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Police: Quincy man was loaded for bear while driving around Dorchester early Sunday
By adamg on Mon, 04/13/2015 - 8:49pm
Boston Police report arresting a Quincy man they say was driving around Dorchester early Sunday with "bear attack deterrent," a loaded black Ruger LCR 357 Magnum, two axes, several large knives and a metal baseball bat.
James Kadlick's arrest around 1:10 a.m. happened, as these things often do, after a traffic stop - police say officers watched him drive through a red light and then take a left onto Columbia without signalling or bothering to stop for the red light.
As officers approached the vehicle, they observed the operator duck down out of sight for several seconds. When the suspect sat back up, he stuck his head out the driver’s side window with his hands still inside the car and turned back to look at officers as they approached. When officers reached the driver’s side door, they immediately observed a large black and silver knife and a large can of frontiersman bear attack deterrent (pepper spray) within reach of the suspect’s right hand. For their safety, officers ordered the suspect out of the vehicle in order to perform a pat frisk for any additional weapons.
He was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and carrying a loaded firearm, police say, adding he was also cited for the motor-vehicle infractions.
Innocent, etc.
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What's with Quincy lately?
What's with Quincy lately?
It's the new Braintree.
It's the new Braintree.
The "new" Braintree
Not to be confused or associated with the town of New Braintree somewhere out there in central Mass...
Serendipity!
Passed through there last weekend on a trip to the Quabbin. Though old enough in its own right - settled in the early 18th century, incorporated at around the revolution - is still younger than Old Braintree (colonized and incorporated in the early middle 17th century). Really pretty town.
New Braintree?
Braintree is rather nice, good High School with actual competitive athletics programs. I have three cousins who live in Braintree, all of which are/going to play college athletics.
Shit with BPS your lucky if your kid can read on a 9th grade level by the time they graduate HS.
Oh my goodness, yes, you are SO right!
What was I thinking? In Braintree, all the kids are above average, and would NEVER do anything like stab somebody at a Celtics game or smash out windows on the Red Line.
your lucky
so you graduated from bps?
Braintree is literally lily
Braintree is literally lily soft with teenage punks. Quincy has some actual thugs they actually get a few homicides a year along with more other crime and more drugs.
Bear Attack Deterrent?
I had a can of that stuff, which my brother insisted that I buy before hiking in the Canadian Rockies and camping across Ontario:
I chucked it when I stopped for lunch outside Montreal, before I crossed back into the US. I wasn't sure what the border regulations were going to be.
It could be a pretty effective weapon against any large mammal as it shoots a huge stream of pepper spray.
Pepper spray is not illegal
Pepper spray is not illegal in New Hampshire or Vermont. AFAIK, the feds do not regulate it, except it is illegal to carry onto an airplane.
MA just liberalized their laws on pepper spray, no longer requiring an FID card. That's probably why you don't see the motorist in this story charged for having the bear spray on him.
don't use bear spray against humans
You have a good chance of permanently blinding target, bystanders, yourself...
It's dangerous stuff that has no legitimate use in the city.
Seriously bears are in Boston
Seriously bears are in Boston now and I don't mean the Bruins. Black bears are everywhere in the state and getting overpopulated. If only they'd eat the deer.
"If only they'd eat the deer"?
Kidding, right? How is a black bear going to kill a deer, corner it in a dark alley? They don't hunt in packs, and while they can move fast when they need to, they're not designed to run a deer to death.
While they are moving east, saying that black bears are "everywhere in the state" is a bit of an exaggeration. Here's a map of black bear sightings to put it in perspective. No sightings in Boston. Bears will avoid humans as long as humans are not stupid. I've got black bears all around me and we never see them because people know how to discourage them -- the main thing is to not provide them with easy access to food (garbage, pet food, bird feeders, etc.).
it was a bit hyperbolic
but they killed a bear in my neighborhood in newton a couple years back, and brookline has had a couple bears hangin round.
hyperbolic maybe... but still you wouldnt expect to see bears in newton/brookline.
Generally not, but...
Black bears need range: a large area where they won't be unduly harassed, and where they can gather food. That's why you would not expect them in densely populated areas, BUT...when a dense concentration of people means a dense concentration of easily accessible food, and when the people don't react by discouraging the bear but by trying to get pictures of it, then the densely populated area is no longer a place of risk, but a place of opportunity. They'll stroll right down Main Street if they think there's food and no risk. It's up to people to change that.
Two things
1) You'd think the police would have caught on by now that stopping idiot drivers often results in nabbing idiot criminals. I wonder what stories the people who block the Broadway/McGrath intersection every damn morning would yield.
2)
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The owner of that image objects to your linking to it, and blocks me from seeing it. I'm sure it's a lovely one.
Hilariously the server owner
Hilariously the server owner blocks hot-linking ads on his server by serving another image instead, saving no bandwidth. Noob.
Noob?
That image looks pretty low res. If he's serving it instead of some ginormous hi-res image to the millions of people hotlinking to it, then yeah, he just saved a ton on his car insurance, or something.
Whoops
Just added another link that I think will work
Just respond with 403
Just respond with 403 forbidden error.
New image
I saw those signs, but BC and Alberta were more than showing those signs last August in the Canadian Rockies - they had rangers stationed at the trail heads and they required people to hike in groups (we had to wait until another couple showed up to hike the same loop) and required that at least one person had the bear spray.
I remember driving along the
I remember driving along the Kank and seeing a baby black bear do his little roly-poly scuttle across the road. Had a friend from France with me who was all, "Is that a Beer?" "Why Yes it is. Indeed, it is a Gddmned Beer. Next question: Where's the mama?"
Have seen conflicting advice on how to deal with one of those Gddmned Beers: do I play dead, or do I try to scare it off?
I can't even imagine running into a Grizzly. (Your past trip is my dream hike, by the way.)
Pulling someone over does lead to weapon confiscation
From community meetings I've learned that stops for minor things (broken tail light, expired sticker, etc.) do result in escalated actions which lead to arrests of people who against whom there are arrest warrants, confiscating weapons and illegal drugs, as well as major drug busts. While I strongly disagree with the shakedown known as details I have a responsibility to acknowledge that police use all of the tools they have to prevent crime when they can and deal with it afterwards when it could not be prevented. That includes keeping a sharp eye on anyone that is pulled over.
Unfortunately there are psychologicaly rabid human beings who are prepared to shoot a cop when they are pulled over for minor traffic violations.
And if this guy were living
And if this guy were living 50mi to the north of Quincy, nothing he was carrying would have even been illegal, nor establish probable cause for a deeper search/inquiry by the police.
And if he had wings, he could fly
Fun game, thanks!
This nut job seems to be only
missing the shovel and bag of lime.