Transit Police report they've recovered the saxophone stolen from a BPS student at Fields Corner last month. They add:
A 59 year old male resident of Dorchester will face charges relative to this incident.
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I just can't...
By Don't Panic
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 12:53am
I just can't, cannot, can not approve of that pun @adamg. It is entirely to groan worthy.
Glad to hear the kid got his instrument back though. Does anyone know if it was actually his property or if it was issued by the school?
School property
By anon
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 1:06am
and reportedly worth $3,000!
That seems about right
By eeka
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 2:30pm
That's about what a solid student saxophone costs (unless it's a baritone sax, which will be a lot more). Instruments used by college students or semi-professionals cost quite more than this. And string instruments that aren't complete beginner instruments (we call some of the things kids show up with "violin-shaped-objects") cost a shitload, as do the less-regularly-used instruments. Google the prices for the most entry-level factory-made contrabassoon you can find and prepare to be shocked.
Possibly rented
By perruptor
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 3:45am
I doubt that the school would expose themselves to that much risk. Students in our HS orchestra had to either rent or buy their instruments.
As for the pun, I like it. At least there's no sax-offender registry.
Not even ...
By jmeltzer
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:11am
for Kenny G?
Every jazz musician is a sax
By Refugee
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 9:38am
Every jazz musician is a sax-offender. Just play the right notes.
'It's not the note you play
By jmeltzer
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 10:31am
'It's not the note you play that's the wrong note – it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.' - Miles Davis
Really? Any decent school
By anon
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 10:28am
Really? Any decent school system that cares about the arts should provide instruments. How is a low-income student supposed to learn an instrument if they don't have $3000 to spare?
I don't think this student goes to your high school
By eeka
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 2:22pm
BPS owns instruments, as do some of the contracted agencies that come in and teach most of the instrumental music. Most of the music programs allow students to participate with little to no fees. The ones that do request a fee from families have a fee of like $50 per year rather than the $25+ per month for rentals from a music shop.
Tuba for you if you don’t like it.
By Lee
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 7:25am
.
He's flouting his sense of humor
By Hunter
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 7:43am
It depends on how you reed the joke. Sorry, just horning in on the comments. Too basoon?
Flaunting?
By Pedant Buddy
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 9:44am
Flaunting?
No, flouting
By adamg
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 10:15am
That's the joke, although since we're in the presence of a pedant, maybe it should have been "flauting."
No flautist remarks.
By Lee
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:49am
No wind references …..
…. will cause discord.
Oh, sure you can!
By FrankSolensky
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 7:48am
They should throw the guy behind.. bars
And throw away the.. key
Make sure he serves his.. time
And doesn’t.. beat the.. rap
Thanks, folks, I’ll be here all week. And don’t forget to tip your waitress!
No need to be so brassy
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:22am
It was a non-violin offense after all.
I like it.
By anon
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 9:43am
The thief blows?
I know it's a woodwind, but maybe horn dog?
I agree
By alkali
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 9:42pm
I concur. Don't care for the tenor of it. You're going to alienate your bass.
He needs a good kick in the
By anon
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 6:07am
He needs a good kick in the sax.
He wanted to become
By anon
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:01am
a Conn artist.
This
By Sal Paradise
Fri, 11/19/2021 - 10:22am
A deep cut for sax players. Well done, friend.
This whole episode
By SamWack
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:07am
reminds me of that punk classic, Anarchy in the MBTA, by the Sax Pistols.
It could have been worse.
By Lee
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:15am
He might have been a violin offender.
Reminds me...
By Turalura Lipschitz
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:39am
...of the fiasco when the Billerica Philharmonic were doing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" symphony in the high school auditorium.
There was to be a short intermission before the final choral movement to rearrange the stage for the soloists and chorus. The bass players took opportunity to step outside and enjoy a few swigs of Southern Comfort from a flask. But, before ducking outisde to create some extra time, the smokers decided to wrap some string around the conductor's sheet music.
So the stage was rearranged, two stumbling musicians joined their colleagues, and the conductor faced a tricky situation: It was the bottom of the Ninth, the Score was tied, and the Bassists were loaded.
[Ed note: Many more of these fine stories are available, e.g., "Oppornokketti tunes but once"; "He's a typical gnu, and a tiler, too!"; "Crossing a State lion for immoral porpoises"; and, of course, "I have a wife and seven hungry moths to feed."]
Slight change
By KellyJMF
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 10:37am
I believe it's "immortal porpoises"
*rimshot*
By Karl
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:39am
That was a good pun, even if the taste was questionable.
First thing I’m gonna do when
By Lisa Simpson
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 8:51am
First thing I’m gonna do when I get it back is a duet with Bleeding Gums Murphy!
some of these puns are...
By MassKinney
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 2:45pm
reediculously oboesmal.
They're just luckily the police gun photographer
By Tim Mc.
Thu, 11/18/2021 - 5:19pm
didn't get to it first, or it would have been disassembled and surrounded by tidy rows of saxophone parts.
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