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Suburban teens charged as early morning Chinatown graffiti taggers

Boston Police report arresting four teenagers from Winchester they say were hanging out in Chinatown early Tuesday, tagging buildings in Chinatown with spray paint.

Police say officers on patrol first spotted the teens, ranging in age from 16 to 18, in a parking lot at Harrison Avenue and Boylston Street around 2 a.m.

As officers drove by the group, one of the males attempted to hide from officers. Officers reversed their cruiser and saw the group running towards Boylston Street.

Officers were able to stop the group in the area of 15 Essex Street, where they immediately observed one of the suspects drop a can of spray paint. After further investigation, officers recovered three more cans of spray paint. Officers returned to the original area where they first saw the group and could observe wet-spray paint.

The 18-year-old was charged with damage to property by graffiti/tagging. The other three teens were charged as delinquent for damage to property by graffiti/tagging.

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It will cost to have someone supervising them but imagine how many walls these four can cleanup for the next year for only the cost of one supervisor per cleanup? At 4 to 1 that might be cost effective.

Sad that these kids were inspired to pollute a neighborhood they don't even live in by trashing walls.

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So long Bates and Colby, hello St A's ..

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If this is a first time offense, it will likely be "off record" for the 18 year old and never show up for the juveniles IF they take the hint.

I'm sure this could also be a "lived experience" for the college essay - how I got to know people not like me while cleaning walls after some youthfully indiscreet tagging behavior, and now I'm a changed man!

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Harrison Ave and Boylston Street don't intersect.

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Officers reversed their cruiser and saw the group running towards Boylston Street.

Officers were able to stop the group in the area of 15 Essex Street, where they immediately observed one of the suspects drop a can of spray paint.

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Says it all.

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Four teenagers from anywhere says it all for you.

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…. each other. But they do not intersect.
Must have meant the parking lot at Harrison and Essex.

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Boylston becomes Essex after Washington. Like a lot (all?) streets in that area.

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I first pronounced this as E-sex street... caused a few head tilts

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from Combat Zone days.

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it was never a meme. The Internet (outside of Arpanet) did not exist at that time.

A funny item learned in looking up the time frame of Arpanet. A Mr. Licklider apparently is part of Arpanet's history. Licklider? Somehow this fits with the idea that the money behind the web (ergo Internet) was porn. Without porn the web might not be the wondrous thing it is today.

Is there a dictionary of names that are too good to be true, yet are? Dr. Feelgood (yes, there once was). Any teenager whose last name is Horny (I knew one).

This is one of the things that pulls Boston back into the "I'm glad I live here" domain. In a midwest town where science is magic and God invented the car, interesting puns and references to odd moments of history would win at best perplexed eyes, at worst a pitchfork. What one could call DeSantis Land.

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Memes don't require electronic transmission - a photocopier did just fine in the old days.

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And further back the mimeograph machine. I found copies of shared jokes and recipes as I was clearing out my parent's place. Brought back memories of elementary school.

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I had to wonder why the early settlers were so into sex that they seemingly ended every shire name with either "sex" or "f--k".

Norfuck
Suffuck
Middlesex
Essex
etc.

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The "sex" part is an abbreviation of "Saxony." Parts of England were called East Saxony, West Saxony, Middle Saxony etc., which eventually changed into Essex, Wessex, Middkesex etc.
And of course the Anglo-Saxon settlers here named places after places in their homeland.

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… across the street from South Station and had an enormous neon sign that said ESSEX HOTEL. Not infrequently the first two letters were burnt out.

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… crossing Washington till sometime a few decades ago.

Boylston ran alongside the China Trade Building from Washington and on to Tremont and beyond. The beginning of Essex ran from Washington where it runs from now. The beginning of Boylston was altered to face Essex and thus the confusion began as to which street was which.

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Or would tagging something in Winchester bring down a Police response like has never been seen before with a Graffiti related event?

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They're pretty stupid, but not so stupid that they'll blatantly shit where they eat. No, tagging in Boston has a cachet among the suburban yout's that tells you just how lame their respective suburbs are.

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Suburbia does sound pretty lame @Ibb. A thought Winchester was a city though?

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