"For 82 summers Red Sox baseball has been broadcast on the radio, a faithful companion of warm weather. The tick-tock of balls and strikes offers a lifeline to elderly shut-ins, sets a rhythm for cooks and dishwashers in steamy restaurant kitchens, and passes time in bodegas, back porches, and sailboats bobbing close to shore."
Naaaaawww, that's just a coincidence, right?
Not that you can trust what's in the Boston Globe to begin with:
"Hub man faces charge for shark sighting story; Vineyard officials had closed beach" by Jonnelle Marte, Globe Correspondent | July 12, 2008
A 60-year-old Boston man is facing a charge of disturbing the peace for allegedly concocting a story about a shark sighting off a Martha's Vineyard beach.
And the Globe made it in to a page-one story!
Wouldn't be the first time the Globe put up crap as "news."
Michael Lopenzo allegedly told people at Edgartown's State Beach that he had seen two sharks about 22 feet long and weighing about 3,000 pounds each Thursday morning while fishing in the area, said Edgartown Police Chief Paul Condlin.
The scare came hours after beach officials closed South Beach because lifeguards reported possibly spotting a great white. Also, a pilot of a private tour plane reported seeing a great white shark about 150 feet offshore at South Beach.
Dennis Arnold, the South Beach Cape State Park patrol director for Edgartown:
"We kept it closed all day just to keep it on the safe side." said Arnold.
Lopenzo gave his address as 17 Court St., which is the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, but Stephen Cunniff, director of community affairs for the shelter, said he was not a current resident there. Lopenzo had been living on the island for a while, according to Condlin, and had no history with police.
Oh, great, ANOTHER HOMELESS VET!!!
Lopenzo also allegedly told a detective that he worked on a fishing boat named the Alicia-li, which was owned by a "John Kennedy." But police said they later determined there was no such boat and no such owner. They also could not find anyone else who saw the shark.
Condlin said: "It was building to a lack of credibility concerning his statement regarding the sharks."
The state Executive Office of Environmental Affairs sent a plane to scan the waters off Edgartown on Thursday, but the pilot did not see a great white. All the beaches were open yesterday, said Wendy Fox, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation.
People were wary about diving into the water at South Beach yesterday and the Edgartown website warned: "Swim at your own risk." Still, the coast was far from deserted, according to local park officials.
Arnold, who advised swimmers not to go more than 10 yards from the shore:"I see a bunch of people in the water, so they can't be too worried about it. That's the ocean, it's where they live. Just because we don't see them doesn't mean that they aren't out there."
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Here is a thought: remember right before 9/11 and all the shark attack stories the MSM was running?
Deja Vu, America?
