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Police to newspapers: Get rid of honor boxes where people might heave them through windows if the Celtics win - or lose
By adamg on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 3:50pm
The Boston Police Department has asked local newspaper distributors to remove all their honor boxes by tomorrow from the areas around North Station, Kenmore Square and Faneuil Hall - and to keep them out of those areas until after the NBA finals. The specific areas:
- North Station – Between North Washington and Merrimack and Causeway to Congress.
- Faneuil Hall – Between North Sudbury to State St. and from Cambridge St. to Atlantic
- Kenmore Square – Brookline Ave. and Commonwealth Ave.
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Comments
So not fair
Michael has come to expect his evening edition in that North Station box every afternoon for the ride home.
What's the matter with you non-gays?
Why do heterosexuals have the need to vandalize public and private property when they're celebrating their sports teams win, or sad that their team lost?
So gay guys don't follow
So gay guys don't follow sports? Stereotype anybody?
Excuse me while I put on a Bette Midler CD and cook up a gourmet meal.
Yeah, exactly. Stereotypes
Yeah, exactly. Stereotypes are hilarious and all, but they're moronic. I'm interested in what I'm interested in, and frig off to anyone for judging me.
Bette Midler???? Ha ha ha
Who said anything about gay guys not liking sports? I'm talking about all of the sports fans who vandalize the city after a game. Show me one gay guy who has vandalized the city streets because his sports team won/lost. You can't, because the guys who do the post-game vandalizing/celebrating are all heterosexual.
You want stereotypes, then let's talk about all the overturned cop cars and dumpster fires after Diana Ross played here a while back.
P.S. Are you the same NotWhitey who did the 'Remember JP' blog? If so, I wish you'd post some more; I miss it.
Civil Disorder
Just a couple of things on this. Any time a Boston pro sports team goes into a playoff situation this happens. Why is it that the nitwits that get arrested don't even live in the city? The few that give a Boston address are students. For you out-of-towners, stay home or watch it at the local Applebee's. For the students, Dad and Ma are paying a lot of money to educate you. Hit the books.
Re: Civil Disorder
How many of Boston's finest have a cousin the bail bonds business, eh?
Every wonder why criminal defense lawyers like sports?
Must be for the networking over brewskies (tax-deductible?) at the game!
What is an 'honor box' ?
I've never heard this term before.
I was going to say I'm showing my age, but ...
We're contemporaries! So maybe it's just newspaper lingo.
It's a newspaper box. So-called because the way the pay ones work is you put in a quarter (back in the old days) and you open up the box and do the honorable thing and take out just the copy you paid for, rather than all of them.
Hey wow. Had no idea.
Hey wow. Had no idea. Being far more interested in my quality vocabulary than I am in the Celtics, I never would have read this entry had it not included this term. Oh, and of course, some reference to potential violence.
So to prevent a hypothetical
So to prevent a hypothetical crime, the BPD wants to commit the real one of reducing people's access to news? If basketball-related violence is truly this predictable and specific, basketball should be banned from the city.
I blogged about basically this...
Here: http://1smootshort.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-on...
And yeah. Basically the city is asking people to cater to asswads who can't act like adults. And don't get me wrong, I'm fine with precautions like locking up my possessions because people steal stuff, but this is entirely too much validation of idiotic behavior. Can you imagine if this kind of ridiculous behavior followed some other event that wasn't so embedded into mainstream culture? If there were some other sort of event that resulted in rioting, the city would either require the event managers to pony up for serious amounts of cop reinforcements for the next one, or they'd refuse to let it take place.
Hells, they almost didn't let
Hells, they almost didn't let the Tall Ships come last year because the city didn't want to pay for the police presence, IIRC.
I have a sudden urge to start riots after BSO concerts and see what happens. FLIP THAT LIMO!
A few things..
First off, the Celtics and TDbanknorth Garden pay taxes in MA and the city, and the Celtics pay for the extra police in and around the stadium. Although I could not place an exact number figure on how much the Celtics/Bruins/Red Sox make or lose for the city of Boston, I'm willing to bet those 3 teams help out the city and state financially in the long run.
no one is blaming the teams
Whatever the financial gain the city might or might not reap does not excuse the behavior of a few heterosexuals who think it's ok to wreck the city.
And the reason those hetero a-holes feel they can vandalize the city after a game is because everyone (the cops, politicians, media, other a-hole sports fans) treat it as a non-crime. Most of them get a slap on the wrist, if even that.
Maybe time to cut the crap
Quick! What event in what city is this sentence about?
Why, it's the formerly annual Halloween celebrations in the Castro in San Francisco! The quote, by the way, is from a column explaining why it might also be time to end the Bay to Breakers race.
So, yeah, some straight guys are assholes. So are some gay guys. The phrase that pays here is "asshole," not "who sleeps with whom."
I agree about cutting the crap...
...but I do have to point out that the original tangent referred to LGBT culture vs. non-LGBT culture. Much bigger and more relevant issue than people sleeping with people. As I'm sure you know, a lot of gay men don't sleep with anyone, much as a lot of straight men don't sleep with anyone. While I don't know why any broad generalizations needed to enter this discussion, I don't think it's actually inaccurate to say that the crowd of people who follow basketball games and subsequently act like douches is a straighter crowd than the population as a whole. But as you pointed out, sure, all cultural groups act like douches around something, so it's hardly an exclusively straight thing.
(Why is it though that when something is affiliated with a majority group, no one mentions that group or makes assumptions? Whenever there's been discussion on here about minority-affiliated events, like, say, Boston Pride or the Caribbean Festival, people certainly speculate as to why "those people" might act "like that." I don't think any of this is necessary unless people are making sincere comments about why a particular cultural group might act a certain way, but just pointing out that this is hardly a first.)
Anybody want to post it?
You know, the SNL "Gay Beer Ad" where all the tropes of a Bud or Coors ad are played out gay? Because beer is necessarily heterosexual, you know!