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Police: Memorial Drive sexual-assult suspect may be creep reported by other women in area
By adamg on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 9:16pm
State Police have released surveillance photos of the man they say attacked a woman walking on Memorial Drive near JFK Street early Tuesday.
In a statement, State Police say:
State Police have shared information about the assault with police in Cambridge and surrounding communities and at Harvard University. We are also investigating whether several other women who have reported a suspicious person in that area recently are describing the same person.
State Police say the man grabbed a woman walking near the Weld Boathouse around 2 a.m. She screamed, bystanders came to her aid and the suspect pedaled away on a bicycle, police say.
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Some of you may be thinking
this could be a cyclist riding at night in all dark clothing with no lights and few to no reflectors that you might not so strongly assert was an innocent victim if he were in a collision with a motor vehicle.
Nah
No one was thinking that.
(walks in, sneezes out this youtube clip and leaves)
achoo!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=3kzuNjLLtH4
Selectmen voted against democracy
Dan Dunn and the others didn't want to give residents the ability to VOTE on a NON-binding ballot question on lane count in east Arlington. We mobilized and got over 2,200 signatures forcing a question on the ballot.
The results were that people in the neighborhood did NOT want bike lanes replacing a travel lane in east Arlington by a 10% margin and overall 1% town-wide margin.
People in precinct 8 (the most wealthy) most wanted bike lanes in our part of town. Last fall, Selectmen had their section of Mass Ave painted with NO bike lanes and 4 travel lanes.
Selectmen ignored voters and one mile of Mass Ave in east Arlington is getting a $7M makeover with bike lanes and bump out instead of the pedestrian activated crossing lights that we wanted.
More pedestrians are dying and no bicyclists have died on Mass Ave in Arlington. The only cyclist death in Arlington was a racer who hit a tree after hitting a curb (like John Kerry) failing to make a corner. We fixed that by ending (official) bike races.
Two things.
1) Hooray for the bike lanes on Mass Ave in Arlington. Street was never marked for two lanes of car traffic anyway.
2) "Like John Kerry" John Kerry did not die in his bike accident. He's alive and well, bending over for the Iranian government.
The median will use far more
The median will use far more width than the bike lanes.
Rather than worrying about the number of car lanes, my main concerns are:
1) Smooth pavement for biking (it's unbikeable while torn up for construction)
2) Fixing the awful traffic lights at Route 60, Lake Street, and Alewife Brook Parkway, which cause 20+ minute jams every afternoon
OMG Stop it!
Thats Markky?!
Ooooooh thats some delicious advice to take!
Sigh.
Some of us are able to distinguish a person's character from their given mode of transportation. For instance, though I'm a pedestrian/cyclist, I don't assume all motorists have a disregard for human life. And I'm not going to leap to defend any cyclist against any accusations (remember, innocent until proven guilty) just because we occasionally share the same form of transport.
In summary:
Motorist ≠ jerk
Cyclist ≠ jerk
Pedestrian ≠ jerk
Person who derails conversation about serious accused crime to turn it into an anti-bicycle fight = jerk
I hope they find this creep
Not to say he is guilty of a crime (innocent until proven guilty), but anybody who generally makes others feel uncomfortable deserves the courtesy of KNOWING their behavior makes people uncomfortable.
that's a good description of Markk's posts