The Somerville Constituent Services Office posted this photo of "a sample" of the space savers removed to date by the city DPW.
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This would be one way to get
By Hyde_Parker
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:50am
This would be one way to get rid of that old TV...
That old TV...
By anon
Mon, 03/02/2015 - 1:34pm
Hyde_Parker, I know you're joking, but Somerville actually has one of the easiest and most convenient TV recycling programs in the area. You can schedule free curbside pickup for your regular recycling day with a simple phone call. http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ose/e-waste
Boston's the same way
By Waquiot
Mon, 03/02/2015 - 5:06pm
It took me a while to chuck the old sets when we upgraded to HD. The irony was that when I put the sets out, a woman looking for collectibles happened by and asked after the 12 smaller set. Hey, it worked, so it ended up truly recycled.
Hey, Hey, Hey
By HIGHFIVES
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:54am
That's something special. Something Sommerville can't just take away from us. Let's tell Sommerville to put the All back into Allston Christmas.
Don't you mean Alston?
By greenlinetobrooklyn
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 1:40pm
Don't you mean Alston?
I could use a couple of those
By tofu
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:58am
I could use a couple of those recycling bins
https://www.youtube.com/watch
By name
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:04am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDHFbjQ93A
"Rosebud"
By Ishmael Jones
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:13am
"Rosebud"
As far as I know, it's nearly
By coffeeweasel
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:16am
As far as I know, it's nearly impossible to get trash collectors to take away a trash can, even when it's in such bad shape that it almost falls apart when moved. I guess this is how you do it!
True
By Hyde_Parker
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:33am
I remember we had a trash can where the bottom fell out. My father had to finally tape a big label "This is trash" on the barrel before the trash guys would take it.
I'd love to see all the trash off the street
By Michael
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:23am
But taking away their space-savers is a pretty good start
So.....
By RichM
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:34am
Did they write any tickets for littering?
Littering and.... littering
By tofu
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:56am
Littering and.... littering and...?
YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-I-CO!?
By ZachAndTired
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:15pm
YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-I-CO!?
Did you say ya sure or yes
By Lmo
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 1:44pm
Did you say ya sure or yes sir?
Not enough cameras
By KellyJMF
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:00pm
First they'd have to take twenty-seven 8 X 10 glossy color photographs of each one to be used as evidence against us and who's got time for that.
But...
By bostonkid_316
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 6:51pm
What if the judge has a seeing eye dog and wasn't going to look at the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs?
Ticketing them for littering?
By Kinopio
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:32pm
Ticketing them for littering? HAH! Don't you know that moving snow off your car entitles a person to break whatever laws and social contracts they want?
Yes
By Waquiot
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 2:03pm
EVERY law and EVERY social contract.
I hate to tell you about the social contracts that involve snow out in my neck of the woods. Your head would probably explode.
to whom?
By ElizaLeila
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 2:39pm
The space saver isn't always owned by the home it was in front of.
Motor oil
By anon
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:50am
Don't see the 5 gallon bucket of used motor oil.
Most popular
By Belmont
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:06pm
From looking at the photo, chairs seem to be the most popular fixture.
I hope passersby can sit down at no charge and rest for a minutes before trying to climb the next Kilmanjaro-like snowbank.
I think I'd be too scared of
By ZachAndTired
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:16pm
I think I'd be too scared of getting my face keyed to sit in one of those chairs.
Space saver users have a lot
By Kinopio
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:33pm
Space saver users have a lot of broken chairs because they are too fat and lazy to find parking.
I used to be anti-spacesaving
By anon
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 2:25pm
But it actually works except for the few vocal lazy asses who don't shovel their own spot then come here and complain about cones.
Ive got the ultimate saver
By anon
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 7:35pm
DPW left a bright orange sawhorse replete with "CITY OF SOMERVILLE" after some sewer work about 5 years ago. I simply removed said debris a week after work completed and re-purposed it.
Thing looks mint and confuses all....No, ALL?
I'm still anti-space saving, despite all of this.
By mplo
Sat, 02/28/2015 - 6:41pm
Space-saving is immature, childish, and very elementary-schoolish, imo. The cities and towns here in the Commonwealth, including and particularly Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, should step up to the plate and do a better job of snow removal. Purchasing larger, more up to date, modernized snow removal equipment would be an excellent start in the right direction.
People wouldn't feel the need to save spaces if the cities and towns took more responsibility for snow removal than they do.
I want to move that pile of
By anon
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:28pm
I want to move that pile of junk and park there.
It might be an interesting exhibition:
By ladycommentariat
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 4:42pm
The Space-Saving Chairs of Somerville, on view April 1, 2015
might be?
By sime
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 9:53pm
might be?