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Did you know a rabid bat could bite you in your sleep and you'd never know until you start to die?

Karen Wise explains why her entire family is now getting rabies shots, not that she knows for a fact that the bat that was flying around in her house was rabid, since her husband let it fly out, when, as they now know, you're supposed to trap it somehow and let Animal Control test it for rabies.


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Health-insurance cheaters

Charlie Baker at Harvard Pilgrim writes people have figured out how to game the state's mandatory insurance system: Buy insurance for a few months, run up massive bills, then cancel insurance and pay the relatively low penalties for going without:

... Between April of 2008 and March of 2009, about 40% of the people who purchased individual insurance from Harvard Pilgrim stayed covered by us for less than 5 months. Even more amazing, they incurred, on average, about $2,400 per person in monthly medical expenses - roughly 600% higher than what we would have expected. It wouldn't surprise me if other health plans have the same problem. ...

His proposed answer: Let insurers reinstate the waiting periods and pre-existing exclusions for new subscribers that was eliminated with the health-care reform law. He doesn't say what people who have pre-existing conditions would do, but presumably they'd still go to hospitals, which would then have to eat the cost or pass it along to insurers - just like in the days before mandated insurance.


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Why Felix Arroyo is running; why Tito Jackson needs a new Web designer

At-large council candidate Felix Arroyo (the younger) introduces himself to the Blue Mass. crowd.

At-large council candidate Tito Jackson unwraps his campaign Web site. It actually has a nice home page, and I'd be willing to forgive him the James Bondian doomsday countdown clock except: When you click on any of the menu links, absolutely nothing happens.

Or rather, absolutely nothing seems to happen. In fact, the links work. The problem is every single page (except for the PayPal donation link) consists of the same exact giant red/head shot taking up the first screen, with the actual text underneath it. Unless you mistakenly hit the scrollbar, you'll never see whatever it is Jackson wants you to see when you click on, say, "Issues." Terrible UI for anybody who isn't a high-priced designer with a giant monitor.

Tito


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In hindsight, JP man probably realizes today wasn't the best day to start re-doing his roof

William provides the blow-by-blow for his neighbor's re-reroofing project, which he started today:

... Luckily I had a huge tarp to add to Josh's collection and the guys frantically started to cover up the house. This was no easy job. Check out the driving rain and the look of grit determination on Bill's face. They got it covered up in short time and now it looks like some of the houses from back home in the Ozark Mountains. ...


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Bomb threat at Jamaica Plain elementary school

UPDATE: All clear, police tweet.

Boston Police tweet the Hennigan School, 200 Heath St., was evacuated this afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.

Mon, 06/22/2009 - 10:30
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Legislature to debate some sort of pigeon crap

Fun Massachusetts fact: The state Constitution (article XIX) gives every resident the right to have his or her representative or senator introduce legislation for them.

And so, now that the legislature is done raising your taxes and cutting your services, it gets to debate a law that would require moviemakers to only use Massachusetts-raised and approved pigeons in the movies they make here, the Herald reports.

At least H. 816 is to the point:

AN ACT RELATIVE TO PIGEONS IN MOTION PICTURES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Not withstanding any General Laws to the contrary, all pigeons that are used in motion pictures within Massachusetts must be licensed and banded within Massachusetts.

See it in its natural habitat.


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Restaurant agita in Brookline, Cambridge

Wicked Local Brookline updates us on a restaurant seeking a license for a location where there's already another restaurant - which says it has no intention of moving.

Wicked Local Cambridge tells us the story behind the recent closing of Shilla on JFK Street in Harvard Square. Added bonus: The guy with the great voice who owns Neena's Lighting is involved.


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Hose the tourists

I guess the T is trying to close its budget gap on the backs of visitors and tourists.

I had guests visit me this weekend. When we went into the subway I found they could only buy 1 or 7 day visitor passes. The three day pass wasn't an option. The CSA claimed he had never heard of a 3 day pass. I had other guests visit in April and bought 3 day passes with no problem - so I went to the T web site when I got home. Indeed, the three day pass is gone. Interesting they changed their web site and the Charlie machine software so discretely and quickly (for the T that is).

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Will there be a run on windshield wipers in a couple of days?

Ron Pulcari is joking, I think:

It's not bad enough that I have to share the roads with other cars but now I have to weave through schools of fish.


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