Tokens all bagged and ready to go. Photo by MBTA.

Saturday is the last day you can use an old T token to buy or add value to a CharlieCard or ticket. The MBTA reports it's now sitting on a cache of 3.4 million tokens - stored in its money room - about 5 1/2 years after it sold the last one. Spokesman Joe Pesaturo says that with the official end of the token era, the authority will likely solicit bids from companies interested in buying them all as scrap. Pesaturo adds:

This year (through last week), 12,479 tokens were redeemed in fare vending machines. This is a tiny fraction of the 9,574,332 transactions at FVMs during the same time period this year. The value of the tokens also represents a very small fraction of all revenue collected at the FVMs during that time frame. Value of tokens equal $15,598.75. Total Revenue Collected equals $72,049,918.35.

This is "Carla," now stationed at the main security checkpoint at Terminal E. Massport claims she's making the security line "a little easier and more fun," in part because TSA agents will no longer have to bark at people tell people to throw out their Big Gulps, but this is Boston and that's a security line, why is she smiling so much?

But here's an idea: Install Carlabots over fare machines at T stops, grinning madly as she explains how to add value to your CharlieCard. Or even better, install her in all the CSA booths and just grin wildly as she spouts random instructions and alerts. Now that would be something.

UPDATE: Photo of the moose.

Stephen Jones reports Wellesley Police are investigating a moose sighting near Reeds Pond close to the Natick line.

Everybody stopped to stare out at Harvard Square
When she pulled up a seat at the juice bar
Could I please have a juice for this thirsty moose
She's been jogging cuz' she doesn't have a moose car

-- Moose in Moosachusetts

Separately, a Wellesley woman was stung by a scorpion, although it apparently hitched a ride in her luggage back from Italy.

Last hurrahs are sad. Here's hoping he rips the covers off the balls in Chicago.

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

Henrietta EATON vs. FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION & another. [FN1]

SJC-11041.

October 3, 2011. - June 22, 2012.

Mortgage, Foreclosure, Assignment, Real estate. Real Property, Mortgage, Record title, Sale. Negotiable Instruments, Assignment, Note. Notice, Foreclosure of mortgage. Practice, Civil, Preliminary injunction, Summary process. Summary Process. Statute, Retroactive application. Words, "Mortgagee."

CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on April 8, 2011.

A motion for a preliminary injunction was heard by Frances A. McIntyre, J.

A petition for interlocutory review pursuant to G.L. c. 231, § 118, first par., was considered in the Appeals Court by Judd J. Carhart, J., and a decision denying the petition was reported by him to a panel of that court.

At 11 a.m., Stadol reported:

Just passed 5 cars that have overheated on 95. State Police were helping out.

Matt Noyes at NECN says now would be a good time to ensure your car's tires are inflated properly:

Prime time later today, especially tomorrow, for tire blowouts. Preventable - Almost always from low tire pressure.

WBUR reports the state Senate, like the House before it, has approved a one-time bailout that will keep the T from making lots of cuts come July 1, but rejected a proposal to establish a financial oversight board a couple of years after the state gave the new Department of Transportation oversight over the T.

The Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries alert us that Middleborough is not the only place you can get fined for having a frickin' potty mouth. In fact, any place in the entire Commonwealth is good enough for a potential year in the stir if you take the Lord's name in vain, according to a state law that, while little enforced is still on the books:

Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.

People over 16 also have to watch their mouths at sporting events:

Whoever, having arrived at the age of sixteen years, directs any profane, obscene or impure language or slanderous statement at a participant or an official in a sporting event, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

LIBERTARIAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS & another [FN1] vs. SECRETARY OF
the COMMONWEALTH.

SJC-11109.

February 9, 2012. - June 18, 2012.

Elections, Ballot, Validity of nomination papers. Constitutional Law, Elections, Equal protection of laws, Vagueness of statute. Supreme Judicial Court, Justiciable question. Jurisdiction, Justiciable question. Practice, Civil, Election case, Moot case. Moot Question. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on August 12, 2011.

The case was reported by Cordy, J.

Andrew Palid (Matthew C. Baltay with him) for the plaintiffs.

Amy Spector, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, & Lenk, JJ.

CORDY, J.

The Brockton Enterprise reports a man is charged with attempting to rob somebody at sausage-linkpoint and then using a wrench on him:

Officers later reported a break and entry into a sausage stand at the Brockton Fairgrounds.

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

COMMONWEALTH vs. Allissa PUGH.

SJC-10895

November 9, 2011. - June 15, 2012.

Homicide. Practice, Criminal, Required finding. Wanton or Reckless Conduct. Parent and Child, Duty to prevent harm. Constitutional Law, Right to refuse medical treatment.

INDICTMENT found and returned in the Superior Court Department on June 19, 2007.

The case was heard by Peter W. Agnes, Jr., J.

The Supreme Judicial Court on its own initiative transferred the case from the Appeals Court.

Jaclyn R. Greenhalgh (Peter L. Ettenberg with her) for the defendant.

Ellyn H. Lazar-Moore, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, of New York, & Sarah Wunsch for American Civil Liberties Union & another.

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

Charles H. TURNER & others [FN1] vs. CITY OF BOSTON & others. [FN2]

SJC-10907.

February 6, 2012. - June 15, 2012.

Municipal Corporations, Removal of public officer, City council, Charter. Public Officer. Conflict of Interest.

CERTIFICATION of a question of law to the Supreme Judicial Court by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Chester Darling for the plaintiffs.

Lisa A. Skehill Maki, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the defendants.

Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, & Lenk, JJ.

BOTSFORD, J.

The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development says preliminary figures from May show a statewide jobless rate of 6.0%, down from 6.3% in April - and well below the national average of 8.2%.

The private sector added 6,700 jobs in May. Six of the ten private sectors added jobs in May with the largest gain in Professional, Scientific, and Business Services followed by gains in Trade, Transportation, and Utilities; Other Services; Information; Education and Health Services; and Manufacturing.

The Massachusetts Wasp Watchers project is an effort to detect and do something about, no, not wasps, but emerald ash borers, a bright-green bug that eats the leaves of ash trees - and deposits eggs that turn into bark-eating larvae. And it's looking for volunteers.

Seems the smoky-winged beetle bandit wasp, native to these parts, just loves it some beetles, which it carries back to its nest to yum up before tossing the discarded beetle shells. Volunteers monitor wasp nests and collect the beetle husks for analysis by state experts - who are worried that the emerald ash borers, now in New York just 25 miles from the border, will get here and decimate the trees.

The wasps, commonly found in "baseball fields, parking lots, and other places where hard-packed, sandy soil is found," don't sting, so you don't need to worry about making any sacrifices for science.

The crowd at Fight Night at a June 1 teen event in Marlborough was clearly annoyed at the woman who walked onto the rink, but note the super-laid-back ref watching the whole thing and just giving a desultory whistle blow every so often.

Attorney Richard Vetstein alerts us to the Massachusetts spite-fence law, which allows lawsuits over:

A fence or other structure in the nature of a fence which unnecessarily exceeds six feet in height and is maliciously erected or maintained for the purpose of annoying the owners or occupants of adjoining property.

So don't even think about it.

Yes, Middleborough town meeting up and approved fines for public cussing.

One of Middleborough's ponds is known as Assawompset.

Ed. note: However, Assawompset Elementary School is in a neighboring town.

A group of Kenyan students recently re-enacted the last two plays of game 6 of the 1986 World Series, and yes, OK, it is probably the single cutest recreation of that ill fated night ever, but still.

H/t Steve Himmer.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court told a convicted burglar today he's guilty of "entering a residence during the daytime with the intent to commit a felony and with the resulting infliction of fear upon a lawful occupant" even if he didn't want to scare the homeowner who heard him trying to get into her house.

Obdulio Santana argued the court should dismiss his conviction because prosecutors failed to prove he intended to inflict fear on a woman whose house he was caught breaking into after she'd hired him to paint a fence, told him she would be at work - but then stayed home.

The court told Santana the law doesn't care what his intent was, only whether the woman felt fear, which it said she clearly did:

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

COMMONWEALTH vs. Obdulio SANTANA.

No. 11-P-830.

March 13, 2012. - June 8, 2012.

Breaking and Entering.

INDICTMENT found and returned in the Superior Court Department on July 22, 2009.

The case was tried before C. Jeffrey Kinder, J.

Nadell Hill for the defendant.

Bethany C. Lynch, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Katzmann, Sikora, & Agnes, JJ.

SIKORA, J.

The Supreme Judicial Court today announced it was postponing a rule that would let bloggers photograph and video trials and other proceedings until Sept. 17, to give court personnel more time to prepare for its implementation.

WBUR reports on the increasing delays in delivery of the new commuter-rail coaches the T agreed to buy from a Korean company that had never built trains for the US market before, already two years behind schedule.

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

COMMONWEALTH vs. Paris QUILTER.

No. 10-P-2058.

February 2, 2012. - June 6, 2012.

Constitutional Law, Search and seizure. Search and Seizure, Search incident to lawful arrest. Firearms.

COMPLAINTS received and sworn to in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court Department on May 7, 2010.

After transfer to the Central Division of the Boston Municipal Court Department, a pretrial motion to suppress evidence was heard by Annette Forde, J.

An application for leave to prosecute an interlocutory appeal was allowed by Robert J. Cordy, J., in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk, and the appeal was reported by him to the Appeals Court.

Kris C. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Nancy A. Hurley for the defendant.

Present: Cypher, Green, & Trainor, JJ.

CYPHER, J.