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Faneuil Hall street performer who is suing the city will get no tips from Globe reporter

Robert Ambrogi reports a Globe reporter who wrote about a performer upset over restrictions on his performance space at Faneuil Hall can't be forced to testify in his lawsuit against the city.

Bruce Peck, who performed as one of those painted mime-ish people, sued Boston in federal court in 2009 after Tom Menino ordered restrictions to ease the noise he said he heard way up in his fifth-floor City Hall office.

Peck wanted to compel reporter Donovan Slack, who wrote about the issue, to testify, but Judge Beryl A. Howell's ruled that reporters and their notes enjoy certain privileges, even for stories that don't involve confidential information, such as this one.

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...because that means the mime will do all the testimony on his own behalf...IN CHARACTER! Picture him portraying how he climbed up the ladder to success (by the imaginary mime-climbing-a-ladder routine of course), then how he was forced to perform in a much smaller space (by the classic invisible room routine). Then he can pass his hat around the courtroom so supplement his own legal fund.

As much as I don't care for mimes in general, the guy has a case. I mean if a MIME IS being accused of MAKING NOISE that goes up to the 5th floor of city hall, he is either a really poor mime, or is innocent....or Menino has super hero spidey-sense hearing.

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Give 'em hell Mr. Peck. Donovan Slack has no other choice but to write about every little thing that bothers the mayor. You may be doing her a service by loosening his grip on her credibility. Can you imagine the conversation to the Globe's editors regarding this working stiff. It might go something like this: "put that Bonoban Dack on the mime case. Mimes scare me so they don't deserve to make a living. It will give her good practice for next week when she is ordered to trash the cops and teacher's reputations during their negobiations."

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