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By adamg - 9/17/12 - 7:19 pm
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say exposed himself and masturbated in full view of a female passenger on a Red Line train in July.
The woman snapped Peter O'Connor's photo and police say tips from the public based on that led them to O'Connor, whom they arrested today at the Braintree Red Line stop.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 7:08 am
And the future Masters of the Universe are not amused:
One sophomore, granted anonymity by The Crimson because she was afraid to be associated with a party that had been interrupted by police, was at the Delphic Saturday night when the police arrived. ... According to her, after word of the interruption spread, a few students shouted phrases like "fuck the police" and "it's the 5-0," a common slang for the police, while they made their way out the front door.
By adamg - 9/13/12 - 7:28 am
H_Boston discovered somebody in Cambridge got a little frustrated with a pedestrian-crossing button.
By adamg - 9/10/12 - 6:55 am
Biking in Heels posits that differences in the way our traffic signals work for pedestrians explain why Bostonians dart every which way from every direction, while Cantabrigians are more thoughtful, even when jaywalking:
By adamg - 9/4/12 - 7:07 pm
Tania Reppucci tweets:
Guy on the Red Line used a box cutter to cut and peel a lemon, then ate the lemon. The train smells nice though.
By presspass - 8/30/12 - 9:25 am
In 1995, the House of Compassion opened its doors taking in people living with HIV and AIDS to live in a welcoming home environment. The House now faces closure, with a looming 30,000 in debt threatening the homes of their ten residents. Find out more about the House of Compassion!
By adamg - 8/27/12 - 12:25 pm
A Cambridge man was arraigned Friday on a wallet full of identity-theft charges related to the $66,000 worth of state benefits he allegedly reaped over the past 20 years by using an out-of-state resident's birth certificate and Social Security number.
Frederick Cross, 68, was turned down under his own name for state assistance in 1990 because he was wanted for a variety of offenses, including larceny and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Rather than clear up the charges, the DA's office says:
By adamg - 8/27/12 - 12:13 pm
The MBTA reports a potential bioterror germ attack alert system starts getting tested after the last train of the night on Wednesday at Davis, Porter and Harvard stations on the Red Line.
By adamg - 8/27/12 - 9:18 am
Mark Levy analyzes a Globe story that purports to find a growing "backlash" against tech development in the city, based largely on the fact that the Forest City project got defeated:
By adamg - 8/27/12 - 9:00 am
A dead trolley at Reservoir, dead trains at Kendall and somewhere on the Ashmont line, signal and track problems on the Fitchburg Line and, oh, yeah, a freight-train derailment on the Haverhill line meant all sorts of fun for commuters this morning.
By adamg - 8/25/12 - 9:26 am
The maker of the ovens Julia Child liked to use yesterday sued the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronmy and the Culinary Arts to keep using the late chef's image in an online timeline about the company's history.
According to BSH Home Appliances - maker of Thermador ovens - it filed a preemptive suit in US District Court in Boston yesterday because the foundation was threatening to sue it over its use of some photos of Child and her kitchen, claiming copyright over any likenesses of the former Cambridge resident.
By adamg - 8/23/12 - 11:57 am
The MBTA reports an Attleboro woman and her son, almost 5, plunged to the tracks around 6 p.m. yesterday, and were taken to the hospital as a precaution, although they did not appear seriously hurt. According to the T, the woman told emergency responders she thought she could get onto the Alewife train in the station at the time from the southbound platform.
By adamg - 8/22/12 - 12:38 pm
Cambridge and MIT Police report two recent early-morning holdups in the area of MIT and the Longfellow Bridge.
Sometime late on Aug. 17 or early on Aug. 18, a man walking in the area of MIT was surrounded by a large group of men and women who went through his pockets. One of them flashed a knife when the victim tried to get his passport back. The suspects were all described as being in their mid 20s and black.
By adamg - 8/20/12 - 11:22 pm
Biking in Heels spots a Google bike in Kendall Square and chats to its rider about the company's fleet of bikes for its Kendall Square employees.
By adamg - 8/20/12 - 9:09 am
Cambridge Day reports Microsoft this weekend turned on a large plasma-screen sign, in a city where not everybody is enamored of such advertising.
"Terry Ragon was right when he said if we don't watch out our city will look like Las Vegas. It has begun," [Mark] Jaquith said, referring to the plasma display as "a monstrosity."
Ragon was the guy who spent several hundred thousand dollars of his own money fighting a proposal to let companies put their names atop their office buildings.
By adamg - 8/17/12 - 3:01 pm
Harvard University Police say a woman reported being raped around 11 p.m. on Tuesday at Kirkland and Oxford streets.
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