Always secure your pucks
On Sunday, you may recall, police were summoned to Dot. Ave. and W. 4 Street to deal with a suspicious bag that turned out to contain hockey pucks.Capt. John Greland at C-6 reports today that somebody...
View ArticleFirefighter rescues husky from frigid waters of Pleasure Bay
The Herald reports on this morning's rescue off Castle Island.
View ArticleSouthie thief should be easy to spot: He's the white guy in a scally cap with...
Police are looking for a man who stole a gold claddagh ring this afternoon from Gold City on West Broadway. Police describe him as a chubby white guy in a scally cap, with a shamrock tattoo on his left...
View ArticleA little cold to be frolicking on the beach
Goose watched a tow truck try to pull an overturned SUV off the M Street beach in South Boston tonight.
View ArticleHere's the guy with the scally cap and shamrock tattoo who police say stole a...
Boston Police have posted this pair of photos of the guy they say walked out of Gold City on Broadway with a claddagh ring on Thursday.If somebody's just offered you a new claddagh ring, drop a dime...
View ArticleA Marathon tribute motorcycle
Stevil photographed some of the bikes at the Northeast Motorcycle Expo at the World Trade Center over the weekend.Copyright Stevil. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
View ArticleSouth Boston rallies to replace memorial bench taken out by 14 year old in an...
WBZ reports on efforts to replace the bench at the M Street beach dedicated to Sharlene Feeney Grealy, a mother of three who died of melanoma in 2003. On Friday night, a young teen took an SUV out for...
View ArticleWhy a duck? Why a no lighta duck?
State and city officials today officially turned on a new light display under the I-93 viaduct that separates South Boston and the South End near where the Herald used to be, the first phase in a...
View ArticleDahill vs. Collins in South Boston?
The Globe's Billy Baker profiles Maureen Dahill, the third candidate in the battle to take over Jack Hart's old state-senate seat, the one who tried to find a bridge between the oldtimers and the...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Dangerous role reversal on one South Boston street
A concerned citizen complains about this creative reuse of the sidewalk on Loring Street in South Boston:While working with the elderly we had to leave the sidewalk and walk in the street because if...
View ArticleAlleged morons get South Boston bar hauled before licensing board
The story the man with the large, bloody gash across his forehead initially told police sounded pretty bad: In for a visit from Chicago, he was sitting inside the Boston Beer Garden on E. Broadway when...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Piggie parker stakes out four spaces before...
An annoyed citizen complains about somebody on Mohawk Street off Preble in Andrew Square early this afternoon:Man saved FOUR parking spots before show even falls.
View ArticleA different kind of space saver in South Boston
Cover a hydrant with an empty trash can and voila: Instant parking space. Sure, you have to hope your house doesn't catch on fire, but what are the odds of that?
View ArticleSouth Boston parker begs for mercy
Eric spotted this note on the windshield of a car in South Boston tonight.
View ArticleAndrew Square bank robbed
AlertNewEngland reports the Mt. Washington Bank branch at 501 Southampton St. was held up around 11 a.m.The suspect is described as white, about 6' tall with a stubbly face. He wore a black hat, a...
View ArticleSome try to forget West Broadway's past and rename the area around the T stop
The Herald reports some people want to call the arriviste area around Broadway station Broadway Village."If it sounds pretentious, it’s not intended to be," the Herald reports and then promptly...
View ArticleDead train, live mouse
Just another morning on the Red Line: Shortly after 7 a.m., an inbound train at Andrew gave up the ghost. Not long after, this happened:And now there is a mouse on the train. And apparently it fell...
View ArticleMaybe, sometimes, it's just better that the Red Line not be running
Transit Police report arresting a Quincy man on charges of gross disgustingness on an inbound Red Line train around 2 p.m. on Tuesday after a woman filed this complaint:[W]hile traveling on an inbound...
View ArticleChannel ice
Our own Swirlygrrl shows us the ice that's built up on Fort Point Channel in the current cold wave.
View ArticleSomebody stealing catalytic converters from vehicles in parking lots in South...
Over the past few days, four catalytic converters have been detached from vehicles, according to Capt. John Greland at C-6:On Tuesday, the owners of a 1998 Toyota and a 2000 Toyota discovered their...
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