Poetry from the Brookline Police Blotter

Plant thefts mystify Brookline police, residents

Posted Jul 05, 2012 @ 08:49 AM

For three days, Faith Michaels toiled in 95-degree heat planting a garden for a client on Irving Street. When she came back on the fourth day, the garden was littered with gaping holes. A botanical bandit had purloined more than $500 of her prized perennials.

Brookline Police: Holiday decorating leads to groin kicking

Posted Dec 23, 2010 @ 04:41 PM

A Newton teen frosted about icing a gingerbread house on Sunday now faces charges she kicked another woman in the groin and threw ginger ale in her face.

It's the specificity that makes it so profound.