BOSTON (AP) — A tourist from Ireland apparently couldn't wait to get his hands on an Italian pastry from Boston's North End. Prosecutors say just hours after 25-year-old Robert McTernan landed in Boston for a two-week vacation, he entered a bakery in the largely Italian neighborhood, grabbed a knife and demanded a cannoli from an employee. The worker at Bova's Bakery handed McTernan the pastry made from creamy ricotta cheese wrapped in a crunchy shell, then called police at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers found the Newbridge, Ireland resident in the kitchen and arrested him on an armed robbery charge. Police could not find the knife. McTernan was granted $2,000 bail after pleading not guilty at his arraignment and ordered to surrender his passport. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/irish_man_charged_with_stealin.html Anyone know the chapter and section for "Stealing a cannoli in Boston?" I've got the one for armed robbery but this must be new. Damn tinker!
The fact that the police were called, and that this guy wasn't found bleeding with a cannoli shoved up his ass, shows just how much that neighborhood has changed. Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk 2
I thought it was Mike's too. Kid musta just got thrown out of JJ's and stumbled his way to the North End.
Has just been REVOKED (And Mikes is for tourists, everyone knows Modern has the best pastry!) Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk 2
This has got to be the best written, and arguably tastiest, piece of journalism ever. Usually the news just makes me want to slap someone, but this story is making me hungry.
Don't discuss phallic shaped donuts, after all, making such treats is considered sexual harassment at Dunks these days.
RACIST! I will get the ACLU and sue you! Then I will sue MassCops for allowing such racist views and you will all owe me millions and I can retire, write a book on my suffering and move to Cancun. AND with my millions, I can buy lots of beer and potatoes and cannoli for desert.
The Irish side of me wonders how many shots it took this dick to get hammered enough to rob a place for food. The Italian side of me wonders why he didn't vanish from the face of the earth like Hoffa.
Reading the headline, I figure this was a story from The Onion. Unfortunately, it appears to be a real story.
