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City provides bonus trash pickup in South Boston

By adamg on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 3:46pm

The Globe reports a special city crew today removed:

220 milk crates, orange cones, lawn chairs, recycling bins, and other random objects that residents were using to stake claim to parking spots.

This is not South Boston. This is my street in Roslindale, where the folks across the way seem to add a new cone every year:

CONES!
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Comments

By Kaz on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 4:07pm.

Because I think the crew also removed the Globe's ability to post apostrophes correctly. Geez, what kind of Mickey Mouse operation does it take to not copy'n'paste (not-so-)smart-coded MS crap?

I hate reading somebody?s crap when it?s so full of stupid question marks because they cut and pasted with ?curly? marks.

By Anonymous on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 5:18pm.

HD becomes the standard and a lot of people might want to both save their parking space and save a $30 pick up fee!

By Anonymous on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 8:46pm.

The city will pick up TV's for free. Just stupid people are too lazy to call and do it, so they just leave them on the street until someone smashes it.

By adamg on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 9:04pm.

How do I get rid of an old television set?
Public Works collects TVs for recycling. Please call Sanitation for an appointment at (617) 635-7574 or via e-mail: [email protected].

From Recycling.

By Anonymous on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 8:42am.

Not HD, Digital

There's a difference!

By Ron Newman on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 9:28am.

For those of us who haven't been paying careful attention, what is the difference between these two kinds of TV? Which one do we all need to have by next February?

By Kaz on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 10:07am.

If you hook up to cable or satellite for all of your channels, you are completely unaffected.

If you hook up to an antenna for over-the-air channels, basically only local channels, then you will need to switch to a digital antenna and likely also a converter.

The ol' rabbit ears are what are going. Everything else is staying the same. Your TV set itself should be fine, it's whether you have the hardware to receive and decode the new over-the-air signals that will be the key.

By Anonymous on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:09am.

And i'd add, many newer TV's have the digital decoder built in, so check your manual / manufacturer. So all you'd need is a digital antenna.

The old CRT will work, and CRT's will still be sold. It's just the over the air broadcast signals are no longer analogue, but digital.

By adamg on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 9:00pm.

Pahkcah02 writes:

... Leaving a cone out to remind everyone that if they take your spot you'll slash their tires may be archaic and mob like, but let's cut these folks in Southie a break. A lot of them own houses in these neighborhoods, pay taxes, and get very little in return from the city of Boston. In the grand scheme of things, a parking spot in front of their own home is not a lot to grant them.

By SweetTooth on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 9:05am.

What I got from this post / comments:

It’s ok to break the law, and even take the law into your own hands, as long as you’re a townie or long term resident of southie.

If you’re old or disabled, or both, you have a god given right to any space you deem yours.

You know what, that’s unacceptable. It’s also illegal, you know, breaks laws we are supposed to obey.

Why should residents be scared of hooligans running around slashing tires and destroying property over something as benign as parking spaces? What happens to the person who becomes a casualty because of someone moving a space saver earlier? Nice community there, don’t follow our unlawful, spoken rules, and we’ll ruin your car. Also, where does it end, and why is this any different if it starts happening in the summer? It will, as cars increase and southie’s population becomes denser.

If, as you say, they own houses and pay taxes, and don’t like the situation after storms, it’s up to them to get off their asses, organize, and push the city to fix its horribly inadequate snow removal policy. Other cities have even/odd parking a few days in a row, so that plows can plow both sides of a street. They also work to remove snow, instead of just piling it up. Being a lazy asshole, and destroying property when they don’t follow you arbitrary “rules” isn’t right, and no one has a claim to be in the right doing so.

Also, if a resident is past a certain age, or has a medical problem, they can apply for a handicap spot directly outside their house. There’s several in my southie neighborhood. If someone is too stubborn or egotistical to see the need for one, and get it, tough.

Either pressure the city to change and better it’s snow removal policy, or don’t be surprised when your space heater is in the trash.

The snow in southie was considerably melted about 2 days after the storm sunday, due to warm tempratures, but these goons would hold onto these spaces untill spring if left alone.

By adamg on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 9:53am.

Ryan McGee reports from Medford:

... I'm pretty sure half of the folks here once lived in Southie and never outgrew the tendency to leave an obnoxious, inanimate, easily movable object in the street lest some ruffian claim that spot not unlike the soldiers planting the flag at Iwo Jima. ...

By Anonymous on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:21pm.

No, ppl from Southie wouldn't be caught dead moving to the North Shore.

Yes, Medford is the North Shore.