Body dumped in Franklin Park; stabbed man kicked out of bar

By adamg on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 11:50am

The Herald reports a couple of guys in a brown Japanese sedan were spotted dumping what turned out to be a male body near the Franklin Park Zoo's overflow parking lot last night.

Police are also investigating a Chinatown stabbing last night: They say a man made it to South Station after being stabbed in a bar where he said the bartender kicked him out after he was sliced open.

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Ahhh.... the good old days

By anon on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 12:44pm.

Ahhh.... the good old days are back!

conventional wisdom

By Lyss on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 12:54pm.

Aren't you supposed to dump bodies in remote locations where there won't be any witnesses?

Good point

By BrucemB on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 5:22pm.

These guys totally suck at body dumping.

In the popular media, the

By anon on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 6:57pm.

In the popular media, the intelligence of criminals tends to be highly overrated. In real life, most of these guys are swiming in the shallow end of the gene pool.

Our criminals are not the brightest minds

By Arborway on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 6:53pm.

Given the pattern established in the BPD log, I'd say Boston has some especially stupid criminals who really know how to be conspicuous as possible.

I'm making this up, but it's a good example of what I'm talking about:

"Police witnessed a car traveling in excess of 120mph run seven red lights in fifteen seconds. The car was pulled over, and the driver was discovered to have thirty-seven outstanding murder warrants and was carrying seventy pounds of black tar heroin on the front passenger seat in a box prominently labeled 'BLACK TAR HEROIN' - with the words underlined several times for emphasis."