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Groupon to JP: Car washes can help blind potential carjackers - like the one you had last week
By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 9:21am
A local Groupon subscriber forwards the offer he got today for a JP-based car wash:
A shiny car can blind potential carjackers just long enough to distract them while you steal their bikes. Fight crime with today's Groupon ...
Guess Groupon must follow the local news pretty closely.
Ed. disclosure: I have an affiliate deal with one of Groupon's competitors.
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Comments
Speaking of carjackings...anything on one this morning in Dot?
Adam, it sounded like a delivery driver was carjacked with force in Dorchester just after midnight. BPD immediately got behind the suspect in the stolen vehicle on Freeport Street and followed onto Expressway south in Neponset where the guy crashed. Strong work by BPD on this. Did they release anything?
Nothing yet
Might be the hour - I suspect the third shift at BPD has fewer people available for PR duty. I'll ask.
Story up
The human wrecking ball.
Technically, he was charged with larceny, rather than carjacking, but I think the DA's office has enough to work with ...