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Citizen complaint of the day: The last thing we need in a pandemic is drunken bagpipers carousing up and down Beacon Hill

By adamg on Sat, 11/14/2020 - 10:35pm

An irate citizen filed a 311 complaint about the situation on Pinckney Street tonight:

Just now, a large group of unmasked, non-socially distanced people were parading through Pinckney Street, singing and with bagpipes and open alcohol containers. They were passing Pinckney Street around 8pm EST. Totally unacceptable.

Neighborhoods: 
Beacon Hill
Free tagging: 
311
Pinckney Street


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Comments

By Dennis Cloherty on Sat, 11/14/2020 - 11:32pm.

...The haunting fear that somebody, somewhere is enjoying themselves...

By Sean north shore. on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 12:13am.

It sounds like Scotsmen are having a good time.

By Nicole M Desmond on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 2:48am.

And is there any video?!!!

By anon on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 11:04am.

It was on the local tv news a few weeks ago.

By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 5:07am.

Please just take the high road.

By anon on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 6:48am.

And leave them to the low road.

By anon on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 8:05pm.

...and I’ll be in Scotland afore ye

And some hae meat

By SamWack on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 6:41am.

are one of the most effective means of social distancing.

By Sock_Puppet on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 7:24am.

blowing someone else's bagpipe, you're too close.

By Lee on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 8:03am.

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By Brooklineteacher on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 8:14am.

Unless "nore" is a Scottish term related to bagpipes - maybe a combination of the words "no more" - I think you've got a typo on they hyperlink to read "nore"

By adamg on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 1:14pm.

Because the last thing we need in a pandemic is drunken reporters carousing up and down the keyboard.

By Pete Nice on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 8:25am.

We need more bagpipes during this pandemic, not less.

By downtown-anon on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 8:38am.

And the bagpiper lives on Pinkney St. Perhaps the party is getting too large for Karen.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/10/09/jeremy-bell-beacon-hil...

https://www.facebook.com/onlyinbos/videos/250779882625760/

By SalSal on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 6:42pm.

But Bell knew better: “A gentleman is somebody who knows how to play the bagpipes but knows when to stop,” he quips.

By roadman on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 9:25am.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 5:50pm.

But I knew that I could count on you to post it!

Good thing I looked.

By roadman on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 9:59pm.

My brothers have always been avid golfers (although I never picked up the sport), so My Bunny Lies Over The Sea has always been one of my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons.

By GG on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 9:38am.

1. Everyone who joins the piper is told to wear a mask or stay distant.

2. The piper was certainly not drunk (I was there).

3. Half of the people gathering are in the healthcare field and are VERY assertive about masks (again, I was there).

4. Several people wear clear full-face shields so it looks like their mouths and noses are not covered.

5. All of the state and city guidelines were followed.

6. Get over it.

By adamg on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:13am.

What was the occasion?

By GG on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:31am.

The occasion has occurred every week since bars closed and parties have been discouraged (since March).

By Bob Leponge on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 11:00am.

What was the occasion?

Ever since the spring, this piper has walked down Pinckney St. every Saturday. It's a beloved, quirky bit of relief from the grim monotony of lockdown.

I feel so sorry for whatever trauma left somebody so psychologically damaged that they feel a need to complain to the city about this harmless little ritual.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/10/09/jeremy-bell-beacon-hil...

By Rob on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:22am.

Were you there?

By GG on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:29am.

In speaking of those who were, in fact, there, I can affirm that I was among them.

By Keiko on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:34am.

!

By Rob on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:25am.

By the way, what's the droplet/aerosol spread cloud radius from musical instruments you blow into?

By Bob Leponge on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 11:14am.

By the way, what's the droplet/aerosol spread cloud radius from musical instruments you blow into?

I'll bet a bagpipe is very different from, say, a trumpet. With a trumpet, your lips are aerosolizing your spittle, which then blows right out of the instrument. With a bagpipe, you're exhaling into a bag, and then the air from the bag flows through reeds into the pipes. I'm guessing that a lot of droplets don't make it past the bag. Any pipers wanna tell us how gross and wet the inside of the bag becomes when playing in cold weather?

By anon on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 10:56am.

is for the laddies to lean back and shake their kilts.

By Friartuck on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 11:11am.

we require photos.

By BB from Dot on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 12:40pm.

Some of us consider bagpipes a form of auricular torture.

By Cynicuss on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 12:46pm.

I'm a little confused by the account of what happened. Just to clarify, was it only bagpipers, or was Mel Gibson there? Did he have a sword?

By Bob Kosturko on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 1:20pm.

Cranky Karen at it again. How can you possibly hate on the piper? We watch for him every week and cheer out our window. He’s such a nice guy, too.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 11/15/2020 - 5:53pm.

It should be 7pm Atlantic Standard Time, dammit!

By lbb on Mon, 11/16/2020 - 12:37pm.

...you got it backwards.