Michael Burstein reports Copley Square was just full of clowns this morning, for Cirque du Soleil.

Dave Daniels takes some photos.

Michael Burstein wonders:

When is it appropriate to interrupt a meeting at work to alert your co-workers to the presence of a red-tailed hawk?

Burstein found what seemed like an appropriate moment and so everybody broke for a few minutes and he took some photos of the hawk perched on the ledge outside their conference room nine stories above Copley Square today.

Boston Police report a teen was beaten and robbed in the Franklin Field housing project yesterday.

Police say an acquaintance of the teen stopped him as he walked through the project and asked him if he had $5 for food:

The victim reported that he told the friend that he had no small bills and only had $100 dollar bills, which he showed to him. The victim reported that he walked away from his "friend" and soon thereafter noticed that there was a large group of people from the nearby basketball court following him.

He was then knocked to the ground, kicked and hit in the head with a hammer, police say, adding they arrested a 16-year-old on an unarmed-robbery charge in connection with the case. The victim was taken to Carney Hospital, expected to survive.

Meanwhile, four alleged thugs (one from Erie, Pa.) learned that Green Line trolleys don't make the best getaway vehicles because if police chasing you from a robbery hear you've just gone down the outbound stairs at Copley, they're going to radio ahead and have you pulled off the train at Hynes.

Wow, it looks even worse than our lawn:

Last week, there was some sort of event on Copley Square. A huge white tent was erected. I never found out what it was for. I wish I knew.

I hope they had a wonderful, WONDERFUL, time.

Being diabetic is no excuse for urinating in the middle of the Copley Square park, because there are a number of nearby public restrooms, Boston Police advise.

Also click on the link to read about Masshole justice in Dorchester.

No, there's no punchline:

... But by 10 a.m., dozens of police had surrounded the bank and were waiting for equipment to cut through the chains and the bicycle lock looped through the door and around one protester's neck. ...

The story also raises that perennial question: Is Copley Square part of downtown?

I was on Boylston Street in Copley Square around noon when a couple of motorcycle cops came through, lights flashing. Then these three runners (you can't tell from the photo, but the guy is holding a lit torch). Then several vehicles with monks and other people calling for human rights in Tibet. And then the regular flow of traffic.

Third Decade was probably picking feathers out of his camera after taking that photo at today's pillow fight in Copley Square.

Teddy Kokoros was there, too. Maria Varmazis took photos as well:

... Many people saw me talking to one of the Banditos and asked me what political cause this rally was for. What's sad is that nobody seemed convinced when I told them this was just for fun. ...

Joe Driscoll managed to get just one shot:

It seemed like a nice day for walk. Perhaps over to Copley to visit the Library. The last thing I remember is a crazed individual and a Red Sox logo. Then the world went black.

PillowVision:

Earlier:
Pillow fight on the Common.

Fabulously Out There is walking to work at the Pru this morning when she starts seeing weird people:

... Next, two men come toward dressed in bedsheets covered in fake blood.

At which point I an wondering....are they crusaders? It is Good Friday and we all know what the Catholics did back in the day. These two might be a bit much into it.

Then, suddenly, Wonder-freaking-Woman, just with different colors appears.

At this point I am doubting my sanity.

There were a few pirate as well....and....as I enter my office building, I see a dude walking around in what resembles a popcorn box (home made, think Halloween) that said "DUH" on it. ...

Hmm, sounds like a job for Anime Boston, which opens today at, tah dah, the Hynes.