Where a bus driver and a trolley conductor close the doors in your face and then a trolley jolts to a stop every two minutes and it takes you a total of two hours for a commute that normally takes 30 minutes? Punkyblond did.

The Globe reports:

Ten soccer game spectators were injured — four of them critically — in Dorchester today when they sought refuge under a gigantic tree that was struck by lightning during a flash storm

I like how the Globe follows that with:

The victims, all males, had burns consistent with lightning strikes, authorities said.

Because you know how people in Dorchester love to make up stories about getting hit by lightning.

Lightning also knocked out Green Line service between Harvard Avenue and Packard's Corner. In fact, it hit a trolley. Amazingly, nobody hurt.

Jess Mullen, who lives in Roslindale, just got a job near Packard's Corner in Allston. That means taking a B train out from Copley. And that means being sucker punched by the B line:

... Day 1 (Tuesday): I was pissed because I was waiting at Park St and it felt like the center of the earth. NO TRAINS CAME FOR 20 MINUTES. Then when they did come, they were the D and E before the B.

Day 2 (yesterday): At BU Central, they decided the train would go non-stop to Harvard Ave. Because we were on BU campus, the ground was covered in the previous night's vomit, and the smell wafted up to all the people crowded on the ghetto platform. ...

Betty Noir wonders which ad geniuses came up with the side-by-side ads she saw at a Green Line station this past weekend - one comparing an AirTran flight to a roller-coaster ride, the other for some seafood place - possibly Legal - (yes, them again) that tries to gross you out with "murky bodily-fluid-brown color scheme and postapocalyptic imagery."

If it's morning rush hour and you're about to get on a trolley with your baby and he is screaming his head off, should you stop boarding and wait until he calms down? Martin wishes a woman on the B line this morning had done just that:

... Please, out of common courtesy to your fellow passengers, many of whom are still half-asleep or are trying to enjoy some last "quiet" time before they get to the office, have the decency to tend to your child - or better yet, wait until he/she has quieted down and then get on the train. Thanks. ...

Inbound E train pins a big rig to the curb.

CSA who ignored passenger complaint to be disciplined as well.

Driver can't return to work until passing a "fitness for duty" test (unspecified what that entails: staying awake during an entire Swedish movie without subtitles?). Yes, it's the same driver and incident reported on here.

Ben Alper suspects:

Riders sensed something was amiss when the train passed without stopping through Kenmore, Cleveland Circle, Providence, and New York City.

This is the sort of thing that doesn't exactly inspire confidence in trolley drivers:

Several people, including a Boston magazine staffer, witnessed a T driver repeatedly drifting off to sleep between Hynes and Coolidge Corner shortly after 6 p.m on June 17.

Nobody was hurt, but the story gets even better when that staffer attempts to report the incident to the T.

Boston Police report a teen was beaten and robbed in the Franklin Field housing project yesterday.

Police say an acquaintance of the teen stopped him as he walked through the project and asked him if he had $5 for food:

The victim reported that he told the friend that he had no small bills and only had $100 dollar bills, which he showed to him. The victim reported that he walked away from his "friend" and soon thereafter noticed that there was a large group of people from the nearby basketball court following him.

He was then knocked to the ground, kicked and hit in the head with a hammer, police say, adding they arrested a 16-year-old on an unarmed-robbery charge in connection with the case. The victim was taken to Carney Hospital, expected to survive.

Meanwhile, four alleged thugs (one from Erie, Pa.) learned that Green Line trolleys don't make the best getaway vehicles because if police chasing you from a robbery hear you've just gone down the outbound stairs at Copley, they're going to radio ahead and have you pulled off the train at Hynes.

After examining Ter'rese Edmonds' cell phone for usage leading up to the May 28 crash on the Green D Line, the Middlesex District Attorney declared today that there was no evidence to suggest she was distracted by her cell phone in any way. No e-mail, text messaging, phone calls, or internet use was going on in the minutes prior to the crash. What exactly caused her to miss the signal and go 30 mph too fast that day into the rear of another train leaving a stop signal is still unknown.