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Bad driver pro tip: If you plow into somebody's car and drive away, try not to leave a trail of debris and skidmarks that lets the victim's family find you

WFXT reports the family of young man driving an Altima in Dorchester was able to find the pickup of the guy who hit him yesterday morning by following the skidmarks one of the guy's tires left for a mile after it locked during the crash. He wound up in an employee parking lot at a Boston public-works facility; police cited him for leaving the scene of a crash and his bosses are now investigating. The victim was taken to Children's Hospital, but was released later in the day.

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Did they make him take a breathalyzer test? This dumbass stunt is enough probable cause to suspect him of being drunk.

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one morning many years ago I came out of my house and the BPD were sitting in a cruiser waiting for me. My car, a lovely light blue chevy caprice, was wrapped around a tree a few doors down. The officer in the cruiser asked me if I had been in an accident the night before? Those were my Budweiser days but I think I would have had some recollection of totaling my car around the tree in front of Mrs Curran’s house. I told the officer I had parked the car sometime around midnight and it was intact. The officer told me I would have to come up to the station and fill out an accident report. She never even got out of the cruiser. She left. It was around 6am and nobody was around so I went in and woke up my brother. He told me he had heard something in the middle of the night but didn’t look out his window. We went back out and inspected my car more closely. It had been hit from behind and lurched forward hitting a tree and the car parked in front of it. Completely totaled. My brother quickly noticed some pieces of a white car on the street. He looked at me and said “Its the irish guy’s from glencoe streets mustang!” we then followed bits of broken car and trails of radiator fluid two blocks and right up the irish guys driveway. My brother walked up and pulled a large tarp off a car someone had covered. Under the tarp was the remains of a totaled, brand new, white, Mustang GT 5.0. We walked back to my house and called the police again. This time we asked for an officer we both knew and explained our situation. He told us to meet him in front of the irish guys house in 5 minutes. We walked back down and the cruiser was just pulling up. The cop, my brother and myself walked up onto the front porch and the cop started banging on the door. The door opened and I think I saw about 10-12 irish dudes passed out anywhere there was a flat surface. On the floor, couches, chairs, stairs, everywhere you looked a sleeping irishman. The room smelled like stale beer and sausage farts.After a minute the irish guys were starting to come around and they started getting nervous quickly. Guys started running for the back door and my friend, the cop, told everyone to sit down and relax. He promised he wasn’t there to send anybody back to the old country but wanted to know who owned the mustang? The owner stepped forward, introduced himself, and shook all our hands. Me him and the cop went into the kitchen and irish guy wrote me a nice check, we shook hands again we left. I bought a new monte carlo (with T-Tops) that afternoon. The end.

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Thanks for sharing! Sometimes you just gotta love this town.

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Gotta love when cops decline to charge people with felonies because they're from the same neighborhood/same demographics as the cops. Such a Boston story indeed.

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Not always a bad thing......

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Can't prove a DWI, most is leaving the scene. Guy makes it all right using money. No personal injury lawyers, no lawyers at all.
Kid gets a nice shiny car.
Win-win.

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You forgot to tell about the paddy wagon.

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I picked up on that too.

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...no need.

Great story. It does have the ring of truth. No need for a paddy wagon if the guy sees a cop and realizes his best play is to fold his hand, pay and count his blessings.

Saves the cop an afternoon of typing on an IBM Selectric, back when white-out was a thing.

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You both realize you’re using ethnic slurs, right?

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Since it appears to have gone over your head...

Perruptor used the notion that there was a slur bostnkid missed using to gently point out how noticeable a message is delivered by the quaint tropes the kid did use.

Personally, I was considering telling the kid that "sausage" was typically much more often employed as a slur of Germans, not Irish.

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Yes, I did. I could not see what identifying the individual and his friends as Irish added to the story, other than a chance to trot out all those slurs.

And no, I'm not Irish.

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i told a true story. the guy who hit my car was IRISH. the guys sleeping on his floor were IRISH.

whats the problem perp?

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"...a new monte carlo (with T-Tops) that afternoon. The end."

Not on UH it ain't.

Now you capitalize ALL the letters? OTOH, you didn't cap 'glencoe' so all's fair.

Still, good story.

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"Personally, I was considering telling the kid that "sausage" was typically much more often employed as a slur of Germans, not Irish."

Bangers and mash, dude.

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"You both realize you’re using ethnic slurs, right?"

Possibly borderline if he called them 'turkeys' and I'll bet that not one in ten of you get that one at all.

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And it didn't bounce? Can one say "connected"?

I suppose Whitey must have been in a good mood that week, or he decided the one to bury out in the fens was the driver, not you.

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This is really something! At least the owner of the white Mustang GT 5.0. had the common decency to face up to what he'd done (especially since he'd also totaled his own car in the process!), gave you a check, and enabled you to go out and buy a new car that same afternoon.

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The problem is that legally no one can prove that the owner of the car was behind the wheel while the crash occurred.

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If there is dash cam footage or other video from another source, it may be possible.

Ditto if it was a city truck.

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