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Partial building collapse in the North End causing all sorts of problems
By adamg on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 7:34pm
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on a four-story brick wall came down on Thacher Court Sunday/Monday.
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It better have not made noise..
Or the city council is gonna get it's own earful.
In this town
A wall needs a permit to collapse after 10 PM.
And if anybody's watching, that's a second permit.
Permit requirement nullified by shadow remediation
If this wall was casting a shadow, it's entirely permissible for it to come down without a permit.
Maybe the coyote
Maybe the coyote caused it.
No no no
It was cyclists.
Or the MBTA. Or Mattapan.
Yuppies? The licensing board? Whole Foods? Ron Newman?
Fisher cats
Pure evil.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but ....
Seriously, I'm glad nobody was hurt.
eeka, you forgot...
... city council stenographers.
None of the Above
Cigarette smokers. It just _had_ to be cigarette smokers.
Whatever did it
They were definitely from the suburbs.
Careless suburbanite smokers on those double bikes
Who dropped some lit butts into a mulch pile, which burst into flames and distracted a cabbie arguing with a rider who wanted to pay with a credit card, making him crash into the wall.
To be fair
He wouldn't have hit the wall if he weren't swerving to miss a Segway on the sidewalk.
While texting and driving
While texting and driving down the bike lane.
Did I mention that the cabbie is an immigrant student, too?
Are you sure it isnt the
Are you sure it isnt the violent video games and awful music kids are being exposed to these days that caused it?
Urban assault strollers
Guillty until proven innocent.
Had it been
Ron Newman the wall would have carefully separated brick by brick and stack them selves for proper haul away.
And it would have certainly had
subject-verb agreement. Jeezus.
northendwaterfront.com collapses
Seems to have cause the website to collapse also.
Must have been One of Those Things
I just checked the link and looks like the site is back up.
was the website built on wood
was the website built on wood pilings?
Was not me
I have an alibi.