It’s the same company that’s permitted to manage Faneuil Hall, based out of NY… if you’ve seen the state of Quincy Market in recent years, that should tell you everything about how much they actually care.

There doesn't seem to be any middle ground anymore. People here either have the brightest headlights possible or don't turn their headlights on at all. The latter baffles me more because pretty much every car nowadays should have automatic headlights, even my 20 year old car has them.

It's l part of the DCF cycle. Generally what happens is a child dies, so they go hard and do everything they can to take away the kids. Then a situation like this happens and the reverse happens. Then a child dies in the cycle continues.

It happens every 3 to 5 years.

I’m a social worker in a hospital and my understanding were these situations lacking court order had to be an imminent risk (ie, kid is being trafficked and it’s learned on a weekend but no one wants to wait until Monday because who knows where the kid will be then). If what is being reported is true, this is utterly horrifying. Also, DCF is wildly under-funded and under-resourced, so naturally, they are looking for short cuts. With better funding and support to do what they’re supposed to do, I suspect things like this wouldn’t happen. I hope the kid and family are ok.

Now I’ve seen it all. The internet is closed.

Is it the LED lights that are causing issues? I know they mess with peoples eyes.

Blue Hills are inside 128.

If you’re going through Chickatawbut Road you better have high beams.

But aside from very few exceptions, I agree.

The CVB story helped, but they exposed a bigger issue that the T hasn't addressed. All of S Station is leased to a company to run, and that company is saving money by doing things like not fixing escalators. Where else are they cutting corners? Why has this not invalidated this lease?

The amount of people that just drive around 24/7 with their high beams on this just enraging.

I often wonder if folks are using their high beams or if newer cars just have headlights that are really way too bright. Cars that are very high up off the ground tend to shine a light right into my rearview too.

Unless your headlights are out

There are tons of dark, windy, rural roads within 495. More important thing is to shut your high beams off when you see another car coming.

Wrong

I strongly disagree with this.

Pick a different windmill.

Oh my God. That's why they are there???

Thank you WCVB for doing a segment on this a month ago and getting the ball rolling. Next up is the faulty sprinkler system that requires the management company to have a fire dept truck parked outside at all times.

>Can anyone explain this to me? What's going on with DCF?

Garbage people with an iota of power and no repercussions

That's what the line on the London tube map between Bank and Monument stations actually is.

Hell hath frozen.

DCF is just like child support enforcement, no matter how hard they are fucking you no one gives a shit you're wrong even when you're right. This is also an issue most politicians wouldn't dare touch for that same reason: no matter how right you are about some things you are always wrong.

Me.

I'm up about 500% over what I started with.

>I was referring to the whole children & family services system. there's so many kids in harmful situations, but by taking them away from their families, wherever they end up isn't necessarily better

I have no solutions to that deep seated societal issue. This is a societal issue that I can't even begin to solve :(

Most DCF employees are fine people trying to work to make it so that the lives of neglected and abused children are not forgotten. I wish I had an answer.

Also this part stuck out to me.

>DCF said it doesn’t track how often it removes children from their homes without an order.

Most likely, they almost never get an order and operate totally outside of any legal framework. This is just the way they operate. It's hard for some people to feel bad for parents who may be abusing their kids, but this is beyond the pale shit. They're operating totally extrajudicially.

I wasn't talking about fixing this specific case or instances like this, I was referring to the whole children & family services system. there's so many kids in harmful situations, but by taking them away from their families, wherever they end up isn't necessarily better.

I hope you could tell by the first few paragraphs I wrote that this case infuriated me and should not have happened. there are not enough checks and balances in place for sure.