{"id":97,"date":"2005-03-01T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/01\/wanna-see-my-bike-hit-80-2\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T12:39:03","slug":"wanna-see-my-bike-hit-80-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/01\/wanna-see-my-bike-hit-80-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna See My Bike Hit 80?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4664'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bicycle.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"211\" align=\"left\"><br \/> <br \/>\n        BOSTON &#8211; A 17-year-old Acton man has been arrested for allegedly throwing<br \/>\n            a 10-speed bicycle off the roof of a three-story apartment building<br \/>\n            in Boston, hitting and injuring a woman on the sidewalk below. <\/p>\n<p>        Justin E. Towne was charged with two counts of assault and battery<br \/>\n        with a dangerous weapon following the incident early Saturday morning.<br \/>\n        He was released on personal recognizance after pleading innocent at his<br \/>\n        arraignment Monday. <\/p>\n<p>        The woman&#8217;s boyfriend told police that the couple was walking in<br \/>\n        front of an apartment building in the city&#8217;s Allston neighborhood at<br \/>\n        about 1:25 a.m. Saturday when she was struck with a beer can that came<br \/>\n        from the roof. The man said a bicycle then fell from the roof, striking<br \/>\n        the 24-year-old woman in the head and knocking her to the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p><em>We heard Justin on the radio this morning, as we drove our recently<br \/>\n        excavated white whale (beautifully camouflaged in the snow) in to work.<br \/>\n        He said he was &quot;so sorry&quot;. that throwing his bicycle off the roof was<br \/>\n        a &quot;stupid, drunken mistake&quot; and that he would &quot;definitely quit drinking.&quot;<br \/>\n        A real piece of work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/localRegional\/view.bg?articleid=70790\">Boston Herald<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8211; A 17-year-old Acton man has been arrested for allegedly throwing a 10-speed bicycle off the roof of a three-story apartment building in Boston, hitting and injuring a woman on the sidewalk below. Justin E. Towne was charged with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/01\/wanna-see-my-bike-hit-80-2\/\">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":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}