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Boston city councilor offers ice cream to kids who shovel out fire hydrants

By adamg on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 1:55pm

City Councilor Matt O'Malley (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) exhorts the young'uns:

Attn kids of Boston: Shovel out a fire hydrant & have your parents post a before/after pic. I'll send you a $5 gift certificate to @jplicks.

It's starting to work:

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Matt O'Malley
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Comments

By John Costello on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 2:13pm.

Did Faker take over the Matt's Twitter Account? This reeks of union busting.

Snark.

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By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 2:27pm.

But seriously good on O'Malley. He's had some risible ideas over the years, but this is actually a good one.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 3:06pm.

After I stoked up a couple of the young ones a few years ago (with bonus stoking from the retired fire chief down the block), all ours get excavated pretty quickly. The kids are getting bigger now and they are clearing them out a lot more quickly.

It is a very good use of youthful energy, and, let's face it, kids LOVE helping out the firefighters and doing something important to keep their neighborhood safe.

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By anon on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 3:16pm.

Adorable - hope to see more kids pics and great idea!

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By Stevil on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 3:20pm.

During dinner at a neighbor's house on our block, they mentioned they had nicknamed the hydrant across the street "Bob".

I noticed during a snowmageddon that Bob was almost completely buried and have since adopted Bob, checking during storms to be sure he's cleared out.

One of these days I want to get one of those stickers to put on him that says "Hello, my name is Bob".

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By Bugs Bunny on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 3:43pm.

Barely covers a kiddie come these days.

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By adamg on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 3:46pm.

To shovel out two hydrants.

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By JB on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 4:11pm.

Totally buys a generous portion of ice cream.

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By Waquiot on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 4:55pm.

You need to get your ice cream at better places.

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By Scumquistador on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 11:53am.

but the 'kiddie cones' at the place down the street from me are still plenty of ice cream so i would be content with this.

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By Lisfnord on Sun, 01/08/2017 - 5:28pm.

I think this is great. Not enough kids do this sort of thing anymore--shoveling, raking, etc--and if they learn that they can paid to do it (even if it's only in ice cream), they'll be motivated to do more.

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By anon on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 2:21am.

Is Matt having a mental breakdown? Ice Cream in this weather?

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By adamg on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 9:02am.

We love ice cream in the winter! It's right up there with our iced coffee!

In any case, you can get more than just ice cream at JP Licks. Hot chocolate, for example. Or cookies. Or muffins.

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By oddjob60 on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 9:03am.

Hey, my local Stop & Shop was nearly sold out of Hood and Friendly's by yesterday afternoon. Cravers gonna crave...

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By Scumquistador on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 11:56am.

when else are you gonna eat it outside and not have it melt before you finish??

hell, the only time i'd actually consider getting it on an actual cone would be in sub-freezing weather. cant stand having it get all over my hands.

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By ElizaLeila on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 8:43am.

This was started under Mayor Menino. I wonder if Councilor O'Malley knows about it?

http://www.adoptahydrant.org/

background:
http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=5444
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/adopt-a-hydrant-snowstorms/19...

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By oddjob60 on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 9:04am.

Some towns, including mine, have an adopt-a-hydrant program.

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