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A pharmacy employee bristled when he saw the thief

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton's weekly police report lets us know that police are looking for somebody who tried to carie $600 worth of toothbrushes out of the Brighton Avenue Rite-Aid. A store employee ran after him and managed get all the toothbrushes back, but the perp made a clean getaway.

Also, check out the report on the man who led police on a high-speed chase - for 300 yards. No word if he came to a sudden halt because of the damage to his car from driving over a median and ramming a traffic signal moments earlier or because of his alleged inebriation.

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Yup, when I think of really hot items to steal, it's iPods, GPSs, jewelry - and toothbrushes. Too funny.

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What do they cost, at most $6 each? Seems to me it would be hard to carry off 100 toothbrushes without someone noticing.

Smarter thieves steal things that are both smaller and more valuable: Gillette razor blade packages.

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I notice that the weekly police report, along with the rest of this week's Tab online, includes absolutely NO mention of breaking up Halloween parties. Not surprising, really, because apparently they didn't bother to do so this year, even though the balmy weather and perfect timing of the date made it the worst Halloween in Allston in several years.

There were at least 6 huge parties on my short street alone, including both houses on either side of mine, and dozens more in the rest of the neighborhood - the one to the left of me went on until after 3am, by which time it had devolved into a heated political argument with unpleasant racial overtones, in the middle of the street. I called the police roughly hourly from 11pm on, and was told repeatedly that there were many many complaints in the queue and that they would send a car when they could. Which was apparently never.

I am so upset and disgusted with the Brighton station's lack of response to problems in my neighborhood. We have called in reports of fights, only to have the 911 operator basically tell us not to bother unless we see guns. Way to go, BPD!

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I think I'd have more fun crashing one or more of the parties instead of complaining about them...

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I'm a 50+ woman. I don't particularly enjoy Halloween parties even when they're for grownups, and I have no interest in crashing a party of collegiate drunks. But thanks for your helpful suggestion.

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It's Allston, on Halloween. Nuff said? No?...

From your own admission, there was no violence, only noise.

I'd say you should be handing out thank-yous rather than being upset.

And if I may twist the knife ever so slightly, there are plenty of other places where it _wasn't_ loud. If you don't like noise, move away from the speaker? You're basically sitting on the cone.

You have no interest in collegiate drunks, but you live among them? You want honey sans bees? Cake and eat it too? C'mon...

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Yes, I live in Allston. I live in the house my parents bought over 50 years ago. At that time there were no college students, and the neighborhood was entirely working-class. I was there first, by a considerable length of time.

I'm not sure what you mean about honey/bees and cake/eating, though - what advantage do you imagine I find in living among college students that obliges me to put up with the unpleasantness involved?

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The student invasion is a lousy situation for Allston natives.

Maybe the schools need to accept more responsibility for off-campus misconduct by their undergrads. That might not help with housing demand driving up costs, but it could mean students show more respect for their neighbors' rights to peaceful homes. Say, a student found guilty of repeatedly disturbing the peace in their off-campus apartment is required to move to on-campus housing or be suspended/expelled.

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I'm sorry to hear the police are non-responsive to fights in the street with racial overtones. How would you know if someone was packing a firearm until it went off and by then it would be too late, no?

If you make a call and they say "forget it" or they don't show up. Contact the Mayor's line and file a complaint.

You may be surprised that with a little persistence, the BPD may decide to be more responsive.

I was mugged at gunpoint New Year's Eve in the South End in 1988. My experience with the BPD was equally disappointing. Instead of patrolling the area to disburse the crowd and the thugs hiding in it, they took a statement, basically said it was our tough luck and left. The guy was dressed like he was planning to invade Poland. A lot of good that did.

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When escaping, the perp tried to brush off the cops. They were too long in teeth to be tricked so easily.

The guy had tried to scrub himself of any evidence in the case. The cops combed through his things and still managed to find something incriminating.

And now you've plastered his story for all to see. A tough brush with the law, if you ask me.

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