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Massachusetts State Police said the Essex man was driving a 2013 Toyota Siena on Route 202 around 7:15 p.m. when he crashed into a tree, causing the car…
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A flamingo was spotted at a Cape Cod beach: ‘That’s crazy… Definitely a rare event’
A flamingo was spotted at a Cape Cod beach: ‘That’s crazy… Definitely a rare event’
Boston wants food delivery services to better police their drivers
Food delivery is big business right now and people like it, but Boston says it needs to be safer.
“I’ll see people on the scooters drive-through red lights and whatnot. It’s like they’re not paying attention to the rules of the road,” one woman said.
The city is warning large companies like Uber, GrubHub and DoorDash to do a better job of policing their drivers. It says many of them are making deliveries on unregistered mopeds and scooters. They’ve also been spotted running red lights, traveling on sidewalks and speeding.
“We know a lot of these are just hard-working drivers who are trying to put food on the table for their own families and that it comes back to the companies who need to take responsibility,” Mayor Michelle Wu said.
Stacy Thompson with LivableStreets Alliance says the business model for these corporations is part of the problem.
“They basically don’t care if these folks have appropriate vehicles, and they have to go fast as they can to earn a buck,” she said.
In statements to NBC10 Boston – all the companies said safety is a top priority and they’re willing to work with the city on these issues.
“As we have time and time again, we will work with the City to educate couriers that use the Uber platform. At Uber, safety is always a top priority,” an Uber spokesperson wrote.
“While enforcement of the law is best handled by the police, we take safety seriously, and any reports of unsafe driving will result in removal from our platform,” Grubhub said in a statement.
“The overwhelming majority of Dashers do the right thing and like all drivers must follow the rules of the road. If they don’t, then they face consequences – just like anyone else,” DoorDash told NBC10 Boston.
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Flamingo spotted on Cape Cod in what may be a first for Mass., expert says
A flamingo was spotted on Cape Cod, a very rare and possibly unprecedented bird sighting for Massachusetts.
If the bird is found to be wild, it would be the first American flamingo ever confirmed to have visited the Bay State on its own, according to Mark Faherty, science coordinator for Mass Audubon Cape Cod.
Images of the bird at a Cape Cod beach were circulating on social media over the weekend, and were shared with NBC10 Boston Tuesday. The bird can be seen wading in the water off shore.
Some people questioned whether the images were real, Faherty said. Then, another person shared with him photos and videos of the flamingo on the Cape, confirming it was there, Faherty said.
A flamingo was previously spotted on Long Island in New York, bringing birdwatchers flocking, and “this is almost certainly the same bird,” Faherty said.
As for why the animal flew up to the Cape, Faherty suggested it was just trying to get by, adding, “I have no idea why it’s flying north.”
American flamingos typically stick to Florida and points south, and sightings outside of Florida are usually linked with escapes from captivity or hurricanes — a hurricane this September dispersed some, and the birds were spotted in strange new places, like Wisconsin and Ohio, Faherty said.
“The thinking is it’s just some bird that was displaced by the hurricane back then that doesn’t know where it lives anymore,” he said.
More on flamingos’ recent travels
It’s up to the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee to make the final determination on whether the bird is wild, Faherty said, noting that he’s served on the committee before.
American flamingos have been spotted in Massachusetts a few times before, according to Faherty and the committee’s database.
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A flamingo was spotted at Plum Island in September 1964, followed by another in Natick the next year. But the committee disagreed on whether the first was wild and found that the latter had escaped from a private collection and ultimately didn’t vote to accept either on its list of rare birds that have visited the state.
This flamingo isn’t Cape Cod’s only interesting visitor from the animal kingdom this week. Boaters got a rare sight of an orca over the weekend.
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