Spotted on I-84 west, just outside of Hartford

Courtesy the B-Side Blog

Man Beaten With Own Bike

Hey, the weather is great these days. Let’s go get some exercise and enjoy the neighborhood.

This happened on April 23 and I still think it’s both awful and awfully funny in a “I’m really crying inside” kind of way. It would have been downright hilarious if it had happened a day earlier–on Earth Day.

A 52-year-old man was beaten with his own bicycle Wednesday night during a robbery in Hartford, police said.

He was treated at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center for a serious head injury, police said.

Three suspects pushed the victim off his bike near Park Street and Francis Avenue and beat him with it, police said. They fled with the bike.

From the Courant.

Dope-io To Go

Northwest Airlines makes getting “coffee” in Amsterdam a whole lot easier from Bradley Airport:

“After years of trying, Bradley International Airport will finally be able to offer a direct route to Europe.Northwest Airlines is expected to announce this afternoon that it will begin a daily flight from Bradley, in Windsor Locks, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, said James Abromaitis, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development.”

Dog Day Afternoon

How did we miss this?

Truck Overturns, Spills Dog Food On 84

July 5, 2006

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — A truck overturned along Interstate 84 Wednesday morning, spilling more than 20 tons of dog food onto the highway. Authorities closed I-84 between exits 42 and 43 so cleanup crews could remove the dog food.

That effort took more than nine hours to complete, and no one was hurt during the crash. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of the incident.

It Takes a Monorail

Despite enjoying the nice weather and watching a few hundred people march down Main Street to the Capitol to rally for immigration rights (sorry, no pix), we haven’t done a whole lot today. But:

● Indie DJ’s and Webster Underground darlings, Shag Frenzy, have a new blog!

● A new service called Waiter Wheels delivers food from restaurants that otherwise couldn’t be bothered, although it only seems to go to downtown and West Hartford at this point. What? West End or Asylum Hill too scary for you?

● Maybe all it takes to get the party started around here is a monorail.

Reading the author’s description of his city of inspiration–Kiel, Germany–makes us suspect that the dude really just visited Euro Disney and had to come up with something to write about in time to make deadline. Although, scrapping the Front Street plans and turning Hartford into a Eurotrash Mecca of the Future sounds way more fun.

“Maybe 30 years from now, with some smart public policy, Europeans will visit here and go home saying, ‘Those people in Connecticut know how to make a city work.’”

Monorail ! Monorail ! Monorail ! …yeah, we saw that episode of The Simpsons too.