By adamg on Tue., 8/8/2023 - 9:12 am 
The abandoned cart on Winchester Street yesterday morning.
WBZ reports DPW workers dumping a blue bin that had just been dropped off at the DPW yard on Frontage Road yesterday saw a human arm come tumbling out.
The station reports the arm is now in the possession of the state Medical Examiner's office, which will try to determine what happened to it.
The arm was inside a blue bin inside a discarded shopping car on Winchester Street near Arlington Street. Somebody reported the abandoned cart via the 311 app at 9:17 a.m. yesterday.
Junkies stealing grocery carts and left on street, please clean up, thank you
The city marked the case closed at 10:04 a.m.
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OHH
By John z
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 9:18am
So THAT'S where it went! Knew I forgot something!
Harvard
By Angry Dan
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 9:29am
Harvard is probably looking for their cart.
311
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:03am
made City departments reactive rather than proactive on City services. Previous public works would sweep and pick up litter. Now they only respond to 311 reports leaving unreported litter to sit uncollected. The same with parking enforcement.
hokey
By downtown-anon
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 3:27pm
I see hokey sweeping Beacon Hill from time to time.
Also see https://www.universalhub.com/2021/boston-hokey-nev...
You want an arm? I can get
By ZachAndTired
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:06am
You want an arm? I can get you an arm. Believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you an arm by 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Ha Ha
By John Costello
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:24am
A human is dead. Ha ha ha.
You don't know that.
By ZachAndTired
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:50am
You don't know that.
Armless person arrives at local hospital
By J.R. Dobbs
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:56am
Would've made at least ONE news broadcast.
Didn't rise to that level
By Kaz
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 12:04pm
The news wouldn't have known about it because the hospital didn't call the police. The victim was mostly armless.
Yes we do
By WalkingTheDog
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 1:25pm
News report all say a body was found, the Medical Examiner took custody of the body, etc. Medical examiners don't take custody of live bodies, only dead ones.
https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2023/08/07/bosto...
People have to cope
By Kaz
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 12:02pm
Dark comedy has it's place, John.
Surely you can see how it's sometimes humerus.
It never pays to be helpful.
By Lee
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 1:48pm
You give someone a hand and they take an arm!
Arm & Hammer
By Friartuck
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 12:07pm
Would've really been impressive
All things considered
By The Fox 915
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:15am
Given the Realm of the Meth Mile, Cannibalism is well within the list of possibilities.
My impression of current day cannibals….
By Lee
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:28am
… is that they are generally well off, live in Germany and are computer wizards.
The unhoused and the addicts in Sacklerville just trying to survive don’t strike me as having the time or money to indulge in craven cravings.
Bay Village is my favorite long way around to several …
By Lee
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:23am
… places I walk or cycle to because it’s so quiet and pretty. Severed body parts is not something you’d expect to find in such a bucolic setting unless you were watching a cozy mystery.
Never again will I look upon a stuffed shopping cart with the same eyes.
Back in '42
By Friartuck
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:32am
There were 492 bodies and parts in the neighborhood... ;(
True. A horror scene.
By Lee
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 1:43pm
Sometimes that comes mind. That and how marvelous it is that a section of Broadway still exists there as well.
Bucolic?
By tachometer
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 11:19pm
Not sure that we've gone down the same streets of Bay Village
The kind 311 case reporter
By Carty
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:33am
The kind 311 case reporter thought they had a junkie problem when they actually have a cannibal problem.
The article raises more
By Matt_J
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:35am
The article raises more questions than it answers.
Must resist the urge to make arm jokes...
What else was in there?
By Gary C
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 11:29am
A hammer perhaps?
hey, can you give me a hand here?
By anon
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:37am
sure, I'll give you an arm as well.
There's no crime here
By BostonDog
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 11:39am
The 2nd amendment is absolute.
(/S)
"...try to determine what happened to it"
By Kaz
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 12:00pm
It came off.
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By Lee
Tue, 08/08/2023 - 1:46pm
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