Boston Blotter: That's Not a Gun! Now That's a Gun!

--Remember the old line from Crocodile Dundee when Mick (Paul Hogan) is threatened by a tough guy with a switchblade? And then Mick whips out a much larger knife and declares, "That's not a knife! [brandishes knife] Now that's a knife!"

Well, imagine that scene in Framingham. With guns and way scarier. A store clerk in Framingham went all Crocodile Dundee on an aspiring robber by trumping the robber with a bigger gun. A guy went into the A&J grocery with a .22 caliber Ruger. Underwhelmed and unimpressed, the clerk produced a .45-caliber semi-automatic. The clerk also had time to load a bullet and fire. The robber took off, uninjured.

--OK, that's a knife. A Framingham man got so mad when he discovered that another person parked in his space that he went above and beyond keying the car. Ovidio Jolon tried to ram into the car with his own car. Then he broke into the car and tried to start it--with a steak knife. Jolon then repurposed the steak knife as a weapon when a neighbor tried to get involved.

--More praise for the wit of the BPD Blotter writer, who titled an entry about a man who stole a can of Red Bull from a Mattapan gas station "Red Bull Gives Him Wings." And maybe Red Bull really did give the guy wings. After the perp opened the can and drank from it in full view of the clerk, who told him he should pay for the can of Red Bull, the perp responded, "[Expletive] that I ain’t paying," and took off.

--A man was shot several times on Millet Street in Dorchester last night. He is now in critical but stable condition at Boston Medical Center.

--A crack dealer got shot on Hampshire Street in Cambridge on Saturday night. 18-year-old Herbert S. Marshall, Jr., was wounded in the behind. (Yes, we started thinking of crack-related puns already.) After he got shot, Marshall tried to hide his drugs in an alley, but police found them. They also found 52 Percocet pills in Marshall's pocket.

The Cambridge Chronicle also made note of an unexpected obstacle in the Cambridge PD's investigation of the case: "Investigators hit a minor ballistic evidence roadblock when doctors told police they would not be removing the bullet lodged in Marshall’s buttocks." Sometimes, it just isn't as easy as it looks on CSI.

--A fire consumed an apartment building in Dorchester yesterday afternoon, and eleven people were left without a home. The fire started when, according to the Herald, "a hot plate was placed on a counter top."

Crocodile Dundee poster from Wikipedia.