Thanksgiving at Hyde Park Avenue and West Street, Hyde Park.

Sure, there's already a Santa putting people on his knee at the South Shore Plaza, but some people still remember Thanksgiving comes first:

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports police had a spot of trouble breaking up a loud house party early on Oct. 31 in part because one of the party-givers refused to believe the officers were really cops and not just party-goers dressed up as cops. They finally convinced her by putting her in a cruiser and taking her down to D-14.

A Brighton man who acknowledged he kissed a 16-year-old without her consent near St. Elizabeth Hospital had his travels through the neighborhood restricted for one year.

Ya know, we haven't had a good horrifying rat story recently. Chris Faraone to the rescue, with a look at Boston's rat rampage, from the North End to Allston/Brighton. With bonus fun fact on how male rates mate with up to 20 other rats a day.

The Daily Free Press reports a man who identfied himself as "Mike from Texas" was arrested around 3:10 a.m. on Saturday on charges he stabbed a man in the stomach at Kirkwood and Radnor roads.

The Heights reports plans are in the works to monitor noise from Modstock this spring, to prevent more problems with neighbors.

The Heights itself opines neighboring residents shouldn't let their feelings about "university expansion, the passage of the Master Plan, the possibility of residence halls on the Brighton Campus, the degradation of the neighborhood brought on by absentee landlords and the havoc students are known to wreak in the community" color their judgment about parties on campus.

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports "a huge problem" with tires being stolen off late-model Hondas, Cadillacs and Acuras - thieves aren't after the rubber, but the rims.

Floon finally realizes there are better backdrops for press conferences than City Hall, travels to the Brighton Mills Shopping Center this morning to denounce the way the BRA "steamrolls" neighborhoods.

Location

A trolley and a car failed to occupy the same space at Comm. Ave. and Washington Street tonight. Colin Moore tweets it didn't look too bad, except for "all of the cops and fire trucks." Naturally, it caused delays for riders.

No trolleys along Comm. Ave. between Packards Corner and Blandford St. The T says: Take the 57 bus instead - and that they've added extra buses.

T spokesman Joe Pesaturo says repairs are being made to a section of the overhead wire on the outbound side near the BU Bridge, with the work expected to be done by 1 p.m.