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Police say guy stabbed repeatedly outside JP bar remains tight lipped on attack

By adamg on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 12:27pm

Boston Police say a man was stabbed several times outside the Drinking Fountain on Nov. 12 by a group of four people who had been denied entrance into the Washington Street watering hole earlier in the evening and that his attackers fled towards Forest Hills in a white sedan.

But at a Boston Licensing Board hearing on the incident this morning, an E-13 sergeant and detective said they don't have much more to go on because the victim refuses to talk.

Sgt. James Moore and Det. John Gould told the board the man left the Drinking Fountain shortly before 2 a.m. and was promptly set upon by two men and two women who apparently rushed from across the street and began attacking him, leaving him with stab wounds to the head, chest and arm. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

At a meeting on Thursday, the licensing board will decide whether the bar could have done anything to prevent the attack and, if so, what punishment it should mete out.

Neighborhoods: 
Jamaica Plain
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Knives
Washington Street
Boston Licensing Board


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Comments

By PeyoteEatingWaterBear on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 12:38pm.

Drinking Fountain rules.
Last true dive bar in JP.
It must never close.

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By Murphquake on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 12:50pm.

Fireside has something to say about Drinking Fountain being the last dive in JP

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By erik g on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 1:29pm.

when the tenants of the new developments going up on the other side of Washington Street wander out of their million-dollar three-bedroom penthouse, and decide to sample the local hospitality. It's right across the street, in fashionable yuppified Jamaica Plain!

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By anon on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 1:10pm.

Traditional working man's bar before everything got all shiny and crafted up, people used to behave, no bouncers , just respect the bartender.Is that so hard to do?Dive , nay nay!
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By erik g on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 1:27pm.

From time to time, I write Yelp reviews. (I also have an Apple II, a falcon, and polio. No YOU shut up) Whenever I'm asked about this place, I can only quote from my review:

Anyway, the bar itself: average patron was born in 1965, average male hairstyle dates from 1975, it's decorated like it's 1985, drinks are priced like it's 1995, and the windows were last washed in 2005. In a pinch, you could order a gin and tonic and use it to strip the paint off of your Camaro, which you have definitely parked on Washington Street to show off to the car wash crowd next door. I once walked in at 11:30 AM on a Saturday, and was told there was a $5 cover charge to cover the all-you-can-eat barbecue. (n.b.: not sure how it was, because while I'm told the food here is excellent, anything that hasn't recently seen the inside of a deep fryer would worry me a little) The last time I read anything about this place in print, it was a story about a funeral party that was drinking here and started a brawl that sent three people to the hospital. A+++, would get drunk here again.

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By MattyC on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 1:32pm.

all the thumbs.

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By cybah on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:02pm.

An Apple II... :-) NICE. I have a collection of 80s-era Macs and associated hardware myself.

#GEEK

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By anon on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:24pm.

And I used to cash checks at the Fireside for a buck.....

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By anon on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 10:30pm.

By witnesses.
But I can understand this guy's reluctance. If he knows the perps then they know him. Nobody's putting him or his family in witness protection program so what's the guy to do?

BPD are top notch in my book but they can't protect anyone 24/7.

Tough situation.

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