Bank of America

Guarded condition

adamg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:24:24 -0400

Steve S. gets that real secure feeling when he notices the armed security guard asleep at the Bank of America kiosk - and he explains why, in the end, he decided not to knock over the bank.

What do you call four environmentalists chained to a Bank of America branch in Copley Square?

adamg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:50:48 -0400

No, there's no punchline:

... But by 10 a.m., dozens of police had surrounded the bank and were waiting for equipment to cut through the chains and the bicycle lock looped through the door and around one protester's neck. ...

The story also raises that perennial question: Is Copley Square part of downtown?

Breaking noose: Case dismissed against Bank of America protester

adamg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:41:40 -0400

Milan Kohut had been charged with peddling without a license when police objected to him standing outside a Financial District branch of the Bank of America with a pile of nooses and a sign reading "Nooses on sale."

On Friday, a Boston Municipal Court judge dismissed the charges, the Dig reports. Kohut had argued he was making a political comment about the mortgage crisis, not actually trying to sell downtown workers a way to hang themselves. He's now asking for his nooses back.

Bank Crap

Barbara Diamond — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:47:09 -0500

This deserves exactly what the photo says it deserves!

Graffiti artist or disgruntled customer? Plus: Gross robbers

adamg — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:29:16 -0500

Boston Police report arresting a woman yesterday afternoon for scrawling graffiti inside a Bank of America ATM on Tremont Street in Roxbury. No, not Pixnit - this woman was 60. Alas, BPDNews did not report what she wrote with her red marker.

Meanwhile, police also report that somebody tried holding up the Dunkin' Donuts at 510 Southampton St. last night by threatening to inject the clerk with an HIV-filled needle. The clerk refused and the alleged perp fled in a dark-colored vehicle. And over in Charlestown yesterday afternoon, a woman kicked and bit another woman in an effort to convince her to hand over her cell phone and cigarettes. The gambit worked, but the toothy terror was arrested after a brief foot chase.

Why Bank of America really cancelled its funding for the Celebrity Series

adamg — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:31:21 -0500

On Soho the Dog, Matthew does some back-of-envelope calculations and concludes the bank pulled its $600,000 annual donation not out of any sense of tough love for the series (bank officials talked of forcing the series to broaden its base of support) but because it simply gets more of a marketing bang out of similar donations to the MFA and BSO. And it will only get worse, he writes:

... As corporations get bigger and bigger, and are frequently operating far away from their own home base, corporate visibility and brand promotion will become the main goal of all non-operational activity; the personal relationships and local civic pride that support smaller, less splashy causes will become more and more abstract until they disappear completely. And if visibility is the key, let's face it: music is not the most visible of art forms. It would appear that the transitory, elusive nature of music has a real-world financial cost, at least in a society where the free market reigns, and philanthropy is just another front in the war for eyeballs. ...

Further proof not to trust promises from out of town companies

adamg — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:09:44 -0500

Joel Brown discusses Bank of America's decision to stop funding the Celebrity Series, started by predecessor FleetBank:

...Both sides make nice with quotes about how important it is for givers and getters to diversify and blah blah. But basically this is the now out-of-town bank yanking major support from an arts series that has been a mainstay. ...

It's another reason to patronize a locally owned bank, Leslie Turek writes.

Bank of America alternatives

adamg — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:54:09 -0500

Josh Ourisman begins to compile a list of banks to consider now that he's leaving the clutches of Bank of America. Jason Legg offers some additional alternatives.

On not liking Bank of America

adamg — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:02:34 -0500

Imagine you've just added $11,000 to the $9,000 you already had in your account, then checking your balance and seeing the bank thinks you have a balance of -$6,000. You might not be very happy. Even after they figure out what happened and fix it.

Security at Bank of America

adamg — Thu, 04 May 2006 11:56:15 -0400

A Parkway Transcript article makes you go "Hmm, wonder how long before they file a lawsuit?"

Seems police arrested two Rozzie guys, one 22, one 15, for a botched hold-up attempt at the Bank of America branch in Roslindale Square after a bank security officer fingered the pair.

Police, however, quickly released the two after noticing they looked absolutely nothing like the two Virgil Starkwells on the tape and learning that the security guard was not even in the bank at the time of the failed holdup.