By adamg on Mon., 3/7/2016 - 11:07 am
Capt. John Greland at C-6 reports:
3/6 12:07pm 421 Old Colony Av 11 year old girl dropped branch from foot bridge that cracked windshield of MV. When POs were putting her in cruiser to bring to C6 to await her mother she began crying and said "How do I know you're not going to taze me or kill me?"
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SERIOUSLY. Everyone is just
By anon
Tue, 03/08/2016 - 8:06am
SERIOUSLY. Everyone is just ignoring that this could have ended in serious injuries or somebody dying? The girl should have been sent skipping on home? The police picking her up (not arresting her but transporting her somewhere where her mother could get her) hammers in the severity of what she did.
I was a pretty stupid 11 year old but I knew not to throw things at moving cars.
And...
By lbb
Tue, 03/08/2016 - 8:30am
So could driving while using a cellphone. Are you ok with having cops arrest and impound the vehicles of drivers using cellphones?
I'm not saying the 11 year old shouldn't face consequences, but it does seem hypocritical to go all-caps about one action that "could have ended in serious injuries or somebody dying" and let a whole host of others slide.
Dropping things off of overpasses
By anon
Tue, 03/08/2016 - 10:21am
is illegal. Using a cellphone while driving is not.
When the laws regarding cellphone use are changed, then talk to us.
"Us"?
By lbb
Tue, 03/08/2016 - 12:17pm
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Who, you and the mouse in your pocket? Don't be disingenuous. Texting while driving is illegal, ANY use of a cellphone by a teen is illegal, and the senate passed a bill in January banning all handheld cellphone use. Is that enough change for you? If I said "texting while driving", does that change your response?
Who bothers?
By PharmaGuy
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 3:45pm
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-s...
These are all admirable
By Scumquistador
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 4:03pm
Qualities shared by many world leaders. If this was supposed to be insulting, try again.
If she's 11
By anongina
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 4:23pm
she's in 7th grade. She's not an adult but she knew that throwing the branch onto the cars below could cause an accident. I don't think she should go to jail but this is clear evidence of early anti-social behavior and someone should work with her and her parents. The idea that all people her age behave this way is ludicrous. I was working after school in a library in 7th grade. I never knew anyone that threw anything on off a bridge to cause harm to other people. This is not normal behavior.
if she's 11, she's in 5th grade
By Sybaritic1
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 5:46pm
if we are going by personal experience here, and it looks like you are, 11-y-o kids are in 5th grade. I was 13 in 7th grade, as most are.
Kids mess around, and learn from their mistakes. That's what childhood is for -- GROWING UP.
branch off footbridge
By sl
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 6:31pm
Has anyone considered the 11 yr old could have been pouring on the crocodile tears and playing up the "taze or kill me" angle just a bit?
Cops tweeting about an arrest seems unprofessional at the least.
my boyfriend was the one who called the cops..
By N/A
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 7:14pm
This 11 year old, was with her friend, and threw not a stick, a LOG with BRANCHES attached intentionally at the car. My boyfriend's car was directly next to the guys car who got hit and was very close to hitting his car as well. He saw her wait look and throw it at the car as it drove underneath the bridge.
The guy who's car she hit, had a child in the passenger seat, who could have been seriously hurt. The impact from the log was right on the passanger side of the car. For all you people saying oh shes only 11 she knew EXACTLY what she was doing...a ride to the police station to wait for her mother is appropriate for her actions.
With all this verbal diarrhea, here is what I don't see ...
By JP Citizen
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 10:41pm
.. and what concerns me most:
1) No one asked about the person in car even though no one was hurt. I promise you the emotional shock to this person will linger for a long time. And if the child in the passenger seat is old enough to understand what happened, what about the child?
2) What about the absence of an apparent moral compass and regret from an 11 year old? If social services were functional in this state, this would be a case for them to get involved in. Not that I am accusing the parents but there is definitely something to be concerned about with respect to the child. She did not steal candy from the store, she did not play with fire crackers, or any of the 1000's of other mischief's that children get caught up in. This could have resulted in death just like when people throw cinder blocks from bridges.
3) Why is everyone so ready to jump on the soapbox and opine their all too important view when the human cost is not of concern?
4) The police tweet local incidents as part of keeping the local people informed. This is good.
5) Thankfully the police took the child to the station to await the mother. Now lets hope the mother/parents have the wherewith all to deal with real crime here - their daughter did something that could have resulted in destroying someone of some peoples lives.
6) Thanks to the fellow in the car that was almost hit who had the presence to call the police and didn't decide "not to get involved".
7) What would you have done in the same place?
My best wishes to the people whose car was hit. May this pass quickly from you. And thank you to the person who took the time to report this.
And please, apply some rational judgement, messing around and messing up are not the same as throwing a large piece of wood over the railing on the foot bridge. There is a scale of severity here and this incident is at the wrong end of that scale.
Oy
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 11:02pm
Just because any regret was not publicly reported (or her parent's reaction, either), doesn't mean that she has "no moral compass or regret" or needs to be thrown into the foster care system,etc. It also doesn't mean that DYS won't be checking up. Please. Or is she, in your brain, automatically a "superpredator" who needs to be "brought to heel" for dropping a stick off an overpass - something that generations of cops didn't bother investigating in generations of kids!
you may be over reacting to my post...
By JP Citizen
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 11:20pm
I am in fact not "preditorizing" her. Just the opposite. I am more concerned about her and helping her that victimizing her. I am hoping her parent(s) have the means to take this further. I am accepting her being 11 years old as a possible issue in her lack of judgement.
When my son was this age and something challenging happened, we had the means to engage with this. But from what I have seen of other BPS families (assumption given where this happended), this was frequently not the case.
so please take a deep breath and read my concern for those involved in this and my desire to have the "crowds at the Colosseum" back off. I don't want to see this child end up traumatized by the system and I am sorry for the effect her actions may have on the people who were on the receiving end of her actions.
In either case, this needs attention and care rather than some of the apparent "posting her head on a pike at the village gate" or perhaps worse, willingness to write it off as "11 year olds do this stuff".
And you are right, I don't know if she showed any regret. And even if she did, this still needs attention.
projectile dropped from footbridge
By Screwy
Wed, 03/09/2016 - 6:52am
Louise Trahan, was a Haverhill teacher who was critically injured when a chunk of concrete was dropped from an Andover overpass in 1980. She survived but died in her sleep two years later. Case was never solved, but it was no doubt "children" who committed that act that given the results was a crime. This 11 year old is not going to jail, but should be educated by the official response as to the seriousness of her actions.
There's plenty of doubt
By lbb
Wed, 03/09/2016 - 10:48am
There's plenty of doubt in the mind of anyone who's not driven by simplistic agendas. What there isn't, is evidence. Unless you have any, perhaps you should work on that doubt, or at least refrain from expressing certainty about things of which you have no knowledge.
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