Spare Change Guy

If you can't give him spare change, at least give him a break

adamg — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:13:48 -0500

Whalehead King ponders Spare Change Guy:

He's an ugly guy with an ugly face. We don't follow him everywhere he goes but we suspect he brings up the rear in the human race. Despite that, he is a man and he seems to be an honorable one, even if he is often misunderstood. ...

Spaare weeeed?

adamg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:05:04 -0400

The Mick is walking across the Common wearing a t-shirt with a large "P" on it, when Spare Change Guy approaches her, asks if she goes to Princeton and smokes weed.

Spare Change Guy still around

adamg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:51:13 -0400

And still being ignored in Downtown Crossing.

A Spare Change Guy warning

adamg — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:56:37 -0400

He's not just some innocent, if annoying, crank, he's a scary and potentially violent sexual harasser, duffless2323 warns:

... I have personally been harrased by him on 2 different occasions, a few years apart. I also saw him say some very violent and sexually explicit things to another young woman who was by herself until I turned the corner, I then walked with her and he went back to the spare change routine. She was very relieved someone came along. ...

Also, he's discovered Somerville.

Tohhhhhhhh-kens!

adamg — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:41:47 -0400

Latest reports have Spare Change Guy trying to sell old T tokens in Cambridge.

The return of Spare Change Guy

adamg — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:52:25 -0400

Steve reports that Spare Change Guy is out of jail (one guess what he was in jail for) and on the Red Line and fretting about the fact that he's become a local celebrity.

Oh, don't even go there, dude

adamg — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:15:12 -0500

Only in Boston, Kids discusses various faults of the Metro, but raises a scary possibility: Imagine if Spare Change Guy ever started hawking it:

Want a Free-e-e-e-e-e-e Metro-o-o-o-o?"

Spare Change Guy needs to be locked away

adamg — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:43:43 -0500

Carpundit applauds Framingham police for arresting Spare Change Guy:

... He is dirty, obnoxious, and a menace to public safety. He obstructs traffic by begging in the middle of the road, interferes with people walking on the sidewalk by swinging his arms wildly around, and frightens people with his disturbed visage and confrontational manner. ... What he needs is a nice little jail term.

Also, in answer to the question of how he gets from Framingham to Boston: Commuter rail - on which he, naturally, asks for spaaaaare chaaaaange.

Sacre bleu! Spare Change Guy is a suburbanite!

adamg — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:50:10 -0500

Boy, you just never know. Here you are, thinking Spare Change Guy is one of those crusty fixtures in the Boston firmament and then you go and find out he's from Framingham - where they probably wish he really was from Boston:

... Trying to add a little jingle to his pockets, John Bubier was arrested for panhandling Sunday, just four days after he was nabbed for pulling the same stunt twice in one day.

"He's kind of crusty," said police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany. "He doesn't take well to being told enough is enough." ...

So now, of course, one is left to wonder: How does he get into town? Commuter rail? Or does he stand by the side of Rte. 9 going:

Riiiiiiiide? Can you spaaaaaare a riiiiiiide?

Via the Weekly Dig, which seems as shocked as us.

Spare Change Guy at Park Street

adamg — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:41:08 -0400

Yup reports:

... Teal shirt, beige jacket, "CCAAN YOOOU BOUYS HELP ME GET A COOOOFFFFFEEEE? DOOO YOOOUU HAAAVE ANY SPAAAAREE CHAAANGE?" ...

Plus: Various Spare Change Guy arcana.