"Citizens battle trash scofflaws; Lead city’s charge to crack down" by Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff | August 9, 2010
A city program launched in April has code enforcement officers fanning out across Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Downtown, and the South End. They have written thousands of citations — ranging from $25 to $1,000 — for infractions....
Anything at all to try and balance that bloated budget.
Officials have also fired off letters in East Boston reminding residents about their responsibility to properly dispose of trash and warning that the city is prepared to use everything in its power to go after offenders, including the recent “green ticket’’ law passed by the state, which allows minor fines such as trash violations to be added on to a building owner’s property tax bills.
So you might not even know it is there.
And the schools taught us the state serves you not steals from you.
The goal, city officials said, is to curb garbage problems across the city and prevent rodent problems from growing.
See: From Bats to Rats and Everything In Between in Boston
Like a Third World country, 'eh?
“The whole idea is to educate people,’’ said Michael Mackan, the chief of the city code enforcement police at the Inspectional Services Department....
That is the way they "educate" you here in Massachusetts: slap a tax on you!
I have to admit, it is an education in the ways of the state.
Complaints about trash in the streets have been particularly vehement in the North End, a small neighborhood packed with restaurants and cafes, some 12,000 residents, and throngs of tourists — and a place where some recall a time when people swept the walks in front of their homes.
Is that counting the rats?
“It’s not like what it used to be because it’s so dirty,’’ said Rocco Lograsso, a 63-year-old North End barber pointing to cigarette butts and candy wrappers on Salem Street.
You can find those on any street in America (except mine).
In the effort to clean up, blame for trash has been pointed in many directions — at absentee landlords who don’t look after their properties, at businesses that don’t sweep in front of their stores, and at the city. Some say city street sweepers sit idle on the job, and some residents say there are too few trash bins for the hundreds who trek through the neighborhood each day.
Just like a state worker.
Even when bins are in sight, people often toss their litter on the ground, they say.
“It’s just an ignorant upbringing,’’ said Alberto Alba, who owns Alba Produce. “I was taught that if I had trash I should either put it in my pocket or find a barrel. I don’t think a lot of people are taught that.’’
The decline of AmeriKan empire right there.
Some residents who live amid the historic sites and popular restaurants are taking it on themselves to spot trash scofflaws....
As we slink towards a fascist society.
So that is where the stench is coming from.
