police activity on Elm Street?

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Waiting for the bus home from the Square at about 6 pm, I saw a number of police cars with lights flashing near the Dunkin' Donuts on Elm Street. Any know what was going on?

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[rhi-chan.livejournal.com]

There was a car accident of sorts- some one had their door open, parked and a car zoomed by, crushing it. No injuries, nothing serious other than the destroyed car door.

[ron_newman]

Usually that only happens to bicycles. But I saw it once before with a car, on either Willow Avenue or Cedar Street (I forget which).

[philbot.livejournal.com]

Police activity at a Dunkin' Donuts? Well, I never!

[visage.livejournal.com]

Willow was blocked by an ambulance and fire truck (from what I could tell) not long after that, but that's presumably unrelated.

Bus Actually

[glen-highland.livejournal.com]

I was in Starbucks at the time it happened. It was actually an MBTA bus that hit a car door just as it was opened. The impact actually pushed the parked car into a pickup truck parked directly in front of it! I think everyone involved had a bad day.

Re: Bus Actually

[glen-highland.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and nobody was hurt.

[trtls.livejournal.com]

I thought I also saw a police van take someone away in front of JP Licks. Same incident? The cops also talked to a man in a bike about something right in the middle of the intersection! No idea what. Anyone know anything?

Re: Bus Actually

[heftyhips.livejournal.com]

i commute by bicycle and i can't even imagine the bad day i would've had if it'd been me and not the MBTA bus. actually that's one of my biggest paranoias--people opening their doors when they're parked.

[kevin-church.livejournal.com]

It looked like one of the "Let's Honk To Stop The War In Iraq Because This Is A Perfectly Sensible Plan" was in the back of the van.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

HA! I was right there! I doubt the man arrested had anything to do with the other stuff down the street. I have no idea what they took him in for (I got there before the paddy wagon but after they'd already cuffed him)

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

He was probably one of those two drunk guys that hang out there and get into screaming arguments with each other. Seems to happen once a week.

Re: Bus Actually

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Me too. A friend of mine was doored earlier this summer (no serious injuries, thankfully) and I try hard to ride well out away from parked cars now. It took some getting used to and makes me feel a little nervous sometimes, but not nearly as nervous as riding in the door zone does!

[righteousness-1.livejournal.com]

Yup, the resident drunks were on the bench drinking whisky. I don't know how they are still alive. Glad the cops took them away.

Re: Bus Actually

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I got there right after the accident happened, and boy, were the people who wanted that bus pissy. I can't blame them. Although, on the flip side, at least *they* didn't have their cars hit by buses.

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, Davis Square never had 'resident drunks' till it had a red line T stop!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I must call "Shenanigans" on this. Davis Square absolutely had "resident drunks" before the T stop. They drank at the Sligo Pub and then reeled about shouting. I remember this well.

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

While I'm sure there were plenty of people who emptied out of Sligo's, Barnaby's, the Blarney Stone, the Rosebud, and other long-ago establishments, there were certainly NOT people who spent every day sitting on benches in the square, and sleeping there at night. This is a new phenomenon, and began around the time the T station opened. There has been documentation around the fact that the Boston cops would empty out the common some nights by handing out tokens and suggesting that they 'get off at Davis'. Problem moved is problem solved, I guess.