BOSTON — It could be all the frustration over the miserable weather or maybe because parking in Boston is never easy, but Boston 25 News found people lashing out and committing crimes over parking spaces.
Slashed tires, smashed windows, bent windshield wipers – all acts of vandalism committed in the name of a parking space.
Didn’t want us to show her face or use her real name. Earlier this week, she says somebody in Southie folded one of her windshield wipers in half.
“I turned on my wipers to clean off my windshield and I heard this horrible screeching noise and then I noticed my blade was bent,” she explained.
She doesn’t know who did it, but she’s positive it was because of where she parked. She says she only parked in that space because somebody had taken her spot.
“Yeah I would have rather a snarky note that would have made me laugh. Not something that is going to cost me money,” she said.
Someone did a number on a car on East Brookline Street in the South End. It had two windows smashed. The barrel that was being used as a space saver was on the sidewalk.
As most people who live in Boston know, the space savers can come out when the city declares a snow emergency. However, the space saver can only be used for 48 hours after the city ends that emergency.
That deadline in Boston ended Sunday at 5 p.m., but we still found plenty of people still using space savers in West Roxbury.
Tempers are also flaring outside Boston. Cambridge police are investigating after someone threatened a woman after she moved an orange space saver cone.
According to the report “...the suspect stated that he was either going to ‘[expletive] her up’ or ‘[expletive] the car up.’”
“People should be working with each other in the neighborhoods, not turning on each other,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh told Boston 25 News earlier in the week.
He said he’d re-evaluate the future of space savers if the threats and vandalism continue.
“The reason why this rule potentially could end some day is because of the threats that are happening on the street,” he explained.
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