WBZ reports on efforts to replace the bench at the M Street beach dedicated to Sharlene Feeney Grealy, a mother of three who died of melanoma in 2003.
On Friday night, a young teen took an SUV out for a spin and wound up rolling the thing over atop the bench and onto the beach.
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There's this thing called car
By Ari O
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 8:32am
There's this thing called car insurance, and when a moron does something like that, the insurance should pay for the replacement; the community should not. (But it does bring in to question whether benches have standing.)
No standing
By MattyC
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:12am
Just seating.
Car Owner?
By BostonDog
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 9:12am
Shouldn't the teen driver and/or their parents be the one to pay for a replacement?
But ... car!
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 9:27am
Can't expect any accountability for drivers who kill or destroy, after all.
(also, if the car was stolen and didn't belong to the parents ... or they may be no parents ...)
Ha
By anonĀ²
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 9:29am
Thats a good one.
Only if he's one of those Yuppies
By CraigInDaVille
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 10:29am
Otherwise it's just kids being kids, amiright?
"amiright?'
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:15am
No, not really.......
Your sarcasm filter must be broken.
By CraigInDaVille
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 2:42pm
n/t
It's all the Yuppies fault!
By SouthBostonYuppie
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 7:09pm
The stress of rising property values on the kid's family caused this!
Nice to hear about Southie
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 10:39am
Nice to hear about Southie residents coming together for a good cause.
good idea
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:12am
Sue the parents (probably parent singular) of this 14 year old. Something tells me mom doesn't have a pot to piss in. Or if she does, she can't declare or lose her benefits and subsidized housing. Amirite?
Anyhow, we should be concerned about the children and this 14 year old child.
Sarcasm off.
Wow...
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:58am
All you know is that a 14-year old took an SUV for a joyride and crashed it on M Street. From that, you were able to extrapolate that the kid comes from a single-parent, welfare-assisted home? If I were to take the same liberties of assumption with the little we know about YOU, I don't think you'd find it very flattering.
Well, she had an SUV to piss
By Hyde_Parker
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 12:34pm
Well, she had an SUV to piss in....
If the kid had been on a bicycle
By Markk02474
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 12:29pm
If the 14 year old kid had been on a bicycle instead of a SUV, the bench would not have been killed! What's wrong with a kid such that he wouldn't rather be on a bicycle?
Gosh, what a thoughtful and
By Scratchie
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 12:32pm
Gosh, what a thoughtful and insightful question! I can't imagine how a modern kid could possibly get the idea that SUV's are cool and bicycles are for losers!
Tough call
By Markk02474
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 1:16pm
What is the bigger loser activity - riding a bike or riding the T pantless?
Just last night I yelled to a woman on a bike to get a headlight. She had no required headlight or taillight, but did have a safety vest! If a cop observed any other type of vehicle on the road without working headlights and taillights at night, would the result be: ignore, a warning, $20 ticket they didn't have to pay, or getting towed? Yeah, lots more loser cyclists on the road at night without lights than SUVs.
We all know who the most profound loser is
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 1:23pm
It is that older man who screams at cyclists and pedestrians and then defends his declining driving abilities in terms of how other road users should compensate for them.
Just be warned: some local bike organizations are starting "loser lists" with rosters of plate numbers and descriptions of abusive behavior or impaired driving. These are useful to lawyers when somebody is run down.
*snap*
By cybah
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 1:22pm
*snap*
In that case, can bicycles
By Lmo
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 2:47pm
In that case, can bicycles have plates? I have encountered some very dangerous bikers. Most are safe some are not, just like MV operators.
Question of proportional damage
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 2:54pm
Check out the statistics on fatal accidents for cyclists and drivers, and who got killed, and report back.
I don't need to do research
By Lmo
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:23pm
I don't need to do research to figure out that the guy on the bike is going to have the fatal injury, that's common sense. I am talking about safety and what I observe first hand. Thanks for the assignment though.
Which would you rather have
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:40pm
A drunk on a bike or driving a car?
A convicted drunk driver on a bike or driving a car?
A 14 year old riding a bike or driving a car?
Taxpayer subsidy of new RMV duties and huge lines to get bike licenses?
Your proposal is stupid.
A drunk can be on a bike or
By Lmo
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 4:56pm
A drunk can be on a bike or driving a car.
A convicted drunk driver can be driving a car or riding a bike. I have never read about a person arrested for drunk driving, without a license or with a suspended /revoked license (not this week at least!).
14 year olds ride bikes and the one mentioned in the story was driving a car.
No one mentioned "bike licenses". It wasn't so much a proposal, as a sarcastic comment directed at the "warning" of "loser lists" being composed by bike organizations.
Driving w/o a license is quite common
By Markk02474
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 6:08pm
Driving w/o a license is quite common since the RMV stopped reminding drivers when their license would expire. Registration reminders never stopped, however. Drunks ignoring a driving license suspension is pretty common, including T workers doing it.
A cyclist running a light can
By my thoughts
Wed, 01/15/2014 - 7:57am
A cyclist running a light can cause an accident for cars that swerve to avoid, although I agree with you generally on this issue.
Cops ignore other vehicles
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 2:58pm
Cops ignore other vehicles breaking many laws daily and do nothing. Double parking, not coming to a complete stop at stop signs, not stopping at red lights before turning right, not yielding to pedestrians, texting, speeding, etc.
AT 14, DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE?
By Archie
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:12pm
AT 14, DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE? The loser should be building the replacement bench from the ground up, starting with going to northern Maine this winter to chop down a tree, haul it out of the woods, on his own, without mechanical assistance and then create the new bench. Young dolt better Thank God that he doesn't reside near City Point.
What's wrong with a kid such
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 1:01pm
Well, the kid is obviously stupid and reckless, for starters.
Adam -- if you can't implement "ignore"...
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 9:26pm
... how about just banning this guy?
It's fun to do bad things
By Dignan
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 1:57pm
Is Latarian Milton 14 already?
Actually, I think he is, or
By Scratchie
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:06pm
Actually, I think he is, or just about. Nice pop-cult-ref.
He just wanted to do some
By greenlinetobrooklyn
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:12pm
He just wanted to do some hoodrat things with his friends!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:14pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/media-kid...
So is his white spoiled brat counterpart
By anon
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:12pm
The one who took off with the family car around the same time. The one you probably didn't hear about, because he wasn't arrested. The one who was a real snot in a live TV interview with his family, but declared a loveable scamp for a similar deed because white.
Just one more object we can
By Finn
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 4:30pm
Just one more object we can use as a space-saver.
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