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311 complaint about an abandoned, rubbish-filled shopping cart in Bay Village leads to grisly discovery: A human arm
By adamg on Tue, 08/08/2023 - 9:12am
The abandoned cart on Winchester Street yesterday morning.
WBZ reports DPW workers dumping a blue bin that had just been dropped off at the DPW yard on Frontage Road yesterday saw a human arm come tumbling out.
The station reports the arm is now in the possession of the state Medical Examiner's office, which will try to determine what happened to it.
The arm was inside a blue bin inside a discarded shopping car on Winchester Street near Arlington Street. Somebody reported the abandoned cart via the 311 app at 9:17 a.m. yesterday.
Junkies stealing grocery carts and left on street, please clean up, thank you
The city marked the case closed at 10:04 a.m.
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Comments
OHH
So THAT'S where it went! Knew I forgot something!
Harvard
Harvard is probably looking for their cart.
311
made City departments reactive rather than proactive on City services. Previous public works would sweep and pick up litter. Now they only respond to 311 reports leaving unreported litter to sit uncollected. The same with parking enforcement.
hokey
I see hokey sweeping Beacon Hill from time to time.
Also see https://www.universalhub.com/2021/boston-hokey-never-pokey-thats-what-it...
You want an arm? I can get
You want an arm? I can get you an arm. Believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you an arm by 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Ha Ha
A human is dead. Ha ha ha.
You don't know that.
You don't know that.
Armless person arrives at local hospital
Would've made at least ONE news broadcast.
Didn't rise to that level
The news wouldn't have known about it because the hospital didn't call the police. The victim was mostly armless.
Yes we do
News report all say a body was found, the Medical Examiner took custody of the body, etc. Medical examiners don't take custody of live bodies, only dead ones.
https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2023/08/07/boston-body-found-public-wo...
People have to cope
Dark comedy has it's place, John.
Surely you can see how it's sometimes humerus.
It never pays to be helpful.
You give someone a hand and they take an arm!
Arm & Hammer
Would've really been impressive
All things considered
Given the Realm of the Meth Mile, Cannibalism is well within the list of possibilities.
My impression of current day cannibals….
… is that they are generally well off, live in Germany and are computer wizards.
The unhoused and the addicts in Sacklerville just trying to survive don’t strike me as having the time or money to indulge in craven cravings.
Bay Village is my favorite long way around to several …
… places I walk or cycle to because it’s so quiet and pretty. Severed body parts is not something you’d expect to find in such a bucolic setting unless you were watching a cozy mystery.
Never again will I look upon a stuffed shopping cart with the same eyes.
Back in '42
There were 492 bodies and parts in the neighborhood... ;(
True. A horror scene.
Sometimes that comes mind. That and how marvelous it is that a section of Broadway still exists there as well.
Bucolic?
Not sure that we've gone down the same streets of Bay Village
The kind 311 case reporter
The kind 311 case reporter thought they had a junkie problem when they actually have a cannibal problem.
The article raises more
The article raises more questions than it answers.
Must resist the urge to make arm jokes...
What else was in there?
A hammer perhaps?
hey, can you give me a hand here?
sure, I'll give you an arm as well.
There's no crime here
The 2nd amendment is absolute.
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"...try to determine what happened to it"
It came off.
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