Citizen complaint of the day: Who throws out Christmas trees a day and a half after Christmas?

By adamg on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 12:32pm

A concerned citizen complains about whichever Back Bay residents moved so quickly onto the next big holiday that they had to ditch their Christmas trees in Public Alley 432 early on Friday.

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Christmas

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Well ...

By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 12:38pm

It would be dangerous to keep them around inside for that week when everybody was off at the family ski condo in the Alps or enjoying the beaches in the Virgin Islands.

Or perhaps some people may be

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 2:14pm

Or perhaps some people may be allergic to trees, esp. when they dry out. But of course, you prefer to see the worst in people. Sorry you're so miserable, swrrlysour. Happy holidays!

Oh yes, of course

By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 6:51pm

I, for one, love to fill my house with things I'm allergic to when there are hypoallergenic alternatives. I should have considered that! /snark

Besides, how is pointing out that people actually do fly off on vacation after Christmas "thinking the worst"???? Especially when I have coworkers living in the Back Bay who are currently doing exactly what I described?

Do explain why you hate people who go on vacation at year's end enough to call it "thinking the worst", oh sourwardly anon!

I'm glad You weren't first to

By tenfortyseven
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 8:37am

I'm glad You weren't first to start throwing the snark around, Swill / snark.

Lol

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 3:03pm

Lol

Just what we need, more

By Mick T.
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 3:16pm

Just what we need, more sarcastic comments trying to reinforce neighborhood stereotypes, and this time from someone whose written articles for UHub.

The people with ski chalets in the Alps are living in places like the Mandarin Oriental Apartments where their trash is disposed of for them into dumpsters, they're not dumping their trees in alleys.

Folks in Back Bay

By Kathode
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 10:20pm

can dump their trees in the skinny little parking spots that they spent $600K on.

One possiblity...house

By Finn
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 2:40pm

One possiblity...house beavers.

thank gods someone was there

By tape
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 2:43pm

thank gods someone was there to file an official complaint about this.

Indeed! Whoever snapped this

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 3:40pm

Indeed! Whoever snapped this pic to publicly bitch about it online has to lead the dullest of lives. Oh dear, someone disposed of their Christmas tree earlier than I'd prefer I must alert the internet!!!

Um, no

By adamg
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:12pm

Whoever posted the photo didn't do so to complain publicly, but to complain to the city of Boston about somebody putting out not just Christmas trees, but bags of trash, which in that neighborhood promptly get ripped to shreds by either scavengers or rats. Putting trash bags out early is a fairly major and fairly common complaint in neighborhoods such as the Back Bay.

As for how it then showed up here, welcome to Universal Hub! For whatever reasons, the city has made it really easy to look at complaints filed via the Citizens Connect app, and I browse that regularly for unusual or odd complaints. The trash part, not so odd, but the Christmas tree thing seemed unusual to me, so I posted it. Am I boring? I suppose it's possible.

Past citizen complaints of the day.

Fortunately...

By RHookup
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 10:36pm

Today is pretty much the definition of "slow news day."

Um, yes...

By tinabythesea
Mon, 12/30/2013 - 10:07pm

We can read what you posted... Your repost focused on the timing of the tree-dumping and specifically who you ASSume dumped the tree, "...complains about whichever Back Bay residents moved so quickly onto the next big holiday that they had to ditch their Christmas trees..." If you're going to put it out there (and I'm glad you do!) then be able and willing to let others say what they have to say about it... This repost was about your disdain for people who live in the Back Bay, and not about a tree and some trash. Own it!

Fire chief says to

By Markk02474
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 3:26pm

Some fire chiefs advise people that the cut trees dry out and become worse fire hazards with time, even if you remember to water them.

Those Back Bay residents should have made a nicer outdoor display for homeless people. Passers by could then leave empty returnables under the tree as presents.

Those were space savers

By Sock_Puppet
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 3:49pm

Until some busybody who in't frum heah threw them up on the curb

War on Christmas?

By O-FISH-L
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 4:05pm

Since channel 2's Emily Rooney, among other Boston liberals, complained about the Marathon Bombing Memorial being unsightly, it's no surprise that Christmas trees would draw complaints from the "tolerant" crowd.

Emily Rooney???

By FlyingToaster
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:03pm

Not a liberal. Frankly, she's getting nearly as crotchety as her dad was.

Yes, Emily Rooney is liberal. Try watching.

By O-FISH-L
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:32pm

“There is just no question that I, among others, have a liberal bias. I mean, I’m consistently liberal in my opinions. And I think some of the, I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now, he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too, but I think he should be more careful.” -- Andy Rooney on CNN's Larry King Live, June 5, 2002

Emily is both crotchety and liberal, just like her dad who at least admitted his own liberal bias. Try watching her on channel 2. She was apoplectic upon learning that "just a kid" Philip Chism would be tried as an adult in the horrific murder of teacher Colleen Ritzer. Emily even fretted, "who even remembers Eddie O'Brien?" as if people had forgotten the then 6'4, 260 pound, 15 year-old from Somerville who stabbed his friend's mother nearly 100 times, prompting the law that charges juveniles as adults in heinous murders. I remember Eddie O'Brien, Emily, and will also never forget that you regularly used your public TV show to lobby for the removal of the marathon memorial as "unsightly." To the commenter below, to equate the Islamic terrorist's attack on Boston, killing four and maiming hundreds, to an "urban murder of an adult," speaks for itself. Time to "pledge" to ch. 2.

I don't care what her affiliation is

By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:39pm

I think she's a sheltered nut job. I cannot stand watching or listening to her, personally.

Hmm, "a sheltered nut job"....

By whyaduck
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 3:17pm

Hmmm

I know she does not always speak/write glowingly about cyclists but, cripes, way harsh shrilly girl.

Hmm

By tenfortyseven
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 5:47pm

pot calling the kettle...?

Ad hoc memorials

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:03pm

I'm sorry, but the ad hoc "Marathon Bombing Memorial" WAS unsightly. How long can you look at hundreds of pairs of shoes lying there? After a while out in the elements, these things just become piles of junk and, not wanting to be disrespectful, nobody really knows what to do with them. It's like the unusual phenomenon of people leaving stuffed animals at the site of an urban murder, even when the victim was a grown man. What do stuffed animals have to do with grown men?

The Marathon memorial was unsightly

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 6:48pm

I walked by it everyday. Well-intentioned perhaps but unsightly nonetheless. Looked like a refugee camp.

Emily Rooney is a homophobic

By tenfortyseven
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 8:40am

Emily Rooney is a homophobic bigot.

They're probably

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 4:27pm

one of those families that puts their tree up the Wednesday or Friday of Thanksgiving week. People who do that usually take the tree down right after Christmas, because they're tired of it and it's a fire hazard by then.

I've had trees that I put up around Dec. 7 or so that, by Christmas, were noticably dried out, and by New Year's, branches would snap off at the most gentle touches.

Xmas Trees

By guest
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 4:29pm

I haven't had a real tree in years. But when I was a kid we always kept the tree up till January 5 or 6. My Armenian momma told me that was when the real Xmas was.

Yep!

By Sally
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:14pm

Three King's Day, aka the Twelfth Day of Christmas.

Epiphany

By Suldog
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 6:58pm

On the Roman Catholic calendar, Epiphany, which is (traditionally) the day the three wise men delivered gifts to the infant Jesus. In a liturgical sense, possibly a more appropriate day for the exchange of gifts. It also carries the moniker "Little Christmas" for some.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

When I was in the Army, we

By RHookup
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 10:38pm

When I was in the Army, we always gave extra time for the Puerto Rican troops to celebrate 3 Kings Day.

Is this any worse than people

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 4:33pm

Is this any worse than people who leave their Christmas lights up well into March?

People who immediately remove Christmas decorations

By anon
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 5:57pm

"Is this any worse than people who leave their Christmas lights up well into March?"

Yes, the people who wake up first thing in the morning the day after Christmas and immediately strip away all the decorations with great fervor, to "get back to normal" because they have "had enough of Christmas". If they didn't start watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music starting in September, and if they didn't put up their tree November 1, and wait in lines overnight on Thanksgiving for the so-called "Black Friday" like good little sheeple, just because the media tells them to do so, they wouldn't be so sick of it so fast. Granted, people with Christmas decorations up well into March have a problem, but there is a happy medium somewhere in there.

My sister-in-law puts up her

By RHookup
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 10:40pm

My sister-in-law puts up her live tree the day after Thanksgiving and has it stripped down and out the door (as well as almost all signs of Xmas) by Boxing Day.

They're missing the best part, IMO

By Sally
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 1:01am

I prefer a slow build to Christmas and then cherish those few quiet days afterwards. I can't imagine wanting to rush the tree out of the house. But then we only got ours a couple of weeks ago.

Or maybe they live in a small

By ArmsandLegs
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 6:46am

Or maybe they live in a small apartment in the Back Bay and don't have room for a Christmas tree? What is the point of having a tree after Christmas day? I don't get why this gets you so upset

Makes sense to me

By anon
Sun, 12/29/2013 - 1:58pm

I grew up in an apt and we always saw lots of trees in the dumpsters a few days after Christmas. My family put it up the weekend before the Christmas and took it down New Year's Day. We had a small apt and it took up half the living room, so it was always nice to get that space back once the holiday was over.

Hey anon. time to get a life

By jakester
Sat, 12/28/2013 - 8:39pm

Hey anon, have you nothing in your life better to do than to bitch constantly about the habits and ways of others? There seems to be something seriously wrong with you. Seek help or at least take a damn valium.. A good new year's resolution for you would be to mind your own business. Maybe you should take up knitting to occupy your way too abundant free time..

Citizen complaint of the day: Who throws out Christmas trees a day and a half after Christmas?

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