Northeastern buys that poor old lady a new bird bath
By adamg - Wed, 09/24/2008 - 2:34pm.
Boston Police report that Northeastern University has bought a new bird bath for the 93-year-old Hillside Street resident who'd had her bird bath stolen a couple weeks ago by some "drunk college kids."
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Yay!
I get to keep my ten bucks!
Suldog
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Wow
Thats great, but also a Mea Culpa. Who knows what school the kid was from...
Oh, let's be positive for a moment
Yeah, there are some decent odds the kids were from Northeastern (although obviously Mission Hill is not 100% Husky). But let's think for a moment that Northeastern did it simply because they're a neighbor and somebody there went "aw" just like we did when they heard the news.
I'm and NU alum
So I wasn't ripping on the school. The lady also had lots of neighbors including a dozen other schools a dozen other medical institutions, yet Northeastern ponies up...seems like an admission of guilt, not to the particular incident, but rather the climate of neighbors vs. students in the Hill.
Administration or students?
You seem to be suggesting that it was the administration itself that ponied up, versus a bunch of students. Big distinction.
In that previous thread, I had suggested it would be a nice gesture for the universities to buy a new one. Bravo for NU.
Admission of guilt or good PR move?
Is the glass half-empty or half-full? I say it's the best $100.00 NU ever spent on public relations.
Yer darn tootin'
Mission Hill is not 100% Husky
Some of the locals are just "big boned."
What?
I don't care who bought it
I'm just glad that woman has a new bird bath.
The world's next billionaire...
...will be the person who develops a cost-effective and easy to implement video surveillance system that everybody will own. In 50 years, video cameras will be everywhere and record everything, and crime will be greatly reduced.
Uh huh. Pull the other one, it's longer.
"Uh, honey? There's something hovering outside the window."
"Yes, that's the neighbors' surveillance hovercamera."
"Why's it looking into our bedroom?"
"To keep crime down."
"We're not committing any crimes in here! If anything, the only crime is that you always pull up the covers on a cold night and leave me with my feet sticking out."
"There's nothing to worry about. Besides, turnabout is fair play. Remember when I got a hovercamera too?"
"Sure."
"It's pointed in their bedroom window. Got a realtime feed up online, too. Let's watch."
"Wow."
"Um."
"My god."
"I don't believe it."
"Might as well be neighborly and smile and wave at least."
Other predictions
In 50 years, access to footage from surveillance cameras - because of ownership, fees, and knowledge of database search techniques - will be heavily unequal in society. Some people will have access to almost every minute and others will be clueless. This will affect equality under the law.
Since we're being science-fictiony, I thought I'd be a little less utopian.
bravo
*golf clap*
That's the best version of "ok, so if surveillance is OK, how about in your bedroom?" I've seen :)