It's not there anymore, but there used to be a fountain adjacent to Warren Towers at BU on Comm. Ave. Sometimes students would dump a box of laundry detergent in it in for a prank and it would foam up.

Still there

By Kaz on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 11:50pm.

It's still there in front of the Communications building.

gross

By cybah on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 1:19am.

I do hafta say that that fountain is heavily chlorinated. you can SMELL it from that.

And yes for the homeless bathing.. gross. I've seen it too.

when its foamy. someone usually has dumped dish detergent in there.

Poopy Babies, too

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 10:34am.

My boys had a video of a woman who pulled a poopy diaper off a baby, set it aside on the ledge, then dunked the baby straight into the fountain.

I'd say that I'd never let my kids swim there, but they wouldn't swim there if I paid them after that.

Natural selection doesn't work

By anon on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:05am.

Used to be, this kind of person would be weeded out, along with their village, due to defecating upstream of where drinking water is fetched.

At least now it's harder for them to take the village down with them.

ewwww

By cybah on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:23am.

Thats just gross and unsanitary. Yeah this is the reason why I will never go to an MDC pool either! Too many gross kids with leaky diapers.

So again, not a real

By anonnymess on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 9:20am.

So again, not a real complaint, just some loser with too much time on their hands?

Here's my complaint:

TOO MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE BEGGING FOR CHANGE IN THE BACK BAY.

Please fix. Thanks!

Yes, another member of the BBAC heard from..

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:26am.

Well, seems Ashley VonSnidely has expressed her displeasure at the unconscionable amount of condo challenged denizens of the underworld ruining her perfect view of all of those high end cars spewing exhaust on her pecan crusted warm goat cheese salad from Stephanie's on Newbury.

Yes, Mayor Menino, can't you do something about that? I mean, could you at least move the black ones back to their neighborhoods, wherever those might be, because I can never find anything about their neighborhoods in Boston Magazine, Boston Common or the Improper Bostonian.

Why, when I turned down one of the little buggers pleas the other day in front of Lord & Taylor, he actually had the temerity to wish me a nice day! Is that some sort of gang code? I ran quickly towards the safety of the Mandarin Oriental, as I feared he was signaling a partner in the alleyway between the store and the Lenox Hotel!

You paint an interesting

By anon on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:41am.

You paint an interesting picture of homeless people.

I'll paint a different one: intoxicated homeless people getting into screaming, cursing fights with one another on a regular basis, and smoking in T stations.

Well, then..

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 1:01pm.

Let's just ship them off to...resettlement camps, shall we? Then things that occur naturally in a city won't bother your beautiful mind so much.

It's the behavior not the person

By anon on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 2:13pm.

I have no objection to homeless people. Several in my neighborhood I know by name and converse with on a regular basis. They are my neighbors too and they have every bit as much right to be there as I do.
But that has nothing to do with fighting, harrassing people, public urination, lying down drunk on the sidewalk, etc. I don't want to tolerate that behavior from anyone -- whether a homeless person or a rich foreign student living in daddy's condo -- and I don't want the city ignoring it either.

Especially considering

By eeka on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:37pm.

that in the case of most homeless people, you'd have no idea that they were homeless.

Attack of the Homeless Hoards of Copley

By anon on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 4:42pm.

Gotta love it, great piece. Gawd forbid Muffy, Fluffy and Buffy from Newbury Street should be inconvenienced by some poor residentially-challenged person of a lower caste. "Oh, they smell bad and they're intimidating! Ban them to some island! Send them back to their own neighborhoods -- in Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh!

For real, any of you entitled whiners ever been to Brooklyn or the Bronx? Tramps in other cities make our stumble-bums seem like pacifists, and they hope you don't like it, too.

Move to Brentwood and Beverly Hills, have your own private police escorts and be done with it.

That is an unfortunate attitude

By anon on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 5:34pm.

I'm a city kid. My wife's a city kid. Our kids are city kids. And by "city kids," I mean that, while they're cool with Newbury street, they're also perfectly happy visiting their friends who live in the projects.

And I find your attitude really unfortunate.

You know, when all someone wants is to walk down the street without having to smell urine, witness a fight, or be accosted by a crazy person, and you take that person to task for being some kind of elitist who wants to live in a gated community, that's pretty damn sad.

This has nothing to do with caste, it has to do with acceptable behavior on a city street. And the same standard that applies in the Back Bay should apply in Grove Hall; there's no reason why poor people ought to be asked to put up with that shit either. People who piss on the street or assault random strangers need to go away.

Look, everyone is entitled to their feelings..

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 8:32pm.

but, it's a city. A melting pot of all types of people. Bums, businessmen, high society women and project kids. To say that one sect of people should be ostracized because they're only aesthetically unpleasant is ludicrous.

If they get out of line, call a cop just as you would if any of the others I mentioned got out of line otherwise they're just another facet of a city. You have to just accept it and walk on as I have learned to do. I don't give bums money because 99% of them are smoking cigarettes. If you can afford butts, you don;t need my hard earned money, but they have every right to be on our streets.

I think we're in violent agreement

By anon on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 10:24pm.

and I don't see why you're responding to me this way. I have no problem with how someone looks, dresses, or, up to a point, smells; and if they're carrying on a conversation with someone I cant see, I'm OK with that, too. On the other hand, I think we as a society and the city as the enforcer of the law should not show any tolerance for criminal behavior, whether by bums or by yuppies or students. Sure spitting on someone's feet, or windshield, or peeing on a doorstep, are small things, but life is made up of small things.

San Francisco

By cybah on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 3:19pm.

We could always do what Mayor Gavin does in SF.. free bus ticket anywhere the homeless want to go. Just to get them out of the city

(not a good idea btw)

I work right by Copley. I

By central squared on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 9:46am.

I work right by Copley. I don't think this is cleaning, i think this is a prank. Last time there was suds all over copley square. Kinda stupid, kinda awesome. Like that Brady Bunch episode with the washer.

Citizen complaint of the day: Who dropped a whole truckload of Fizzies into the Copley Square fountain?

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Old fountain at BU