By adamg on Sun., 4/23/2017 - 6:35 pm 
Alex C. captured two Lamborghinis and a Ferrari whose drivers figured the absolute best place on Boylston Street to stop and compare the size of their, um, wallets this afternoon would be the bus stop at Clarendon Street. He reports:
I told them they were in a bus stop right after they parked there, and they were like "whatever."
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Tow the fuckwads. Somewhere
By blues_lead
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 6:39pm
Tow the fuckwads. Somewhere far away.
Tow trucks are averse to
By anon
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:24pm
Tow trucks are averse to towing shiny, new, expensive cars. If they get one scratch on the car while towing it, they're liable for it.
Ugh I know.
By blues_lead
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:30pm
Ugh I know.
If BU wanted to reduce resentment of certain obnoxious students
By Snuggles
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 8:36am
BU could exercise some control over those students.
The students cruising and racing exotic cars daddy bought them is well-documented.
Unless daddy also bought a new named building for the school, BU can afford to teach the kid some decency.
Owner's expense...
By E
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:18am
IIllegally-parked cars are towed at the owner's expense, period. If a tow truck scratches it, the owner should be responsible, not the tow company.
Pretty sure the aren't parked
By bosguy22
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:41am
They're pulled over yes, but they really aren't parked. It looks like the 2 guys were driving convertibles and got out to put jackets on. Considering it was 10-15 degrees warmer outside the City (and these guys passed me on the Pike eastbound about 20mins before this tweet), I'm guessing they just stopped for a minute. Is it "legal"? No, but they weren't going to park in bus lane and leave their vehicles there.
Doesn't Matter
By BlackKat
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:05am
I don't care if your pants are on fire and you need to make an emergency stop to put them out. You just keep driving until your privates burn off because there is no stopping in a bus stop [or bike lane] if you are not a bus, not even for a second, no matter what.
Ok buddy
By bosguy22
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 11:11am
You've never pulled over in front of a hydrant, handicap spot, bus stop, or crosswalk for 2mins to let someone out/pick someone up, grab something out of the trunk? If not, you're a better person than I am.
If that's how you figure it, I guess I am
By Jeff F
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 12:02pm
And I think most other people probably are too.
Two minutes in a crosswalk et al inconveniencing lots of people rather than taking two minutes to legit park (just inconveniencing yourself)?
Anyone that regularly does this is a selfish jackass, 'buddy'.
All hail Jeff and BlackKat
By bosguy22
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 12:27pm
and all those who follow the rules 100% of the time. Let me guess, you also go 55 on the expressway, and NEVER turn right on red if there's a sign forbidding it.
Take an hour drive around Boston and count how many people are selfish jackasses "buddy".
they probably don't drive
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 1:06pm
Let's be honest, the kind of person who thinks even emergency stopping in a bus spot is inappropriate probably hasn't had an emergency while driving, broken down, etc. Unless they were being hyperbolic in their post...it certainly reads that way.
I live in Cambridge and I can
By Matt_R
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:06pm
I live in Cambridge and I can't tell you how many times I get to my bus stop and some sh*thead is sitting in it AND MAYBE ONE OF THE DOZENS OF ONSTREET SPACES ARE OCCUPIED. It's typical spite, small-mindedness and douche-baggery on the part of drivers.
With driving, everything is "Me! Me! Me! Now! Now! Now!" Take the bus. Learn some patience. Learn that the world doesn't revolve around you. Grow up.
An emergency is an emergency. I'll grant that needing to use the bathroom is an emergency. But blocking a bus stop or crosswalk to put on a jacket? Come on.
To bad they don't enforce the
By sunshine
Tue, 04/25/2017 - 7:28am
To bad they don't enforce the no parking at bus stops - I see it all the time - people think they are "running in somewhere for a second" and no-one holds anyone accountable.....
I seen these cars Sunday over
By sunshine
Tue, 04/25/2017 - 7:26am
I seen these cars Sunday over Copley...they were all parked at the curb - people were all taking pictures in front of them and of the cars themselves...later that day they all zoomed really loud down Boylston street
Eurotrash at its finest!
By BobL
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 8:08am
Eurotrash at its finest!
These foreign students driving these exotic European vehicles are the rich kids of middle eastern oil tycoons to Chinese bank financiers to Weston, Mass hedge fund scum.
They are showing the world that they have " Fuck you money" .
No other reason to drive these in the city
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:36am
This isn't about how fun or fast these cars are - this is about SEE MY BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG.
Actual enthusiasts would take them to the track or run the hairpins near North Adams.
BIG BIG BIG bank account
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:57am
BIG BIG BIG bank account
I'm not calling the rest of
By tofu
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 5:21pm
I'm not calling the rest of your post into question, but what is so "Eurotrash" about Middle East, China, or Weston, Massachusetts?
Meanwhile, in Lithuania...
By Ben_Quahog
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:50am
This should be Marty's response.
[youtube]V-fWN0FmcIU[/youtube]
Transit Police
By anon
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 6:40pm
I'm sure the Transit Police responded as soon as they were notified and towed their vehicles.
And by 'notified' you mean
By anon
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:50pm
And by 'notified' you mean someone tweeted it, thinking it was really the same thing as calling the police.
Boston 311 Responds to Tweets
By blues_lead
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:28pm
Boston 311 Responds to Tweets.
@BOS311
Just Sayin'.
Good for them. You do realize
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 5:41am
Good for them. You do realize a lot of crimes are tweeted about and never actually phoned in? This is despite Twitter accounts actually stating "this is not for reporting crime".
Citation needed
By adamg
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:37am
Maybe I just follow a better class of tweeters, because this seems to come up a lot and they usually say they contacted police first (or, in this case, since it wasn't an emergency, 311).
Real simple, just search MBTA
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:46am
Real simple, just search MBTA Transit Police in Twitter. Take note of how many crimes were tweeted about to the 'do not report crimes here' account. It appears that's usually the extent of the concern, just a tweet falling on a partially manned account.
Telephone
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:39am
And by "notified," you mean using that newfangled fellytone, or tellyphone, or whatever-the-hell it's called rather than just walk into the precinct house and report it like a normal person.
Again, the Transit Police
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:48am
Again, the Transit Police twitter account says 'do not report crimes here'. So what do the concerned public do? Yup, report crimes to Twitter and nowhere else.
And you don't know that
By adamg
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:57am
Hard to believe, I know, but a lot of people report things on Twitter to let other people know about some particular situation (I mean, look at how many of the posts here are based on tweets). They tag @mbta or whatever the Transit Police handle is (I can never remember it) so people who have saved searches on those can find them. That doesn't mean they didn't use the transit-police app, or gasp, made an actual voice call to report something to them first.
You're like the people who delight in complaining every single time I run a photo of a car crash or storrowing that the person should keep his or her hands on the wheel instead of risking everybody's life by snapping a photo, without stopping to think that maybe the photographer was a passenger (or that the car was at a complete stop).
of course
By cybah
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 6:48pm
It's a sausage fest.. who has the bigger sausage. *eye roll*
And of course there's no BTD or BPD around to issue tickets...
Correction
By Grammar Police
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:37pm
You mean the smallest
well, yeah
By cybah
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 9:10pm
We all know your car is an extension of your penis size...........
Bus should have blocked them
By anon
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 7:47pm
Bus should have blocked them in. Transit PD shows up, has a dog signal that there's drugs in the cars. Impound and send the cars off to a lab to be ripped apart for 3 months, "ooops! no drugs...aw shucks here are the parts for you to put your cars back together fellas" /sovereign immunity
nice fantasy
By Scumquistador
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:46pm
you weirdo
I've seen that first part
By blues_lead
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:29pm
I've seen that first part happen often.
Too often.
Because it means that there were fuckwads in the bus stop often.
I had a better one involving
By anon
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:36pm
I had a better one involving a flamethrower but Richard Pryor already beat me to it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVvEsy396dA[/youtube]
Not Richard Pryor
By Cranky
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:06am
Gregory Hines
united states of whatever
By bostnkid
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 8:10pm
https://youtu.be/Xz7_3n7xyDg
Then up comes Zafo …
By Ari O
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:45pm
… and I'm like "yo Zafo what up" and he's like "nothin'" and I'm like "that's cool."
Dont think they're Massholes
By Richie El-Rich
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 9:09pm
Betting BU students and visitors to our land for four years. Or seven. Thanks Dad!
Guess that makes me a nativist xenophobe... But its what everyone here is thinking but afraid to say.
lol wat
By Scumquistador
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 6:27am
it didn't even occur to me.
not because i was 100% sure they were 'massholes' just because, ultimately, as anybody that has traveled literally anywhere can tell you-
the world is filled with assholes
it is also filled with people that aren't assholes
Beyond SRO
By perruptor
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 7:26am
If the world is filled with assholes, how is there room for non-assholes?
Volumetric magic
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 10:41am
Fill a Mason jar with marbles. There's still room to add a lot of water ;-)
native?
By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:16am
I am pretty sure you are not an indigenous person of this land, so it is not "our land".
Obviously …
By Ari O
Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:45pm
The handicap spots and fire hydrants were already taken.
For the last time you
By BigBird
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 6:42am
For the last time you transplant, only people from outside Mass use the term massholes. If you want to claim that you "live" here, stop using the term. It's continued use shows that you will really never be one of us.
As the article say, out -of towners use the term.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/06/25/o...
I don't care
By adamg
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 9:30am
I have heard and read actual Massachusetts residents use the term. Don't believe me? I don't care.
As for my origins, I've never tried to hide where I'm from; it's only insecure, angry people who seem to bring it up during an argument. But, yeah, as long as we're on the topic: I am a Bostonian. I've lived here longer than a lot of the people born at the Brigham, I pay taxes here, I vote here, we raised a kid here (and sent her through BPS). Y'know, it's pretty easy to be born somewhere; you don't have to do a thing. It's a lot harder to consciously choose to make your life in a place, especially when knowing you'll run into people like you all the time.
It's people that live
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 1:46pm
It's people that live someplace a long time that help create it. That includes people that moved there and live there for many years, and it also includes locals. How people define local varies from person to person.
Who cares how long someone has lived somewhere
By bosguy22
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 3:44pm
If they live there now, they're part of the community. You don't get grandfathered privileges because you've lived somewhere longer than the person who lives next door.
That's not what what was said
By anon
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 4:09pm
That's not what what was said. People who have lived somewhere a long time are more integrated then others.
Sometimes
By adamg
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 4:37pm
And sometimes, especially at neighborhood development meetings, it's used to justify ignoring or discounting people who weren't born there, no matter how long they've lived there (no, this hasn't happened to me personally, I live in an area where "development" means "adding dormers," but I certainly see it time after time).
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