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Mugger escapes capture on Muddy River current
By adamg on Thu, 09/26/2013 - 9:36am
Brookline Police report a woman getting into her car on Brookline Avenue near Parkway Road after work Monday night was set upon by a highwayman, who grabbed her from behind and tried to pull her in the direction of the nearby Muddy River:
At this point, a passing motorist stopped his vehicle and attempted to assist the victim. The suspect fled towards the river and dove in and was carried downstream according to the witness.
A search by Brookline and Boston Police found no body in the raging roiling swift placid river.
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Whoa...
That is super scary, especially because that area seems pretty settled and sedate.
Muddy River flowing again?
Has the dredging/day lighting project being undertaken by the Army Corps restored flow to the river? I have never seen anything resembling flow that would be strong enough to carry a person "downriver" at anything more than a matter of a few feet per minute. Something is, er, fishy here.
Why Start Now
If I recall from my time in City Hall, that dredging project was initiated after a storm in 1996 flooded Kenmore Station. If it hasn't started yet, I wouldn't be holding my breath. Besides, but the time anyone rolls around to funding it, everyone will say that the specs are outdated and we need to start over again.
A. The daylighting project is
A. The daylighting project is several blocks away from where this happened.
B. It's been underway for months, the specs have been updated since 1996, the greenlighting of this project owes more to the flooding of spring 2010 than 1996, and you missed the public comment period by about a year.
But yeah, don't hold your breath, wiseguy. Oh, and if you want to base your comments on facts next time, try http://www.muddyrivermmoc.org/.
That's great news, of which I
That's great news, of which I was not aware. I don't live in the city anymore. But I can tell you that the specs I looked at in the early to mid oughts were definitely prompted by the 1996 floods. Were they updated in 2010? Terrific!
And oh, where in my comment did I not state anything factual? Read much?
What?
The Muddy River hasn't been a "raging, roiling swift river" for at least 50 years. Something smells here and it's not the river.
Yup
It's also hard to see the river from the road at that point, because the trees are pretty thick. And if I remember that stretch of the river correctly, it's not only very still, but is about wading depth. Not that anyone sane would go in it, because the water looks icky.
But the search did turn up
a cashe of leaf blowers.
I prefer the more genteel term
Reed rustlers