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[spatch]

I absolutely love the last sentence in this snippet of a Globe article on the closing of a Roxbury liquor store. It comes in the middle of a section describing those other than the store's owners who stand to lose income from the closure (the homeless who redeem their empties at the store, or who earn a few bucks a day sweeping up and running errands, for instance.) And then there's this fellow:

David Mays has even more to lose. The president of Tow Happy earns about $2,800 a week towing cars from Liquor Land's lot, where people visiting the hospital often park illegally. "There's no way I'll replace this income," he said, after nearly towing the car of a reporter who had been at the store.

This is amazingly beautiful because it tells the entire story right there.

Comments

[wring.livejournal.com]

lol "Tow Happy" indeed.

[ron_newman]

CVS seem to be pursuing total world domination, don't they? They opened a new store on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, the size of a small department store. It's one block from an older CVS which I thought they would now close, but no, it's still open too. I could take you on a 10-minute walk through downtown Boston where we would pass by seven CVS stores, and no competing drugstores.

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

God, I wish I could get a long-distance subscription to The Keystone Times The Globe.

[lindito.livejournal.com]

almost R1 million a year just from towing cars.

clearly i'm in the wrong line of work.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make much sense, though - wouldn't it still be illegal to park in that lot for visiting the hospital whether the lot's attached to a liquor store or not? I'd think the key things here would be "going to the hospital" and "this is not the hospital parking lot".

Although I guess maybe he's only allowed to tow if the owner complains, and the new owners have a more liberal policy.

[eeka13.livejournal.com]

That's...wow. Thanks for posting.

BTW, they got one thing wrong. Not all the folks who sweep up and do odd jobs for them are homeless. A few of them are my clients, and they have homes. My folks with mental illness get called "homeless people" pretty much every day by folks who like to assume.