Word: sidewalkers
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...initial rush proved unnecessary, as the suspicious auto theft proved to be a sidewalk car wash, not a strip--down. In the next hour, though, we found two stripped automobiles and had them towed. Some had been stolen that same day, but we didn't catch anyone...
AROUND 7:30 p.m., our mounting blood lust was first satisfied, by word of a two-vehicle collision on Dorchester St. We had been looking forward morbidly to the gory spectacle of a good accident, but when we pulled up and saw the mangled motorcycle lying on the sidewalk, our enthusiasm turned to nausea. It had broadsided a Wagoneer...
...virtual army of sidewalk sweepers, rakers and gardeners descended upon the Cambridge Commons this past Saturday, working overtime to get the park in shape for the annual Mayfair festival...
...court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm-bred ethic makes no allowance for sidewalk superintendents...
...need to add to their woes by allowing vagrants to establish themselves in train and bus terminals and residential areas that are otherwise generally safe. In his 1975 book, Thinking About Crime, Harvard Professor James Q. Wilson says that the acceptance of vagrants, panhandlers and sleeping drunks on the sidewalk is the traditional sign that the cycle of urban decay is under way: informal controls break down, muggers and burglars move in, and stable families begin to move out. "Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense...