Only in Boston, Kids discusses various faults of the Metro, but raises a scary possibility: Imagine if Spare Change Guy ever started hawking it:

Want a Free-e-e-e-e-e-e Metro-o-o-o-o?"

Boy, you just never know. Here you are, thinking Spare Change Guy is one of those crusty fixtures in the Boston firmament and then you go and find out he's from Framingham - where they probably wish he really was from Boston:

... Trying to add a little jingle to his pockets, John Bubier was arrested for panhandling Sunday, just four days after he was nabbed for pulling the same stunt twice in one day.

"He's kind of crusty," said police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany. "He doesn't take well to being told enough is enough." ...

Yup reports:

... Teal shirt, beige jacket, "CCAAN YOOOU BOUYS HELP ME GET A COOOOFFFFFEEEE? DOOO YOOOUU HAAAVE ANY SPAAAAREE CHAAANGE?" ...

Plus: Various Spare Change Guy arcana.

Greg Kulaga begins and ends a music video (set to Ween's "So Many People in the Neighborhood") with everybody's favorite panhandler (also features streets scenes from Downtown Crossing and Quincy Market). From January.