Citizen complaint of the day: Drive-by mattressing in West Roxbury

By adamg on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 9:47am

Tossed mattress.

An aghast citizen filed a 311 complaint about an incident on Baker Street at Amesbury Street in West Roxbury shortly after noon on Saturday:

Constituent states they witness a white mercedes SUV dump a mattress here. Constituent states it was a group of teenage boys.

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Comments

Dumping

By downtown-anon on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 10:12am.

Being a few short feet from Cambridge St in downtown it isn't that rare that someone dumps stuff in front my building. One of the major motivations, after porch pirates, for getting a surveillance camera.

No mattresses, but did get a ticket a year ago September 1st when someone dumped a sofa in front of our building. Small building, no one moving in or out

It’s more frequent now

By anon on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 10:37am.

That’s there’s fees associated with the disposal of some stuff.

yup

By cybah on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 7:17am.

Which is why we're going to see more and more of this.

Look,. I get why we passed the law. But to now charge fees to take this stuff away AND wont be picked up anyways on trash day is going to lead to this.

and now they charge a fee. So now what people will do is just dump it somewhere so it becomes someone else's problem (and in most cases the city will just take it away just to get it off the street). No way to figure out where it came from, so no one to issue a ticket to. So the city ends up 'paying' anyways.

This is a stupid law, and there has to be a better way to do this than just charging a fee for a pick up.

See also: Pallets, Tires, Tube TVs, Electronics for more examples on how this doesn't work and has never worked.

Once again, here in the US we think 'charging people' will get people to do something with their trash. No. Trash is everyone's problem and anything should be picked up, no questions asked. Let the trash people figure out what to do with the stuff. Its their job.

These fees are nothing more than a tax. A tax for something that is already paid for (trash pick up)

I beg to differ

By Gary C on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 1:51pm.

MOST people will obey a rule. If you say it's X dollars to toss something, most will pay it. This generates revenue to help cover the cost of the non-compliant scofflaws. It's surprising how people who are suddenly limited in the amount of trash they can dispose for free, quickly learn to generate less trash.

Seeing less of it in the woods

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 10:49pm.

People used to dump this crap in the Fells all the fucking time. This is not at all new.

What may be new is that they are dumping it in random residential locations. But dumping random shit on public property was a time honored tradition in these parts not so long ago.

Speed Hump

By M. Sanchez on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 10:17am.

Speed Hump

Magoo sez.

By MisterMagooForYou on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 10:59am.

At least someone didn’t dump a dump. Always look on the bright side of life beedeep beedoopidoodily doop. Magoo.

Ah, the assholery

By anon on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 1:46pm.

Ah, the assholery proliferates.

An even brighter side of life ….

By Lee on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 1:54pm.

…. is that at least someone didn’t dump a Magoo.

Oh, but someone did

By perruptor on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 3:54am.

See above.

Boys in a white Mercedes SUV?

By MrZip on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 11:28am.

Whaddya bet they were from Brookline, slipping over the town line in Mom's car to the mean streets of West Roxbury to do their crimes.

True

By emac on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 11:45am.

The Westie tank of choice is a Tahoe or Suburban. (What’s the Newton crime car? Tesla X?)

Equi-rox

By CrabsInABucket on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 2:21pm.

Or the White Chevy Equinox. A car which only seems to exist in WR

Newton

By Snoofy on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 3:58pm.

People dumped mattresses at Cradles to Crayons in Newton. Their signage is super clear so it seems willfully ignorant and/or malicious.

The City says

By GMC on Sun, 09/17/2023 - 11:36am.

they be longer pick up mattresses, but really does pick them up if you throw them out in front of somebody else’s property or leave them on the corner.