Posted on 03/26/2007 10:47:47 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie Carr live thread. (First hour of Howie's show won't be on WRKO or WXTK on TUE and THU due to Red Sox, but I think WCRN will have it. Just a few more pre-emptions...)
Howie Carr live thread. I heard first hour of John DePetro
(former WRKO talker) today on WPRO 630...pretty interesting.
14 year old boy downs 20 Capt. Morgan shots, takes his mom's
car (she was asleep) and kills himself when it crashes.
Is he to blame...how about mom, or his friends? "He usually doesn't drink this much..." Ma'am, he's 14, and shouldn't be drinking at all! Then hours later, the 18 yr old pal of this kid
is run over by a hit and run driver at the...roadside
memorial. Oh, and that 18 yr old will never get to see
his unborn child...yep, that 18 yr old's girlfriend is
due to give birth soon...
Also: did you catch Dennis Miller (live webcast) 10 am -1 pm? Not bad. we did a thread on it.
Howie's team UNC was eliminated in March Madness
New: the place to talk ABOUT Boston talk radio. A messageboard run by me.
http://www.raccoonradio.com or
http://bostontalkradio.proboards47.com
From the Globe, and yes, Darien was "turning his life
around" to use one of Howie's favorite phrases:
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- Hours after their friend died, a group gathered to construct a memorial around the telephone pole 14-year-old Darien Plass had rammed his mother's van into just 200 yards from his home.
The mourners would disperse late Friday, but Andrew Coit stayed to pray and strum a few more songs on his acoustic guitar. About 4 a.m. Saturday, police found Coit, 18, lying next to the pole, the apparent victim of a fatal hit-and-run. Police do not have any suspects, and are asking anyone with information to come forward.
The deaths have devastated the community.
"How can you hit a person, and drive away?" Coit's mother, Christa Mills , said yesterday, choking back tears in a telephone interview.
Friends and relatives say the teenagers, who lived within a half-mile of each other, had been trying to turn their lives around. Plass, who had previously attended West Warwick High School, started attending The Ocean Tides School for at-risk boys last week.
"I've never seen Darien go to school and do his work right there," said Rob Rose , 15, who huddled with friends yesterday in Plass's kitchen.
Coit, a senior at Coventry High School, had secured a part-time job at a Home Depot to save money for the birth of his first child due in May, a boy he and his girlfriend had planned to name Andrew Alan.
"Andrew just wanted everything to fall into place," the girlfriend, Meaghan Reynolds, 17, said in a telephone interview.
An ultrasound picture of Reynolds's unborn child was among numerous pictures, signed T-shirts, and markings posted yesterday on the telephone pole where a steady stream of young people came to mourn.
Coventry High students remembered Coit as a go-getter who had immersed himself in theater and played Willard Hewitt in a recent school production of "Footloose." They described him as a gangly young man with a thin mustache that grew in patches.
"I asked him why he never shaved it off, and he said because 'I'd look weird,' " said Matt Addington, 16, who was among those at the makeshift memorial.
Wearing a photo of Plass around her neck, Britney Clark, 14, said she has fond memories of riding in West Warwick with him, the pair singing along to songs on the radio.
"His afro, we'd always crack on it," Clark said, as she stood among the mourners. "It was so big. We were always telling him if anyone tried to hit him in the head with something, it would probably bounce off."
About a half-dozen of Plass's friends had gathered at his home Friday, a typical night for the teens who would often listen to music and play Xbox video games in Plass's second-floor bedroom . Rose estimated that Plass drank about 20 shots straight from a bottle of rum.
Plass's mother, Tina, said her son took the keys to her Ford van. Rose said he and another friend tried to stop Plass from driving, but Plass insisted on going for a drive.
He said Plass made two trips through the neighborhood before returning to his home for the last time.
"I reached in the car, and I had him by his shirt, and he just started going in reverse faster, so I let go of his shirt," Rose said. "The third time, he was just going crazy fast."
Rose said Plass's van veered onto a curb before crashing into the pole. Rose said he ran to the vehicle, where Plass repeatedly uttered "My boy."
Tina Plass said she lost her oldest son last year to encephalitis. The death took a toll on Darien, who she advised not to drink as an answer to his problems.
She said she hopes teenagers learn from her son's mistake.
"Don't drink and drive," Plass said. "Your life is more important."
takes his mom's
car (she was asleep) and kills himself when it crashes
Bet Mom had a few before going to sleep
I don't know, but she was inteviewed by DePetro. "Now some people said his car was going very fast, maybe 100?"
"No, maybe 60..." He should have been going ZERO because he
isn't old enough to drive, and he was a mere 7 years away
from drinking legally.
btw on last night's Family Guy they showed a landlord
with an immigrant tenant who had claimed to only be having
a couple people living with him, but then a whole bunch of
other people show up (his fellow roommates)--and I swear to
God when they show up, we hear a car horn playing
"la Cucaracha". Sound familiar?
Wasn't it the "Mexican Hall of Justice"from the Superfriends cartoon?
Mexican Batman showed up with 60 keys for all the Mexican superfriends?
Not sure drifting in and out of sleep last night
Yes I think it was from that part of the episode...
HERE IT IS!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSOCgnhjEeA
I isolated the horn, or the bugle as Howie calls it (from
Family Guy)
http://wmwm.250free.com/mexicanhorn.mp3
Yikes...
>>Jason Ray, a North Carolina student who performed as a mascot for the school's basketball team, died three days after being struck by a car hours before an NCAA tournament game. He was 21.
Ray died Monday morning, said Steve Kirschner, the university's associate athletic director for communications.
Ray had been in critical condition at Hackensack University Medical Center since the accident Friday afternoon. He was hit from behind while walking on a highway shoulder near his Fort Lee hotel after going to a nearby convenience store.
Ray performed as UNC's ram mascot, Rameses. He was scheduled to graduate in May with a major in business administration and a minor in religion. He was in New Jersey for the men's game between North Carolina and Southern California.
Emmitt Ray said his son "absolutely loved" dressing up as Rameses, despite the costume's bulk.
(no word on whether he was in the outfit when hit)
Afternoon Everybody!
How ya doin today?
I saw the headlines but don't know the story in depth...
Howie was playing some clips in his opening montage of
the Elizabeth Edwards interview (by Katie Couric), the
cause of Anna Nicole's death, etc.
Sorry about UNC, Howie! They were beaten by Georgetown,
featuring Patrick Ewing _Jr._--a friend of mine went to
school with Patrick Ewing Sr. at what Howie calls
"Cambridge Syringe and Latin"
Anna Nicole didn't die of natural causes? Howie is
shocked, shocked. "9 drugs in her body"
Herald article:
As subpoenas are served to tight-lipped partygoers who were with a small-town Kentucky woman shot to death early Saturday morning, detectives are scouring security video from the Theater District, where Chiara Maria Levin met the men who would drive her to the deadly Dorchester bash.
“It makes you sick,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday. “It’s just outrageous. And what’s most outrageous is that people aren’t coming forward with information. If they really care about this young woman they should tell us what they know.”
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis declined to say how many grand jury subpoenas were being issued to pressure witnesses to cooperate, but said, “This case is an around-the-clock investigation.”
After attending a great-aunt’s birthday party in Boston Friday, Levin, 22, who grew up in Danville, Ky., but recently moved to Manhattan to work in public relations for Meltin’ Pot Jeans, went to the Caprice Lounge on Tremont Street. At 2 a.m., Levin left with two female friends and climbed into a car with an unknown number of men to head to what sources called a “Cape Verdean after-hours party” at 415 Geneva Ave.
The ride took the women into one of Boston’s worst “hotspots” for bloodshed and shootings - an area where Davis recently beefed up foot patrols and heightened the Youth Violence Strike Force presence in an effort to get crime under control. It is unclear whether the women knew they were headed into a high-crime area. Menino attributed the tragedy to a perfect storm of “young people not knowing when to call it a night” and killers with “a total disregard for human life.”
Investigators do not believe Levin, a University of Michigan graduate, was the intended target of the gunplay. She was shot in the head while sitting in a car outside the triple-decker.
Menino is questioning why neighbors reported shots fired at 3:20 a.m., but Levin wasn’t brought to BMC - only 11 minutes away - until just before 4 a.m.
“It’s crazy,” Menino said. Police say Levin may have been moved into another car. Later, Jason Barbosa, 18, a reputed Cape Verdean gang member according to police, admitted himself to Boston Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his shoulder. Police are looking into whether it is related.
Levin’s father, William Levin, 58, an art history professor at Centre College in Danville, lived in Newton Center in the early 1990s. The slain girl’s mother, Maria Grazia Levin, is a licensed social worker.
“You could say this place was just too little for her,” one heartbroken Danville woman said yesterday. In a whistle-stop where folks don’t lock their doors, “This is the most senseless thing I’ve ever heard of in my life,” said Gail Griffin, whose daughter grew up with Levin, Danville High’s 2002 valedictorian.
Danville Mayor Hugh Coomer, 71, presiding over fewer than 16,000 residents, said,“It’s hard to understand. Something like this is shocking, but of course kids in small towns leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere.”
Yup Howie is going with roadside shrines/the West Warwick
case (see above). I sent HC an email about it to ask if he
could talk about it but he may have made up his mind to
talk about it well before then.
Howie's poll: 81 per cent say roadside shrines should be
banned.
as for the woman from Kentucky:
>>“Cape Verdean after-hours party” at 415 Geneva Ave.
The ride took the women into one of Boston’s worst “hotspots” for bloodshed and shootings
I have heard there has been some violence in Boston's
Cape Verdean community/neighborhood. A few years ago
a Cape Verdean immigrant who worked for WJIB (AM 740
Cambridge) was gunned down, IIRC.
Meanwhile, the teens in W. Warwick had been...
"trying to turn their lives around"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.