He's caught!

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I just got a robo call from the Somerville police saying the caught and locked up the Dearborn Road assailant. Good job! That was fast.

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[shirt-seeker.livejournal.com]

I have extremley serious doubts.

[shirt-seeker.livejournal.com]

I did get the same call! Nice moves!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

shirt_seeker, I'm confused by your two seemingly-contradictory posts here.

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

Um, yes, go cops, but did apprehending a suspect merit a robo call at 9 pm? I'd say not.

[kpht.livejournal.com]

Wait, they put him on trial and convicted him already? Cuz otherwise I'm pretty sure it's just a suspect.

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Hell, yes. That's pretty important.

However, was there a robo-call at 6 am the morning of the incident? I'd have liked that.

[squonk.livejournal.com]

Point.

[shirt-seeker.livejournal.com]

What can I say?

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

You want a robo-call every time the police get a report of someone being attacked? Even in the cases where no suspects have been identified, that's a lot of robo-calls.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Well, what do you have doubts about? Are you doubting that the suspect who has been apprehended is the attacker? Or are you doubting that the police have apprehended a suspect at all?

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Oh, you and your silly "due process."

[ron_newman]

I don't want a robo-call at 6 am for any reason other than possible "tornado will hit Somerville in 5 minutes".

[shirt-seeker.livejournal.com]

I doubt the seriousness of the first post.

[firepail.livejournal.com]

I thought this was America! Guilty until proven innocent! Light the torches, assemble the mob!

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

If you get a robocall at 3AM, will your presidential candidate be there to answer it?

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

If it's one of those "Mayday, Mayday, be on the lookout for x,y,z" calls that gets put out to neighboring towns, and it's a serious crime that happened a few minutes ago right down the street from me, then yes.

A street full of angry residents going to their windows and porches, is a safe street.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Will my presidential candidate be there to answer it?

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Channel 5 has a crew on Dearborn this morning, ready to broadcast, so he must be guilty.

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

that composite sketch of the guy was pretty unique. can we get a photo of the suspect they apprehended? i wanna see his recessed eyes. GUILTY!

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

my first robo call! wee!

[jamiesquared.livejournal.com]

I didnt get a call...strange because I live near Tufts.

[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

The Channel 5 report says that the suspect also matches the description of the person involved in the Powderhouse assault last week. Putting aside for the moment the whinging about robocalls and the OP's oversight in not stating the judicial maxim of innocent until proven guilty, I say good on the police for their quick action, and good on the two victims for going to the police.

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

I'd be generous enough to allow them to call me before dawn up to half an hour before the tornado, personally. Of course, being technically in Medford, I don't get any robo-calls.

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

Are you perhaps on the Medford side? We don't get Somerville robo-calls. In fact, I can't recall ever getting a robo-call, or a Tom Champion call, at that. The most we get is the occasional loudspeaker truck in winter blaring "MOVE YOUR CARS".

Of course, I also live on a bizarre, possibly vaguely non-Euclidean back road serviced only by the squamous cultists of Comcast, where Verizon and AT&T dare not go and civilization has forgotten us almost completely, so your mileage may vary.