machetes
Robbery with a machete on Mission Hill
By adamg - 11/15/11 - 5:54 pmBoston Police are looking for two suspects who held up a guy around 4 p.m. on Terrace Street near Alleghany Street.
One suspect was apparently armed with a gun. The other, however, carried a machete. Both are described as black males.
And when he was done, the machete-wielding robber told his victim to have a good day
By adamg - 8/2/11 - 10:14 amNorwood Police report they are looking for a guy who held up a Sunoco station on Rte. 1 south with a machete on July 26. He's described as white, about 25, 5'11" with dark hair and "brown, puppy-dog eyes." He's believed to have gotten away in an older Corolla with no hubcaps, driven by somebody else.
According to the video, the robber asked for all the clerk's money, as well as five cartons of Newports and "a ton" of scratch tickets. Then, just before he left, he said, "Alright, have a good day. Thank you."
If you can't afford an assault weapon, a machete will do, apparently
By adamg - 9/24/10 - 3:27 pmAlertNewEngland tweets somebody was threatened with a machete this afternoon at the gas station at 1605 Hyde Park Ave. The suspect got away in a white Ford pickup.
Man attacked with machete in Harvard Square
By adamg - 1/22/10 - 1:43 pmWicked Local Cambridge explains why you should never try to break up an argument in the Pit.
Westie gangstas pack machetes - made of plastic
By adamg - 12/9/09 - 10:41 amWicked Local Roslindale/West Roxbury reports the Tedeschi on Spring Street in West Roxbury was held up the other day by a guy with a machete:
The employee said he touched the suspect’s knife as the suspect went around the counter and that the knife was plastic.
It's never a good sign when somebody whips out a machete, especially when he's covered in feces
By adamg - 10/23/09 - 7:07 amWicked Local Allston/Brighton reports a feces-covered homeless guy waving a machete last Friday so disturbed some Head of the Charles Regatta spectators that they attempted to flee by running into rush-hour traffic on the Soldiers Field Road bridge. Nobody was injured; homeless guy was arrested.
Bloody night in Dorchester: Four shot, four hacked with a machete, one dead
By adamg - 9/20/09 - 10:51 amBoston Police report four people were shot around 3:50 a.m. at 7 Edson St. Carl Hentz Belizaire, 21, of Mattapan, was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The other three victims - a man, 26, a man, 40, and a woman, 19 - are all expected to survive.
Belizaire is Dorchester's 17th murder victim of 2009 and Boston's 40th. Police say he was the intended victim; the other three people were just in the way.
The Herald reports that around 5 a.m., a man involved in a large fight outside a party at 98 Intervale St. whipped out a machete and began slashing: Four people were injured, but are expected to survive.
Four violent attacks in two days in East Boston, one involving a machete
By adamg - 3/27/09 - 9:46 amMan slashed with machete in East Boston
By adamg - 1/29/09 - 8:27 pmBoston Police report on a fight at Eutaw and Meridian streets around 3 p.m. on Jan. 23:
The victim stated that while walking he was bumped in the shoulder area by one of three Hispanic males and that an argument ensued between the victim and the three unknown Hispanic males. The victim stated that the argument became physical and that suspect # 1 a white Hispanic male wearing a black North Face jacket with fur on the hood, used a machete to cut him on the back of his right hand causing a very serious laceration.
Ban machetes?
By adamg - 4/27/08 - 2:10 pmCity Councilor Chuck Turner notes the absence of sugar-cane fields in Boston and so proposes banning the giant knives.
