Sound Familiar?
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
And from the Useless Statistics Department:
Hardly a definitive sampling there, but compared to last year...
You know where this one's going.
GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES CRIME!
Someone get Menino on the phone, NOW! We need to empanel a Strategic Climate Control Council to address the detrimental effect this relatively nice weather is having on our community.
I am hereby proposing that the entire city of Boston be relocated to somewhere just inside the arctic circle. Violent crime would surely plummet to near-zero levels. As I said last year...
It would be For the ChildrenTM, you understand.
Getting back to reality for a minute...
There's one other noteworthy item from the above-mentioned Boston Globe article. Feel free to give your own dead horses a couple whacks over this one, unless they're like mine and buried under a foot of snow in the driveway somewhere.
Not that I have to ask, but for 50 bonus points, what brilliant piece ofanti-freedom anti-crime legislation was signed into law in 1998 in Massachusetts?
Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen M. O'Toole appealed for the public's help in tracking down violent criminals yesterday, in response to a spate of shootings in the city that left two men dead and three wounded.
And from the Useless Statistics Department:
The slayings Friday night in Dorchester and Mattapan brought the number of homicides in Boston to six in 2006, compared with four this time a year ago. Last year was the deadliest year in the city in a decade.
Hardly a definitive sampling there, but compared to last year...
When clocks struck 3 Monday afternoon, Boston - then suffocating under this month's 38 inches of snow and sub-zero windchills - humbly set a 10-year record for the most days to pass into a new year without a murder.
You know where this one's going.
GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES CRIME!
Someone get Menino on the phone, NOW! We need to empanel a Strategic Climate Control Council to address the detrimental effect this relatively nice weather is having on our community.
I am hereby proposing that the entire city of Boston be relocated to somewhere just inside the arctic circle. Violent crime would surely plummet to near-zero levels. As I said last year...
Hey, man, you try popping a cap in someone's ass wearing a pair of mittens.
It would be For the ChildrenTM, you understand.
Getting back to reality for a minute...
There's one other noteworthy item from the above-mentioned Boston Globe article. Feel free to give your own dead horses a couple whacks over this one, unless they're like mine and buried under a foot of snow in the driveway somewhere.
In the late 1990s, Boston was hailed for its success in halting violent crimes. As part of the "Boston Miracle," homicides in the city dropped 77 percent from 1990 to 1997.
But since then, the crime rate has been climbing; 2005 was the city's deadliest year in a decade, with 75 homicides.
Not that I have to ask, but for 50 bonus points, what brilliant piece of
