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Students descend on Revere Beach and enjoy the day
By adamg on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 4:45pm
Some braved the water at Revere Beach.
State and Revere Police braced for trouble today on receiving intelligence that hordes of Boston high-school students were going to skip class and descend on the little seaside town and do what hordes of Boston high-school students are supposedly wont to do.
Flocks of state troopers walked up and down the sidewalk in the hot sun in their warm uniforms. State troopers on motorcycles drove up and down the sidewalk, looking state-trooper tough. Motorcycle cops patrolled the road. A K9 unit was on hand for extra snarly attitude; at the State Police station, a mobile command center had its satellite dish in the upright position.
Eventually, small groups of high-school students showed up to join the locals and college kids already on hand. They proceeded to do what everybody else was doing: Hang out, toss balls around, flirt and just enjoy the day. Shocking, indeed.
The closest Revere Beach got to a commotion was when people lined up at Kelly's.
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Comments
Tough assignment
Whew...I don't know how you do it, Adam. When given the choice between a sweaty court room for the Mattapan verdicts or Revere Beach teens skipping school to go to the beach, you're always just too hard on yourself. ;)
And I had to endure that line at Kelly's!
Just to get one of their roast-beef sandwiches.
One of the disadvantages of being a one-person mobile news unit is it can be hard to cover something that goes on for a long time, such as a murder trial (let alone one like that one) - I'd be unable to cover much of anything else. Fortunately, both the Globe and the Herald did excellent jobs covering the trial, so hopefully people who wanted to keep up with it could.
Black kids day at the beach
Please black kids playing hookey is no reason to call out the troops. Bull Connors must be smiling from Hell that his tatics are being used in Mass
hut hut hut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJu17fAnKU
The just don't do TV show intros like they used to
I actually only saw one cop in a black uniform today, and he seemed to be perfectly content to lean on the window of a cruiser and talk to the cop inside it. Of course, the heavy-armor patrol might have been waiting in a special go room inside the barracks for all I know.
Perhaps
the students all behaved because the police served as a deterrent from acting like idiots?
Let's face it, teenagers of every stripe can be obnoxious in public.
The Staties Tweeted that they wanted to make sure kids acted in a civil manner and didn't ruin things for other beachgoers. Looks like they succeeded.
We'd like to thank
... our jack booted overlords. They allow us to dismiss counterfactual scenarios without a scrap of evidence. What would we do without constant forceful police presence forcing us to be happy and perfectly behaved all the time.
Norman coordinate.
No way!
It wasn't the Staties! It was my magic rock that I had in my pocket all day!
Perhaps
None of the kids were from Franklin
Name your price.
It keeps the tigers away AND makes kids behave at the beach? Damn, dude. How much for the rock?
I'm a nice guy
I went ahead and created a new magic rock. You'll see it on your walk home today. I put it where you will see it (my magic rock told me where you would walk). So, just keep your eyes open and have one for free on me.
No vast numbers of skippers
The Herald reports the absence rate at BPS schools was no higher than normal yesterday.
So you are telling us......
they not only scared them away from the beach, but back into the schools?
Those are some rocks indeed.
Those are some rocks indeed.