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Space savers collected by Somerville DPW

The Somerville Constituent Services Office posted this photo of "a sample" of the space savers removed to date by the city DPW.

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This would be one way to get rid of that old TV...

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Hyde_Parker, I know you're joking, but Somerville actually has one of the easiest and most convenient TV recycling programs in the area. You can schedule free curbside pickup for your regular recycling day with a simple phone call. http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ose/e-waste

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It took me a while to chuck the old sets when we upgraded to HD. The irony was that when I put the sets out, a woman looking for collectibles happened by and asked after the 12 smaller set. Hey, it worked, so it ended up truly recycled.

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That's something special. Something Sommerville can't just take away from us. Let's tell Sommerville to put the All back into Allston Christmas.

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Don't you mean Alston?

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I could use a couple of those recycling bins

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"Rosebud"

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As far as I know, it's nearly impossible to get trash collectors to take away a trash can, even when it's in such bad shape that it almost falls apart when moved. I guess this is how you do it!

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I remember we had a trash can where the bottom fell out. My father had to finally tape a big label "This is trash" on the barrel before the trash guys would take it.

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But taking away their space-savers is a pretty good start

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Did they write any tickets for littering?

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Littering and.... littering and...?

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YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-I-CO!?

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Did you say ya sure or yes sir?

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First they'd have to take twenty-seven 8 X 10 glossy color photographs of each one to be used as evidence against us and who's got time for that.

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What if the judge has a seeing eye dog and wasn't going to look at the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs?

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Ticketing them for littering? HAH! Don't you know that moving snow off your car entitles a person to break whatever laws and social contracts they want?

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EVERY law and EVERY social contract.

I hate to tell you about the social contracts that involve snow out in my neck of the woods. Your head would probably explode.

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The space saver isn't always owned by the home it was in front of.

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Don't see the 5 gallon bucket of used motor oil.

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From looking at the photo, chairs seem to be the most popular fixture.
I hope passersby can sit down at no charge and rest for a minutes before trying to climb the next Kilmanjaro-like snowbank.

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I think I'd be too scared of getting my face keyed to sit in one of those chairs.

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Space saver users have a lot of broken chairs because they are too fat and lazy to find parking.

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But it actually works except for the few vocal lazy asses who don't shovel their own spot then come here and complain about cones.

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DPW left a bright orange sawhorse replete with "CITY OF SOMERVILLE" after some sewer work about 5 years ago. I simply removed said debris a week after work completed and re-purposed it.

Thing looks mint and confuses all....No, ALL?

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Space-saving is immature, childish, and very elementary-schoolish, imo. The cities and towns here in the Commonwealth, including and particularly Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, should step up to the plate and do a better job of snow removal. Purchasing larger, more up to date, modernized snow removal equipment would be an excellent start in the right direction.

People wouldn't feel the need to save spaces if the cities and towns took more responsibility for snow removal than they do.

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I want to move that pile of junk and park there.

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The Space-Saving Chairs of Somerville, on view April 1, 2015

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might be?

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