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You can't blame the T for every delay; half-naked man shut Orange Line today
By adamg on Sun, 06/30/2019 - 4:27pm
The MBTA shut power on the Orange Line in the area of Stony Brook around 4:05 p.m. after receiving word a shirtless, shoeless man had gotten onto the tracks and was ambling around. Transit Police arrived and managed to convince Shoeless Joe that was not the best of ideas, got him back up on the platform and radioed in that the power could go back on and service resume, around 4:20 p.m.
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Shoeless Joe
I hope they took Joe to a shelter or to a hospital, instead of tossing him out of the station like the poor guy at Ashmont.
Our streets and shelters are flooded
with demonstrably mentally ill men and women. I had an encounter tonight with a 60 year old man who drove non-stop from Illinois to Boston area in a Uhaul truck with all his belongings. He went to college in Boston a long time ago studying physics but dropped out due to his obvious mental illness. It's sad and pathetic. He believes he'll complete his degree and get a job in robotics or writing code. As a teen he attended a high school in Manhattan for exceptional students, but distrusted his teachers and dropped out.
Our mental healthcare in this country is shameful. There are many who should be humanely institutionalized for their and society's own good. But the inhouse institutions required don't exist.
County Jails, too
The most recent print issue of DigBoston has an article regarding how county jails have become detention centers for a largely mentally ill population, which security personnel are ill-equpped to deal with. I don't see the article online or I'd post a link.