Alleged road rager with a baseball bat sought for Roxbury incident

By adamg on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 1:29pm

Wanted woman in white top, yellow pants, with a bat

Photos via BPD.

A possible dispute over a parking spot on Hutchings Street in Roxbury Saturday afternoon ended when one of the combatants came after the other with a baseball bat, Boston Police say.

Police are now trying to find the woman in a white top and yellow pants who went after the other motorist on Hutchings, midway between Humboldt Avenue and Elm Hill Avenue around 3:15 p.m. One possible clue: She was driving a new, gray Honda Accord prominently marked as a courtesy vehicle from Parkway Honda on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury.

In addition to her banana-like attire, the woman also wore black and yellow sandals and large pink glasses, police say, adding she may also have had a tattoo on her right wrist.

If she looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-343-4275 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

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Is it not how it's done?

By Rwgfy on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 1:37pm.

Is it not how it's done? As long as you say "Don't you try me lady" it's considered a proper way.

The cops are idiots if..

By SmallJB on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 1:56pm.

It takes them longer then an afternoon to identify this woman. How many Parkway Honda loaner cars could possibly be on loan right now?

Speaking of police

By anon on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 2:43pm.

The fashion police need to have a word with her also.

Easter Peeps ...

By Friartuck on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 3:43pm.

Aren't just for Easter

Decades of giving valuable

By Kinopio on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 3:27pm.

Decades of giving valuable land away for free to lazy brats has led to violent behavior like this. Start charging $200 per year for a resident parking sticker. If criminals are going to act like they own public property at least get some money out of them.

When one has a hammer, every problem is a nail

By Waquiot on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 9:44pm.

I would imaging if you were a driver, you’d be filled with road rage regularly, so thank God you don’t drive.

$200 a year is still a gift.

By Lee on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 10:03pm.

Needs to be much more.

I'm All In On Tolls For Bike Lanes

By John Costello on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 7:37am.

You know, pieces of valuable land given away for free to lazy brats who break traffic laws.

Interesting

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 3:53pm.

You support every mode paying for the sum total of the cost.

You sure about that?

Give how much money from taxes, health care costs, pollution damage, property damage, and public space use that cars cost, cyclists should get rebates.

Cyclists pay all the taxes that fund car-specific infrastructure, too - and subsidize the health care costs incurred by the all too typical seven day a week drive-thru laziness of motorists. At least a bike lane on a major road means that ambulance can get through traffic when you have that fight-or-flight aggression and lack of exercise-driven artery clogging event.

https://stacker.com/society/how-driving-subsidized-america

Gas tax and other vehicle fees cover 75% of road costs

By robo on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 7:16pm.

So explain to me how a cyclist that doesn’t own a vehicle ‘pays all the taxes that fund car-specific infrastructure’.

Also, I hope you’re not lumping ebikes into traditional bikes when you talk about rebates because there’s nothing healthy about that mode of transportation.

Bing or Ranier?

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 11:36am.

Please link to your source for that data. I'd be interested in an update on the accounting - and to see how they define "road costs" and whether this is state/local info or federal spending info.

It is cherry picking season after all.

In Massachusetts the most recent data I've seen from the Tax Foundation pegs the cost share at around 60% with the rest coming from state and local taxes that cyclists and non-cyclists alike pay. I'd love to see if we are making progress on shifting more of that cost burden to driving specific funding.

And then there are the additional costs of motor vehicle dependence - emergency services for the bloodbath, pollution impacts on public health and healthcare costs (MA is the Asthma Capital of the US), lack of physical activity, urban design for vehicles that prevents physical activity by children, etc. Externalities exist and they matter!

p.s. nothing healthy about an e-bike? Mine runs on sunshine and butt fat. It does not have a throttle - I have to pedal it - and the battery lasts 60-70 miles (4-6 hours of riding) while offsetting only 420 calories. Much healthier than if I drove to work or drove down to NYC or the Cape, drove around, and drove back instead of taking it on the train or boat.

I was wrong

By robo on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 1:10pm.

It’s 79% in MA -

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-infrastructure-spending/

We’re shifting more of that burden away from vehicle owners with the big push for EV. $762 million from gas tax a year in MA is slowing disappearing.

Thanks - that's great!

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 07/03/2024 - 7:47pm.

Thanks for digging that up. I really think that this level of payment is really about right for the maintenance component, considering the relative costs of bike lanes, sidewalks, and other benefits of roads.

I agree with you that things need to be reorganized for the switch to electric cars that the state is promoting. While we can't do anything about the federal taxes, it would make sense to start charging per mile driven regardless of fuel.

What I think might work:
Pick off miles driven at annual inspection
Charge according to two factors:
Weight of vehicle (scales to damage to roads)
Smog factor

Vehicle weight would favor ICE unless you are driving a massive bulldozer. Smog factor could be calculated according to "official" mileage numbers for ICE and hybrids, and mix of electricity in the state for e-vehicles.

So my neighbor's Leaf would be taxed considerably less than my Outback on smog factor and weight, but likely more for the number of miles driven. I think that would be fair.

Smog factor charges could be diverted to asthma costs that heavily hammer MassHealth, and climate change adaptation.

Good ideas.

By Lee on Thu, 07/04/2024 - 11:46am.

I think that’s a fantastic idea

By robo on Thu, 07/04/2024 - 2:25pm.

I think one issue is how do you handle a MA resident that drives a lot, but not a lot in MA? Maybe this is such a corner case that it doesn’t really matter and once all states start charging by the mile really won’t matter.

CA is dealing with this very issue right now and started a pilot program to evaluate what you’ve proposed.

Warning

By Username Unknown on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 4:11pm.

When the eyebrows are up over the glasses you best take a step back.

And never trust anyone without eyebrows

By tachometer on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 4:15pm.

You can't tell when they're surprised.

I assume this also applies

By MC Slim JB on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 6:12pm.

to the heavily Botoxed?

As long as we're on eyebrow conspiracy theories

By Bob Leponge on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 9:18am.

As long as we're on the topic of eyebrow conspiracies, have y'all checked out Cap'n Crunch carefully? The man's eyebrows are on his hat, not his head.
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My only question

By Hardy Har Har on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 4:55pm.

Was the bat included as an accessory with the loaner?

Looks like someone in a blue shirt …

By Lee on Mon, 07/01/2024 - 10:01pm.

… to her left was trying to take the bat away from her.

Alleged road rager with a baseball bat sought for Roxbury incident

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