the ghetto of the boston area

in my alternate day job as the crime watching superhero of boston, i ran across a scary story close to home. in the boston apartment scene, this listing on craigslist actually looked pretty good:

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/nfb/989654018.html

i was thinking of the possibility of moving there, and actually appreciating the renovation work done on the house and thinking of how to make our house look as nice when we listed. then i realized that one of the images has a chalk outline:

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e369/exitmanager/278/?action=view¤t=DSCF6369.jpg

then the ever vigilant members of reddit pointed out that this may be the same apartment:

http://bostonist.com/2008/05/20/boston_blotter_322.php

in other (unrelated) news, 100 bags of cocaine were found in a house a few blocks away from central square. looks like my joke of buying our house and finding cocaine in the basement isn't so far from the truth.