annoying people
As punishment, they could take away all her makeup
By adamg - 5/9/13 - 7:55 amWBZ reports some girl up in Salem now faces a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a police officer for allegedly attacking a cop in the local police station with an eyeliner pencil. The officer was taken to the hospital with an unspecified injury from the attack but is expected to survive.
Citizen complaint of the day: It's dirty diapers all the way down in East Boston
By adamg - 5/8/13 - 8:20 amA disgusted citizen holds her nose as she reports on the disgusting conditions on Meridian Street:
Wouldn't 911 be a better outlet for this than writing a note?
By adamg - 5/2/13 - 10:37 amMister Jon spotted this note on a car parked in the Back Bay this morning.
Meanwhile, Penny Cherubino ran across a car that was only parked one way in the Back Bay.
Damn drunken hooligans, messing with Southie residents
By adamg - 4/27/13 - 9:32 pmPolice officers patrolling South Boston tonight were urged to be on the lookout for a white trolley party bus, careening through the streets of the neighborhood, its passengers throwing eggs at pedestrians and yelling at them.
Around 9 p.m., Matthew Gaskill reported spotting the eggmobile on East Broadway, heading toward the city.
UPDATE, 10:52 p.m.: Amanda Hitt reports seeing a white trolley bus with "what looked like an egg yolk stain on the side" parked on Canal Street.
City says irresponsible dog owners forcing it to lock up Mission Hill ball field
By adamg - 4/24/13 - 8:18 amIn response to a citizen complaint about a McLaughlin Playground baseball field on Mission Hill being locked up all the time except for when the local Little League is using it, the city says:
The little league field and the batting cage is locked because ... of some dog owners who allow their dogs to run wild and not picking up after their dogs.
Skateboarder attacks Greenway worker trying to get him and pals off the Greenway
By adamg - 4/14/13 - 10:03 pmNorthEndWaterfront.com reports on an altercation last week.
The disgusting slobs on Cooper Street in the North End
By adamg - 4/6/13 - 12:36 pmNorthEndWaterfront.com holds its nose while showing us the sordid conditions on Cooper Street:
Early this morning, I observed a rat eating something and as I approached the rat, saw that he was eating a roasted chicken disposed of in front of 19 Cooper Street. I scared the rat away and went home and got some rubber gloves and put the chicken back in it's plastic container. As you can see from the photo, I put the chicken back into it's plastic container. As I was doing so, several young people exited from 19 Cooper Street and looked at me as if I was crazy because of what I was doing, they shrugged their shoulders, looked down at me while I was bent over attempting to mitigate this disgusting sanitary situation and walked away.
Citizen complaint of the day: Could we get that pug-walking cop over to the Arboretum?
By adamg - 3/30/13 - 5:11 pmA concerned citizen complains:
Can someone PLEASE do something about all the unleashed dogs in the Arboretum? I should be able to take my kids there without being accosted multiple times by dogs bigger than them running full bore at them. Nobody to enforce?
Brookline to consider extra fines on public cursing as way to crack down on goddamn frickin' college students
By adamg - 3/21/13 - 12:39 pmHell, no! Some people in North Brookline want Town Meeting to double fines for creating a public nuisance because those PoS students just can't shut up at 2 in the morning.
Specifically, he said people coming from the Commonwealth Avenue area back into the town seem to be causing the most ruckus.
Drunk Massholes scream at old lady in a wheelchair who asked them to not park in a North End handicap spot
By adamg - 3/6/13 - 8:30 amThe North End Regional Review reports on the two intoxicated 20-something 6-footers who unleashed "a torrent of screaming and cursing" on the 4'5" elderly lady in a motorized wheelchair.
Citizen complaint of the day: This space saver is no Aretha Franklin
By adamg - 2/26/13 - 5:55 pmA fed-up citizen grouses that three weeks after the blizzard, this space saver on East Cottage Street in Dorchester needs some D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Irresistible force vs. immovable object, Boston space-saver edition
By adamg - 2/23/13 - 3:44 pmCompare this note left on a space saver, captured by Stephanie-Marie in Roslindale today, with this note, left on somebody's car whose driver dared to move a space saver in South Boston yesterday.
Sob Story Guy on track this morning
By adamg - 2/20/13 - 9:32 amLiterally on track. At 8:20 a.m., A.P. Blake tweeted from North Station:
Sob Story Guy is spilling his schtick from IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GREEN LINE TRACKS.
Man cracks under strain of loud-talking phone user on packed Orange Line train
By adamg - 1/24/13 - 5:26 pmCat reports on an eventful ride on the Orange Line last night involving a guy who couldn't stop his singing and phone yawping and another guy who finally had enough:
at that point another guy suddenly shouted; "enough!! enough! stop it! no more barbara or whatever her name is. no more singing!! there are other people in this train. enough!" now we suddenly had a screaming person on either side of us, and i wasnt sure anymore which one was more crazy. the singing guy sort of ignored the angry guy, and just continued his loud phone conversation with the person who stepped into the train somewhere else. the angry guy did not like that, and while we were approaching our final stop, he ostentatiously (this word sounds better in dutch) took out his phone.... if possible, he was speaking even more loudly than the singing guy, reporting the above...
Elaine Almquist tweets Loud Singer Guy is a regular:
OHMIGOD! Musical-singing guy rides my bus! When I see him, I wait for the next one or walk. Very annoying.
The North End's problem: Too many happy young people
By adamg - 1/17/13 - 12:07 amNorthEndWaterfront.com reports on the latest neighborhood meeting about excessive noise by all those blow-ins:
Sgt Lema added that he is "amazed at the droves of young professionals" walking through the North End. "They are a happy crowd that unfortunately are impacting the quality of life of others."
Citizen Complaint of the Day: The eternal car alarm
By adamg - 1/10/13 - 10:00 amA sleep-deprived citizen reports from Northampton Street:
The guy living at 182 Northampton has a minivan and the alarm goes off EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, several times, between 1 and 4 in the morning. I have submitted this ticket three times and have never even received a response -- please, tell me who I should call or what I should do. It is getting really bad.
Hipsters, Dot rats not meant to interact
By adamg - 12/29/12 - 5:31 pmIf you're one of those people who thinks Starbucks would be much improved if all the hipsters disappeared, you'll love this karmic post.
Sob Story Guy resorts to holding train hostage
By adamg - 12/6/12 - 11:04 amChristoper tweets from Boylston this morning that a Sob Story Guy held a trolley door open and refused to let it close until somebody gave him some money.
The Red Line was not on fire this morning
By adamg - 11/15/12 - 1:10 pmSooz thought it was, until she noticed the woman burning incense. As she concludes: "WTF."
Justice in the burrito line
By adamg - 10/1/12 - 8:22 pmSomebody really needed a smackdown at an unidentified Boston burrito joint. He got one.
Via Boston Reddit.
Citizen complaint of the day: The biggest trash heap in the city
By adamg - 9/30/12 - 5:30 pmA very annoyed citizen spares no exclamation points or expletives in demanding the city do something about this sprawling trash heap outside 532 Chester Sq., which has been in line for its own Zip code since Friday morning.
Red Line service stopped due to guy who decided to go for a jog down the tracks
By adamg - 9/13/12 - 7:51 am
Red Line jogger. MBTA surveillance photo.
The T had to stop inbound Red Line service from the south shortly after 7 a.m. to try to get this fool off the tracks between Andrew and Broadway. The T reports he managed to flee before police could detain him and ask what the hell he was thinking.
In the MBTA surveillance video below, he appears at around :05 (way, way at the top of the screen) and then hops onto the tracks around :35:
Piles of butts around Boston Medical Center
By adamg - 9/4/12 - 6:58 amThe Daily Free Press reports a move by Boston Medical Center to ban smoking on its campus means growing problems in surrounding blocks with smokers and their detritus:
"[Smokers] stand there and smoke there and throw their butts on the ground," Stergios said. "BMC is in sort of a bind. There are [community] members who have photographed people throwing their butts out there. You can see piles of butts."
Citizen complaint of the day: Bottles and limes
By adamg - 9/2/12 - 8:22 pmFrom Allston to Beacon Hill, Citizens Connect is filled with complaints of sky-reaching trash heaps, stacks of vermin-infested couches and mattresses, of Nooyawkas daring to park in resident-only spaces as they unload their spawn. A disgusted, sleepless citizen reports a unit in the neighboring building on Cambridge Street in Allston:
Where is this landlord?!! This is ridiculous for the last 24 hours these people have been partying on the common porch, screaming yelling blaring music and throwing their bottles and limes over the side. I just moved in and I can't handle this!! Talk about bad tenant issues!!!





