Hub man grabbed by regime gunmen in Portland
Hub man grabbed by regime gunmen in Portland
October 15
Robby Roadsteamer, a frequent participant in anti-fascist protests in Boston, showed up in Portland today in a giraffe outfit to dance and sing with the Portland Frog outside that city's ICE fortress and promptly got grabbed by three federal "police" officers armored up for an assault on an enemy bunker - two to drag him behind a security gate and the third to point a gun at people dressed like dinosaurs, chickens and Left Shark. Update: He was released after an hour.
Five men charged for baseball-bat attack on gay couple in Mattapan Square, but not on civil-rights charges; most released on personal recognizance
October 15
Boston Police report five men have been formally charged with attacking two men walking on River Street near Edgewater Drive in Mattapan on Sept. 13, one with a baseball bat.
Thai place to replace Thai place that replaced Thai place in West Roxbury
October 15
Patcharin Jeesom is getting his new Klin Thai ready at 1894 Centre St. in West Roxbury, where Som Tum Modern Thai Cuisine replaced Sticky Rice in 2017. Sticky Rice opened in 2011, replacing the King, which served Middle Eastern food and which, in 2009, replaced Samia's, which also served Middle Eastern food.
Basement fire forces evacuation of BU Medical Campus building; no injuries
October 15
The Boston Fire Department reports an electrical fire around noon in the basement of the Houseman Medical Research Center, 778 Harrison Ave. in the South End, sent smoke throughout the BU Medical School Building, but did not result in any injuries....
Some people are dying to get into the new West Roxbury Trader Joe's
October 15
Spotted on Chapin Avenue in West Roxbury, behind the Trader Joe's going in where the Walgreens used to be.
Judge bars Quincy from sticking 10-foot-tall statues of saints at entrance to new police/fire building
October 15
A Norfolk Superior Court judge yesterday issues a preliminary injunction that bars Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch for now from adorning a new police/fire building with statues of a winged Saint Michael crushing the head of a demon screaming in agony and Saint Florian dousing a fire with an oversized pitcher....
Leapin' lizards! You never know what people are carrying on the T
October 15
Transit Police report that on Sunday a man "suffering from a mental health crisis" at the Malden Center Orange Line stop contacted them seeking help - for him and for his five pet lizards. Police report "a determined TPD sergeant" tracked down an animal-rescue group that could take and care for the lizards.
