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Red Line stopped due to bank robber; somebody riders would love to clobber
By adamg on Mon, 05/09/2016 - 12:44pm
Suspect being led out of Central Square T stop. Photo by MBTA.
A man who robbed the Cambridge Savings Bank at 630 Mass. Ave. in Central Square around noon tried escaping on the Red Line.
That was a mistake, police say.
Cambridge Police report that the man, still not publicly identified because he has yet to be formally charged, fled with money and down into the T stop, where he boarded a train - a train that police asked the MBTA to hold in the station.
Police say they found the main in the last car.
Len, who spent 30 minutes just sitting on that train, has some advice:
If you just robbed a bank, shell out for a cab .
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Imagine if they shut down the
Imagine if they shut down the roads and highways every time there was a crime committed by someone who fled the scene in a vehicle. The one time in memory when they did, after the marathon bombing suspects killed an MIT cop and drove off, people freaked out. If it happened for after robbery, there would at least be parity. But that will never happen, people who use public transit in MA are considered expendable people with lives whose time dont matter as much as the vehicular class.
You perhaps need to pay more attention
Police DO effectively shut down roads when they're chasing somebody and know what road he's on - have we already forgotten that guy who drove up and down and around 128 before his car caught on fire behind the party store in West Roxbury a couple weeks ago? In Boston, at any rate, you don't tend to see that much, though, because police tend not to get into high-speed chases because there's just too high a risk of some innocent third party being killed.
But even with that caveat, roads in Boston are shut all the time for fires, shootings, murders, even foot pursuits.
I'm also surprised at how quickly you've forgotten what happened after the Marathon. A) The entire area was shut down, not just roads. B) The battle in Watertown, the one in which Tamerlan was lobbing explosives at police before his brother ran him over may have had something to do with the police reaction as well.
The transit shutdown on the
The transit shutdown on the Friday after the Marathon bombing was *way* worse than the road shutdown.
You couldn't drive to Watertown, but you could drive pretty much anywhere else, except maybe through the harbor tunnels. (Businesses were asked to close, but there was nothing preventing people from driving even in the towns adjacent to Watertown.)
But the entire T was shut down. And Amtrak was shut down north of New York, so anyone going to Connecticut or Rhode Island was stranded.
There seems to be alot of
There seems to be alot of robberies being committed lately... maybe I haven't been paying attention in the past. Either way, maybe due to opiate problem?
sure, why not? just add more
sure, why not? just add more fuel to the hysteria over opiates. all bad things come from the opiate problem.
alternate theory?
Do you have an alternate theory that might explain the current wave of robberies? And what constitutes "hysteria" over the opiate epidemic? A lot of bad does, in fact come from widespread opiate use.
I'm waiting for your list of
I'm waiting for your list of good things that opiate addiction is bringing out city...
yeah
People are really blowing it out of proportion and overshadowing all the good things about the opiate epidemic.
I don't think it's just drugs.
There may also be a connection between rising costs and stagnated wages. Your landlord, phone company and other bills don't care where the money comes from, as long as it passes through your hands to them.
If an armed bank robber escapes on the T
Would it better to let him escape than trap him or her on a crowded train where hostages could be taken or worse lives lost?
You can't argue with success
Just look at the photo above and then tell me that it wasn't the right thing to do.
You can, and sometimes should
I have to disagree, on the basis that this is 20/20 hindsight looking back from a successful outcome. Bad decisions don't always result in bad outcomes, but that's the way the smart money bets.
Looks like
This guy looks an awful lot like the guy pictured in the surveillance photo from the Downtown Crossing bank robbery posted yesterday. No hat, the sweatshirts are similar, but not the same (white zipper & black zipper).