Don't Mess With Texas Southie

As Mayor Menino is soon to find out, when you mess with the people of South Boston (see previous post), your likely to find yourself staring down the barrel of, uh, well, a barrel.

Mayor, make my day: Kelly dares Menino to take his barrel

South Boston City Councilor Jimmy Kelly has thrown down the barrel - drawing a line in the snow as he resists City Hall's plan to end the decades-old neighborhood practice of saving parking spaces after snowstorms.

"I spent three hours shoveling a spot out Monday morning and I will be outraged if someone comes down and takes the barrel out from my spot," Kelly railed. "I'm sure there will be a lot of other people outraged who put a lot of sweat equity into shoveling out their cars."

Trying to quell widespread reports of violence and vandalism related to post-storm parking space hoarding, city workers this morning began rounding up chairs, cones and other debris lining snowy Hub streets.

"There's violence out there," Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. "People have had their tires slashed, windows broken. There's been real problems with the parking spaces."

And this latest brainfart from Hizzonner will solve this HOW exactly?

Seems to me the only beneficiary of this policy will be a handful of freeloaders looking to take advantage of the hard work of others. But each according to his need, right? After all, this is Massachusetts.

"The city didn't come down and shovel my car out. I did and thousands of other people around the city did the same thing," Kelly said. "Someone digging their spot out is a traditional situation. I think the city ought to allow that neighborhood tradition to continue."

Jimmy, have you forgotten already? Perhaps you need to pull out your copy of the Mumbles Manifesto for a little review session. The streets belong to EVERYBODY.