Jamaica Plain
Hey, space hogger on Weld Hill Street: The city has its eye on you
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 3:53 pmIn response to a citizen complaint about a neighbor constantly using a traffic cone to claim a space on Weld Hill Street in Forest Hills, a city DPW inspector reports:
I sent an inspector to this location, they reported back that the cones are not there now. We will keep patroling the area periodically so we can try and confiscate the cones.
Needham man arraigned on child-porn charges
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 1:49 pm
A Needham man who worked in Jamaica Plain today became the latest local man to be charged with possession of child porn.
Keith Millan was arraigned on five counts of possession of child pornography in West Roxbury District Court. Judge Mary Ann Driscoll set bail at $25,000 and barred him from computers and children under 16 - although she will let the Department of Children and Families decide whether he can see his own children, the DA's office reports.
Millan's LinkedIn page still lists him as a property manager at Leeder Management, which runs the Perkins Square apartment complex in Jamaica Plain.
Citizen complaint of the day: Lack of snow means early arrival of JP turd blossoms
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 7:51 amA disgusted citizen in Jamaica Plain complains about neighborhood dog owners:
what is up with all the dog crap on the sidewalks in JP? winter is usually bad, with sneaky dog owners leaving layer on layer of crap piles to be covered with snow until the spring thaw reveals what looks like anarchaeological dig gone very wrong. but we haven't had snow and crap is everywhere! can we at least get some signs up, not that i think the troglodyte owner can either read or care. and no, i don't have a photo-- do u really want one?
What lies beneath Jamaica Pond
By adamg - 2/7/12 - 9:45 pmHow to avoid spilling your coffee at a subway stop
By adamg - 2/5/12 - 1:55 pmDon't try riding your bike up the escalator while holding a cup in one hand. SC reports watching in amazement today as a guy rode his bike down the Orange Line platform at Forest Hills, then tried to ride it up the escalator:
He got stuck at the bottom & spilled his coffee everywhere. ... Got one wheel on and lost control while still on the seat.
Wonder if he's the same guy spotted riding his bike down the Orange Line platform at Back Bay last month.
You think this guy knows he's using a stolen laptop?
By adamg - 2/4/12 - 12:54 am
Smile, you're on laptop camera!
Late Friday night, some guy in an apartment in the area of Nazing Street in Roxbury turned on his new Macbook Air - and it promptly took this photo and e-mailed it to the Jamaica Plain man from whom it was stolen on Wednesday.
A Boston Police report shows the man was jumped from behind and knocked to the ground around 6:30 p.m. on St. John Street.
Eric Herot, a friend of the victim who posted the photo to Twitter, reports the two muggers held him there long enough to grab his phone - on which he was talking when attacked - and his computer bag.
Herot says his friend had installed software called Prey on the laptop, which is designed for just such events. Once activated, the software periodically and quickly turns on a laptop's camera, takes a picture and then mails it to the owner, along with an approximate geographic location and information about its connection to the Internet (the laptop's connecting via a wireless network called LADYFEENIX-PC_Network_1).
So if you're in the Nazing Street area and know a guy with the text of John 3:16 tattooed on his chest, you might want to suggest he drop that laptop off at, oh, District B-2. Herot says his friend doesn't think this guy was one of his attackers.
Jumpstart Your Season! bicycling workshop
By Ferris Wheels B... - 2/2/12 - 5:15 pmLaura Smeaton, a League of American Bicyclists LCI (League Cycling Instructor) presents a free workshop for those who want to get out on their bikes earlier this year. Stubborn patches of ice, chilly breezes, and cold spring rains will be no match for you once you're equipped with the knowledge from this workshop! Winter? What winter?!
When: Sunday, February 12, 4:00-5:30pm
Where: Ferris Wheels Bike Shop, 66 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (www.ferriswheelsbikeshop.com)
notloB Parlour Concerts presents Julie Metcalf and Andy Reiner, JP, 2/4
By notloB - 1/30/12 - 1:12 pmnotloB Folk / Parlour Concerts presents Julie Metcalf and Andy Reiner
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00
Loring-Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/
Citizen complaint of the day: OK, who's the joker in JP with a giant storage box?
By adamg - 1/28/12 - 1:32 pmAn aggrieved Ashcroft Street resident pleads:
Someone had their Door to Door storage unit put in front of my driveway in a clearly marked no parking zone. Please move, i can't get out of my driveway.
Kind-hearted woman discovers the hard way that rats multiply like rabbits
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 5:17 pm
Rat awaits exam at MSPCA-Angell.The MSPCA reports a Cape woman who bought two rats at a pet store to keep them from becoming snake snacks showed up at Angell Memorial in Jamaica Plain today with 69 more rats than she started out with.
The MSPCA reports all 71 rats are in good shape and that it is now looking for homes for them - so presumably that hipster lady with the Red Line snake need not apply.
