Baltimore

do some work!

no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkrl20_kMRY

britain

accents

sir

smashing!

this town is a shithole, i know because i took a water taxi.

water taxi. you can take a water taxi in new york!

aquarium's are all the same, i mean, why not just got to Petco's tropical fish room???

spiritcruisesbaltimore

who even takes a water taxi? i bet he went on a 'ride the ducks' tour and his nyc checkout glance entailed blowing a duck whistle at a black guy

i don't even know what a water taxi is

http://www.google.com/

it's a boat

duck tours quacked at me by the library

bmore smells like a butt today

i guess you forgot what a shithole that place is

: )

poo town

i like poo town but why is it so hot

steam from all the shit

Today is like rilly rilly gnarly hot in Baltimore.

Also, I bought a house in Baltimore today, for real, settlement date, keys in hand.

This move turns me from a West Baltimorean to an East Sider (21218, the hopkins zip).

*now* the terror begins!

:)

I just can't imagine ever owning property, congratulations you're an adult!

i wanna buy a house when i'm 30

is there any less crappy/expensive internet provider than comcrapst? does DSL suck?

http://www.cavtel.com/baltimore/

yes this thank you

what they won't let you buy it without buying phone service!!! jerks. at least they let you self-install.................

also LOL:
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yes Phil, i see that, but when i put my address in it says i'm only eligible for the bundle. *shrug*

http://www.comcast.com/

PHIL!!!!!!!!!

i got cavtel bc if u call them it turns out you *can* get just DSL! thanks Phil!

miss this place.

come on back then!

rip http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-ducks0909,0,6920729.story

Good riddance to a dumb idea that had NOTHING to do with Baltimore.

cp has the better scoop:

Others, however, say the company's move was timed to squelch a workers' vote on joining the steelworkers union. Jeanne Williams, nicknamed "Captain Smiley," has worked as a Ride the Ducks boat captain since 2003. She says safety concerns led other captains and mechanics to ask the United Steelworkers Union to represent them in negotiations with Ride the Ducks. She says long hours and neglected maintenance on the boats gave them concerns over passenger safety.

"We sought union representation from the United Steel Workers," she says, "not for money, but because we were concerned for the safety of the vehicles, ourselves, and our passengers. Management had ignored that. . . . I think they clearly got the message that we fully intended to vote for the union, and we would win the vote, so this was their last-ditch effort to stop that."

Williams says she and other employees learned of the closing Tuesday morning, when they received a UPS package outlining severance benefits, which she described as "generous," that included an agreement not to speak publicly about the circumstances of the closing. "I'm obviously not going to be signing that," she says.

Phil Ornot, district organizing coordinator for the United Steelworkers union, says he was contacted by Baltimore duck boat captains about safety issues on the boats, and filed a petition with the Review Board. Ornot says he attempted to speak with company representatives but wasn't given an opportunity.

"The company is claiming economic conditions here, tourism is down, all this kind of stuff," Ornot says. "Even if that was the case, in many places we sit down and we work with employers who have problems. The unions fight to keep jobs, and sometimes you have to sacrifice, and just hope for better times. The company never gave these people that opportunity, or gave United Steelworkers the opportunity to sit down and discuss that.

"It's just a typical story of a bigger company that is going to fight, and not let these people have a voice," Ornot says. "Their issues were not monetary at all—it was not benefits, it was not health care, not pension. All it was was over safety."

yeah, lol @ sun basically reprinting press release

http://www.ridetheducks.com/images/corporate/rtd_corporate_mp_tagline.gif

thanks for killing this after i moved, assholes

i see these ducks all the time. those people are crazy.

i was wondering why my monthly strongo sightings on charles st. had ceased, when'd you move dude

for some reason Three Word Username being totally aggro about the duck tour is cracking me up

Traumatized by a duck tour I went on in Boston when I studied at Harvard, wherein people who spoke more than one language were treated as three-headed magicians. Also that shit had NOTHING to do with Baltimore.

i started listening to lungfish and it's really making me think about baltimore

Student Fells Intruder with Samurai Sword
Man Killed after Having Hand Chopped Off by Johns Hopkins Undergrad, Baltimore Police Say

(AP) Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University undergraduate student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder he discovered in his garage.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says campus security and an off-duty city officer responding to a call for a suspicious person heard screams to call police around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of University Parkway.

Guglielmi says the student told a man he found inside his garage to leave and the man accosted him. That's when Guglielmi says the student defended himself, cutting off the man's hand and causing a severe laceration to his upper body.

He says the man died on the scene, but police are not yet releasing his name.

Police are interviewing the student and his three roommates and are talking to prosecutors about whether to file charges.

Here are some pretty important detail from The Sun that AP doesn't have:

Detectives were still interviewing the student and his three roommates Tuesday morning, Guglielmi said. Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student's home Monday, according to Guglielmi.

...

The suspected burglar, whose name was not released pending notification of next of kin, had prior convictions for breaking and entering and had just been released Saturday from a Baltimore County facility, Guglielmi said.