Bay State Bombast – 6
Politics / Humor - An 86-year-old time capsule was dug up in Boston’s Dudley Square. Its contents included:
• 400 hundred votes purchased by Mayor James Michael Curley• A petition to legalize betting on indentured servant racing
• A written pact by Gloucester teenage girls, each agreeing to have at least eight children before they turn 21
• A proclamation by Governor Calvin Coolidge declaring every weekday to be “Don’t Even Think About Bringing Your Daughter to Work Day”
• A “Yankees Will Suck for Years to Come” t-shirt
• A pair of Reebok’s “revolutionary new” coal shoveling shoes
Ten Mass. Turnpike Authority toll collectors have been charged with skimming thousands of dollars from taxis and other vehicles passing by their booths near Logan International Airport – thus answering the question constantly asked by the suspect’s wives: “Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
A trolley driver on the MBTA’s Green Line has been suspended for being asleep at the wheel. Riders sensed something was amiss when the train passed without stopping through Kenmore, Cleveland Circle, Providence, and New York City.
Drunken-driving arrests in Massachusetts have risen 70 percent in the past two years. As for the cause, authorities aren’t ruling out the new combination Fast Lane transponder / cocktail mixer.
