Space savers are back—though we’re not sure about these ones
It's unlikely the Gardner Museum heist paintings are being used as space savers.
How’s this for fake news?
As Massachusetts got hit with it’s first real snowstorm of 2017, so returned a treasured—if controversial—local tradition: Space savers.
With no snow emergency declared by city officials Saturday, the use of space savers remained prohibited in Boston (they’re only allowed within 48 hours of a snow emergency). Not that residents let that technicality dissuade them this weekend.
Boston’s 311 nonemergency hotline received a flood of reports from people requesting for illegal space savers—from traffic cones to trash cans to chairs and tables—to be removed.
However, we’re not sure about the authenticity of this report.
https://twitter.com/indierockranger/status/818097356847595520
“Looks like this person is using the stolen paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist as a space saver,” reads a perhaps photoshopped report Sunday morning from Jamaica Plain.
It would appear unlikely that the stolen paintings from the 1990 heist, valued at more than a half-billion dollars, are being used to save parking spots on snowy Boston street sides.
FBI officials have said they believe organized crime groups eventually moved the paintings to Philadelphia. But the trail has since gone cold. That said, perhaps one of the few things harder to find than those stolen Vermeer and Rembrandt paintings is a parking spot in Southie after a snowstorm.
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