Boston Police report a man in a van was shot shortly after 8 p.m. yesterday at Columbia Road and Devon Street in Dorchester by a shooter with bad aim who was attempting to gun down somebody else. The man is expected to survive.

Around 6:45 p.m., yesterday, a Lynn man crossing River Street in Hyde Park wound up arrested after, police say, he got into an altercation with a motorist who thought he was taking too long to get across the street and began pounding on the guy's hood.

About 10 minutes later, police arrested a totally naked Malden man who was reportedly lying on his back in the Boston Common by Boylston Street and shaking his stuff at passersby.

Also yesterday evening, police arrested three people in a three-way shoving match on the Greenway at Edinboro and Kingston streets. Police say the three had pooled their resources to buy a bottle of vodka but that the male member of the group then decided to keep the whole thing for himself.