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Mystery boom rattles Roslindale
By adamg on Sun, 12/18/2016 - 11:35pm
Several Roslindale residents reported hearing a big boom shortly after 10:40 p.m., apparently centered on the area of Healy Field. People closer to Forest Hills and on Metropolitan Hill also heard it.
Roslindale hasn't had a good mystery boom since the Fallon Field booms back in 2012.
Around 11:30 p.m., the Eversource outage map showed just five customers without power in the entire city (they don't break it down by neighborhood), so we're probably not talking about a transformer exploding but instead about somebody just back from New Hampshire with an M-80 or two. Or aliens.
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Comments
It was probably aliens....
It was probably aliens....
But
I can't wait
To sit the grand kids on the knee and tell them about the Great Fallon Field Booms of 2012 …
We heard it
I live a block-plus from Healy field and can confirm we heard it.
It sounded like an M-80 or 'quarter stick.'
I put on my scanner but there was no discernible response from PD and no fire dispatch so as far as I can tell nothing blew up.
Timing of these always troubled me
They went on until 2012 and mysteriously stopped. Often wondered if the Tsarnaev brothers had found a good place to test their devices/detonators. Hope it's just a transformer or kids w firworks but equally hope BPD and homeland security looking into this. Or just call me paranoid....
Ok, you're paranoid.
There, done and done.
Fair enough
But then a question:
I've never heard of any evidence about where they tested these things. So if they didn't test their construction methods - they got it right on the first try with instructions off the internet making them on a kitchen table - and batted a thousand.
Or they had outside help.
Has to be one or the other - though of course - not necessarily a connection to Rozzie booms.
more than a quarter stick...
if people heard it from walk hill area all the way to met hill, it had to be more than a quarter stick.
I heard it was an Adam
mic drop.