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Man threatened with pitchfork in Wellesley apartment-building incident

By adamg on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 2:26pm

Wellesley apartment buildings are apparently equipped with pitchforks in case some hay needs some pitching. The Swellesley Report reports (scroll down) that two men got into a verbal tiff in a local building when one grabbed a small pitchfork that just happened to be sitting there and threatened the other with it. The man then refused to answer his door when police came a-knockin', so they issued a summons to appear in court.

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By Michael on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 3:35pm.

Wellesley is a member of the MetroWest Zombie Defense Task Force. As such all multi-unit dwellings in Wellesley are supplied with pitchforks in case of contagion. Single-family residences can qualify for their own pitchforks through the MWZDTF kiosk staffed weekends at the Wellesley RDF. Recently the town celebrated over 23 years Zombie Free!

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By Friartuck on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 4:31pm.

And also the situation with the poor rideshare guy being suspected of trying to get an underage guy into his car.... he must've thought his life was over ...

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By Username Unknown on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 8:42pm.

The biggest part of this story was totally overlooked.

Who knew there were apartment buildings in Wellesley? I thought renters violated zoning there. Imagine the horror?

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By adamg on Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:20am.

Clustered along Washington Street - low-rise buildings, not anything like what you'd see in, oh, Boston.

Things have changed a lot since I had anything to do with news in Wellesley, but at one time, they made up a sort of Democratic island in what was then a heavily Republican town.

There's also the town's one low-income housing project, but don't worry - the town found a piece of land for that along 128 nowhere near the rest of the town.

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By anon on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 9:46pm.

Sounds like a potential scene from a horror movie.

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By Rwgfy on Tue, 07/30/2024 - 9:26am.

This one is better:

On May 22, 2024 at 12:39 an officer spoke to a reporting party who stated she had purchased a large umbrella for the picnic table outside the apartment building and had placed it at the picnic table on May 21 st . She stated on the morning of May 22nd she noticed the umbrella was sagging on one side and that a metal arm inside the umbrella was broken. She believed that another resident intentionally damaged the umbrella as there was no significant wind at the time.
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