{"id":439,"date":"2005-08-10T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/10\/mysterious-lines\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T04:31:09","slug":"mysterious-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/10\/mysterious-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6643'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nbank1.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"716\"><br \/>\n        This afternoon, on our way to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deluxetowndiner.com\/\">Deluxe<br \/>\n        Town Diner<\/a> (a bit overpriced for dinner, but a great place to ahve<br \/>\n        lunch) in H20town, we came upon the strangest marking in front of the<br \/>\n        Watertown Savings<br \/>\n        Bank. They were yellowish outlines of human forms, splayed on the sidewalk,<br \/>\n        as though spray-painted to mark the spots where bodies had fallen. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nbank2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"left\">Three were three of them in front of the bank, speckled<br \/>\n        profiles of interrupted lives, as regular folk walked right over them,<br \/>\n        going about their daily business. We asked one woman, coming out of the<br \/>\n        bank carrying a small, wiry dog with brillo-pad hair and bug eyes, &quot;Excuse<br \/>\n        me, ma;am, do you know what these outlines on the sidewalk mean?&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">She looked at us like we had been stalking her for years,<br \/>\n        &quot;I have no idea,&quot; she said. She left unsaid &quot;And if you don&#8217;t leave me<br \/>\n        alone I will call the bank security guard standing right inside that<br \/>\n        door&quot; She didn&#8217;t have to. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We were so intimidated by her tone and insinuation<br \/>\n          that we didn&#8217;t dare ask anyone else. Of course, had we been a &quot;real&quot;<br \/>\n        journalist, we would have been honor bound to investigate further.&nbsp; But<br \/>\n        as a card-carrying member of the Pajamahaddin, a natural born blogger,<br \/>\n        we naturally just went home to blog about it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So, dear readers, at least a few of whom we know to<br \/>\n        be H2Otown neighbors, does anyone know where these mysterious outlines<br \/>\n        came from? Public art?<br \/>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nbank3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"right\">A<br \/>\n        shootout<br \/>\n        in<br \/>\n        front<br \/>\n        of the<br \/>\n        bank we somehow didn&#8217;t<br \/>\n        hear or hear about? But don&#8217;t the police use chalk, not spray paint?<br \/>\n        Artistic or autistic kids? Some prankster with a sick sense of humor?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s mysteries<br \/>\n          like this that drive us crazy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">(tangential note to regular readers: (yes, that is a<br \/>\n        rare shot of the White Whale in the background of the last picture)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, on our way to the Deluxe Town Diner (a bit overpriced for dinner, but a great place to ahve lunch) in H20town, we came upon the strangest marking in front of the Watertown Savings Bank. They were yellowish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/10\/mysterious-lines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}