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Channel 5: Jackknifed Truck Jams Boston Traffic.

Specifically, a jackknifed truck in the northbound side of the O'Neill Tunnel.

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Giant black snake infesting Big Dig?

Channel 4 employee has terrifying encounter with some long black thing hanging from the tunnel ceiling this morning. They could call it Diggy.

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Broken zipper lane

The Southeast Distressway lived up to its name this afternoon, with some people getting stuck in the HOV lane for more than an hour after one car ran out of gas and two more broke down, according to report after report on WBZ's Traffic on the 3s.

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Yankee fan pleads guilty to killing Sox fan

No, not that lady up in New Hampshire. Associated Press reports on a Lawrence man's guilty plea for shooting three Sox fans after game 4 of the 2004 ALCS (the Dave Roberts game):

As the men drove home along Interstate 93, some of them teased Rodriguez, a Yankees fan.

He pulled a gun and fatally shot Jose Rivera and wounded Raphael Tavares and Jose Viera.

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Blowout in the Big Dig

Yoav now knows first hand what happens when you get a flat in the O'Neill Tunnel:

... I'm just cruising along (below the speed limit, thank you very much), when all of I sudden I hear a bang and feel a jerk on the back right side of the car. Sure enough, the tire pressure warning indicator lights up.

Unfortunately I had to go a little ways until I found a reasonable spot to pull over, because the right-hand lanes were full of cones and construction equipment.

In fact, I bet it was a stray piece of equipment or gear that caused my tire explosion. ...

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I-93 turns into Southeast Distressway as camper explodes

I-93 shut at Southampton Street for 15 minutes as firefighters rushed to put out the fire in the ammo-filled camper on the northbound side.

Meanwhile, further north, part of the Leverett Connector is cracked. No cause for alarm, turnpike authority says, banning trucks weighing more than 40 tons just to be safe.

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East/west commuters to continue to bear brunt of north/south road

State honcho vows: No tolls on I-93. Which means that tolls on the turnpike will continue to not go away to help pay for the Big Dig.

Commute-a-holic, who lives west of Boston, is not happy:

... I don't understand why North Shore and South Shore drivers get a free ride into Boston, where as everyone who lives West of Boston need to continue to pay to get into the city. It is so unfair. ...

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Massholes don't let being behind the wheel of a mini-van stop them from being Massholes

Jeff Cutler reports on an encounter of the mini-van Masshole kind in a Big Dig tunnel.

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