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Hello, Paddy
Someone's channeling Howard Beale in the 21st-century.
Well, or the two girls from Times Square
About 1:48:
"Down in the Park"
Wow, "Down In the Park" by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army is on the soundtrack to that movie! Times Square is really one of those lost early-80s classics. Was too young to see it when it was in theaters, and IIRC it was unavailable on home video for a long time, so I've never actually seen it. Need to remedy that.
Yeah, it was unavailable for
Yeah, it was unavailable for ages, but it's available now. I haven't seen it either, but I still have fond memories of going to see "Smithereens" at the Nickelodeon behind BU. As I recall, the Times Square soundtrack LP was a used-record-store staple and a decent sampler of the times (no pun intended).
Really?
taking the can off the hydrant would have been less effort than pulling out your phone, pulling up the app, typing in text, taking a photo and sending in a call, just to have your tax dollars pay for someone to go out there and take the can off the hydrant... sigh.
Look a bit more closely
That's no can.
That's a television. Probably
That's a television. Probably lots of broken glass. I wouldn't risk cutting myself when I'm paying ridiculous property taxes to the city to take care of things like this for me.
I know, it's crazy to think
I know, it's crazy to think people would go to some effort to better their community....even risking a boo boo.
Monitors those size can be heavy
I know I wouldn't be able to remove one off of a fire hydrant by myself.
Fire dept gloves...
...would probably stand up to the glass with no problem, but the bunker gear? I dunno, I think it would slice through it under the right circumstances.
D'oh!
Yah, on a better monitor now and can see the TV-ness of it. sigh.
Can?
As Adam said, look closer - it's not a trash can, it's a computer monitor, impaled on the top of the hydrant. And yes, I am more than willing for my tax dollars to pay for a dude with a heavy pair of gloves and (hopefully) a respirator to come and clean up the resultant toxic mess.
Boston is full of discarded monitors and television sets at the moment, because the city's policy is that you have to put in a special request for removal of such items, but the thousands of people moving in and out either don't know this or don't give a crap. So the trash crews leave the monitors/TVs behind when they collect the rest of the trash, usually with an orange sticker full of teeny weeny little type with instructions on how to arrange for pickup - in another week. In the meantime, the monitors/TVs sit on the sidewalk for a week or more, inviting the type of dudebros who like smashing things to take a whack at the screens.
What does Boston charge to take them?
Its the fee to take old TVs and monitors that result in them strewn on streets, much like disposal costs for construction debris results in that dumping too.
By the way, in terms of waste products, CRT tubes have far greater longevity than today's flat screen TVs and monitors. My main desktop monitor is a 1600x1200 pixel, 75 Hz. Sony W900 CRT made in March 1999 and still sharp and going strong. The WF900 had even higher bandwidth. I had a flat screen monitor die in less than half as long as my CRT that is still going. BTW, the W900 is not easy to pick up and slam down on a hydrant...
No fee
There's no fee to collect them in Boston, so no, that's not why they end up on the street. As I said in my post above, the city requires us to make a special request for collection. That's all.
Jinx
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There's no fee
but you have to schedule a pickup so they can keep track of how many CRTs each address is disposing. The limit is more than generous (something like two per year?) and is just to make sure people aren't running a business or something and trying to avoid recycling fees.
Limit?
I've never heard of this limit before. How do they account for multi-unit buildings and/or houses with many tenants?
Per household
http://m.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/wastereduction/
I assume you give your name and full address when scheduling it in a denser neighborhood. I scheduled my pickup using citizens connect but I'm in Roxbury so they just said they show up.
I'd like to see a Citizens
I'd like to see a Citizens Connect response like "Offender enrolled in remedial education."