Hardball Times provides an oral history of that famous night when air-traffic controllers from San Diego to Boston cleared a private jet ahead of other planes and then Sox fans on Storrow Drive pulled to the side so a state trooper could get Doug Mirabelli to Fenway in time to catch Tim Wakefield in a game against the Yankees.
Massachusetts State Police (via a statement): We wouldn’t do something like that again, certainly not with lights and siren. As a public safety agency, that was not an appropriate use of our assets.
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Interesting read but absolutely ridiculous
By anon
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 5:55am
Public service agencies should not have stars in their eyes. Yes, I know it happens, but it shouldn't.
It's not supposed to be one government for the rich/famous, other government for everyone else.
You're new around here, eh?
By dmcboston
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 11:00am
There are folks that are still butthurt over the Babe Ruth trade. The one that financed 'No No Nanette'.
I read the article. Apparently, most of the cars heard what was going on on the radio and made a concerted effort to get out of the way.
So, what harm? Sox won, anyway.
Did the sox reimburse for the cost of the detail?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 11:07am
That's the harm - using scarce publicly-funded resources for the express benefit of a high-profit private entertainment enterprise and not public safety.
Also....
By SoBo-Yuppie
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 5:15pm
the only people that thought this was cool was people from the burbs. not actual bonstonains.
move fenway to foxborough!
Actual Bostonians?
By adamg
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 6:32pm
Do you actually know any? Your comments over the months would lead one to think you're working as hard as you can to replace actual Bostonians with New Yorkers or something.
NEVER SAY NEVER
By anon
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 8:33am
If the Governor calls the colonel and tells him to provide an escort for whatever reason we all can agree that the answer won't be "NO PROBLEM WE PUT HIM ON THE MBTA"
The staties did this last
By Tim
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:42am
The staties did this last year for refs at foxboro who forgot the game balls at the hotel #freebrady
They cleared the airspace over NY.
By dmcboston
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 10:54am
Funny. I wonder how crazy the ATC people went when they found out who was on the plane?
Torn
By Neighbor4
Sat, 04/30/2016 - 9:12pm
Is it right; no. Probably not.
But do I still think it was OK? Well, yeah. I guess I do.
* if police failed to respond to an actual crime, or were taken far from their regular pateol area, or if someone had been brought in on overtime to cover, that would be much worse. But if the regular shift guys did it as a lark, then I have trouble getting too worked up.
From...
By boo_urns
Sun, 05/01/2016 - 11:30am
Former Globe Bruins (and before that, Red Sox) Beat Reporter, Amalie Benjamin,
I chuckled at that. Found here: https://twitter.com/AmalieBenjamin/status/72615273...
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