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We did our best to spread the word on Sunday that Boston Police would be cracking down on debauchery outside Fenway Park during Game 7 of the ALCS, but let's face it: we're naturally curious. We wanted to see with our own eyes what the scene was like down by the ballpark, given the likelihood of stories running wild about who was going to take it too far: the crowd or the police. Police had...

We just critiqued the Boston police in the last post, but we will offer praise when it is due. The BPD has banned the use of pellet guns in crowd control following the 2004 death of Victoria Snelgrove, which happened after the Red Sox American League Championship Series victory over the Yankees. Commish Ed Davis himself said the guns will be melted and used for sewer caps. (That's probably where all guns should wind up...

Bostonist wonders if we’re the only one that caught the Metro’s mistake in yesterday’s edition. Ok, ok, one of the errors in yesterday's edition – the free daily contains almost as many problems as you'll find on this site. Yesterday on page 2, the headline in the right-hand column reads "Snelgrove remembered at Northeastern commencement". The article, however, tells us about how Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson student fatally shot (with a "less lethal" pepper pellet)...

For a city that welcomes hundreds of thousands of college students each fall, Boston sure makes it hard for these students to throw a party. An article in the Herald today announced that a new “keg-tracking system” will be going into effect to keep tabs on all the barrels that kids are buying in the city. When Bostonist first read the headline, we expected to see tracking devices a la Martha Stewart’s ankle bracelet attached to our fine barrels of lager. But, this is Boston and technology is never as up-to-date as one might think; once given the okay from the Boston Licensing Board, the new tracking system will make every single liquor store call police and report who bought a keg. This phone call, e-mail or fax has to be made immediately after the sale of the keg and include the name, address, and D.O.B. of the buyer. (When Bostonist last picked up a keg at good ol’ Blanchards, we were waiting for a background check to be issued and list of references required before we could take the keg home.)

The City of Boston settled with the family of Victoria Snelgrove yesterday for $5 million, avoiding what would surely have been a politically embarassing trial (to say nothing of the city's poor chances of winning). Snelgrove, you may recall, was the Emerson College student who was killed in October when she was hit in the eye by a pepper pellet fired from a special, "less lethal" gun being used by police for crowd control in...