Return of the Spare Change dupers
By adamg - 2/27/09 - 8:55 am
Sarah reports her boyfriend was a victim of a Spare Change duper at the Davis Square T stop yesterday: He gave the guy a dollar (and another dollar because, well, he was also panhandling) and, instead of Spare Change News, the guy gave him some other, free, paper.
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Fake Spare Change Guy
has been a persistent annoyance to Davis Square T riders, for at least the past three years.
HAHAHAHAHA
Man, I can't believe you people still fall for that. You white liberals will do anything to clear your conscience! Did you show you his badge? Did you ask to read the paper first? They also aren't supposed to pandhandle whilst selling the newspapers.
Do any of you people actually talk to them besides just shoving money at them to assuage your guilt?
Maybe you should take him for a trip down to the farmers market and buy him some food, Ronny boy.
Hey, maybe you people should donate your money to a more worthy cause, like that crook who owns Toscanini's and evaded taxes.
Wow!
Who left the Herald Comment Generator on overnight? And did you leave it on the "only somewhat lucid" setting or what? You didn't even get a Chappaquiddick jab in there.
Higher Quality Please
Not only was there nothing about Chappy, references to "Cadilac Duval" and "Obammasiah" were similarly absent. This diatribe was also lacking the usual essentialist sexist commentary and was thoroughly missing yet another chance to blame everything on "criminal aliens".
Why does the Herald have to send us their second string?
heh
I think the Herald generator and the new york post generator are both attending CPAC in DC this week...
har!
I almost got into a fistfight with one of those guys at the b. good next to Back Bay Station, a couple of years ago when I was working at the Dig. Joe Keohane, Michael Brodeur and I decided the office was too filthy to stand anymore and went out for burgers. While we were eating, a tall black guy came in with a stack of Weekly Digs and began hassling people to buy them. One guy grudgingly coughed up a dollar.
I decided this would not do. "HEY!" I yelled. "You can't sell that paper! That's a free paper! That's MY paper!"
Upon hearing this, the gentleman became enraged, came over to our table, and began yelling about cops and calling me an **N-bomb-hater**. This made a bunch of CityYear kids in red jackets very, very nervous, and they headed for the exit.
Keohane thought this was all hilarious, and egged him on. "Harris loves cops," he said. "Her father's a cop." (A total fabrication.) Not to be outdone, Spare Dig Guy announced that he would kill a cop. Any cop.
Eventually a b.good employee strongarmed Insane-O-Man out the door without anybody getting bodily injured. We finished our burgers in peace. And Keohane had his column fodder for the week.
Sounds funny!
That's a funny story.
btw, what's a "Weekly Dig"?