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Spare Change Guy visits Dorchester

By adamg on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 9:46am

Maybe Spare Change Guy is just tired of Downtown Crossing and the Common? Around 8:30 this morning, Tracey Newman tweets, MBTA police escorted him out of the Savin Hill T stop on the Red Line. Not long after, Dan Tobin spotted him nearby on Dorchester Avenue, asking for, yes, spaaaare chaaaange.

Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Red Line
Spare Change Guy
Savin Hill
Dorchester Avenue


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Comments

By deehan on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:19am.

Just what we needed.

By The Beer Guy on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:37am.

And wasting all your time-time?

By chriswight on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:23am.

Spare change guy gets around!

By btmitch on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:42am.

I used to see him occasionally as I go into Andrew on my way to work, but not recently. It always seemed like an odd place to assume people have spare change.

By Kaz on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:27am.

He was tired of looking at the Filene's Hole.

He figured that if the city had any change, it would have used it to change that hole into a building again.

By The Beer Guy on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:28am.

that he isn't even homeless...

By adamg on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:29am.

And take commuter rail into town. Don't know if that's still the case (Framingham PD once busted him when he tried out his act there).

By erik g on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:55am.

Yeah, I used to see him in North Station (I think getting off of one of the commuter rails), a couple times a week. That place is a madhouse, but you can absolutely hear him from the other side of the terminal because of that voice.

That sound is going to haunt my nightmares for a long time.

By anon on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 4:23pm.

I thought I had read about him getting arrested once and he gave an East Boston address.

By anon on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:34am.

He spends the money he collects on lottery tickets.

By anon on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 11:17am.

He once won $3000 on a lottery ticket purchased at City Convenience on Beacon Hill.

However, he is no longer allowed in that store. He asks people to go in and purchase the tickets for him.

By The Beer Guy on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 1:39pm.

Does he still makes regular appearances as the Whack Pack to VB's Howard Stern?

By CS on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 11:52pm.

And Fox 25 had to stop using his 'services'...
The morning I heard that voice, turned around and saw him on the news giving 'advice to keep cool in the summer', I choked on my coffee...

By Haviland on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 1:54pm.

The guy sexually harasses women with rather explicit language on occasion. He's banned from many places downtown because of this and his panhandling.

By O-FISH-L on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 1:27am.

The city has allowed the panhandling situation, especially at intersections, to get completely out of control. I drove thru N. Washington and Causeway around lunchtime yesterday and there were at least four guys, one who could barely stand, aggressively working the corner. On Nashua near the jailanother younger guy with his shirt unbuttoned and falling off him, jumping in and out of traffic within view of the State Police barracks. In Dorchester, Freeport at Morrissey almost always has two or more. I realize the economy is bad but this shouldn't be tolerated. It's embarassing to bring people to the city by car.