I always tell you the truth, dearly beloved readers, and therefore I must admit the ticket I was given led to a good time. We had a meal before the game after riding the T in, I saw a young man hit is first career home run (a once in a lifetime occurrence), and saw another young player hit a home run and get hurt trying to make a catch. The interaction with my friends and strangers was worth it as well, despite a corporate-military atmosphere that permeated the park.
The reason I'm so late with the posts today is because I didn't get home until almost 1:30 a.m. Didn't even go and get a Globe until 7:30 this morning, and was looking forward to reading it.
Fun's over:
"Woman injured in Fenway elevator fall out of hospital; Father says she is making progress at rehab facility" by Evan Allen | Globe Staff June 01, 2014
The 22-year-old woman seriously injured last month when she fell down an elevator shaft at Fenway Park has been released from the hospital, according to her father and a spokesman for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Lizzy Scotland of Brigantine, N.J., fell two stories down the shaft after a Red Sox game on May 16. She was not responsive when firefighters arrived on scene.
Scotland was released from the hospital Thursday, and her father said Saturday that she had been moved to a rehabilitation hospital in Boston.
“She is improving every day. Making great progress,” said John Scotland in a phone interview. “We’re very hopeful of her condition, and hopeful that she will make a really, really great recovery.”
It is too early to say whether Scotland will make a full recovery, but she is able to communicate enough to tell her parents if she is in pain or not, he said. Improving her communication will be part of her rehabilitation.
“I just want to reiterate how grateful we are to the firemen, the EMTs, the police, to the Boston community that just embraced us,” John Scotland said. “We just felt very much supported and cared for. Thank you. It meant a lot to us.”
Details of what happened the night Lizzy Scotland fell have remained hazy. Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald said Saturday that she was with at least one person when she plunged from the fourth floor and landed on top of the elevator car in Fenway Park, which was stopped on the second floor.
Boston police investigated and the next day issued Fenway Park a licensed premise violation for an injured patron and an intoxicated patron, said Boston police spokeswoman Officer Rachel McGuire Saturday. The violation does not specify who the intoxicated patron or patrons were, she said, and it does not imply fault in the accident.
“This happens whenever anything happens on one of these licensed premises,” said McGuire. “It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the elevator incident itself.”
The investigation into how Scotland fell into the elevator shaft is being conducted by state inspectors, said McGuire. A spokesman for the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which oversees the state Board of Elevator Regulations, could not be reached for comment.
The day after Scotland fell, the Red Sox said team personnel had worked alongside first responders to help her, and that the remaining elevators in the park were inspected before the next game as a precaution. A spokeswoman for the Red Sox, which is principally owned by John Henry, who also owns The Boston Globe, said the organization continues to wish Scotland “a rapid and successful recovery,” but declined to comment further.
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Interestingly, the elevator event was discussed with strangers on the T ride out.
While were are opening this month and morning with a baseball theme:
"Jared Remy bears apparent neo-Nazi tattoo; Some speculate he may have joined supremacist jail group for protection" by Eric Moskowitz | Globe Staff June 01, 2014
When Jared Remy casually raised a cuffed hand to his face while pleading guilty to murder earlier this week, he flashed what appeared to be a neo-Nazi jailhouse tattoo on his right hand.
Remy’s forearms are covered with elaborately detailed, richly colored tattoos predating his time behind bars, including a grim reaper and a busty nude in fishnet stockings. But as photos of Remy circulated online, it was a small, crudely etched symbol near his thumb and forefinger that stood out to those familiar with prison ink: “88.”
“That’s definitely a neo-Nazi tattoo,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which teaches law enforcement to recognize hate groups and symbols, explaining that 88 stands for “HH” — H being the eighth letter in the alphabet — or “Heil Hitler.”
Do they look in the mirror at themselves?
As for that other guy, I've stopped listening to a certain prism regarding the man.
I'm not saying they were a great bunch of guys -- no government is -- but they aren't what we were told in our in our history books. That is a carefully crafted distortion at best, outright lie at worst, and filled with omissions and obfuscations that are supported by the $y$tems of indoctrination and inculcation in what I call the AmeriKan ejewkhazion $y$tem.
Remy’s tattoo is drawn in the runic style, evoking letters used by Germanic people before the Middle Ages, another trope popular with white supremacists, said Potok. The tattoos are common among white inmates nationwide, as much a sign of affiliation for protection and solidarity as of bigotry, he said.
That adds a new layer to Remy’s unusual statement in court Tuesday, which he began by thanking three men, apparently fellow inmates at the Cambridge jail where he was held.
“I would like to thank Josh Sullivan, Shane Tresilian, Eddie Stone, and all the guys from Somerville for taking me in. I wish you guys all the best of luck,” Remy said, before switching to the subject of the murder of his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, last summer. “Blame me for this, not my family.”
Remy’s statement came shortly after he pleaded guilty to first degree murder, paving the way for Judge Kathe Tuttman to sentence him to the mandatory term of life without parole.
Defense lawyer Edward P. Ryan Jr. said after the hearing that Remy wrote the statement himself and that he did not recognize the names of the men, but suspected they were fellow Cambridge jail detainees. (The handwritten page Remy submitted to the court, littered with misspellings, identified the men as “Josh Sullivin Shane Tilsilion Eddi Stone and all the guys from Summervil.”)
Public records show men with similar names overlapping with Remy in jail. One was Shane D. Tresilian, a 40-year-old who has been in and out of custody for two decades for offenses including throwing a bicycle through a Somerville library window.
In 2001, a Somerville judge who ordered Tresilian to be held without bail while awaiting trial for a bloody barfight described him as “a dedicated street brawler ignited by substances who poses a clear and present danger to man, beast, or inanimate objects in his path while he is in thrall.”
Though Remy, the son of celebrated Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, had a long history of arrests for allegedly abusing or assaulting women, he served only one stint in jail — 81 days while awaiting trial in the winter of 2005-06 — prior to murdering Martel.
“He was the new kid on the cell block,” said Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin, speculating that Remy may have grouped himself with an organization or gang along racial lines for solidarity and protection.
The new kid on the block(?) could well have been Jewish, and then there would be no problem with the supremacism for solidarity and protection. They even gave it a name: Zionism.
Levin said Remy’s tattoo and his unusual acknowledgment of other inmates in his courtroom address may also offer new light on his alleged attack of another inmate, an African-American man, with scalding water, a bar of soap, and a chair on April 3. “I did what I had to do. I got a child molester,” Remy said after the incident, according to court records. His victim, Jemery Hodges, has pleaded guilty in Mississippi to transporting a minor to engage in commercial sex acts, and is awaiting trial locally on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.
Of the three men with names similar to the ones Remy listed, only Tresilian remains in the Cambridge jail, awaiting trial for allegedly stealing a bag containing a laptop and camera from a woman exiting the Central Square MBTA station last spring, just days before he punched and spit at officers who tried to restrain him after a fight in Cambridgeport, according to court records.
Joshua Sullivan, 20, of Somerville, was held there until January, when he was sent to MCI-Cedar Junction — the state prison in Walpole, where Remy arrived Tuesday — after pleading guilty to armed assault with intent to murder and other charges, for his role in an attempted stickup of a drug dealer that left a Roxbury man bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Edward A. Stone, a homeless 25-year-old, previously served time in federal prison for a failed Everett bank robbery. He overlapped with Remy in jail while awaiting trial for driving under the influence of drugs in Cambridge and using counterfeit bills in Everett. He was released earlier this month on probation after pleading guilty to those crimes.
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Kristina Hill — Martel’s close friend and next-door neighbor — and two other former neighbors from the Waltham apartment complex where Remy and Martel lived said that Remy’s hand tattoo appeared to be new.
“It doesn’t shock me,” Hill said, noting that Remy boasted to her on the first day they met that he wanted a swastika tattoo.
Then he is a Hindu?
Jailhouse tattoos can be rendered with paper clips or other bits of metal or sharp plastic and colored with ink from pens. Kevin Maccioli, a Middlesex sheriff’s office spokesman, said the jail has a policy against inmate tattooing. The jail also catalogues each inmate’s tattoos and scars at intake, but he said state law and department policy prevent him from saying whether Remy’s tattoo is new or was the subject of any discipline.
Levin said Remy’s statement — and his tattoo — were “certainly not designed to endear himself to the judge.” But given the mandatory sentence, Remy may have been more interested in endearing himself to fellow inmates, he said.
“When you get very little respect, as prisoners do from the outside world, it becomes extremely important to be respected by fellow inmates,” he said, in “a place where he’s going to spend the rest of his life.”
Why did I just think Guantánamo?
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Related: Sunday Globe Special: Remy's Stormy Romance
No one talked about Remy at the park or anywhere else.
Maybe the kids could learn BASEball over at the teen center?
