All sarcasm aside because there is nothing funny about homelessness or fire.
Why so many in Boston and elsewhere lately?
What is wrong with our society?
I'm not sure what to make of this first item. I'm out here and there is nothing going on with the kid, and he's only being charged with the one.
Who really trusts the police to solve crimes anymore?
"Confession alleged in fatal fire; 2 died in Christmas weekend blaze" by Peter Schworm and John Ellement, Globe Staff | January 6, 2010
NORTHAMPTON - As firefighters battled a deadly arson blaze shortly after Christmas in a neighborhood long plagued by suspicious fires, authorities say, 25-year-old Anthony P. Baye was wandering down nearby streets, alone in the rain. Police spotted him at about 3:30 a.m., soaking wet and reeking of alcohol. He told the officers he was heading toward his girlfriend’s house.
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But his story did not add up, police said. Baye had a cigarette lighter in his pocket, and he happened to be near the spot where a sport utility vehicle mysteriously burst into flames a short time earlier. Now prosecutors say that he has confessed to setting the house fire that killed a father and son and that police believe he is responsible for more than a dozen other fires that were set in the neighborhood over the course of 75 minutes that morning.
A community college student and restaurant cook with no criminal history, Baye pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of arson of a dwelling, two counts of murder, and armed burglary....
I don't get it. He confesses and then pleads not guilty. Now I know it's the lawyers trying to cut a deal telling him to do that.
What bothers me is the guy allegedly murdered two people and torched property, and now he is going to draw more tax dollars out of us by prolonging the legal shenanigans. The guy is lucky he is in jail. At least he is protected from the masses in there.
Oh, did I mention he was a great kid?????
Prosecutors said some of the evidence was taken from security cameras, but they declined to specify what it showed about Baye’s role in the fires. The house fire killed Paul Yeskie, 81, and his son, Paul Jr., a 39-year-old with autism. The elder Yeskie’s wife was sleeping on the second floor when she heard a smoke alarm. She ran downstairs to warn her husband, who ordered her to run to safety.
She and a housemate escaped, but the two men could not. An autopsy determined that they died of burns and smoke inhalation. Paul Yeskie’s widow, Elaine Yeskie, wiped tears from her eyes during the proceedings. Baye kept his head downcast during the court session and did not speak. His lawyer did not contest bail.
Reached at her home, less than a mile from the site of the fatal fire, Baye’s mother declined to comment. But friends of Baye described him as a fun-loving individual who was a popular and familiar presence in downtown Northampton. He was doing well in school, several said, and had high hopes for the future.
Setting fires is fun?
“I still can’t believe it,’’ said Colby Wood, a 24-year-old who grew up with Baye and worked with him in several local restaurants. “He doesn’t have a harmful bone in his body.’’
He confessed?
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Update: Benefit concert planned for fire victims"Malden fire leaves dozens homeless
a frigid January morning....
Governor Deval Patrick visited the school in the afternoon, meeting with each resident individually and addressing them as a group. “I acknowledged that they were afraid, that they had a lot of uncertainty about tomorrow, and that they had lost everything, or nearly everything, of a material nature. But they had their lives, and our job was to help them put their lives back together,’’ Patrick said afterward.
Maybe it's me, but the guy seems to have a photo-op flair for this and it is very distasteful considering the way he has governed.
Patrick clutched a copy of a drawing from one of the residents, Jack Thrombly, an artist who had lost years of work; the graphic novel-style picture showed him fleeing the building with his wife and cat."
Related: Blaze forces 12 residents out in the cold in East Boston
Electrical malfunction sparked Malden blaze, fire officials say
South Boston fire displaces 13; Blazes straining Red Cross relief
And then the earthquake in Haiti happens.
