Handy man arrested at Back Bay hotel; Dorchester teen provides definition of chutzpah

A man sitting in a lobby chair with one hand down his pants while he sipped vodka from a plastic cup with the other was arrested yesterday when he declined entreaties from security guards at the Back Bay Westin to leave, Boston Police report.

Police say the man, from Bar Harbor, Maine, had a plastic shopping bag full of vodka bottles and an unzipped fly when they arrived at the hotel. Even the presence of police would not move him from his chair - at least, not initially.

Meanwhile, down in Dorchester, police say, a teenager who dropped his backpack at the Walgreen's at 160 Bowdoin St. when caught shoplifting later returned to demand the return of his stuff, which included personal papers and an iPod. When the security guard refused, the kid began a fight, lost, then fled again. Then he showed up at District C-11 to demand his backpack back, police say. Instead, they treated him to a demonstration of their booking process.