Boston Blotter: Illegal Dumping – Not What You Think

--Since we got accused of having dirty minds with yesterday's post about the "penis for lunch" sign in Dedham, we wondered what you would think of a post about "illegal dumping." No, it's not that kind of dumping. Geez! We're not that bad.

Two men were caught dumping "carpeting, trash, and metal debris" in East Boston. The mayor announced that the city put surveillance cameras near the Chelsea Creek when it got too messy. If you see someone trashing your neighborhood with their old carpets and junk, call 617-635-5300.

--Imagine just driving along at rush hour, minding your own, looking up, and seeing a plane getting ready to land – maybe on you. It happened in Boxborough on 495 North when a small plane from Michigan ran out of gas.

No one got hurt. The pilot of the Cessna 170, Alan Kidd, said he couldn't get permission to land anywhere, so he did what he had to do and picked the highway. Why he didn't have gas or why he couldn't get permission to land is still unclear.

Two lanes of the highway were closed for two hours.

--Speaking of other weird things flying through the air, on I-93 a brake drum from a truck came off and went through the windshield of Justin Gatie, of South Weymouth. He is in the hospital in good condition.

--The BPD announced that a man who was assaulted in Mattapan on June 5 and who died on June 13 has been identified as 41-year-old Michael Hansbury, and the medical examiner says he died of "brain injury due to blunt head trauma."

--Thomas Shay, the alleged cross-dresser who allegedly ran amok and who was involved in a bomb that killed a BPD officer in 1991, has been sentenced to 33 months' worth of jail time for violating probation. The Herald writes that Shay was diagnosed with “pseudologia fantastica." Is that diagnosis for real?

--A Plymouth Marine will face a court martial on "murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, assault and other charges." Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III is accused of leading other soldiers in the murder of an Iraqi man who they thought was an insurgent. If he is convicted, he will serve a life sentence.

Image of a dump truck from CDC.gov.