Enraged Boston, MA Driver Shoots Another Over Cleared of Snow Parking Space

If the gentleman, suspect used a tire iron instead would that mean that there are too many tire irons? Maybe just maybe some special education is needed by the dumbed down population. This is a matter of perspective, not choice of weapon.

[From article]
The annual Hub tradition of fighting over parking spots after a snowstorm took a nearly lethal turn yesterday when a dispute in Dorchester led to a shooting.
Police Commissioner William B. Evans said a 34-year-old Dorchester man was shot in the stomach during a “silly” argument over a parking spot.
“There’s way too many guns,” Evans said near the scene of the shooting, which took place about 2:30 p.m. on Nightingale Street. “When people are shooting over something like a parking spot, we have a problem.”
The 27-year-old shooter, Evans said, fled the scene in a black BMW but drove only a short distance up the street before ditching the car.
[. . .]
The victim was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Evans said he is expected to survive his injuries.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/01/dorchester_man_shot_in_stomach_over_parking_spot_spat

Dorchester man shot in stomach over parking spot spat
O’Ryan Johnson
 Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Harvard University Real Estate Empire Construction Promises 250 Parking Spaces

Large truck and car parked in No Stopping Zone, new Harvard Art Museum in background November 8, 2014, 3:48 PM

Will any of the 250 parking spaces be available for the numerous tour buses which park in and around the mid Cambridge neighborhood in residential areas? When the monster CGIS edifices were erected 2002, 26 parking spaces were lost on Prescott Street. Harvard officials promised they would be "re-allocated." Was this promise fulfilled? Two more spaces lost in 2015 on the same street (now loading spaces) due to the use of the streets near the new improved Art Museum as a truck depot. Who are the genius architects who design these new improved edifices which ignore reality, i.e., use by real humans?

Link to video showing parking spaces eliminated, and promise of Harvard to re-allocate them. 

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2011/06/harvard-spin-doctors-in-action.html

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/10/1/SEAS-complex-unveiled-allston/

Science Complex Plans Combine Programs and Public Space
Harvard unveils plans for its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences complex
By IGNACIO SABATE
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 1, 2015

Trading Cambridge MA Trees For Parking Cars, Medical Marijuana?

City of Cambridge, under direction of the committee for a new library, with oversight from the City Council and City Manager decided it was necessary for the new library to provide an underground parking garage. Unlike the Boston Public Library, the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library all of which do not provide parking, Cambridge had to have it. One result is that this huge tree growing in Joan Lorenz Park for many years suddenly lost its root system and was dying. Here are some of my images of the tree which is no longer on the lawn in front of the new main library.


Image captured March 18, 2012



Image captured March 30, 2013


Image captured March 30, 2013

Here is what that tree looks like on August 28, 2015. Temporary fence around the place where the tree was. 


Image captured August 28, 2015


Image captured August 28, 2015


Image captured August 28, 2015


Image captured August 28, 2015


Image captured August 28, 2015

This is the opening to get to the parking garage in case of emergency. It was why the tree was removed. No need for trees when you have enough parking spaces. More Cambridge City Council policy with contradictory and counterproductive effects in the name of good. Always in the name of good, and diversity. Don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Better there should be violence than to hurt anyone's feelings. I mean, like, what if someone wanted to use the library but was offended if they had to walk to the library or take a bus or a taxi. Or like, I mean, like, you know, if they had to park on the street. How icky. I mean, you know, how hateful can you be? 

Will this new lawn space be used to grow medical marijuana? That way you know, like, I mean, people who need it will not have to go far. They can park in the library garage and get some quickly, without waiting for the dispensaries to open. Like, how awesome is that? Thanks City Council.

Tour Buses Continue Parking Everywhere

This is a neighborhood with dwindling parking spaces. In 2011 Harvard University developed a two building monster one block from this intersection. The project eliminated 26 parking spaces which were supposed to be "re-allocated" as they say at Planning Board, Zoning Board and Conservation District meetings. If they were, it was not near this area. Tour buses and delivery trucks have no place to park or to stage waiting for access to the Art Museum loading docks, or to wait for their tourist passengers. Here are two more incidents. There were more but I was unable to capture images. Recently the city removed bus parking spaces on Mass Avenue near Harvard Square to add more metered parking. That exacerbated the situation. Link to video about the city hearings in previous years about parking in this neighborhood is included below. 


Tour Buses Parking along Broadway between Prescott Street and Quincy Street. Both sides of the street are No Stopping Zones. It is a popular block for illegal delivery trucks and tour buses for the new $500 million improved Harvard University Art Museum and truck stop complex.


Cambridge Parking Department created a two space loading zone at the south west corner of Prescott Street and Broadway for the trucks. It is used, as can be seen in this image, by shuttle buses day and night. Trucks continue to use the No Stopping Zone on Broadway. Image captured April 16, 2015.


These images show a two bus caravan loading up passengers on the south side of Broadway in a No Stopping Zone. Image captured May 1, 2015.


These are Trailways buses out of Rhode Island. Image captured May 1, 2015.


Fumes from a faulty ignition system (burnt rings?) can be seen here spewing into the atmosphere. Image captured May 1, 2015.


License plate of one bus. Image captured May 1, 2015.


License plate of the other bus. Image captured May 1, 2015.


ICC and DOT ID Number for one bus. Image captured May 1, 2015.


Here is another tour bus on lay over on Broadway in a No Stopping Zone. Image captured July 1, 2015.


Driver of the Coach tour bus can be seen here resting on the marble fence of the Art Museum. Image captured July 1, 2015.


Here is the bus company number for the Coach vehicle.Image captured July 1, 2015.

Previous post on April 8, 2015 on tour buses parking on Broadway between Quincy Street and Prescott Street in a no stopping zone.

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2015/04/tour-buses-idling-illegal-parking.html
The City Council may recall that Harvard University removed 26 parking spaces on Prescott Street and behind 1730 Cambridge Street when they were allowed by the city to build the CGIS in 2011.


One building of Harvard University's Center For Government and International Studies at Prescott Street and Cambridge Street. It was also called the Knafel Center, named for the major contributor.

How many other parking spaces were removed by the massive building campaign erecting edifices everywhere? They were supposed to be re-allocated. Did anyone ever ensure that they were? Is that why Harvard University freely makes promises and then no one remembers to see that they perform their promises?
See this video for their (broken?) promise about Prescott Street. Parking spaces are discussed and mentioned at least three times in this 15 minute video.

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2011/06/harvard-spin-doctors-in-action.html 

Harvard University produces politicians, and acts like the politicians they produce.

Two Bronx, NY Gentlemen Attack Parking Agent

The two suspects wanted for an assault on an NYPD traffic officer on July 13, 2015.
[From article]

Two hotheads assaulted an NYPD traffic agent who issued the pair a summons for parking at a Bronx fire hydrant, police said.
The brutes were caught on video surveillance moments before the smackdown on West Burnside and Davidson avenues at 4:40 p.m. Monday in University Heights, according to cops.
They can be seen power-walking up to the fleeing agent, who moments before slapped the orange slab onto the gray 2014 Chevrolet Cruze, police said.
The men punched him before they got into the illegally parked sedan and fled north on Davidson Avenue, officials said.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/14/nypd-traffic-officer-beaten-for-issuing-a-parking-ticket/

NYPD traffic officer beaten for issuing a parking ticket
By Natasha Velez
New York Post
July 14, 2015 | 10:30am

Christian Family Band Engages Arizona Police in Walmart Parking Lot

[From article]
A Cottonwood police video released Friday appears to show an officer shooting a man who was laying on the asphalt in a Walmart parking lot after fighting with a downed officer.
Cottonwood Police Chief Jody Fanning said that Enoch Gaver, 21, had disarmed Sgt. Jeremy Daniels and had shot him in the leg. He said Gaver was still armed with Daniels' gun when Officer Rick Hicks started hitting him with a baton.
After Hicks determined the baton had no effect, he resorted to shooting Gaver to death, Fanning said.
Hicks also shot and wounded David Gaver, who also had been on top of Daniels and had charged towards Hicks, Fanning said.
[. . .]


Photos: YAVAPAI COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Peter Gaver, Ruth Gaver, Nathaniel Gaver and Jeremiah Gaver were arrested in the brawl.
The incident began when a female Walmart employee tried to use a women's restroom and was prevented from doing so when she was pushed out of the way.
Nathan Gaver told police that his mother, Ruth, was using the restroom, and that he and his brother Jeremiah were guarding it.
Police are seen in another video snippet arriving at the scene, where a large group of people are standing near a Chevrolet Suburban. The brawl ensues almost immediately after the third and fourth officers arrive.
Fanning said he still does not understand why the Gavers chose to fight his officers, rather than simply speaking to them. He said the likely outcome of the call would have been a misdemeanor citation with no one going to jail if the Gavers had not escalated the incident.
[. . .]
The officers and the Gavers are seen punching each other on the video. At some point, an officer attempts to use a stun gun to bring the Gavers under control, but that appears to have little effect.
After Daniels is seen on the ground, struggling with one of the Gavers, Hicks is seen using the asp to strike the man. Later, Hicks pulls out his gun. The video captures the flash from the gun's muzzle.
But even the fatal shooting doesn't end the brawl. Additional officers arrive on the scene and fight with other members of the Gaver family to bring them under control.
Five Gavers were arrested by police and booked into the Yavapai County Jail on a variety of charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, hindering prosecution and resisting arrest.
The family was well-known in Boise, where at least three members played in a Christian band outside an Albertson's supermarket, where they would post a sign with a Biblical verse. The band was known as Matthew 24 Now, an apparent reference to the Second Coming.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/04/10/cottonwood-walmart-brawl-video/25598875/

Cottonwood police video captures deadly shooting

Jim Walsh

The Republic

azcentral.com

9:30 p.m. MST April 10, 2015

Tour Buses Idling, Illegal Parking

These are images of one bus from one company, on two occasions, that runs tours to Cambridge and to Harvard University. It is not the only bus line that parks at the location and annoys residents at the location. On Wednesday April 8, 2015 beginning at about 2:40 PM a tour bus from Cape Destinations, bus number 954, was parked on the north side of Broadway between Quincy and Prescott Streets. Its motor was running causing exhaust fumes to come into nearby apartments. There are 15 residential units facing that segment of Broadway. This is a recurring inconvenience. Drivers may stop to check directions. But these are tour buses parked in a No Stopping Zone, idling (a state law violation), and waiting for their passengers to return. If I call the police dispatcher, by the time an officer arrives the bus leaves. But this time the bus fumes were extremely annoying, and unhealthy. 

I called to the dispatcher at 2:45 PM. He said he would send an officer. I do not know if an officer was dispatched but the bus left at 3:04 PM. Now that the snow has ended there will be more of these buses visiting Harvard and Cambridge. There used to be designated parking places along Mass Avenue from Quincy Street to Harvard Square. Automobile parking meters were replaced in that area. In this case it was the same bus, from the same company on two occasions. It appears to be one clueless and/or lawless driver. There are dozens of tour buses arriving in Cambridge and Harvard each day every day from many other states and Canada. Only this one demands his own staging area.

March 31, 2015


March 31, 2015


April 8, 2015


April 8, 2015


April 8, 2015

Misguided Response to Snow Rage

Author needs to read some Peter Breggin, Margaret Hagan, Thomas Szasz, Fred Baughman, Robert Whitaker, about mental illness. Psychiatry is a means of social control without due process protections. Stalin, Hitler and Mao all used it to silence dissidents. FBI employs behaviorists who make predictions about the future. Ahem! If all persons accused of mental illness were dangerous it would be a simple matter to incarcerate all of them. Police can have a person put away within a few hours. This essay is propaganda for the psychiatric industry with the backing of the pharmaceutical industry. Homelessness was caused by liberals who destroyed inner city flop houses, in the name of eliminating blight. Most great harms result from good intentions.

[From article]
Yet, the editors missed the significance of a small item in the same issue: the hospitals in the area had no beds available in their mental-health wards.
There is the story. The man who killed the young Muslims was quite obviously unbalanced, if not completely deranged, one of the 42.5 million Americans diagnosed with mental illness. He had no history of race or religious hatred but he did have a large cache of weapons in his rented condominium. He openly argued with his neighbors in the condo complex about parking their cars in the wrong spaces. The Muslim graduate students, it was reported, were quite aware of his sometimes intimidating complaints.
[. . .]
Rather, the incident was another example of a terrifying danger lurking in everyday life in America: the thousands of potentially homicidal mentally-ill adults roaming around the country hearing voices or receiving radio signals from outer space through fillings in their teeth. Yet, even if the Chapel Hill killer or his family or friends sought help, the process is too daunting to try. And due to the volume of incidents occurring in the mentally ill community, there was no room to treat him
[. . .]
Even if the mental wards were not full, the process for involuntary commitment in North Carolina (and most states) requires an elaborate procedure that includes contacting the clerk of court or a magistrate. If that process is completed, a law enforcement officer is brought in to take the allegedly mentally ill subject into custody for examination by a “qualified professional”, which could mean a social worker. If this person agrees, the patient is taken to a hospital, where the hospital physician determines whether or not to admit the subject. If admitted, the subject is called in for a hearing, which could take place in the hospital. The next step is for the doctor to decide if the subject stays in the hospital or is assigned to a group home in the community. Of course, if there are no beds, the option is jail or the subject returning home.
[. . .]
In the 1970s, the mental health industry adopted the radical doctrine that society is to blame for mental illness, that it is a violation of human rights to incarcerate the insane. The result caused the closing down of mental hospitals across America, creating the “homeless problem” in the early 1980s.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/chapel_hill_murders_the_enemy_within.html

February 20, 2015
Chapel Hill Murders: The Enemy Within
By Bernie Reeves

BMW Testing See Through Car Glasses

[From article]
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BMW has found a solution to the perils of parallel parking that could have been lifted from a 1950s joke shop: X-ray specs.
The Germany-based carmaker is joining the ranks of Google and Microsoft by launching a pair of augmented reality glasses that will allow drivers to see “through” the car when parking.
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The German carmaker has been developing the glasses at its research and development laboratory in the heart of Silicon Valley, according to three people familiar with the company’s plans, and will demonstrate the technology at the Shanghai motor show in April.
Details of the new product are limited, but the goggles are expected to include real-time information from the car such as speed. They are also expected to offer car-sharing information and public transport updates, suggesting that they are intended to be worn outside the car as well.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ec04f00-a2fd-11e4-9c06-00144feab7de.html#axzz3R0S2HFSq

February 6, 2015 6:06 pm
BMW sees future through X-ray specs
Andy Sharman in Mountain View, California

New York City Mayor Upset With NYPD, Duh!

[From article]
Apparently unaware that de Blasio was — at that very moment — calling NYPD officers racist for bothering with such “a minor offense” as selling untaxed cigarettes, the Law Department produced a triumphant press release, crowing about the city’s suing people in other states for violating New York’s tobacco laws.
Lawyers: Hey, Mayor — here’s that press release about the cigarette tax lawsuit!
De Blasio: Shhhh! I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Lawyers: You know — the cigarette tax case. The one we’ve been working on so hard.
De Blasio: Who are you?
City Hall promptly buried the press release in a casket in the middle of the Hudson River.
[. . .]
The only time normal people get annoyed at cops is precisely for these revenue-collection laws — parking tickets, moving violations, driving without a seatbelt, selling untaxed cigarettes, jaywalking and so on. So it was quite brilliant of the cops to zero in on the laws that exist just because Democrats want the money.
At least among people who generally like cops, the NYPD has made itself spectacularly popular.

http://humanevents.com/2015/01/07/dying-for-a-cigarette-in-new-york/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl


Dying for a cigarette in New York
Human Events
By: Ann Coulter
1/7/2015 06:46 PM

NYPD Arrests Reduced Greatly During Dispute With Anti Police Mayor

Photo: AP 

[From article]
NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.
The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/arrests-plummet-following-execution-of-two-cops/

Arrests plummet 66% with NYPD in virtual work stoppage
By Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Bruce Golding
New York Post
December 29, 2014 | 11:30pm

Sue Clippinger Cambridge Traffic Department Chief Announces Retirement

[Notice from Michael Brandon, Minster of Information for the North Cambridge Stabilization Committee.]

Susan E. Clippinger, longtime director the Cambridge Traffic and Parking Department (somehow renamed the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department without local or state legislative authorization) has announced that she will officially retire and leave her staff position on November 14. She expects to continue working for the Community Development and TPT departments as a paid consultant to the Planning Board.

According to Ms. Clippinger, City Manager Richard Rossi has not found a replacement for her and will appoint an interim department head until he does (someone other than Transportation Planner Adam Shulman). On sound information and belief--despite persistent rumors to the contrary--the city's new transportation chief will not be George Teso, Lauren Preston, Richard Easler, or Steve Kaiser.

If your skill set matches the incumbent director's and you can reach the local post office without getting trapped in a traffic snarl or rundown in a crosswalk by a bicyclist or speeding motorist, apply now or forever hold your peace.

Boston Mayor Opposes Parking App

The concept of using public property for profit is not a foreign idea to the Boston area. In Cambridge Harvard University conducts major fund raisers every year on city land. Food trucks sell their fare on the same land on the Broadway and Cambridge Street overpass near the Cambridge Fire Department headquarters. Local restaurants serve their customers on city sidewalks without any increased license fees. How is the computer app any different? Is the doctrine of ignoring inconvenient laws not applicable to Boston as it is in Cambridge and Washington DC? 

[From article]
 Daniel Koh, the mayor’s chief of staff, responded by saying the city was concerned about a private company, as well as drivers, profiting from public property.
[. . .]
When the first car leaves and the second takes its place, the driver of the newly parked vehicle is billed $3 electronically. The original occupant gets to keep $2.25, and Haystack takes a commission of 75 cents for facilitating the exchange.
Meyer contends his business does not broker the sale of public property but merely provides a cash incentive for drivers to swap useful information.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/07/15/haystack/ceD8Rcmz2PRd39Gp58gwhO/story.html

Boston mayor sharply rebukes Haystack parking app
By Callum Borchers

Boston GLOBE STAFF

JULY 15, 2014

For Punch Putting Woman in Coma, Man Gets Misdemeanor Trial

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141606/Oscar-Fuller-case-Man-woman-coma-punching-parking-spot-East-Village-cleared-felony.html

Unconscious: Lana Rosas was knocked unconscious and fell to the ground after an alleged altercation with Oscar Fuller over a parking space in New York's East Village in February 2011

Easy street: Oscar Fuller, seen leaving court last November, has been cleared of a felony and now only faces misdemeanour charges

'Brutal' driver who put woman in a coma by punching her in row over parking spot is CLEARED of a felony and faces just one year in jail
Oscar Fuller originally charged with felony after fight over parking spot in downtown Manhattan left Lana Rosas with permanent brain damage Felony charge dropped to misdemeanour - now only faces up to a year in prison if convicted
Ms Rosas' mother says daughter cannot work or drive and listened to surprise verdict without visible reaction and left without speaking to reporters
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and BETH STEBNER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:29 EST, 8 May 2012 | UPDATED: 19:53 EST, 8 May 2012

Police Detective Killed Over Parking Space

A similar murder occured in 1968 in New York City when a woman killed a man not an officer. You never know what a stranger may do if you offend him or her. Must learn to respect strangers to stay alive.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/17/maryland.officer.killed/index.html?hpt=T1

[Video embedded]
Police: Murder charges filed after an off-duty detective is killed
From Rick Martin
CNN
October 17, 2010 3:55 p.m. EDT

Cambridge Long Term Planning Committee


By Michael Salib
November 23, 2009

I'd like to suggest a discussion item for the upcoming long term planning committee meeting: Cambridge should implement a pilot program to study performance parking.

As I've mentioned before, several studies have concluded that a surprisingly large fraction of total traffic consists of drivers looking for parking. Drivers often have to spend excessive amounts of time seeking parking because it is not available. Sufficient parking is often unavailable because it is underpriced: either the city charges absurdly low prices for on street parking or the city compels private entities to offer "free" parking.

As I mentioned in an earlier email, this analysis is very boring and very well understood economics. For most types of products, when the government forces the price down, shortages naturally arise. In this case, shortages of parking are a problem, but they end up causing a much bigger problem: congestion.

Performance parking programs introduce market pricing into parking. Typically, the city sets a goal for what fraction of parking spots should be open during peak times in a particular area and then slowly adjusts the price of parking until that goal is reached. Inevitably, this results in an increase in the price of parking which increases revenues for the city. That money can then be used to fund other transportation improvements, such as public transport. This is exactly what happened in Ward 6 of Washington DC when they experimented with a performance parking program, as you can see from this blog post:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=4117

Now, performance parking does have a cost: people who park their cars end up paying more. But such people benefit more than you might expect because they have to waste less of their lives driving around looking for parking. As drivers, they benefit more than anyone else from the reduced congestion. Beyond the basic economic logic of performance parking programs, they're also inherently progressive. This is because car ownership (and hence parking costs) tends to be far more common in higher income families while public transit usage tends to be far more common in lower income families. It is not quite accurate to say that performance parking programs are progressive; rather, they ameliorate one of the more regressive aspects of urban policy. In other words, they improve fairness.