David Parsons spent some time recently at Hingham Cemetery.

Copyright David Parsons. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Two Marshfield residents are charged with beating up a customer at a Norwell KFC when he asked them to pipe down after they started swearing at the counter help because their food wasn't coming fast enough, Channel 5 reports.

Marshvegas Live:

Why do they call it Marshvegas?

The Patriot-Ledger reports the guy allegedly got up to 110 mph in an attempt to escape Weymouth police early Sunday morning.

The Coast Guard reports the rescue of a guy who decided to do a little ocean kayaking around 11:30 last night off Nantasket Beach - in rough waters and without a life jacket.

Of course, he capsized - but right near a moored boat to which he was able to swim and spend several hours.

The Coast Guard says it launched a search boat, and Hull firefighters began searching from shore around 4 a.m. - after a friend called to report the guy missing at 3:30 a.m.:

The missing man called out to the search party on the beach from aboard a moored boat he swam to after falling off the kayak.

The beach search party directed the Coast Guard boat crew to the man's location, where he was rescued and transported to shore where a waiting ambulance took him to South Shore Hospital.

Winds were 20-knots, seas 2-to-4 feet, and the water was 59 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Coast Guard advises against going out in bad weather in a kayak.

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

Well, OK, the police charged the woman with following too close (and driving an unregistered vehicle), but the spider made her do it, Channel 7 reports.

The state Department of Conservation and Recreation is going to give it the college try: It's seeking volunteers to help pull the fast-growing invasive weed in Fowl Meadow, part of the Blue Hills Reservation, Jennifer Forman Orth reports.

She says some 40 acres of the meadow, home to several rare and endangered species, is now covered by our version of kudzu. There are pulling sessions this Thursday and Friday mornings, with more planned (call 617-981-0817 for more info). Bring gloves: The vine has barbed stems.

We went down to Nantasket this afternoon in search of big waves and surfers, but showed up too early - there were neither big waves nor surfers. Instead, we found a few diehard beachgoers, some (including all the lifeguards) bundled up, trying to get one last summer day in, clouds and dropping temps be dammed.

Lifeguards make sure nobody's buried in giant hole left by some college students:

The Coast Guard used a helicopter to rescue these two guys and their dog after their boat got stuck on rocks off Hull in Bill-whipped waters around 3:30 p.m. yesterday. In Nahant, a guy who decided yesterday was a good day for fishing is in critical condition after a wave swept him off the rocks he was on, Channel 7 reports.

Photo by Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Mike Stallard.

UPDATED to reflect that the indecent involved a pedestrian, not a motor vehicle as I first thought.

The 9:30pm outbound Kingston commuter rail struck a man near the Essex Street crossing in Whitman Thursday night; the first emergency call was received at 10:06 pm, according to chatter heard on a police scanner. I cannot confirm whether or not that this incident was fatal.

Curiously, I can't find one mention of this in local media - not even the local South Shore papers. I guess T accidents after daylight hours don't give good enough photo ops to make the news.