So Sunday morning Patti and I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts on the way to the Charles River. We often park my car in the building I work at and walk around the river. It’s pretty and usually a lot of activity. Anyway, while I was sitting in the car with Emily, Patti went in to get some coffee. The store is on 3rd Street right off of a main road called McGrath Hwy. As soon as I pulled in, an MBTA bus stopped right behind me in the middle of the street. I looked at McGrath, the main road, and the bus lightly hit an old Jeep Cherokee. The guy in the jeep was pretty ticked off and while out of his truck, looking at the damage (I couldn’t tell if there was any from where I was), him and the bus driver started yelling at each other. The bus driver walked back to the bus to call the police on his radio and I guess the dude in the SUV thought he was turning his back on him and got REALLY pissed. This is when things got interesting.
The guy in the SUV then got in his car, turned off of McGrath onto 3rd, gunned the engine, went past the bus in the opposing traffic lane going very fast, and went anther 100 yards before he jammed on his breaks and did a 180 in the middle of an intersection. I am not joking. It was crazy. He then gunned it back to the bus and stopped right in front of it (and a few feet away from me). He got out of the car to yell at the bus driver some more. I guess a cop was in the intersection when he did his Starsky and Hutch move and pulled up behind him with his lights going. The guy got back in his SUV and took off!! No joke. The cop immediately went after him.
So Patti and took off a minute later and drove around some of the streets to see if we could follow the chase. Nothing. Then, about 20 minutes later, Patti was walking on the Esplanade and saw that 6 cop cars caught up with the guy and pulled him over. We later learned that they arrested him. Not sure what for though.
Just another Autumn Sunday.
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