Davis Square storeowner wants to know who threw somebody through her store window
By adamg - Tue, 09/30/2008 - 8:00am.
Meredith, the owner of the Poor Little Rich Girl consignment shop, is asking for information on a fight early Saturday morning that ended with somebody going through her store window and getting carted away to the hospital:
... I have the name of the injured person, but without witnesses to say what happened, I am going to be held responsible for the rather expensive damage. ...
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I know it's a long shot, but
Thats just wrong, I hope they find the guy. On a side note, it may be time to put in security cameras, they are getting pretty cheap and some of the new models actually have very high resolution.
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Yes, we need better facial recognition surveillance of public sidewalks. Solved!
Don't forget about Sagra
This summer I went with a couple of friends to Sagra and found the normally up-scale, quiet Italian place looks a lot different at night.
Dance music, bouncers, lights - it was quite a shock that Sagra of all places became a night hotspot.
Another thing that was even stranger was that it was defitely not your usual Davis college kid crowd - everyone was in their mid-twenties and looked like they were townies. Like the population of On the Hill Tavern was on a field trip or something.
We decided to leave when 7 guys all walked in together wearing identical, brand new red sox caps and identical white sneakers. I don't think they were getting back from the game...and who lets people wear hats in a "club" anyways?
SO THE POINT - Sagra's right across the street from PLRG if I remember correctly. Wonder if there's a connection. Locals, booze, a white gang...hmmmmm. Maybe it wasn't the college students this time.
Sagra is not across from Poor Little Rich Girl
Sagra is on Highland Avenue. Poor Little Rich Girl is a block away on Elm Street.
townies?
they were from charlestown?
This may seem cold
But how about suing the injured person? I mean, they're the one who broke your window ;-), and this would squeeze them for info about who the other person is. If they truly don't know who the other person is, I guess you're outta luck.
It's not that cold
The person who went through the window would seek to join the assailant to the case in order to satisfy the judgment, thus the victim loses nothing and the store owner is compensated.
Although it is hoped that the victim actually knows the assailant and this would compel them to reveal the identity to properly reimburse the store owner.
Where were they drinking?
Does anybody know? Keep in mind that injured does not necessarily mean innocent. (sometimes a brawl = attack, other times it = tango).
Because IF they got tanked at one of the bars, that bar could get in a little trouble for serving drunk people more drink.
Unless they are willing to help pay for the window as a gesture of good faith.
Northeastern set a precedent
Northeastern set a precedent with the birdbath lol Why dont we just call Tufts (closest college) and ask them to fix the window!
Better Yet
The Irish Consulate.
We like to drink, that we
We like to drink, that we do.
In order to prove it was an irishman though I would demand an analysis of what the young lad was drinking.
Really, the Irish consulate?
Bars in Davis Square
Joshua Tree
Burren
Sligo
etc.
Why is it okay to slag college students (who are too young to get into these bars, by and large), but not point out the Guiness theme park?
Touche
But by and large I only go after college students whose names show up in police reports or blog accounts. At this point, we have no clue if any these bars (Joshua Tree is an Irish name?) had anything to do with this, let alone whether the people involved in the window shattering had anything to with attempting to uphold a stereotype.
My bet
There is a small but annoying number of post-high school age types who still live at home and don't have steady work and just hang around various parts of "Sombridge" panhandling, acting stupid, and drinking with their similarly marginal friends like they do most nights. They may have hassled somebody leaving a bar and got some action.
"The Irishman is not the issue here, Dude"
Sombridge is not the preferred nomenclature. Camberville, please.
Another name
I prefer to think of it as East Arlmont.
hey swrily
"marginal friends"? what does that mean? they didnt have anyone to pay for college so they work blue collar jobs and like to drink beers on the weekends? a jerk is a jerk , it doesnt matter if you are a drunk MIT student or some kid that still lives at home because he is not getting the same breaks some other kid may have.ill tell you one thing, you dont hear to many local kids pulling the old "do you know who iam , ill have your job" card.thats usually some non marginal kid that will spend his four years here and then move on to bigger and better things somewhere else.i didnt think you were one to brand people based on there economic or academic backgrounds.maybe some fruitloop somerville broad on a bike crashed into the window?
marginalfriendsbostnkid
Not like you spend much time in the Davis Square area or the rest of Somerville/Cambridge, that I can tell.
Here's what I'm talking about: it's not your sainted working class heroes who drink noble heroic working class beers and beat people up in noble heroic working class ways because they ain't got no fricking college to go to learn capitalization and punctuation and all that elitist nonsense that isn't noble and working class.
I'm talking about the troupes of losers who "grace" just about every square with a packy in the run from Somerville through Cambridge. Inman, Davis, Harvard, Porter, etc. I doubt that any sort of job or school is involved in their lives, as they seem to roam around at all hours acting stupid. Come late evenings, they drink heavily and get more stupid, and I wouldn't put it past them to start something with some other stupid drunk coming out of a bar - or non drunk for that matter.
In fact, one of my profs was constantly trying to keep her dropout son from roving like this and asked me to call her if I saw him, as he didn't need more police involvement with his life - so I have some idea of what I'm talking about here. It doesn't sound like your wildly jumped conclusions about economic class have anything to do with reality here, either, because she indicated that most were kids like him from relatively wealthy homes that could support and house them. One would expect that given the real estate prices in the area.
Here's what I'm talking
As the prophet Sarah Palin would say "gosh darn it Swirlygrl there you go again."
say it aint so swirlygrl
"aint got no college to go learn capitalzation and punctuation and all that nonsense that isnt noble and working class"
i went to college.i am working class,and that's where i do come from.i lived on aberdeen rd near davis square for two years.stop acting like your smarter than everyone else. i may have misinterpeted your "marginal" comment but there is no need to get your granny panties in a bunch and start taking cheap shots.
Human dungarees?
bstnkd, so what would you call the people who hang out and drink all day and night and then tumble into their parents' basement when the cops shut them down? I'd be much surprised if you hadn't noticed/been panhandled by such.
Sounds like this is yet another case of having seventy thousand different names for "pants" that vary by city/town and getting huffy when somebody doesn't use the "right" term.
Then again, my trailer dwelling kin out west would automatically consider you to be an elitist and latte liberal because you live in Massachusetts - everybody here owns a suit and tie, right?
Sounds like another case of
I believe the proper term your looking for is knickers. Now Im going to get myself a tonic and use a water bubbla govna.
Who are these people getting "huffy" over improper use of lexicon refering to pants? It seems to me like your more of the police on grammar and style then anyone else around here.
i see your point on "marginal"
i think i said that already.i thought everybody out where you come from lived underneath the bridge?
mr ee cummings, so great to
mr ee cummings, so great to finally meet you
What's in a name?
Classic U2 album. That's direct enough, even if it's just coincidence.
joshua tree
is a U2 album named after a tree in the Joshua Tree National Park in California. I guess that makes it Irish.
Because we all know that all
Because we all know that all college students are under the age of 21 and never continue on their education. Thats why Boston doesnt have any graduate schools...
Who do you think goes to these bars?
Davis Not Just College Kids
Davis is not just for college students. In fact, I don't see a critical mass of young adults over there - Tufts is over a mile away, actually. The bars card heavily.
Most of the undergrad set hangs out at Annas or at the Diesel or other coffee joints. I see a heck of a lot more mid-career professionals heading into Davis for dinner and drinks than I do obvious undergrads. That and the (admittedly dwindling) Irish Immigrant crowd that hangs around that stretch of Elm St. Grad students, perhaps, but they tend to be too broke to do much more than the cheap eats and a beer at Mikes.
Sure, there are a couple of larger places up Holland St., but even those are more full of 30-somethings. Davis square isn't cheap anymore, and college students don't stick around Boston after graduation like they used to either.
Mid career professionals are
Mid career professionals are notorious for getting into fights on the street and tossing each other into plates of glass.
Don't you know, Adam?
It's only racism if you say shit like that about black people. (Just ask eeka).