Response to http://www.universalhub.com/node/2850
Roxbury or the South End, somebody's still dead

Three Somerville ne'er-do-wells and a friend from Medford caught on the Lowell Line railroad tracks carrying a manhole cover and buckets full of railroad spikes and plates.

Fire destroyed Sewall Avenue house in March.

This deserves exactly what the photo says it deserves!

T safest in a decade??

Are these MBTA people for real?

The MBTA is nearly doubling the number of cash machines within its subway stations - and the cash-strapped transit agency will pick up an extra $226,400 a year in the process.

The T’s board of directors yesterday OK’d going ahead with leases with Bank of America, TD Banknorth and Select A Branch Inc., to put a total of 19 ATMs in stations, up from 10 that were previously provided by Citizens Bank under a prior contract.

Bank of America won with a $30,000 bid the right to place just one ATM in the busy Park Street station.

Update: As Ron Newman notes below, BPDNews is back online (so my fingers have stopped twitching so much).

Best police beat item of the year? Dot dude picks up a hottie at a bar in Brockton, takes her back to his Dot pad. While he's lying there all naked, she excuses herself for a bathroom break - during which she opens the apartment door to her boyfriend, who rushes in and robs the guy at knifepoint. Ah, but seems the guy was in the habit of videotaping his trysts, so the whole thing was caught on tape and he overcame his embarrassment and went to the police - and now the two out of towners are in a spot of trouble.

Read the complete report, which also includes an officer's musings on alleged perps being found not guilty and the saga of a Dorchester man who needed help with some aliens.

When you read stuff like this, your assumption would be that the first places to get MBTA buses with surveillance cameras would be neighborhoods where, oh, people get shot on T buses.

But hey, this is the T, so of course, the bulk of the first wave of camera-equipped buses will be assigned to the Charlestown garage, which provides service to places such as Lexington, Belmont and Burlington. Props to Demredox on Blue Mass. Group for piecing this together.