Two bikes briefly stolen

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

Overnight our two bicycles were stolen from our front porch on Prichard Ave (south of Ball Square). We recovered them in the driveway next door -- presumably they were ditched when the Kryptonite locks locking the front tires to the frame were discovered.

The fact that both were taken at once suggests to me that this was an operation by at least two people to sweep up unsecured bikes in the area.

Comments

[cleanup-davissq.livejournal.com]

Can some of the men in the area patrol the neighborhood please?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with you doing it too, cleanup? All you ever do is yowl about things that should be done for you and things you're entitled to. Here's a novel idea: pitch in.

[ron_newman]

Is there some reason that only men should do this?

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

Aha. Language-use there strongly suggests cleanup_davissq is female.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Indeed, the very same cleanup who calls males machos and thugs, but expects them to protect her. ;-)

[xuth.livejournal.com]

In a few recent threads "she" has hinted that she was and not denied it when others asserted that she was female. It would be an interesting project (and shouldn't be too horribly difficult) to actually unmask the person (anyone who thinks posting on LJ anonymously is a guarantee of anonymity needs to seriously reevaluate things).

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Good point. For example, mattlistener has her IP address from her posting above. Now we just need to find another user who posts from the same IP address, and we'll know who the account cleanup_davissq is a sock puppet of.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Well, we really need to remember that this is only a hint and not guaranteed.

[ron_newman]

I thought that when LJ notified me of a reply, the mail header has LJ's IP address, not the original poster's.

[kglue.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of us are curious to find out who cleanup_davissq might be and I know a lot of disagree with her/his comments - finding them reactionary and often offensive. Also, unfortunately the comments often send well meaning original posts off on a tangent (such as this one and the one yesterday about the Powderhouse Sq assault).

But I hope that all this talk of trying to track down who they are doesn't stop her from posting. I would hate to think that the Davis Sq community would in effect silence her opinions (seems very unlikely though) by suggesting that people try and track her down and discern her true identity.

Speaking of which, what are the community policies regarding anonymity? I know my username isn't very revealing and neither is my non-photo.


And lastly, I apologize for switching to strictly 'her' in the second paragraph, but I got tired of writing she/he, her/his, and her/him.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I probably shouldn't have said what I said the way I said it. I don't so much object to CUDS saying what she's saying, just that it seems like she's hiding behind her anonymity so that she can be rude and abusive. I really don't want to silence her though. If what she has been saying is truly the way she feels, I want her to be able to say it.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Gosh, when a guy tried to steal my bicycle from my scrawy female self - right out of my hands - all I had to do was holler at him to "Get AWAY" and pull right back on the handlebars. He fell on his ass and his buddies laughed at him. I guess I'd have been SOL if that had happened in Davis, rather than Charlestown, huh.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

For suspicious looking people? I think the best thing would be if everyone went out and enjoyed Davis at any hour of the eve. That would mean more less opportunity for criminals (since there'd be fewer unpopulated areas) and more fun for residents.

Just enjoy the place. Crimes are pretty darn rare here.

[bostonartist.livejournal.com]

"Just enjoy the place. Crimes are pretty darn rare here."

I guess it depends on how you define crime. Have you ever read the police log in the Somerville Journal?

For a city only 4 1/2 SQ miles there is plenty of activity here.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

4.5 sq miles is oftly misleading... Somerville is second only to NYC for population density in the US with a population of 75-80 thousand. It is urban and has an extremely wide demographic (educational, economic, racial, religious...) mix. I'm not saying I'm happy about it but having some crime is the nature of things in this world.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

now if only we could convince the powers that be that somerville shouldn't close down at midnight, maybe we could actually do this

Respect ma vigilante authoritay

[komos.livejournal.com]

Here I am on patrol in Teele Square (http://www.orange44.com/respect_02.jpg). You can even see Tufts' hill in the background.