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If anyone was taking the Orange Line from Haymarket around 2:30 - 2:45, did you happen to see the fracas surrounding "Shannon"?
I saw her getting on, when she called out to me and said I dropped something. I didn't actually hear her, but someone else started to go over and set off the T gates and she snuck on. She then proceeded to wander up and down the platform, waving a cloth deposit bag, telling people her name is Shannon, and that someone stole her change purse just like it from the Dunkin Donuts just a few minutes before. She was trying to collect $24 to get to South Station and get a bus ticket to Albany because she had to go pick up her 6 year old niece who had Type 1 diabetes and she had to get there tonight because her sister was being deployed.
Then, the panhandler on the other side apparently recognized her and start yelling at her to get a new story, he saw her here all the time, and to stop ripping people off. She starts back that she works here, that's probably why he saw her and he should get off his ass and get a job. It degenerated from their, to her calling him a drunk, much cursing, and what sounded like him whipping a handful of change at her as the train was coming.
She got on the train, took a deep breath, and started the spiel all over again. And yes, she was definitely getting money from people.
I was in Dunkins a few minutes before, when she was supposedly there, and I didn't see her. I'm guessing she was a grifter and this was my amusement for the day, but did anyone else see her? I know she was headed towards South Station. Is this a regular occurrence, as her screaming match with the other homeless guy would kind of indicate or am I pretty much mocking someone who was really down on their luck?
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I saw her getting on, when she called out to me and said I dropped something. I didn't actually hear her, but someone else started to go over and set off the T gates and she snuck on. She then proceeded to wander up and down the platform, waving a cloth deposit bag, telling people her name is Shannon, and that someone stole her change purse just like it from the Dunkin Donuts just a few minutes before. She was trying to collect $24 to get to South Station and get a bus ticket to Albany because she had to go pick up her 6 year old niece who had Type 1 diabetes and she had to get there tonight because her sister was being deployed.
Then, the panhandler on the other side apparently recognized her and start yelling at her to get a new story, he saw her here all the time, and to stop ripping people off. She starts back that she works here, that's probably why he saw her and he should get off his ass and get a job. It degenerated from their, to her calling him a drunk, much cursing, and what sounded like him whipping a handful of change at her as the train was coming.
She got on the train, took a deep breath, and started the spiel all over again. And yes, she was definitely getting money from people.
I was in Dunkins a few minutes before, when she was supposedly there, and I didn't see her. I'm guessing she was a grifter and this was my amusement for the day, but did anyone else see her? I know she was headed towards South Station. Is this a regular occurrence, as her screaming match with the other homeless guy would kind of indicate or am I pretty much mocking someone who was really down on their luck?
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