Line will be that the Green Line extension would have helped or not.

Area livejournal users (who demonstrate the most astounding engagement when a compatriot's cat wanders next door for a few days) mostly fail to notice the incident because it wasn't anyone they know and it didn't happen near Diesel. Those that do notice, change the mood-icon on their journal to a sad face and surf their medicine cabinets to check whether they remembered all their pills for the day- just in case it really hits them that people inside Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge are getting shot.

In a further sign of the times, people stop surfing craigslist for furniture in Sommurderville. I mean, you'd have to be nuts to go over there- it's like driving through murder scene...