The law is on their side
The Boston Police Department's BPDNews blog can be pretty depressing to read, what with seemingly endless reports of violent crime and mayhem in the streets.
Of late, however, the blog has kept readers entertained with accounts of people who think they're above the law. For example, a recent report detailed what happened when police cornered a car on the Albany Street ramp to I-93 south after the driver had ignored officers attempting to wave him down on a nearby street:
"The operator stopped in the middle of the ramp and immediately became hostile upon being asked for license and registration, telling officers: "You have no [bad word] right to pull us over, regular police can't stop us on the highway, I know my rights, I'm in Harvard Law School!"
Say no more! Police then graciously extended the driver the opportunity to further his legal education with some first hand experience. His passenger was also arrested when he got out of the car and swung at officers trying to get him out of traffic, BPDNews reported.
A Back Bay lawyer and former Massachusetts state trooper who blogs under the name CarPundit writes that he wasn't surprised to read of a law student with an over-inflated sense of the law. In Massachusetts, he writes, the law is that a police officer can stop anybody on any road in his city or town -- highway or not.
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"The first two yells didn't faze me; lots of people yell. But when it became about as regular as a car horn alarm, I got up and went out the door. On the steps of the house across from mine, there was a man in a white tank top and black pants lying down, not responding, and a shirtless young man in jeans with lots of tattoos screaming at the top of his lungs, 'BRUNO! Don't die on me! Don't you DARE die on me!' "
She continues that EMTs were able to revive the man and help him into their ambulance.
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He filled his trash can, then managed to balance three filled plastic bags atop it:
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