And that's why C trolleys weren't getting past Washington Square, where MBTA police caught up with the gentleman, who apparently objected to the way the other guy was talking to the trolley driver, Laurel tweets.
I used to visit this site pretty often as Boston is like a sister city to Montreal, I've visited many times. When I pop by now all I see is crime/murder/kicks in the head. What's going on down there? Have you guys run dry on good stories or is this just generally what's going on?!
nervous about my next visit...
An acquaintance moved to Montreal years ago. I think it was the first year he was there that he was mugged and beaten by a gang of French-Canadians.
(Initially, I thought he was kidding, and I had trouble imagining how a French-Canadian could be dangerous. I was assured that he was not, and that they could be.)
I didn't generalize from this report relatively close-to-home to all of Montreal.
Boston just has the usual crime problem: a demographic of poor who are not integrated into civil society and who are brought up in an environment in which crime is not unusual. Mostly they prey upon, and have violent confrontations with, their neighbors, of the same demographic group. Some of our social programs help some of them, some of our programs arguably perpetuate the problem. Nobody seems to know how to solve it.
So, the problem exists, but most people in Boston are unaffected by violent crime, except for hearing about it on the news.
It's been an especially rough few days for Harvard. One candidate for graduation, Missouri native Natalie Peters, was quoted today in the Boston Globe about the shooting of Kirkland House's alleged drug dealer.
"I just feel they brought their little world here for one hour," and called the circumstances "surreal."
The quote sounds awful. The reality implied by it is awful, too.
As an aside, I kinda hope the quote got garbled, and she didn't actually say "little." Absent disambiguating intonation, "little" makes it sound not nice.
Mr. Stigma and Miss World should debate the issue. He argues that the shizz goes down because Harvard isn't a bubble while she says the shizz went down because the bubble was temporarily pricked. I imagine the Faustian Bargain would like to have it both ways: It's a safe non-bubble!
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I used to visit this site pretty often as Boston is like a sister city to Montreal, I've visited many times. When I pop by now all I see is crime/murder/kicks in the head. What's going on down there? Have you guys run dry on good stories or is this just generally what's going on?!
nervous about my next visit...
Nothing to be nervous about
We've just had a spate of bad transit news, but we're still safe for visitors.
An acquaintance moved to
An acquaintance moved to Montreal years ago. I think it was the first year he was there that he was mugged and beaten by a gang of French-Canadians.
(Initially, I thought he was kidding, and I had trouble imagining how a French-Canadian could be dangerous. I was assured that he was not, and that they could be.)
I didn't generalize from this report relatively close-to-home to all of Montreal.
Boston just has the usual crime problem: a demographic of poor who are not integrated into civil society and who are brought up in an environment in which crime is not unusual. Mostly they prey upon, and have violent confrontations with, their neighbors, of the same demographic group. Some of our social programs help some of them, some of our programs arguably perpetuate the problem. Nobody seems to know how to solve it.
So, the problem exists, but most people in Boston are unaffected by violent crime, except for hearing about it on the news.
It's been an especially
It's been an especially rough few days for Harvard. One candidate for graduation, Missouri native Natalie Peters, was quoted today in the Boston Globe about the shooting of Kirkland House's alleged drug dealer.
/snark
What a quote
The Globe article gave her the final word.
The quote sounds awful. The reality implied by it is awful, too.
As an aside, I kinda hope the quote got garbled, and she didn't actually say "little." Absent disambiguating intonation, "little" makes it sound not nice.
Mr. Stigma and Miss World
Mr. Stigma and Miss World should debate the issue. He argues that the shizz goes down because Harvard isn't a bubble while she says the shizz went down because the bubble was temporarily pricked. I imagine the Faustian Bargain would like to have it both ways: It's a safe non-bubble!
I'm with Miss World.