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The year in citizen complaints: 2021

The tigermobile of Forest Hills

Forest Hills residents filed 311 complaints for weeks about the abandoned yellow tigermobile.

Most of the thousands of complaints filed every year with the Boston 311 system are about important, if mundane, things: Trash pickups missed, potholes and burned out street lights. This is a compendium of 311 complaints that rose above the ordinary this year - starting with a large dong in South Boston and ending with what one person thought were giant breasts overhanging Chinatown (and who could forget the illicit Beacon Hill boot scraper?):

Dong

Is that a traffic sign on your pole or are you just glad to see me?

1/4/21
A not offended citizen filed a 311 complaint about "a massive cock," of the rubber sort, suction-cupped to a traffic sign at...
Giant turkey on Bradlee Street in Hyde Park

Giant turkey menaces Hyde Park street

1/30/21
A worried citizen files a 311 complaint about a turkey of unusual size ruling the roost on Bradlee Street in Hyde Park:...

Some citizens should just shut the hell up, Karen

2/19/21
The citizen isn't always right, one Boston city worker, from BTD, we're guessing, complains. Yesterday, at 3:43 p.m., an...

The nerve of some parents letting their kids play on the grass at Medal of Honor Park when dogs need their exercise

2/27/21
A dog-owning citizen barks out a 311 complaint about supposedly irresponsible parents at Medal of Honor Park in South Boston...

The Seaport's over-compensating Lamborghini driver

2/28/21
An annoyed citizen speedily files a 311 complaint about a guy who seems to have made it his mission in life to drive his...
No break in barriers between outdoor patios along Hanover Street

No room for jaywalkers on Hanover Street

3/31/21
Some North Enders have been grumbling for weeks about the loss of parking spaces along Hanover Street as restaurants ready...

Naked man in the window doesn't meet my attractiveness standards

4/8/21
Update: 311 says this isn't a 311 matter; you should call police. A discerning citizen files a 311 complaint about a man...

Pursued by a snarling hellbeast across the desolate plains of Lower Allston at midnight

4/10/21
A concerned citizen who likes walking his or her dog in Harvard's holdings off Western Avenue filed a 311 report about a...

If this were Beacon Hill ...

4/19/21
Sometimes people who file 311 complaints get frustrated when their complaints aren't handled quickly. So they'll complain...
Downed traffic light on the Jamaicaway

JWay traffic light was blowin' in the wind, then it crashed to the ground

4/22/21
An alarmed citizen filed a 311 report about a traffic signal on the Jamaicaway inbound at Perkins Street that crashed to the...

Bongo drums at 3 a.m. in Roslindale

5/7/21
A sleep-deprived citizen filed a 311 complaint at 3:33 a.m. about the situation in the section of the Arboretum behind...

The growing drum menace

5/9/21
Two days after somebody complained about bongo drums in Roslindale, a weary citizen files a 311 complaint about unceasing...
Front door with illegal bootscraper on Pinckney Street

Illicit bootscraper on Beacon Hill

5/19/21
An outraged citizen files a 311 complaint about somebody on Pinckney Street on Beacon Hill who added a mail slot and a...

The smoke detector that has been chirping for two years straight

5/21/21
A citizen who has somehow not been driven completely insane file a 311 complaint about a smoke detector on East 2nd Street in...

A pizza topping even worse than pineapple

6/14/21
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 report after being dive bombed by a seagull at lunch time on West 3rd and C streets in South...
Fireworks advisory sign that says call 311

311 says contact them with fireworks complaints, then tells people not to contact them with fireworks complaints

6/28/21
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about 311 fireworks complaints: 311 closes out every fireworks case and says not to...
Menacing gopher

Cutest menace ever in North End community garden

7/9/21
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a havoc-wreaking gopher at DeFilippo Park in the North End: There is a...
Abandoned car with a tiger head on it

The abandoned lemon tigermobile of Weld Hill Street

7/16/21
A fed-up citizen files a double 311 complaint about the situation on Weld Hill Street in Jamaica Plain, where an abandoned...
Couches and stuff

Allston Christmas just seems to start earlier every year

8/1/21
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about these derelict couches on Coolidge Road in Allston. Also see...

Parks Department says, yeah, we know the Common is a hellhole, call the mayor

8/8/21
A concerned citizen with a bird's eye view of the Tremont side of the Common filed a 311 complaint about homeless people by...

Liquidy vs. solidified dog poop

8/29/21
Tonight we learned, via the city's answers to separate 311 complaints, that it might be best to wait until dog waste left by...
Woman up to her ankle in Jamaica Plain pothole

Citizen complant of the day: Ankle-deep pothole in Jamaica Plain

9/10/21
A disgruntled citizen files a 311 report about a pothole on Spring Park Avenue in Jamaica Plain that she says is ankle deep,...

That citizen complaint of the day site sucks

11/9/21
We might as well retire - it's all downhill from here now that a disgruntled citizen has filed a 311 complaint about...
Graffiti: It aint easy being cheezy

Life on mean Southie streets isn't easy, especially if you're coated in cheese dust

11/11/21
A solid citizen filed a 311 complaint about the graffiti on the side of Supreme House of Pizza on Vinton Street in South...

What's a Brahmin have to do to enjoy a quiet holiday in this town?

12/4/21
Thursday was Shaloh House's annual Chanukhah Hummer Parade, in which the Brighton Chabad center throws a party that includes...
Graffiti showing either an angry owl or boobs, depending on how you see them

Angry owl? No, those are boobs

12/6/21
An irate citizen filed a 311 complaint about the graffiti atop 249 Harrison Ave. in Chinatown - and not just because it...
A lot of birds in trees in East Boston

I think I saw Tippi Hedren running down Maverick Street

12/25/21
An alarmed citizen filed a 311 complaint about the herds of birds now congregating along Jeffries Street in East Boston:...
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Raccoons "abusing" the neighbor's pool.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 3:11pm.

Racoon Racoon candlelight
Doin' South Boston, doin' it right
In the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'

Racoon Susie, Racoon Sam
Playin' racoon tag in South Boston land
Now they're swimmin'
Neighbor's pool is shimmerin'

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jinglin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It's Trash Panda looooooove!

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