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Citizen complaint of the day: Maybe we need signs telling tourists not to steal bricks out of Beacon Hill sidewalks

By adamg on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 2:04pm
Missing brick

Where a brick used to be.

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on West Cedar Street on Beacon Hill:

This is a new one for me: someone pulled a brick out in front of my neighbor’s house. All I can guess is it was taken as a souvenir.

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Beacon Hill
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Sidewalks
pedestrians


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Comments

By Friartuck on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 2:06pm.

Well put-together, everybody knows
This is how the story goes

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By anon on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 2:42pm.

Leave only footprints, take only memories!

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By Hunter on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 2:44pm.

One guess and souvenir is what you come up with? Maybe they live nearby and needed a brick for their own sidewalk or garden wall or to hold down important papers or to match the color for that one kitchen wall. So many possibilities.

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By anon on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 12:30am.

There are missing bricks anywhere there are brick sidewalks. They pop out sometimes. Why assume it's theft if there's no evidence?

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By Pink Floyd on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 3:35pm.

All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

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By fungwah on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 8:30pm.

Leave them bricks alone

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By downtown-anon on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 4:03pm.

There are bricks lose and out of place all over Beacon Hill. No need to steal a perfectly placed one.

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By makeshift_vicinity on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 5:18pm.

I don't think that's a thing.

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By rsybuchanan on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 8:22pm.

People steal whole cobblestones from the course of the Paris-Roubaix bike race as souvenirs.

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By Don't Panic on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 12:25am.

I've heard that Beacon Hill bricks are great for window breaking.
https://www.universalhub.com/crime/20240222/cambridge-man-who-seems-brea...

Maybe it was taken to be used as a burglarious tool?

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By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 6:02pm.

And they are the death of brick pavements.

I wonder is someone should describe this? Maybe they are snowbirds and forget?

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By Friartuck on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 6:58pm.

Von Shitzinpants!

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By Plen-T-Pak on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 7:33pm.

Keep em coming

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By anon on Thu, 05/02/2024 - 7:59pm.

Interesting guess. Why not a local, to use in some nefarious act?

By Cleary Squared on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 6:08am.

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By Lee on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 9:16am.

… as souvenirs.
It will just put the suggestion in some people’s minds and then it will become a thing. Like locks on bridges.

Maybe a sign warning not to touch the bricks as they may or may not be radioactive?

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By Megan R on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 10:20am.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bricks-vancouver-crosswalk-pedestrian-sa...

By Angry Dan on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 12:44pm.

Maybe someone needed to cross the street.

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By Lee on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 1:56pm.

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By Kaz on Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:28am.

When my landlord was still with us, he conveyed an interesting story to me. He was a bricklayer, migrated here from Italy. He would go to work downtown and as he would go down the sidewalks, he'd scuff the bricks and if they were lose, he'd set them aside next to the curb. On his way home, he'd ride along with one of the other guys in his crew and pick up all the bricks he set aside on his way in.

That's how he built his garage.

Is it true? I don't have any reason to say it isn't. I've always wondered if there's some obvious marking on the city's bricks that would suggest whether it's true or not though.

By Don't Panic on Mon, 05/06/2024 - 1:49pm.

Cool story. Your landlord was a true Bostonian @Kaz!

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