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It takes a special sort of Masshole to send two cops to the hospital

The Dorchester Reporter relates the saga of a woman who, on getting impatient with sitting in traffic at Freeport Street and Dorchester Avenue yesterday morning, took off with two cops still attached to her car - after first kicking a third officer.

Innocent, etc.

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anti-flagger lobby, using this incident as more ammunition.

And I like adding the 'loud and questionable noise' charge (did they have to make the count an even half-dozen or something). She put two officers in the hospital but, OMG, she blew her horn as well.

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Because a flagger would have gotten less respect those cops did? What's less than none?

For this special snowflake, it doesn't seem to have mattered that there were 3 cops, a flagger, or Almighty Jesus surrounding her car, she had to pick up her children!

In fact, if it was a flagger instead, he wouldn't have probably gone to investigate her horn blowing which wouldn't have escalated her psycho behavior because nobody would have been asking her for a license and trying to yank her out of her car in the long run. The cops didn't even accomplish anything when they did go to arrest her other than bumping her charges up by being cops. They had to go to her home to apply the arrest anyways. So, I'm not sure where the anti-flagger crowd can really go with this one.

As an aside, please people, don't give your kids royalty titles like "Queen", "Prince", and "Princess" as first names. They hear that every day of their developmental life and all it does is build crazy self-entitlement issues. Witness Queen Shaw as the result.

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Off with your head!

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she had to pick up her children!

Well, hopefully, somebody will see this for what it is and remove her future access to high powered weaponry, aka cars, and she will have to find other ways to get her sainted work done. Maybe a few years riding a bike will teach her that there are usually alternate routes that will do the trick when construction and obstruction strike.

I needed to get from the south shore up to Meffid a couple weeks back when there was a totally nasty rollover accident on the Southeast Expressway (which I found out when traffic stopped and I had my son dial 511 ...). I exited and picked up the route I used to bike to get to the south shore from work on Mission Hill when I needed to join the family at my MIL's house. Adams street ... dorchester Ave. ... up near south station, and back onto a nice clear highway. Slight delay, no problem.

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The report read 'harsh and objectionable noise', not 'loud and questionable noise'. IE she was leaning on her horn and then blasted her radio. This is an ordinace that should be more diligently enforced.

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with her car. When's the last time a car horn or loud radio ever seriously injured or killed somebody?

And, with respect, I think you missed my point. The serious assault and driving to endanger charges against the woman should be enough. Why tack on relatively minor charges just to add to the count?

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Why tack on relatively minor charges just to add to the count?

if she apologizes, those will be the only charges (fines) that she probably will actually have to pay for. Kind of like the woman from Wellesley that dragged the trooper.

But its common practice to charge someone arrested with everything they did. Many times its better for the arestee becasuse they have more small charges to negotiate with the DA with.

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your stupid actions could've killed three police officers if you agree to pay a fine for blowing your horn."

And yes, I realize it's common practice to charge somebody with every possible law and rule they may have broken. IMO, it's just one more example of how our justice system is so broken.

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If they did all of those things wrong, then they should be charged with all of them. N'est-ce pas?

If she hadn't become belligerent, dragged 2 cops, and fled the scene, she probably wouldn't have been charged with anything at all.

If your problem is that she was charged with obnoxiously honking her horn and you don't think that should have been charged, then it sounds more like you have a problem with that being illegal in the first place. That's more of an example of how our legislative system is broken, not our justice system.

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If someone breaks a law charge them with it. End of story.

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Well, I mean, if the police and DA have probable cause that you commit 10 crimes, you should be charged with 10 crimes. It's not done out of spite like you might think. It should be up to the judge or jury to decide what crimes you are guilty of, not the police or DAs.

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THREE counts of assault-and-battery with a dangerous weapon only gets $2,000 bail? I'd be in Saskatchewan or Techuacan damn quick, if that's all I was leaving behind.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Thats actually VERY high for a Suffolk County bail. Even for something like this.

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I truly come from ignorance on this (as I do on many things, but I digress.)

It just struck me as a very low amount, since the purpose of releasing on bail - correct me if I'm wrong - is to negate the risk of flight. If I weighed the max sentence against the loss of $2,000, the math makes flight seem a reasonable choice.

Of course, she has mitigating factors I don't - three kids - so perhaps that was taken into consideration, also.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Pete's right. You can shoot someone (allegedly, of course) and get sprung on less. It should be noted also that she posted that amount following her arrest yesterday and walked into court today, which can suggest a low flight risk and which the courts view favorably.

For Sean H., the circumstances as we understand them here are very different from those involving Greer, in whose case no one suffered any physical injury, much less required treatment at a hospital.

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who did something similar at logan airport a few weeks back:
http://www.universalhub.com/crime/20090329-wellesl...

She dragged a cop with her car when he asked her to move along, and then fled the scene only to be pulled over on the Pike. They smelled alcohol but never tested her.

She of course was just asked to do community service, no jail, no suspended sentence. But, she IS from Wellesley, not Dorchester.

Well see what happens...

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I wonder if she rendered what the judge just knows is a sincere apology if she will be treated to the same amnesty.

Then again, swine already flew.

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The Wellesley woman also threw herself on the mercy of the court after apologizing publicly to the officer and coming to an agreement with him over the reduced sentence. Somehow, I don't envision the same happening here.

I doubt the "classism" you're insinuating is really going to be much of a factor here.

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this agreement? I would suspect maybe more than the woman from Dorchester can afford.

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