The Berkshire Eagle reports:
LEE - Because they couldn't find a dump open in Great Barrington, two youths threw a load of refuse down a Stockbridge hillside on Thanksgiving Day.
Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish. ...
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Better take those boys down
By ZachAndTired
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 9:58am
Better take those boys down to the police officer station
Put them on the Group W bench
By perruptor
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 10:04am
.
A little disappointed
By adamg
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 10:09am
The Eagle didn't illustrate the article with any of the 27 eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was.
If that's what you want
By perruptor
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 10:39am
You can get it at Alice's.
I hear you can get anything you want
By adamg
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 12:23pm
Exceptin' Alice.
Perhaps the Eagle didn't want to admit
By roadman
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 11:11am
that this was a typical case of American blind justice.
One could argue that, for the time, the boys
By roadman
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 10:54am
were just being responsible. After all,, one big pile of garbage is better than two little piles. And gravity is a wonderful labor saving device when it comes to consolidating rubbish.
Arlo Guthrie?
By anon
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 12:33pm
Arlo Guthrie?
Yes
By perruptor
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 10:28pm
Woody's boy.
Yup!
By mplo
Fri, 11/24/2017 - 6:31pm
It's the Arlo Guthrie!
He got rejected by the Army precisely because he littered, too.
"I cannot tell a lie. I did
By 1949Nash
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 12:49pm
"I cannot tell a lie. I did place that envelope with my name on it under that pile of trash"
Kid, we found your name on a envelope
By roadman
Fri, 11/24/2017 - 10:15am
at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage and wondered if you had anything to do with it.
Yes sir Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage.
Favorite Tradition
By KTL
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 5:45pm
Best part of Thanksgiving. Driving the long way to Grandma's in order to hear the whole song.
The whole, entire, complete, comprehensive story
By perruptor
Fri, 11/24/2017 - 4:24pm
Alice's Restaurant
(This is an old MetaFilter post replete with dozens of links to source material. Unfortunately, in the seven years since the post was made, some of the links have expired.)
I first heard the Alice's Restaurant Massacre
By roadman
Fri, 11/24/2017 - 6:52pm
(to use the full and correct title) at the age of eight, when my oldest brother played it for me when we were running errands for my parents a couple of days before Thanksgiving. I didn't tell anyone this until about twenty years later, but for some time after hearing the song, I had convinced myself that the garbage contained dead bodies. As I recall, my thinking was something along these lines: Why would Alice and Ray have kept it in the downstairs of the church for so long, and why would Arlo have gotten into so much trouble for dumping it?
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