I-93 after the cops moved in. Photo by Annabelle Blake.
A large group of masked riders on dirt and quad bikes who spent the day stunting, blocking traffic and scaring pedestrians on streets around Boston had their trek ended by State Police on the Southeast Expressway at Mass. Ave, where troopers and other officers blocked them in - and shot one in the foot as he tried to flee arrest around 5 p.m.
Jonathan Berk looked out his window and spotted "30+ 4 wheelers and mopeds go by on 93 tailed by 4 staties:"
John Hanzl reported from the South End:
There's about 24 police cruisers blocking off all the on ramps to the highway. Lots of ambulances going everywhere.
Boston bike life 0
State police 1
Next round will be interesting pic.twitter.com/DwWekP7BXj
— CNN Haiti (@spydaman617) February 25, 2018
Annabelle Blake reported seeing "a bunch of folks in cuffs."
Cannot outrun/race the law. Esp not on a quad.... FYI 93 is a clustah rn. @universalhub #boston #traffic pic.twitter.com/nofgpPPxjJ
— annabelleb (@annabelleblake) February 24, 2018
In a statement, State Police said:
Preliminary investigation indicates that approximately 25-35 individuals were riding off-road bikes, motorcycles, and ATVs in a reckless manner in Boston today. Police received numerous 911 calls reporting reckless operation by this group that was endangering the public.
At about 5:00 p.m., Troopers observed the group traveling in an erratic and dangerous manner on Route 93 Southbound in Boston. Troopers encountered them on the ramp from Route 93 Southbound to Exit 18 (Mass Avenue) and attempted to effect arrests.
During that encounter, a Trooper discharged his weapon, striking one of the riders, a 28-year-old Randolph man. That man was transported to Boston Medical Center for treatment of what is believed to be a non-life-threatening injury. Another rider — who was not shot — complained of pain and was transported to an area hospital for evaluation. A Trooper sustained a knee injury during the incident and was transported to Mass General Hospital for treatment.
Five suspects were arrested and charged with various offenses. They have been transported to area barracks for booking and are expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court next week. The two suspects who were transported to the hospital are also expected to be charged. State Police seized approximately 20 motorcycles and ATVs.
Several riders evaded apprehension during this incident.
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Real deal
By Adeas
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 6:56pm
Driving back from NH today and got stuck in horrible tunnel traffic and rolled past about 20 cops and 4 flat bed wreckers who had the Mass Ave ramp closed off. Looks like they finally cornered these hooligans thanks to traffic, a sting or dumb luck (or a combination thereof).
Throw the book at them. They tear up my neighborhood every spring/Summer/fall.
Throw the book at them? Why
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:15am
Throw the book at them? Why cuz their Balck?
How do you know they are Balck (sic)?
By Daan
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 1:01pm
Throw many books at them because they are trying to terrorize people.
From the pictures posted here on twitter and other social media
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:23pm
it appears to be a diverse group of nit wits.
Staties released the list of arrested suspects.
By dmcboston
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 3:54pm
Seem all Spanish except for someone from North Attleboro.
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz ride
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 4:33pm
dirtbikes?
Ding Dog their asses caught!
By Nikki
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:37am
Ding Dog their asses caught! Aggie if you don't live here you have no clue how freaking annoying they are! Way to go bpd, staties and transit! Lock they lil butts up sick of them on Blue Hill , Seaver Street, MLK blvd and everywhere else.
Seen
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 3:50pm
These a-holes last summer in Mattapan . Every bike was a shitbox, no plates . Look like a scene from the Road Warrior.
Throw the book at them !!!
Someone shot?
By MrDines
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 7:06pm
Sure, those quads are annoying, but how did this lead to someone getting shot? That seems like a ridiculously extreme outcome.
Play stupid games
By JPNative617
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 7:26pm
Win stupid prizes.
Who knows?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 7:33pm
That's why we have investigations.
But the tarnished MSP do not have the same sort of training that the BPD do. They were founded and modeled on paramilitary organizations.
Says someone from the suburbs
By JPNative617
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 7:36pm
who has zero idea about the training of BPD or MSP.
And who are you exactly?
By eherot
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 8:07pm
And who are you exactly?
Someone who doesn't talk out my ass
By JPNative617
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 8:10pm
n/t
Riiiiight.
By eherot
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 8:18pm
Riiiiight.
MSP isn't in the suburbs?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:16pm
Oh really. Very interesting. I'll have to share that with my son's girlfriend so she can let her brother know. He'd really hate to spend all his time in Boston.
You may want to read this simple synopsis on the subject of history and training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_State_...
Then again, that would mean reality, facts, and all that stuff you hate.
Talking out your ass indeed.
p.s. you opened too many incognito windows to rate comments and gave your game away.
Huh?
By JPNative617
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:23pm
Have you ever been employed by BPD or MSP? No, right? So, you don’t know shit.
P.S. I don’t even know what incognito windows are? Take a break from the internet, it might serve you well.
Nice try
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:31pm
You are the one who doesn't know shit - get back to me when you have had any involvement whatsoever with emergency response planning at the state and local level, honey.
And stop pretending that liking your own comment fifty times makes it somehow truthier when only about 30 people at most have visited the thread.
You just quoted wikipedia as fact
By JPNative617
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 11:09pm
end of conversation, you dope.
Wikipedia
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:03am
It is usually quite good with referenced statements - just written in simple language so simpletons like you can grasp it.
Wow
By anon
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:38am
411 likes = automated botliking.
actually...
By jennifersostano2001
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 2:31pm
The 'likes' validation configured on the Drupal server that Adam uses is a combination of evaluating your cookies and IP address in addition to other heuristics indicative of valid browser-site interactions....
Unless someone has a small bot army or access to > 400ish proxies and some selenium skill, I doubt this is bot liking...
It just means that a lot of people think that person 'Swirlygirl' is full of shit and this sentiment is nothing new for the users here.
Very intelligent comment!
By I like you very much
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 3:48pm
I'd like you 100 times if I could!
Oh, wait, I can! Enjoy!
Full of shit?
By adamg
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 5:08pm
Heuristics? You must know something I don't about how sophisticated the Drupal voting modules I use are.
I have never seen a comment get 411 likes before. Maybe it wasn't a bot. Maybe it was somebody oh, posting somewhere and asking people to just click on a thumb at such and such a Universal Hub URL Or maybe the Reddit folks who just loathe me decided to have some fun. I dunno, but this is one of the reasons anybody who takes the vote counts as seriously as you do might be full of shit.
About 350 of those 411 up votes were me
By yes me
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 5:37pm
Plus another 100 votes for jenniferostano2001. Just me. No bot army. No 400+ proxies. No "selenium skill" (although there is selenium in my daily vitamin - maybe that helped?). It's trivial to get around the restrictions on up-voting multiple times. I'm too lazy to completely automate it so I can't let it run unattended but it's only a couple of keystrokes per vote so not a big deal.
Why? I was sure that the bulk of JPNative617's up votes were him voting for himself and/or some basement dwellers on a mission so I thought I'd make it obvious that those weren't real votes by up-voting into oblivion. Apparently not obvious enough to jenniferostano2001 though.
Adam I'd recommend disabling voting. Or at least restricting it to one per comment per registered voter or something. It's just noise otherwise. And I won't promise not to contribute to the noise when I feel like it.
Thanks, I guess
By adamg
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 5:50pm
I have to admit - an excellent demonstration of the weakness of a public voting system, one I guess UHub is now too well known to avoid. If I ever get to the point where I require logins for commenting, I'd definitely switch to that method.
Probably 10 votes from me
By anon
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 7:59pm
I thought it was a great comment. Very truthful and on point. I was following the comment threads and upvoted it every time I saw it.
Sorry, but not sorry, I guess.
That's nothing...
By dmcboston
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 3:21pm
Hold my beer ...
[img]https://i.imgur.com/uG2D7Kv.png[/img]
That's not what he said.
By dmcboston
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:17am
That's not what he said.
He seems to think you know nothing about the training of the MSP and BPD.
"Says someone from the suburbs who has zero idea about the training of BPD or MSP."
"MSP isn't in the suburbs? new
By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:16pm "
Up past your bedtime last night? Your reading comprehension is slipping.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ODcE5x5.jpg[/img]
no subject
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 03/01/2018 - 6:24pm
http://www.universalhub.com/2018/so-trooper-who-ma...
And the now Patient
By Stephen Bickerton Sr
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:54pm
Is lucky their trained as paramilitary or he would be dead.
Deserted bikes and quads say it all to me
Oh?
By dmcboston
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:22am
"But the tarnished MSP do not have the same sort of training that the BPD do. They were founded and modeled on paramilitary organizations."
I think the word you're looking for is "quasi".
They are military in a certain sense, what with colonels and barracks and stuff, but the truth of the matter is that's just an efficient way of organizing it.
Oh, they are indeed going through a rough time, but it seems that it starts right at the top.
Good article in the Herald today, by the illustrious Howie Carr:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_...
Getting what they deserve.
By Hey kathy1
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 8:09pm
The news has not said why someone was shot. Be careful what you say.
Just a guess
By Kaz
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 9:10pm
You drive a quad directly at a cop, you get shot.
Yup
By dmcboston
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:21am
You can wrestle a pistol away from someone (which is damn brave, when you think about it), but unless you have Spanish Matador training, the quad will get you every time.
Not exactly
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 8:43pm
The guy was shot in the foot while being arrested. The investigation might be interesting as to how that went down.
Could be a trigger-happy cop.
By Tim Mc.
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:01pm
Could be a trigger-happy cop. Could be a biker pulled a gun. Could be a biker tried to ram a cop car, as someone surmised in another comment. Any number of things could have happened in a situation like this; we could be guessing all day.
Last year they got a bunch
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:43am
Last year they got a bunch guns of this losers, what you expect from this supposed young kids, what this idiot of mayor and the bp commissioner have to say, oh how about blm have to say oh I forgot they black teens and defend them throw the book at this thugs
Really?
By lbb
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:39am
Can you try that again in English?
Because he tried to run over
By Tracy
Tue, 02/27/2018 - 1:13pm
Because he tried to run over a cop and a canine cop. Good reason to shoot. We have these same type of morons in NC and what a waste of carbon they are, too.
MSP - That's Their Turf
By John Costello
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 7:29pm
Back in 1970 the PLO started putting up check points in Anman Jordan basically defying King Hussein and saying this area is now ours and telling the King to piss off.
The King and his people politely asked the PLO to please stop.
The PLO still said no.
The Jordanian Army and Air Force then beat the living snot out of the PLO.
Lesson learned. The PLO wasn't a problem in Jordan anymore.
I believe our dear friends the quad riders and those who will tear up the city (and its parks) to the detriment of the enjoyment of others. were told many times to cut it out by the local constabulary.
I hoped the lesson was learned today.
Just remember this next time there is a drag race down Beacon Street and innocents are killed. The cops did their jobs right today.
Yeah, verily.
By Bob Frank
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 7:25pm
Yeah, verily.
Oh please
By Daniel
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 9:03pm
Your pop history is tedious and facile.
Oh? What's your lesson? Stand up to the bully? Pat yourself on the back.
Tedious?
By John Costello
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:11pm
Your comment is puerile and meaningless. Thanks for playing. You win the home version of the game as a consolation prize.
Well, there is one way to settle the matter
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:18pm
Links, citations, those sort of things are helpful.
So Are Facts
By John Costello
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:32pm
You seem to be lacking in those, a lot of the time, not just tonight.
I asked for facts
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:44pm
I wasn't the one telling some truthy meme story about kings and insurgents and bombing and all that.
If this story is true, supply a reference. Show your work, dear.
I'm surprised you didn't work in "pork blood on bullets". Two for one authoritarian memes!
Put the Keyboard Down Before You Cut Your Fingers in Hysteria
By John Costello
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 10:52am
This isn't an academic discourse, it is a message board that comments on a news service with other subjects proffered..
If you do not know about the events that led to the creation of Black September and the dissipation of the PLO to Lebanon, then maybe you just don't know what you are talking about in this matter, and in other matters, as you have demonstrated greatly in the past.
Forget it Jack...
By dmcboston
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:37am
...it's swirlytown.
Distant relations
By Belmont
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 2:17pm
If you can't accept that someone's brother's sister's cousin's friend's mother-in-law's husband's niece's husband is a valid source of information, I'm afraid you're on the wrong blog. Also, it's even more relevant if they have lived in the Seattle area for at least 45 minutes.
More like..
By jennifersostano2001
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 2:34pm
SwirlyEchoChamber
I'm surprised...
By dmcboston
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:35am
...that you don't know personally or have a relative that was in Jordan at the time.
But I do. I called Uncle Duckduckgo (the search engine that doesn't track you!) and came up with the following truthy meme stories.
https://www.thoughtco.com/black-september-jordania...
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_jordan...
and of course, since you set the precedent of citing Wiki...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
Oh, just as an aside, the whole 'bacon fat on bullets' thing is pure Hollywood bullshit, Gunga Din.
Any jihadist that dies in the service of Allah gains paradise. He can be buried in a bucket of pig fat, it doesn't matter.
John's right on the money.
You mean academic sites like
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:37am
You mean academic sites like Wikipedia?
You must not be a statistician
By anon
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:37am
The Wikipedia pages detailing academic statistics are some of the best teaching tools on the planet.
You might look into how Wikipedia works. It is a consortium, and there is quality control. It is great for overviews on some subjects, and completely awesome for statistics - an academic subject that many who stay in school study.
Your tribal ignorance of why teachers don't like it (it is too simple, isn't a primary source, they have a bone up their rear ends) doesn't make it a bad source for simple explanations or, even, complicated statistical analysis explanations. But, hey, I wouldn't expect someone who probably didn't finish high school to understand these nuances or what "academic" even means.
Insulting headline...check.
By dmcboston
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 3:49pm
Opening clever self-affirming statement...check.
Paragraph to explain how great the point of view is...check.
Devolving into personal insults against the poster...check.
Hiding behind an AC (anonymous coward, as seen on Slashdot) even though there is a username available...check.
Wearing sunglasses so no one can guess the identity...check.
But...I know you're not Swirlygrrl because a while back grrl kicked the stuffing out of me for citing a wiki article..."not scientific enough" or other such lame bullshit.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/5OWkXBZ.jpg[/img]
Madness on the motorway.
By Ah-Clem
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 8:03pm
I was heading to work via Melena Cass, over the highway and NB on 93 as this went down.
It seemed to have been a well planned maneuver by the State police to box them in. there were several cop cars lying wait along Melnea ready to head the wrong way up the 93 exit ramp along Frontage road. As I crested the overpass, could the bikers kids heading down either the ramp or the frontage road with 4 or 5 cop cars in pursuit. About that time the cop cars on Menea were coming up the wrong way boxing the kids in. There was a lot of circling and scrambling by the biker kids and the two lines of cops closed in. Bikes we dropped and kids we running. I heard what I thought was a gunshot and suddenly a mass of them jumped the retaining wall and ran onto 93 southbound into traffic which was as usual moving slowly. Some were on foot and some were pulling their bikes over the wall, and running willy-nilly through traffic. Lots of honking ensued. About that point I was merging into traffic north bound and missed the rest of the show.
A footnote
By Ah-Clem
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 8:13pm
I had encountered them earlier in the day around 2pm while South Bay Center from Mass Ave. there was easily 40 or more of them on a variety of vehicles, scooters, motorbikes, along with 3 and 4 wheel ATVs. They blasted down Mass Ave in both lanes of traffic ignoring signals and signs zipping and zipping between cars. They careened into South Bay and proceeded to gather in the Stop and Shop gas station.
From there I moved on to Target having no further desire to interface with them.
I was at South Bay around 5
By deepfreeze
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:49am
I was at South Bay around 5:00 and about fifteen of them were still milling around, congregating at the AutoZone and just stunting around Mass Ave in that area.
It was bound to happen.
By Daniel
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 9:24pm
We were talking about this here a few days ago. There were some comments describing the bike riders in what I felt was a misguided, romanticized way, saying they were adding "flava" to the city and were "taking back the streets" in some rebellious adolescent way. I think these kids are dangerous, and I have no reason to think they would stop with antics like these and not escalate their actions into more serious challenges to the well-being of our communities. I'm glad the police responded, although I also hope no one was injured.
#bostonbikelife
By Sally
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 9:31pm
It gives me a headache just looking at this stuff. Someone’s going to get killed. There’s got to be a better way for these idiots to get a thrill than—literally—playing in traffic.
Kids just doing for traffic laws
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 10:42pm
... what the current regime and corporations are doing for our constitution and all of our "burdensome regulations" that ensure clean air, water, fair play in the markets, etc.
If they were Exxon or exported coal, they would be given a free pass. Traffic safety rules are just more burdensome regulations to this crowd!
28 years old is no kid
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 12:12am
NBC 10 is saying the person shot by police is 28 y.o. from Randolph.
Throw the book at all of them.
Exxon??? Current Regime??
By Matt
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 12:21am
What the hell does that have anything to do with a bunch of assholes terrorizing the neighborhoods nine months out of the year every year for the past several years (maybe 10 months if there's no snow) before Trump was even elected? These "kids", one of which was a 28 year old asshole that was shot in the foot, do not have respect for anything at all.
I've encountered these "kids" tearing up and down Hyde Park ave every year for the last 6 or 7 years. They weave in and out of traffic, cut off vehicles. they don't give a shit. They should have the book thrown at them and perhaps a lesson will be learned... But I highly doubt it because we need to be "understanding" of the so-called "struggles" they're going through - BULLSHIT!
Stop cheereleading for reckless drivers!
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 5:24am
Listen, I get it that as a bored suburbanite you think these guys are a bunch of harmelss sexy rebels without a cause. However, as someone who actually lives in the city, and has had to deal with these reckless adult man-babies, I'm sick and tired of them putting drivers', cyclists' and pedeatrians' lives at risk and I'm thrilled cops are out there doing something about it.
A free pass by whom?
By Sally
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 10:10am
It’s cute how you imply that I’m some kind of cheerleader for drilling on public lands or shooting polar bears or whatever. Throw the book at Exxon AND get these thrill-seeking masked morons off the streets and sidewalks where I walk, bike, and drive (apparently they don’t spend a lot of time in Medford?)
Wow.
By anon
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:48am
WHOOSH people. She got you.
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Bullshit.
By dmcboston
Mon, 02/26/2018 - 4:06pm
"WHOOSH people. She got you."
Satire is an art form. it is also somewhat self revealing so it can usually be recognized as such.
Swirl's statement had no such flourish about it.
She didn't get anyone. Nice try, though. John Costello has some consolation prizes for playing, I believe.
The thing is, for these folks
By deepfreeze
Sun, 02/25/2018 - 12:05pm
The thing is, for these folks the thrill IS stuntin' through highly trafficked areas. Putting a dirt bike arena in the middle of Roxbury wouldn't stop this kind of behavior. The bikes are often obtained illegally (i.e., stolen) to begin with. One rarely steals a vehicle to use in lawful activity. This is an assertion of dominance, not a hobby.
Evidence
By anon
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 9:50pm
They've left pretty much all the evidence the police need at https://www.instagram.com/p/BfmYuENlI8c/?taken-by=...
At least one of the commenters identifies himself.
The group earlier in the day in Edward Everett Square
By adamg
Sat, 02/24/2018 - 9:55pm
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