Boston Blotter: Exposed Tummies Make the Front Page

--A group of female students at Framingham State College stole 1,000 copies of the student newspaper.

What prompted them to do such a thing? They were angry at an editorial? They had passionate feelings about a major issue and were engaged in some kind of protest?

No. They thought that a front-page image made them look fat. They painted letters on their stomachs and showed them at a lacrosse game. It wasn't as if anyone was taking peeping tom paparazzi photos. Who do they think they are, Paris bloody Hilton? Who is going to care that some ordinary folks at Framingham State showed their bellybuttons? Well, they sure did care once these people stole the papers.

A Framingham State College professor said, "This is the most stupid reason the paper has been stolen."

Perhaps the biggest winner in this is Chris Calzolaio, who took the picture. We're showing it so he can get a job as a sports photographer. If you didn't know the backstory, it's a terrific action shot of fans cheering on players.

--A three-month-old girl died of cardiac arrest at a Roxbury day care yesterday afternoon. DSS had removed the child from her parents' care recently because the child was hurt in a domestic dispute, and many people rushed to the day-care providers' defense.

--Yesterday was a rough day for young children. A pit bull bit a two-year-old girl in the face when she got a little too close while in Hyde Park. It seems that the owner was lax in handling the dog. Animal control put the dog down when they found it hadn't been vaccinated.

A witness said of the girl's condition, "Her eye was really bad, and there was a cut from her ear to the side of her cheekbone." (WCVB also said the little girl was three.)

--We're waaay into Comedy Central's Halfway Home, and this blotter entry reminded us of the show in which the character Serenity Johnson winds up on America's Stupidest Criminals. A waitress at a Bertucci's in Braintree allegedly used customer credit card numbers to buy Red Sox tickets. As if people aren't going to notice!

All charges alleged until proven under law. Let the world see those tummies! We screengrabbed this from the MetroWest Daily News because, well, the newspaper-stealers can't steal this, and we'd like to give the photographer, not the tummies, exposure.