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Citizen complaint of the day: We wouldn't want a diplomatic incident

A concerned citizen (possibly a concerned citizen of Brazil) complains about a trash problem at Gridley and Purchase downtown:

Someone is putting two or three large bags with trash next to the building everyday. The building is leased to the Consulate General of Brazil and the Consulate has put a sign asking not to put trash in that area, but the violator is not reading the signs or is ignoring them. The trash has been put on the side walk before the allowed hours and it doesn't belong to us.

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Why so lazy? Just pick up the bags and take them to the proper spot for collection. Geez.

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This building is kind of in an area of blank facades along the Greenway. It doesn't make much sense.

Those bags also interfere with traffic on the sidewalk.

I'm surprised that there wasn't a swat team action resulting from this complaint, though.

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A large number of the older or smaller buildings downtown do not have dumpsters due to the lack of alleys or garages that could site them. This is also typical in lower Manhattan and other areas with many mid-rise buildings. The standard practice in those cases is on trash night for the building to dump a pile of bags right on the curb, making a trash mountain. Some of them, especially it seems Devonshire and Court Square, are 10 feet high. This occurs throughout downtown at least once a week or more. There are always, and will always be, huge mounds of trash downtown right before the trucks come.

In this particular instance, the complaint seems to stem from the trash coming from another adjacent building, placed in front of their building? But they better be sure of that because they could be complaining about their own trash. The particular block does have an alley that once featured trash cans and small mini-dumpsters. But that same alley has also been given over to construction much of the past decade. And is not wide enough for full sized dumpsters.

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On one hand, it's a dick move. On the other hand, diplomats generally do whatever THEY want, with no consequence.

I'll call it a wash.

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Anyone else seen the guy with "Consulate" plates on Beacon St out towards the Reservoir who parks at a meter without paying every single day for hours? Even has an orange cone next to it so he can "reserve" it when he's not parked there.

Disgusting.

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Someone reserving a public parking space for their own use? It's inconceivable!

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Open the bags , clues maybe to the source , move on .

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Just a couple weeks back, somebody put two black plastic bags full of leaves into my barrels that were out at the street. The problem was that they put that stuff in AFTER the truck had already picked up my trash. As a result, I had to drag somebody else's trash back onto my property, to sit for a week.

Then the next week, someone left a Christmas tree completely blocking my sidewalk, again after the city had already been by and taken my Christmas tree away.

Having to handle someone else's trash on a routine basis sucks.

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Lazy, lazy, lazy.

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