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Alleged out-of-town dumbasses learn you can't beat up people who won't high-five you at Bruins games

By adamg on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 1:27pm

Boston Police report arresting a pair of men old enough to know better for assault and battery at a Bruins game at the Garden last night.

According to police, Scott DeVivo, 40, of Newton, NH, and Shaun Neary, 34, of Salisbury, became so incensed around 9 p.m. when some other fans in Section 8 wouldn't reciprocate their attempt at high fives that they "threw beer all over them."

Police report that did nothing to convince the other fans to change their minds about high-fivery. DeVivo, police say, then jumped on one of the fans, knocked him to the ground and began punching him. A detail officer noticed the affray and jumped in:

The suspect, despite being commanded to stop his assault, did not do so and instead attempted to pull the officer to the ground. Security from the Garden along with detail officers vigorously wrestled with suspect DeVivo and when officers were on the verge of getting suspect DeVivo under control, his friend, suspect Neary grabbed an officer was grabbed from behind and pulled off of the violent suspect DeVivo. Officers then directed their attention to the second suspect Neary who now started fighting officers and trying to flee the area. Officers pursued the suspect into a nearby bathroom where he was placed under arrest after a brief struggle.

Both were given a ride over to A-1 for booking on charges of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, resisting arrest, disturbing a public assembly and being a disorderly person.

Ed. note: A Garden restroom? Oh, no, not again.

Innocent, etc.

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Comments

By Steve Stein on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 1:34pm.

Wait, back up. This guy SPILLED BEER?!? Heathen! Book 'em, Dano!
OTOH, I bet there was a lot of beer involved that was used for its intended purpose.

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By anon on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 1:39pm.

Very appropriate usage for "vigorously wrestled" Devivo..Looks like Devivo was 3 time wrestling state champ and all-american out of tewksbury high. BPD must have gotten a work out.

http://wikibin.org/articles/massachusetts-wrestlin...

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By anon on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 2:40pm.

Why is it always about "suburban" this "suburban" that with you people?

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By adamg on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:10pm.

When suburbanites stop blaming Boston for all their problems, then I'll stop pointing out that suburbanites cause their share of problems in Boston.

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By Dave on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:18pm.

You're letting random comments from unregistered nuts cause you to post articles that seem to come from an oikophobic viewpoint?

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By adamg on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:55pm.

Happened to be fresh in my mind and all, but yeah, some people out there do see Boston as the root of evil.

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By anon on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 4:40pm.

This is the stupidest thing I have ever read in my life. I am an educated woman from the "suburbs" of Boston close to Salisbury and you people have to get a life. To take this information and not even be aware that these two men may be innocent in this and create this fodder for morons to tangent on ridiculousness is assanine to me. I believe the officers came upon the scuffle, but did not see the beginning. Maybe they were the ones who were jumped....I hope you do not actually get paid for this nonsense that you are putting out there. Maybe, if you left that computer screen and went out into the real world and had true conversations eye to eye with people this crap would not be corrupting peoples views of others. Good Luck in your life journey....

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By Sarcastic Sam on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 11:56pm.

And learned that "oikophobic" does NOT in fact mean 'fear of greek yogurt' as I'd imagined.

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By Neal on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:35pm.

I don't even think I'd call Salisbury a suburb. It's population is under 8,000 and it's 35 miles away from Boston...

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By Ron Newman on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:52pm.

But not of Boston.

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By anon on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 7:56pm.

A suburb of Plaistow NH, no doubt.

Apparently, suburban means Caucasian.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 7:58pm.

I've worked a number of places where people took the commuter buses and drove to commuter trains while living in Salisbury, Amesbury, etc. More than a few folks living there commute to Boston on a daily basis.

35 miles is a suburb. Boston is just weird about that.

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By Ron Newman on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 9:24pm.

by train and by car, but I wouldn't call any of them "suburbs".

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By John-W on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 9:50am.

I don't think "suburban" has such a hard and fast definition that it is easy to say what falls into the "Burbs" and what doesn't. If you're willing o claim towns in southern NH as part of the Boston suburbs, then why not towns over the line in RI? Aren't they part of the Providence suburbs? If 1% of your town's population commutes to Boston to work does that make you a suburb? If you can go about your life in your town without ever having to "go into town" for anything (not even to get shitfaced and arrested at a Bruins game) are you still a suburbanite?

The real issue here isn't whether these people came from satellite communities of Boston, it's that they were assholes. Boston proper got its fare share and so does Salisbury -- we're just less likely to end up drunk and incarcerated in Salisbury (actually bad example...I can easily picture getting into either of those two states in Salisbury...)

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By adamg on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 9:04pm.

The BPDNews account gives one guy's town as "Newton," which, of course, I assumed meant the place on the D line. In fact, he's from Newton, NH, which, granted is in the Massachusetts North part of New Hampshire, but obviously not quite the same.

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By Chris Dowd on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 2:50pm.

. . . two and the guy dressed up in the baseball "fury" outfit from the movie "The Warriors" (who was age 39 if I recall correctly) my generation is looking like a bunch of a-holes these days.

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By Suldog on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:10pm.

... but The Warriors guy was just imitating a-holes from my generation :-)

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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By Chris Dowd on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 3:13pm.

That's awesome. Needed that. Thanks. Love your blog by the way.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 8:03pm.

... for being old enough to know better.

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By Brian Riccio on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 9:12pm.

Beer, hockey and morons from NH in the big city! I lived in NH for 3 years and every day I lived there I felt like a combination of Margaret Mead and Jane Goodall. Seriously, it's like they moved Missouri north. A true cultural wasteland.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 9:21pm.

It doesn't stop with West Virginia ... goes all the way up into Canada.

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By FlyingToaster on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 1:27am.

... I was out to my niece's wedding in October. It was bad in 1979 (when I escaped East to college), and it looks like it's all been downhill from there.

At least the NewHamsters don't have more "Christian Music" radio stations than pop and rock. And they don't preach that global warming can't be real because Jehovah promised Noah...

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By anon on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 12:29pm.

The whole United States and the world at large, is full of such people, unfortunately.

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