South Station
Time to party like you have no pants on
By adamg - 1/7/12 - 11:37 amThe annual No Pants subway ride kicks off at 2 p.m. at South Station tomorrow. And remember, no thongs:
This is NOT illegal. Regular underwear does not constitute indecent exposure.
The World Class City: You can buy underwear from a vending machine at South Station
By adamg - 12/18/11 - 10:26 amThe Herald reports on this amazing thing. One wonders when Forest Hills will get something like that.
Homeless man in Yankees cap charged with threatening guy with knife at South Station
By adamg - 11/28/11 - 10:19 am
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a guy they say threatened a man at the South Station bus terminal with a knife around 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
According to a Transit Police report, the man was waiting for his girlfriend:
When she arrived, he noticed a Hispanic male "checking her out" and making sexually suggestive comments to her like, "hey mommy are you free". According to the victim, the suspect walked up to him and asked if she was his girl or was she working. he took offense to the comment and told the suspect that she was his wife to be and he should leave them alone.
Somewhere in South Station, there's a ten-foot-high tub of buttered popcorn
By adamg - 11/16/11 - 2:18 pmWalked into South Station around 1 p.m. and it was like walking into a wall of buttered-popcorn smell. Beats the alternative, I guess, but still kind of odd, especially since the station's sponsor this month is some scotch rather than some popcorn brand.
Man DOA at South Station on bus from New Hampshire
By adamg - 11/15/11 - 9:04 amFoul play is not suspected in the death of a Scottsdale, AZ man whose body was found in the lavatory of a Boston Express bus from Londonderry, NH that pulled into South Station around 9 last night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The DA's office says the man, 29, apparently entered the lavatory early in the trip. Workers at South Station had to force the door open.
An autopsy is planned.
Herald: Maybe smelly hippies aren't a health threat in Dewey Square because they've taken their contagion to South Station
By adamg - 10/29/11 - 2:05 pmThe Herald isn't one to take rejection by city health officials lightly. Today, it accuses hippies of stinking up South Station, because, as is well known, there were never unkempt people washing themselves in South Station restrooms or asking for money until before Occupy Boston started.
Pair charged with selling drugs out of Occupy Boston tent
By adamg - 10/24/11 - 10:15 pmA Boston Municipal Court judge released two people on personal recognizance today after prosecutors detailed how one of them was using an Occupy Boston tent to arrange drug deals at nearby South Station.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office had asked for $25,000 bail for Isaac Bell of Roxbury because of a prior drug conviction, and $1,000 for Charlene Dumont of no particular address. Although Judge Michael Coyne freed the two pending their trials, he did warn them to stay away from the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square - where Bell had lived for three weeks.
Prosecutors say police arranged a heroin purchase from Bell after learning of drug sales in the tent city:
Finally: South Station to get a Dunkin' Donuts
By adamg - 10/7/11 - 3:43 pmA Dunkin' Donuts franchisee goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for permission to open an outlet in the station's food court. Currently, commuters have to walk all the way across Atlantic Avenue or struggle to make their way to Federal Street to get their fix.
Woman in hot water over hot water
By adamg - 10/5/11 - 12:15 pmMBTA Transit Police arrested a Philadelphia woman at the South Station bus terminal last night after she allegedly flung a cup of hot water at the manager of the terminal McDonald's.
Police: Pair of homeless guys at South Station help foil Cape arson plot
By adamg - 9/26/11 - 7:52 amThe Herald reports.
