Alvarez, 69, of 9 Summer St., apartment 304, Lawrence

Okay, that's kinda creepy. It's almost like they're askin for this lady to get harassed.

/which I would be okay with, what a biatch

"To anyone watching that video, it's pretty obvious that nobody got injured," Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said yesterday.

PainInTheASP: "To anyone watching that video, it's pretty obvious that nobody got injured," Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said yesterday.

LOL, I saw that too. Wonder what his fark login is?

lennavan: Alvarez, 69, of 9 Summer St., apartment 304, Lawrence

Okay, that's kinda creepy. It's almost like they're askin for this lady to get harassed.

/which I would be okay with, what a biatch

This information would have been in her filing information, which is public record

Alvarez, 69, was charged with filing a fraudulent insurance claim.

I'd like to see a return of public floggings.

Upon seeing the video, her own lawyer withdrew from representing her in the claim.

The last ethical ball washing bastard left eh?

mauricecano: A small pet peeve but why do local newspapers feel the need to publish the addresses of people accused of a crime. This detail never fails, even when the article lacks any detail they always stick that address in there as if it made any difference to the story.

Because you need to know when you are living amongst criminals, though the best way to tell is to ask yourself this question, "Does my town/city have town/city employees?" If the answer is yes, then you are living amongst criminals.

Are they sisters?

Cameras on Boston buses have also caught fraud. MBTA lawyers get a demand letter from a personal injury lawyer and match it to a video showing uninjured passengers arranging themselves as if they had been thrown around during a violent collision. Sadly, there have been no prosecutions.

Brad_Will: From the headline, I was kind of expecting the video from some sort of town meeting where a woman lightly taps another woman on the head as she walks by, causing the latter (after a multi-second delay) to fall to the floor, wailing and rolling around like somebody hit her with a baseball bat.

Whatever happened with that, anyway?

They stopped playing soccer

Pfft. Amateur.

Philly's transit service got sued after a bus got in a very minor fender bender and security cameras showed people running from a block away to board the bus and scream "oh, my back!" when the cops arrived

Mulva?

stpauler: The comments on the link are pretty racist.

/What is with comments on local newspapers, they seem to attract incredibly insane folks.

Because white people never, ever commit fraud.

ArkAngel: Brad_Will: From the headline, I was kind of expecting the video from some sort of town meeting where a woman lightly taps another woman on the head as she walks by, causing the latter (after a multi-second delay) to fall to the floor, wailing and rolling around like somebody hit her with a baseball bat.

Whatever happened with that, anyway?

They stopped playing soccer

That's some high grade win.

in the 10 years I commuted via NJ Transit commute bus (those 50 seat monsters) I was in 3 bus accidents. Each time I didn't know we were in an accident until the driver pulled over or someone announced we were in an accident. Never felt a thing.

The "best" accident was when we were at a bus stop one morning and some dude on the other side of the road pulled into a liquor store and forgot to put his car in park. The car rolled back out of the lot, across 3 lanes of SB traffic, over the grass median, across 3 lanes of NB traffic and into the bus. The guy came out, saw what happened and ran to get his car. I heard him talking to the driver and could tell he had been drinking. He drove off just as the first police car was pulling up. We all cheered the cop on when he sped after the guy. The worst part was that it took almost an hour for the police to write the report and take all our names (and ask if we saw anything).

lennavan: Okay, that's kinda creepy. It's almost like they're askin for this lady to get harassed.

And if you read the comments, I wouldn't be surprised if she did. Really disturbing people in Lawrence.

Dolores! (new window)

Next time you have trouble filing an insurance claim, thank people like this chick for making life more difficult. Not saying it's the WHOLE problem, but insurance fraud really is a huge problem.

Diogenes: stpauler: The comments on the link are pretty racist.

/What is with comments on local newspapers, they seem to attract incredibly insane folks.

Because white people never, ever commit fraud.

Yes we do - we're just better about not getting caught. Oh, and local newspaper comment sections...even a story about the weather makes the politics tab look like championship level debate.

Sad thing is that she was probably tempted by the "Been in an accident? We can help!" ad that the lawyer put on TV. As soon as the going gets rough, the lawyer bails and she's brought up on charges of fraud. The lawyer should go down with her.

/just sayin'

I worked in the fair city of Lawrence. During a pre-holiday interview I asked the (then) Chief of Police what his department did to prepare for Halloween. His answer "This is Lawrence. Every day is Halloween." That was 20 years ago. I can only imagine what it's like now.

/Sad that Lawtons is gone.
//Was the only good thing left in the whole city, cept the pizza at Tripoli Bakery.