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And trouble at Romano’s too…

Posted: November 20, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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I mentioned the drug bust yesterday but it turns out that Romano’s 7 doors down is also having troubles:

Romano’s Market at 138 Harvard St. had never been robbed before this week, according to owner Mike Romano.

But police arrested a would-be robber on Thursday afternoon and another person tried and failed to rob the market on Wednesday, he said.

“This is the first time it’s ever happened,” he said. “We’ve had break-ins before, but we’ve never had anyone attempt to rob us or anything. It happened two days in a row and it kind of concerns me.”

If they are going after Mike that is a very bad move on their part, he is from a different generation and his son’s are not going to take kindly to it, particularly the one just back from Iraq and Gitmo. Then again the employees didn’t care for it either to wit:

A female cashier chased a would-be robber out of the store and across the Arthur DiTommaso Memorial Bridge before he outran her Thursday about 1:25 p.m., Romano said.

“She couldn’t catch him, he was too fast,” Romano said.

That would likely be Katey. The guy is very lucky that the Cops caught him and she didn’t.

All of this happening within a 72 hour period does not bode well for my neighborhood.

Big Drug Bust three doors down…

Posted: November 19, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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Had to dodge police cars paddy wagons and the K9 unit to park the car after the grocery store.

Fitchburg, gotta love it.

Update: The cars and the police were every which way across the street I had to dodge them to get to the front of my house. The neighbors poured out to see what was going on. The rest of the folk in my house had not been interested in going to pick up the milk. I made it a point however to leave most of the groceries and inform the people in the house about the bust.

It’s amazing how fast people will move when there is something interesting to see.

Now I know times are tough…

Posted: November 14, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, oddities
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…because on Tuesday I went to pick up my car from John after some minor repairs (yes Apple customer service pays!)and noticed something odd across the street.

Fitchburg’s only x-rated video store sits across the street between Parrot Pizza and Dippin’ Donuts (they are just about the only non-auto business in that area) and it blared out two huge signs on the side. One said “under new management” and the other announced that the porn star Belladonna would be appearing live.

As Fitchburg’s last video store closed this year and with the amount of free porn available on the net the idea that someone decided to buy the place was odd enough but the idea that a nationally known porn actress would be there was even odder.

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Fitchburg but you might recall it is in such bad shape that it can’t even afford to keep our street lights on.

So that’s how bad times are, times are so bad that a porn actress has to come to a city that can’t afford street lights to make a buck.

Suddenly I don’t feel so bad about my own situation.

My Letter to the Sentinel & Enterprise

Posted: October 18, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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This was the letter I sent to the editor of my local paper concerning this article that I blogged about yesterday:

The Bigotry of low expectations

Hello:

I was quite distressed reading today’s paper that our Mayor running for re-election apparently is planning to endorse the count of illegal immigrants in the Census count.

The suggestion that we should aid those disobeying United States law to continue to violate it is troubling enough, but the idea that we will do it in order to for our advantage as a city to increase the share of state and federal funds paid by our fellow tax payers to support said illegality is frankly disgusting and dishonorable.

Our city is rightly proud of our immigrant history. Italians, French, Finns, Irish and Poles are just some who came not asking for accommodation and assistance but in gratitude for the chance of a better live for themselves and their children. All contributed to our city without violating federal laws. Encouraging illegal immigration insults their memory AND a treats a whole race of people as peons to be cared for rather than equals to be accepted as fellow Americans. I can’t think of a more patronizing or bigoted action.

Some don’t want to enforce these laws. Tell me; shall we choose to ignore the fair housing, gun control, labor or minimum wage laws? Perhaps we can ignore the laws on gay marriage? We live in a representative republic, if we do not like the current laws we can elect representatives to modify or repeal them. Selective law enforcement is tyranny.

If a person running for office is unwilling to enforce the laws they will be sworn to uphold, then they should not stand for office. If a public official feels as an act of conscience they can’t enforce the law they should resign. Otherwise it is their duty to uphold the laws of the land. This is part of the series of rights and responsibilities that come hand in hand with a representative republic. If our mayor is unwilling to support federal law she should stand down.

As of this writing I don’t know if it will be run, we will see.

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