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What if Raymond Burr had a suitcase instead of a knife?
By adamg on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 3:38pm
Boston Police tweet the bomb squad is about to make short work of a suitcase left on the fire escape outside somebody's rear window, at 130 Mass. Ave.
Ed. suspicious note: Seems like a lot of these calls come in from that same basic location. Berklee kids: What are we, your mothers? Start picking up after yourselves.
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If I went to Berklee...
I'd start placing/hanging suitcases in weirder and weirder places, like run it out a flag pole or put 4 of them on the back step but color one of them red. Cut the shape of a mooninite out of the side of one and leave it out on the street.
To be fair (and as a
To be fair (and as a scatterbrained musician), there's a hostel half a block west, the Hynes half a block east and a major MBTA transfer point half a block north. I lived along that stretch for a while (before the mandatory explosion era). It was amazing the things we'd find on the sidewalk.
No...
If you went to Berklee, you'd think about doing such a thing, and then you'd oh look a bicycle!
In Berklee students' defense, there are no lockers available except for drummers and some upright bass players; everyone else has to carry it all. I'm a singer, and I still had a 25-pound backpack. If you're a guitarist... take steroids.
That said:
I once heard a teacher answer the same question four times in a row. Just as she finished answering, someone else would look up, with a "hey, that reminds me, I should ask..." look, and ask the exact same question. The teacher didn't bat an eye, because this is not unusual.
Also: One class required a final paper. (This IS unusual at Berklee. Composition for four-part horns? Sure. Radio-worthy fully-produced record? All the time. But a paper, never.) Don't fret; it only had to be three pages long.
Naturally, as a Berklee student, I didn't finish it in time. So I handed in a 1.5-page paper with an outline of what the three-page paper would have been.
I got a 'B'.
> Seems like a lot of these
> Seems like a lot of these calls come in from that same basic location
Are there a lot of VIP events in the area, or something sensitive going on at the Hynes?
I don't know about VIP
I don't know about VIP events, but it's an extremely busy intersection and gateway between neighborhoods. Berklee and Boston Conservatory students, a major T station (bus and trolley), shopping district a block away, a major passthru for pedestrians to Fenway, Symphony Hall down the street, hotels & hostel, the Hynes.
The area may be slightly higher on the BPD's radar (and I'm wildly speculating) because of the railroad and Pike passing under Boylston here before continuing under the Hynes and Prudential Center. There's also a huge Verizon facility behind Berklee that services the Pru complex.