Tag: Massachusetts

  • Boston Marathon Runner Caught Pooping In Strangers Yard By Doorbell Camera

    Boston Marathon Runner Caught Pooping In Strangers Yard By Doorbell Camera

    Footage from a doorbell camera has gone viral after a homeowner caught a Boston Marathon runner defecating on their lawn, The New York Post reports.

    On Monday, a Reddit user posted the video, titling it “One of the marathon runners just took a s*** in my yard (video inside).” In a thread below the video, the owner of the house explains that there were plenty of portable toilets located throughout the course for runners to use, and that there was “absolutely zero reason for someone to trespass to take a s*** on a lawn.”

    The footage shows a marathon participant dropping their shorts in order to relieve themselves. Around eight seconds into the video, a spectator walks down the home’s front pathway, and stops after locking eyes with the runner. After finishing, the lawn-pooper pulls their shorts back up and runs in between two trees before re-entering the marathon course.

    In the comments of the now deleted footage, many expressed their opinions, some enraged by the competitor, and some coming to their defense:

    “People are weird as h*** man,”
    one person wrote. “I would be livid if someone took a s*** on my property, running a marathon or not.”

    “I’m sure the runner was really embarrassed to have to do that,” another commenter stated. “I wouldn’t call her out on it any further.”

  • Man Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Subway Riders With His Pet Rat Jerry, Reports Say

    Man Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Subway Riders With His Pet Rat Jerry, Reports Say

    Transportation officials in Massachusetts apprehended a man after he continually threatened subway riders with his pet rat named Jerry. Jeffery Stuart, 57, was taken into custody at Oak Grove Station on Thursday at 4 p.m after threatening multiple people with his pet rat, officials said in a Twitter post, reports FOX

    Stuart was reportedly pushing the rat in subway rider’s faces as he yelled at them during their travel, prosecutors said. After he was informed to leave, he then returned and attempted to get back into the station. The man reportedly swore at officials and then went on to take out the rat and threaten police with his pet. 

     Massachusett’s Bay Transportation Authority said the man often causes disruption. They also mentioned that he was consuming alcohol while displaying rambunctious behavior. 

    The rat was given to animal control while Stuart is currently facing charges

    “for disorderly conduct, trespassing, and threats to commit a crime,”

    FOX reports. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Daycare Employee Charges After Taping 2-Year-old Girl’s Mouth Shut, Mother Outraged

    Daycare Employee Charges After Taping 2-Year-old Girl’s Mouth Shut, Mother Outraged

    A daycare employee from Massachusetts was charged with the endangerment of a child and assault and battery after a parent said the woman taped her child’s mouth shut. According to the New York Post, the girl was merely 2 years old. 

    The Here We Grow Daycare staff member, Amy Li, reportedly put tape over the student’s mouth last Thursday, reports Boston 25 News. The 26-year-old mother, Nyasia Holmes, revealed that Li admitted to taping her child’s mouth closed when Holmes arrived to pick her daughter up from the daycare center. According to the mother,

    “She was just trying to cover her tracks because there was a person who witnessed what happened to my daughter.” 

    Holmes continued to say that another worker witnessed the act and reported the incident to the director of the daycare. Yet, the mother believes Li wasn’t being completely honest about what happened during the encounter. Reports say Holmes’ daughter has been a student at the daycare for a year.

    Holmes wrote in a Facebook post that a bystander informed her that Li placed

    “masking tape”

    over the 2-year-old’s mouth and instructed her to sit down in a

    “thinking chair”

    after throwing a temper tantrum. Reports say this was allegedly done in an effort to cause the young girl not to wake up the class as the other students were asleep during the encounter. 

    The mother wrote,

    “Why did you think it was okay to put a 2-year-old in a thinking chair and obstruct her breathing and talking?… I’m angry that she exposed my child to that type of torture.”

    Holmes filed a police report and the following day, she met with Li as well as the director of the daycare. The mother questioned why the daycare failed to report the incident.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Massachusetts Bill Will Allow Inmates To Trade Their Organs For A Reduced Prison Sentence

    Massachusetts Bill Will Allow Inmates To Trade Their Organs For A Reduced Prison Sentence

    A new bill proposed by Massachusetts lawmakers will allow inmates to donate their organs for a shorter sentence, CBS News reported.

    Democratic Reps. Judith Garcia, of Chelsea, and Carlos Gonzalez of Springfield sponsored the bill which will give inmates the choice of 60 days to a year off their prison sentence

    “on the condition that the incarcerated individual has donated bone marrow or organ(s).”

    Their justification for the bill is that it will

    “restore bodily autonomy to incarcerated folks”

    and increase the number of donors, especially for people of color who have a hard time finding a match. However, the proposed bill has since sparked controversy with critics calling it

    “illegal.” 

    “It’s like you’re harvesting organs. It just doesn’t feel right. It doesn’t feel humane… You’re bargaining with vulnerable people over their time,”

    Project Turnaround founder Romilda Pereira told the Boston Globe. 

    “There are certainly ways we can engage our free communities in educating them about the options of organ and bone marrow donation,”

    Monik Jiménez a Brigham & Women’s Hospital epidemiologist said.

    “But going to our incarcerated population as a source is problematic, at best, and exploitative.”  

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?