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Citizen complaint of the day: It's a cone-spiracy
By adamg on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 7:18am
The cones, they're everywhere! A cone-cerned citizen reports on this example of the ouevre on W 3 St., between A and B, in South Boston:
This used to be a streetlight that was broken. Then filled with trash for a year. Now it's a cone bolted down covering the wires. Seriously? this needs to be replaced.
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Comments
never amazes me
it never amazes me how NStar, National Grid, BTD, and others on how lazy they really are. Really screwed on a traffic cone? Come on, just replace/fix the damn light. This happens far too often..
Then we'll have stories this summer about someone walking their dog and getting a zap from some wire from one of these outlets that wasn't protected properly. Happens almost every year.. and every year the city vows to 'do something' about it. apparently it hasn't sinked in.. I guess this year some child needs to get zapped for the city to actually DO something about it.
Don't count on it.
Don't count on it. A young girl died in a fire at least partially due to double parking in South Boston a few years back (fire trucks were needlessly delayed by parked cars blocking their access to the building). Back then the city vowed to 'do something' about it, but overall, didn't do shit about it. Every time I pass through South Boston I see cars double-parked seemingly on almost every block.
that is the point
of my comment.. nothing will be done. We'll just keep slacking and slacking until something mega happens.
Oh, they did something about
Oh, they did something about it. They added resident parking restrictions to every single street in South Boston.
So now I'm not allowed to spend more than 2 hours in the area, because other people double parked years ago (and continue to double park today).
I guess double parking
is another one of those "non-towable" offenses. But get in the way of a street sweeper, and ....
I eagerly await for one of
I eagerly await for one of our esteemed elected officials to introduce anti-cone legislation, forcing property owners to hire a detail cop to stand instead directing people around where the cone would be.
Cripes
Immigrants from Remulak are
Immigrants from Remulak are probably behind this!
Ah, the little humans - will
Ah, the little humans - will they never cease?
That cone is bolted down
How hard would it be to bolt down a plate of industrial-strength plastic instead? Even if it's orange and reflective, so no one trips, it would be an improvement over this.
Nervouse Nellies
Nothing is going to happen, nobody is going to get killed, no dogs are going to get electrocuted pissing on this.
Does anyone know the location of this? This is as far away from civilization one can get in South Boston, the Lower End. Almost the Pine Street Inn, the Channel, railroad yards. Some fool purchases property in this industrial area and they get pissed because there's a cone on the sidewalk.
Move to Beacon Hill.