Boston Blotter: That Ain't a Blanket on Your Sofa

The BPD reports that a woman woke up to find some dude she didn't know sleeping on her couch. No word yet if he looked like Stephen Wright from Half Baked.

In the low-IQ department, the BPD also reports that a guy tried to liberate some copper piping from a building. He tried to leave the scene on a bicycle, which means the BPD probably had their easiest perp-catch of the month.

In sad news, the dispatcher on duty at the time of the terrible commuter-rail crash that killed two members of a rail work crew was heard saying, "It's my fault." The NTSB is investigating, and it's not a surprise that human error was involved. However, let's hope that more rail safety stopgaps are put in place to leave room for that kind of human error.

But the saddest story on the blotter happened yesterday in Mansfield, where an Amtrak train struck and killed 15-year-old Robert Castro.

Image of Steven Wright napping on the sofa from Infinite Coolness.