The police wrote a Facebook post. Was it light-hearted or mean-spirited?
If there was one detail that pushed the tale of a Monday afternoon OUI arrest in Taunton over the top, sending it rocketing around the Internet and into news reports all over the country, it was probably the lizard.
“Where does one hold a Bearded Dragon Lizard while driving you ask?” Taunton police wrote on Facebook. “Answer: In their brassiere of course!!”
The post, which detailed the police’s encounter with a 39-year-old Newton woman who allegedly mowed down several mailboxes with a lizard tucked into her undergarments, quickly went viral and spawned near universal applause on social media.
But not everybody was laughing.
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