Morning Updates: Mystery man on Hancock building; America runs on bagels
Good morning, Boston. Somerville mayor called for traffic-blocking protestors to be set free, a strange figure appeared on the side of the Hancock building, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
“Respect for the right to protest’’: “Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone wants Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan to drop the charges against the ‘Somerville 18’ who participated in January’s protest that shut down I-93 in Somerville and Milton. ‘There is no respect for the right to protest when the punishment proposed is completely disproportionate to the action taken,’ Curtatone wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday.’’ (Boston.com)
Bring it on, winter: “MBTA General Manager Frank DePaola said he guarantees the transit system will perform better this coming winter. ‘I guarantee. Otherwise, he fires me,’ DePaola said Wednesday afternoon, referring to Gov. Charlie Baker.’’ (Boston.com)
Who is this guy? “A larger-than-life figure of a man with his hands in his pockets suddenly materialized on the shiny glass windows of the former John Hancock building Wednesday, piquing the curiosity of onlookers in office buildings and on the streets below.’’ (The Boston Globe)
“Oh my gawd what is that bro?’’ “Now that Michael Bergin’s Massachusetts-accent-laden, sunfish freak-out reaction video has spanned the corners of Internet virality, the requisite second phase of meme-ification is mashup videos. And, as always, the people of the interwebs, likely procrastinating from doing their real jobs, have us covered.’’ (Boston.com)
And now a word from the fisherman himself: “If you look on Facebook, it says, ‘The Pope,’ and then it says ‘Michael Bergin,’’’ the 41-year-old said in a telephone interview. “It’s overwhelming. I would have never thought this would happen, bro.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Say what? “A mysterious stabbing and suicide that rocked the campus of Yale University last spring took place in the midst of a three-way sex romp gone terribly awry, according to newly released documents from the New Haven Police Department.’’ (Gawker)
America runs on bagels: “Daniel Thompson, who five decades ago automated the arcane art of bagel making … died on Sept. 3 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 94. … The largest direct retailer of bagels in the country [nowadays], which last year sold consumers more than 224 million in flavors like multigrain, cinnamon raisin and blueberry, is Dunkin’ Donuts.’’ (The New York Times)
The Goodbye: A #tbt to the lengthy history of Dunkin’ Donuts.
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