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Sacre bleu! Spare Change Guy is a suburbanite!
By adamg on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 9:50am
Boy, you just never know. Here you are, thinking Spare Change Guy is one of those crusty fixtures in the Boston firmament and then you go and find out he's from Framingham - where they probably wish he really was from Boston:
... Trying to add a little jingle to his pockets, John Bubier was arrested for panhandling Sunday, just four days after he was nabbed for pulling the same stunt twice in one day.
"He's kind of crusty," said police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany. "He doesn't take well to being told enough is enough." ...
So now, of course, one is left to wonder: How does he get into town? Commuter rail? Or does he stand by the side of Rte. 9 going:
Riiiiiiiide? Can you spaaaaaare a riiiiiiide?
Via the Weekly Dig, which seems as shocked as us.
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As a Suffolk Law student I
As a Suffolk Law student I often saw Spare Change walking around Downtown Crossing. Recently, I saw him as I drove through Framingham, and a few weeks ago, he was on the same commuter rail train as I was...asking for spare change...
"Spare Change Guy" is not from Framingham
Spare Change Guy just appeared in Framingham one day and we're wondering how he got here. Did the Boston PD throw him on a train and tell him not to come back? Does Jim Cuddy of SMOC wander the streets of Boston looking for "clients" for his social services empire? We have no idea, but he was arrested for stopping cars and demanding spare change, and on the way out of the courthouse, walked into the street and started stopping cars and demanding spare change! He was arrested again -- obviously not the brightest bulb in the world. He's now been arrested so often that even the police refer to his as "Spare Change Guy."
Yes, he lives in Framingham NOW, but only thanks to whoever brought him here. You guys in Boston want him back?
Raise some money to send him one town east on the commuter train
You can call this fundraising campaign 'The Natick Collection'.