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Boston City Council to consider banning replica, BB guns
By adamg on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 3:33pm
ParkwayBoston.com reports the council's committee on public safety will hold a hearing to consider banning the devices in public places. Councilor John Tobin first proposed the idea after Boston Police shot a guy on the Common when he refused to drop what turned out to be a fake gun this past May.
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Is it just me?
Or does every stupid idea that the City Council has come up with lately come from John Tobin?
Yes, this seems pointless.
Unless they can explain how this ban would have prevented the following from occurring:
That was the problem
His fake gun wasn't banned when he ran from the cops. If he only knew that he shouldn't have that fake gun. Maybe they'll ban pointing fake guns at the police as well.
the poor misunderstood soul....
SLOW DOWN, TOBIN!
Yep, though the machete ban was Chuckle's idea.
Tobin is the idiot who decided that the only traffic safety issue that matters is speeding. DANG KIDS, SLOW DOWNS ON MAH STREETS!
Yesterday I was almost mowed down on a sidewalk by a prick in his BMW busy looking out his side window at the shops. Was he speeding? Nope, probably going under the speed limit...
Same intersection where that cop mowed down the baby carriage, incidentally. But hey Mr. Tobin, keep it up with the rhetoric about speeders...
What is it with you idee fixe people?
I didn't think much of those signs, either, but do you really think Tobin is that low-wattage he can't keep more than one thought in his brain at a time? That just because he wants to cut down on speeders he has no thoughts on other traffic issues? And no, I can't tell you what those thoughts might be since he's not my councilor (my councilor's the one who tried banning those clown minibike things a couple years back).
Also, those signs were meant for residential streets, where people could put them on their lawns - that's why they sit on two metal sticks. It's not just you urban types in your business districts who have issues with Massholes.
Those signs were such a good
Those signs were such a good idea that they put them up in Dedham. My mother had one guy on her street with three of them in his front yard - and one was on the opposite side of the street. It looked like crap, and I'm sure a lot of people drive faster when they see them just out of spite.
That's not Wicked local
That's Parkway Boston. It's a different site, run by parkway residents.
Arrgh, indeed
My apologies to both sites; corrected.