It's always the GPS's fault
Officers were arresting a guy for spitting at a T bus driver when a different guy with an illegal gun showed up and got involved, so they arrested him, too, police say
August 19
Transit Police report arresting two men stemming from an incident on an MBTA bus on Cummins Highway in Mattapan Monday night: A man they say spit at the driver and then officers and a second man they say stopped his car, got out and began telling the officers off even though he had an illegal, loaded gun in his car....
Driver of car jammed onto Green Line tracks: The GPS made him do it
August 19
Transit Police report that when officers asked a 22-year-old in an Acura how he wound up headed outbound from the inbound side of the B Line just west of the BU Bridge around 1 a.m. on Saturday, he said he was just doing what his GPS told him to. ...
Cambridge credit union warns members about imposter ads right at the top of some search pages
August 19
John Overholt passes along a warning from the Harvard Federal Credit Union to its members that somebody is paying for ads to impersonate it at the top of Bing searches on its name. He adds, as you can see above (look carefully at the first line of the results) that it's showing up on...
Man gets shot on Talbot Avenue, then gets arrested for the loaded machine gun he had with him, police say
August 19
Boston Police report officers pursuing a dirt bike spotted puttering away from a gunfire on Talbot Avenue across from Harambee Park early this morning watched both driver and passenger fall off nearly two miles away in...
Man stabbed on Dacia Street in Roxbury
August 19
Boston Police report a man was stabbed at Dacia and Wayland streets shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday.
