Today's Somerville Police Blog

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[excerpt] Patrolman John Thermidor reported at least 25-30 teenagers in the apartment, as well as people on the stairs leading up to the second floor. He asked to talk to an adult, but there was no response from anyone.

A few minutes later, a man came down from the second floor and identified himself as Jonathan Monsarrat, 41, the resident and host of the party, according to the report. Thermidor told him to inform his guests that the party was over and they have to leave, but Monsarrat allegedly became argumentative and refused to comply. He assured Thermidor that there was no alcohol at the party. According to the report, the officer informed him that he had seen teenagers with beer bottles.[/excerpt]

Read on.....
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x1878079036/Somerville-Police-bust-underage-drinking-party-on-Summer-Street

UPDATE: By decision of the Moderators on 2/6/2010, any further replies to this thread are permanently frozen/screened. The discussion has begun to distract from other community posts, which deserve equal attention. The Moderators' decision was not made in response to threats made to the community, but for the sake of keeping the community's conversational flow normal (500+ replies to one post is not normal). The original post and existing replies will remain as read-only.

Comments

(frozen) Re: To take this seriously for a moment...

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I don't know right now what I would consider "conclusive proof or evidence." Do you know him? Is anything you have said based on your personal experience or is it just your conjecture? If not then your impressions and opnions are merely heresay and irrelevant. (Sorry - I know that's hard to hear. My clients are lawyers and some of their brusqueness rubs off. But yeah, really - irrelevant)

The generalizing and snow-balling that occurs so easily in this type of medium (and the weird pleasure people seem to take in it) was what I was attempting to comment on/concerned about. I don't care a whit about this 'jon mom' fellow but this sort of smashing and bashing goes on quite a bit here in this DS "community." It seems sort of a 'sport' for some of the posters. You apparently are swayed by that sort of thing. I am hesitant.

As to the specific "charges" - all the sex stuff - seems really sketchy. He may well be a creep - but people are making him out to be something far beyond that. Afaik - there isn't a law against hitting on younger people (i.e. being a creep). There IS a law against giving them alcohol and if that is proven then he should face whatever the penalty is. The rest of it - all this yadda-yadda - is just that.

(frozen) Re: To take this seriously for a moment...

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In fact, "this" has never happened before in this community. Maybe a tiny version of it that passed quickly, but not 500 comments worth and not this many people speaking to their own experience, which you so easily dismiss.

Tell me, why exactly would all of these people, many of whom don't even know each other, make up experiences about the same guy? It doesn't even make any sense. You may also be forgetting that unlike you, most of us have LJs that are well-connected to our real life, real friends, real faces, real names, jobs, etc. You could be anybody at all and nobody would know, so there would be no repercussions if you just made shit up. I, otoh, would have plenty of fall-out to deal with if I did such a thing.

Why you feel the need to tell women who were sexually harassed by this guy that they're full of it, I don't know, but way to blame the victims.

Again, do you think mrpet, the roommate, laura47, me, and the various other people who've said yes, we know him and have experience with him, are all part of some weird conspiracy? Do you think the people who are relaying stories from people not in this comm are making it up? Why?

Since this thread began, several of my LJ friends have posted in their own journals about their experiences with him, but they're not going to post here because they aren't in this comm, they don't have anything to prove to you, and/or they have no interest in rehashing an unpleasant experience in a public space.

I'm going to generously assume that if you did actually know any of us (and no, we don't all know each other), you'd take it a lot more seriously.

(frozen) Thank You

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

You actually said it in your post. "When this many people believe something it must be true."

I never said that, which is clear since my text is right up there. Your wild re-writes of reality are impressive in their way.

But thank you for responding, despite the fact that your response did not address a single thing I actually said. Before you started posting here, readers who did not have experience with you had to take on faith the kind of person you are, but thanks to all these comments, they have been able to confirm for themselves through your very own words. So you've done the community a favor. Thanks!