So I’m reading the Boston Herald online during lunch and I come across this story that puts a smile on my face,
Dunkin’ hero drops thief without dripping coffee
“I got my coffee and didn’t even realize what was going on until I noticed a
guy behind the counter who didn’t look like he worked there,” said Merry, 21,
of Beverly. Merry realized that a man behind the counter was robbing
the store clerk with a knife. “When he was done, he just walked out
calmly and started down the street. I said to myself, `I just can’t let this
happen,’ ” Merry said. Merry said at this point he sprang into “adrenaline mode” and began to chase after the suspect, all the while screaming at him to stop.Meanwhile, Boston police officers responded to the armed robbery call and a
witness pointed them in the direction of the foot chase, police spokesman David
Estrada said. The officers found Merry, who had detained the apparently slow-footed thief on Harrison Avenue – all without spilling a drop of coffee, Merry said.
Then only a click or two later, I’m hit in the gut, stunned, sad, angry and depressed. Now that I have young kids myself, I don’t react well to this kind of story,
Mom, baby die in shocking downtown fall
In a tragedy witnessed by a downtown evening rush-hour crowd, a 28-year-old
mother clutching her 9-month-old daughter apparently jumped from the window of
their 24th-floor luxury apartment.They landed on a roof 16 stories below and were pronounced dead at the
scene.The woman’s husband – and only child’s father – witnessed the events from
the door of their home in Devonshire Place, a tower on Washington Street, police
said.