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I think I'll stick to the Dedham Best Buy

Looks like the Cambridgeside Galleria thug crew is getting bolder these days. Cambridge Police report on a May 23 robbery there:

A male juvenile victim reports that while standing in the checkout line in Best Buy at the mall, he was surrounded by three black male suspects, ages 17-19. One of the suspects motioned that he had a weapon, reached into the victim pocket and stole cash.

He also had a gold chain ripped from his neck, police say.

Standing joke in Cambridge

By bobmetcalf | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 3:32pm

Opening of Christmas shopping season at the Galleria
isn't the day after Thanksgiving. It's more a moveable
feast--specifically marked by the first late fall shooting
at the Mall.

Really?

By anon (not verified) | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:38pm

I thought the standing joke in Cambridge was all the fucktards who cried for a bike lane so they could be equal to cars, then disobey traffic laws by going the wrong way down a busy street or running red lights when people are trying to cross.

As for the galleria; if they just banned any minority kids under 20, there would be no issue. yes I know a brotha has to get his H and M on, but come on, this isn't Slumerville.

No way! The standing joke in

By anon (not verified) | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:45pm

No way! The standing joke in Cambridge is that you can avoid paying your taxes, and that the local hippies will take up a collection to help you out because they're jonesin' for some fudge ripple.

Good Point!

By anon (not verified) | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:52pm

So if these kids just didn't pay their back taxes the people of cambridge could spring for their bail! Huzzah!

And people can't imagine why

By anon (not verified) | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:34pm

And people can't imagine why anyone in West Roxbury or Needham wouldn't want the Orange Line extended to their burg.

That makes no sense

By Ron Newman | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:37pm

The Galleria is on the Green Line (and walkable from the Red), not the Orange Line.

It makes perfect sense

By adamg | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:53pm

If you're of the sort that chuckled at that Fox News woman cracking a joke about rubbing out Obama.

No, if you don't take it for

By anon (not verified) | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 5:53pm

No, if you don't take it for granted that thugs may rob you today. I don't see you living on Geneva ave. Most of your local news posts are about lily-white West Roxbury, one of the last bastions of White Boston. How very liberal of you.

Indeed

By adamg | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 7:09pm

Actually, I live in Roslindale - and would love to see the Orange Line continue down Washington Street - but thanks for playing.

what does Geneva Avenue have to do with the Orange Line?

By Ron Newman | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 11:49pm

It's even further from the Orange Line than the CambridgeSide Galleria is.

No distance is too far when you're a troll

By Spatch | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 12:07am

They transcend space as well as time!

Wow!

By anon (not verified) | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:29pm

If I tried to avoid every mall where a woman has been assaulted, I'd stay in the house.
I tend to avoid shopping in stores during crush time and I try to shop wisely, ride public transportation wisely, etc.
In 30 years of living, shopping, working in Roxbury, Dorchester, and JP I have not been accosted and have only witnessed two acts of random violence.
Basically - there is no place that is absolutely safe and people should stop pretending that there is. When I see a group of boys (any color) and teens (any color), I put my radar up to see what's going on. People in groups will do things they don't individually.
I remember shopping at Quincy Bargain Center back in the day and my husband and girlfriend and I being warned to get out before the sunset because we wouldn't want to be in Quincy then.
Now I actually walk through Quincy and have friends who live there. things have changed but shoplifting happens every where!

Most of your local news posts are about lily-white West Roxbury,

By Lily from WR (not verified) | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 8:23am

Is that a racist comment? There seems to be nothing wrong with neighborhoods that are all black but when a neighborhood like WEST Roxbury is mostly white there is a big problem.

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