The Transcript reports on a spat at the Burger King on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury: A patron told police that when he asked employees to put on clean gloves, the manager came around the counter:

[T]hrew the victim's money back at him, grabbed a soda cup from his hand and grabbed his wrist.

The manager told police he refunded the man's money and asked him to leave but never laid a hand on him.

Toddler found wandering on VFW Parkway. 2 years old, this morning, hopefully in the median strip or on a sidewalk here.

The Transcript reports that state Sen. Marian Walsh managed to deep-six a measure by state Rep. Mike Rush to spend $1.5 million to do something with Havey Beach, that inviting looking area off the VFW Parkway that hasn't actually been useful to anybody except kids having drunken campfires for the past 50 years or so. Walsh claims it's a great idea, but says there needs to be more public input before anything's done.

Every time there's a heavy rain, this woman, who lives on the southbound side of the VFW Parkway, just past the West Roxbury Parkway, dons her boots and raincoat and goes out with a rake to try to keep the storm drain and "dry" catchbasin outside her house clear, to minimize the damage from flooding. She's been doing that a lot lately.

The Sad Car of VFW Parkway has gone to the big junkyard in the sky.

Tammy must have one of those old Amphibicars. How else to explain how she survived flooding and a Florida-style sinkhole on the West Roxbury Parkway near where it meets the VFW Parkway after today's storm?

A school bus carrying students from the West Roxbury Education Complex crashed into another WREC bus around 2 this afternoon, ParkwayBoston.com reports (with photos). At least four students taken away in ambulances.

Looks like self-appointed Protector of Public Virtue Bob Joyce and a few of his friends will actually be picketing Gary's Liquors on the VFW Parkway tomorrow to protest Gary's refusal to stop offering copies of the Phoenix.

They're scheduled to be there between 1 and 5:30 - should you find yourself in sudden need of some beer or wine and a chuckle or two. I spoke briefly to Gary today; he says Bob has been great for business, because some people have gone out of their way to start patronizing his store. Directions.

And this despite the fact the Phoenix is back in boxes along Centre Street again.

Earlier:
The hypocrisy of West Roxbury's morals squad.

UPDATE: The Globe says it was careless disposal of a cigarette on the fourth floor, not the barbecue on the second floor.

Channel 4 reports a 3-alarm blaze at an apartment building on the northbound side of the VFW Parkway in West Roxbury may have started when a resident decided to fire up his grill on his balcony around 3:30 p.m on one of the windiest days of the year.

The fire damaged the relatively new Marshview Place at 1522 VFW Parkway, next to the Jennifer Convertible store, and caused major traffic tie-ups when State and Boston police blocked the parkway in both directions to give fire crews easier access to the building.

Lyss reports that despite all the police cars and police, idiot Massholes kept trying to get onto the parkway at Bridge Street anyway:

... What did they not understand about the police cars and the patient officer directing traffic? (Those of us going straight on Rte. 109 were supposed to follow the traffic light.) The officer saw that the idiots were totally screwing up the traffic pattern by their insistence that they HAD to get on Rte. 1 South, that he seemed to start directing them to a sort of waiting area near the cruisers. ...

There's probably an interesting story behind the wreck that's sat for years in somebody's driveway on the VFW Parkway in Roslindale (northbound, between the West Roxbury Parkway and the Hebrew center). But in the meantime, Alyssa wonders what it does to property values as she drives past on the way to work.