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Chaos in Needham: School lockdown, murder, beating, crazed guy in pizza shop
By adamg on Fri, 11/02/2007 - 6:04pm
UPDATE: The guy in the pizza shop didn't have a gun.
The Needham Times pieces it all together: Contractor charged with bashing poor old guy's head in (and trying to do the same to his daughter), found off 128 by State Police - tying up traffic, of course - even as Needham police were shutting down downtown Needham and locking kids in local schools due to an alleged crazy man with a gun in a pizza parlor on Great Plain Avenue.
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changing clothes is considered suspicious?
from the Needham Times article:
I've been known to do that. Never had the manager call the police as a result. Maybe I've been lucky?
Timing is Everything...
from the Needham Times article:
Quote:
"He used the bathroom and actually came out dressed in something different," Robbins said.
I've been known to do that. Never had the manager call the police as a result. Maybe I've been lucky?
Lucky? Perhaps you've never done so in exceedingly close proximity to an active manhunt for someone who clearly should be considered unstable, and dangerous, and almost definately wearing evidence that ties one to such an unthinkable crime. Living seconds from the area, I'll take the over-reaction over complacent or casual. If the law begins to fail to respond because it MIGHT be wrong, I think we're sunk. Hand the keys to the criminals and close up shop.
I still believe that Needham is an exceptionally "safe" area. The obvious horrible tragedy aside, it is still far safer than most cities. To think ones home/self/family are immune to something because of your geographic residence (anywhere) would be ignorant - verging on absurd - however, in terms of general crime and violent crimes specifically, Needham remains a very safe place to live, and the hard facts back that up solidly.
I've done that prior to public hearings!
I biked in, unrolled my business clothing, freshened and changed in the hotel lobby restroom, and headed in to a federal hearing, steaming pile of bike clothes searched at the door and all.
superman
maybe he was clark kent
Norwood?
Huh? 128 doesn't go through Norwood.
They picked up the perp about 3 streets away from where he beat the guy to death, in Needham. You'd think the "Needham" Times would know the difference between Needham and Norwood.
Needham and Norwood
Thanks for pointing out an on-deadline error Dave. It's been fixed.
Greg Reibman, Needham Times
:^)
:^)
Just goes to show that
no place is really safe anymore.
Pseudosafety
Suburban enclaves never really were safe, and cities are frequently far less dangerous than they are billed to be as well.
Perception is not the same as reality.
Spot on, SwirlyGrrl!!
Even in the idyllic town where I grew up, particularly as preteens, we were advised by our parents not to walk on certain roads during the latter half of the day, when the sun was going low.
There is a section of that particular town near the Waltham line known as "Lovers' Lane", where many teens and young adults, too, would park. There were many fights in that particular area, and one girl even got assaulted. One horrific incident occurred back in the early 1970's, when a group of high school kids from our local high school had hitchhiked a ride home from a Saturday night date. The guys who'd picked the kids up were clearly intoxicated, but did not seem hostile. The girls were let off first, but the boys were taken toi that same, secluded area near the Waltham border and badly beaten by the men who'd picked them up; one of the kids received a concussion due to being hit over the head with a blunt, heavy instrument. The other one almost got run over while they were escaping.
I still remember yet another incident that occurred when I was a preteen, although nothing happened to me. I was walking down to the other end of the street to visit a friend of mine, when a man in a black car drove by, stopped in the middle of the road
roughly several hundred feet away, got out, and began exposing himself! I was able to see that from a distance, and I later told my mom, who called the police. I never heard any more about that guy after that.
In the early to mid-1960's, a woman in our town disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.
No, It's sure not!! Again, your're spot on about this, SwirlyGrrl.