Right or wrong?

According to the police report, the base rate for a massage was $70 per hour at the time of the investigation.

Also, it was open 24 hours a day. Oh, and guys? Police seized address books.

Maureen Rogers ponders nascent efforts in local leafy suburbs to fight McMansions, and considers John Henry's plan to tear down the $16-million mega-house in Brookline he recently bought from never-will-be Sox owner Frank McCourt:

... It should seems like a shame that, for a measly $16 mil you can't find anything decent in Brookline. ...

If your time is up, might as well melt away into a steaming hot regula at the Dunkin' Donuts on Rte. 9 in Wellesley.

Also, please see creepy Dunkin' viral videos (via Jeff Chausse).

Diana wonders when the Wellesley madness stops - both on Linden Street, which is getting a mall larger than the original Shoppers World (you know, the one with the reindeer, not the soul-sucking prison that's now there) - and at the site of the Wellesley Inn, which will be turned into million-dollar condos and stores:

... Wellesley already has plenty of expensive boutiques and a nice variety of restaurants. We will be destroying that very cachet if we keep up this pace of growth. As one resident said last winter at one of the town meetings on the Linden Square project, at the closing of LeBow's (boys' clothing store) due to this development, "parents still need to buy boy's underwear in this town!" You go, girl!

Diana delivers the news:

... Four years ago there were no houses under $500,000. Two years ago there were practically none under $600,000. Now there are quite a few under $600,000. Not that those are the "wonderful Wellesley houses" newcomers want, however. Any house in Wellesley that's selling for $650,000 or less will need work (or demolition) to meet the higher standards of today's buyers coming into a town like this.

In recent months, several houses have been listed below assessed value - clearly not a good sign! ...

Well, clearly not a good sign for sellers, but good news for buyers and schadenfreude fans. Plus, she provides examples of sellers with completely unrealistic expectations.

Aaron Hutchins was on that train held up for an hour when that kid jumped off in Wellesley after a conductor told him it was an express and wouldn't be stopping there. Hutchins is not happy:

... The kid's foolish act caused 1,200 commuters to be at least an hour late for their job or other destination. ... This little punk cost me an hour of work – which means he cost me an hour worth of pay. If I were a salaried employee, I guess it wouldn't matter, but I'm an hourly employee because of my summer-only position. ...

Jenny wraps up the floating-placenta-in-the-pond story. You know you have to read it.

Flashes of Panic: It was definitely the unwinding I needed at the end of that day.

Jennifer Garrett said the show was worth it even if she felt like 800 years old.

Eeka: Dar Williams fabulous as always; opening acts sucked ass.