Some Needham Line riders had reason to be dour: They were stuck in a tunnel without any power
Thomas Connor was among the unfortunate riders on the Needham Line's Train 667, who spent an uncomfortable amount of time just sitting there in a tunnel at Back Bay in what turned into the evening non-rush yesterday, since the train just wasn't moving. He reported at 6:17 ...
Crazed pepper sprayer on the Orange Line
July 6
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy with some pepper spray and a lack of inhibitions for using it, following an incident on the Orange Line at Jackson Square around noon on June 23 in which he approached somebody and "without provocation," threatened him and then sprayed him with the stinging stuff....
BHA executive secretary gets two years probation for getting bogus overtime payments
July 6
A federal judge last week sentencing an executive secretary for the Boston Housing Authority to two years of probation and ordered her to repay some $72,000 she received in pay for overtime hours she didn't work - often via pay authorizations on which she forged her boss's signature.
Revolting: EV owner didn't just lose charge to a current thief, she got a ticket, too
July 6
The 311 complaint we posted yesterday by the person who returned to a municipal lot in JP to find the charging cord pulled out seems to have gotten a lot of people charged up. We heard from the woman who filed the complaint (UHub readers are everywhere, even in the 311 system), and she fills us in on how somebody swiped the charging cord, how a surveillance video at a neighboring liquor store caught it all and how she got a ticket because of it ...
