How Do People Get Like This?

Another peek into the genius mind of our good friend, Boston City Councilor Rob "Satellite" Consalvo, can be found in this Boston Globe article from last August, outlining another of his useless, feel-good, do-nothing proposals. On this occasion, it was the prevalence of kids whizzing around on those annoying little mini-motorcycles in his Hyde Park neighborhood that got his panties in a bunch.

For years, it was a crafts store that sold homemade afghans and a place where mothers in Fairmount Hill gathered for knitting lessons.

Last winter, the shingled Hyde Park storefront took in a new tenant -- a business that neighbors say has turned their quiet streets into screaming raceways, shattering the peace of their summer evenings and terrifying car drivers and pedestrians alike. Scooter X Press has become one of the most popular minimotorcycle dealerships around, selling at least 800 bikes since it opened in March -- and driving many neighbors to distraction.

"It's like having a firecracker store in your neighborhood," said Bob Vance, president of the Fairmount Hill Neighborhood Association.

In its latest bid to confront what some call the scourge of shrieking minibikes, the Boston City Council today is scheduled to consider a ban on selling minibikes in residential neighborhoods and local business districts. City Councilor Rob Consalvo, who proposed the idea, happens to live a few blocks from Scooter X Press and says his office has been inundated with residents' complaints.

Yes, he actually proposed prohibiting the sale of the minibikes in his neighborhood, hurting the small business owners whose interests he's supposed to represent, while doing absolutely jack-shit to address the issue of those kids who might be operating the bikes in a reckless or unlawful manner. Makes about as much sense to me as banning hardware stores from operating within city limits to encourage more people here to eat their vegetables.

Welcome to Boston.

"We should be selling these bikes in manufacturing zones, industrial zones, away from families, from children, from the elderly," he said. "Our residential neighborhoods, our local business districts are not the appropriate place for these bikes to be sold."

What a dolt.

Of course, this brilliant plan was met with nothing but praise from his good buddy, Mumbles.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino would have to sign off; yesterday he said he would. "Sometimes government has to step in and protect people," he said.

Is "assclown" hyphenated?

Wave Maker provides the obligatory fisking here.

Can you see how plainly stupid Councilor Consalvo is? Does he not understand that it is not the presence of the scooter store that makes the noise, but the scooter riders? Can he not see that, no matter where the store is, the owners of the scooters will ride them in their neighborhoods, not where the store is located?

Can't sum it up better than that. Of course, trying to present such a logical, straightforward argument to these imbeciles is like teaching quantum mechanics to a goat. retarded goat. dead, retarded goat.