Comments on: Toy bunny saved from oncoming train

By: travtastic

travtastic — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:47:00 +0000

But what about all the important meetings we all just missed, our executive decisions to hand down, our nuclear weapons to disarm?

Every moment of our lives is serious business. Children have no place here. Joy, my god, has no place here.

By: elix

elix — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:48:00 +0000

Mommybloggers (and other family-type bloggers, like fathers) tend to give their children nicknames so they can refer to them in posts without giving away their child’s name to the entire Internet. I was confused at first as to why the name was showing up in the story, and then I saw that the link (the blog post title) contained the name and it clicked.

By: elix

elix — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:46:00 +0000

According to jere7my and others further up the page, it's actually a severe fire hazard since the Orange Line is high-voltage electric, and if it hadn't been removed, there may have been a full line stop and an evacuation of the station. Unless other people here are lying, the MBTA stops for anything on the tracks, alive or not.

By: elix

elix — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Well, here's the thing. According to jere7my (and others, I'm combining facts), the trains are electric and run at high voltage. Anything flammable near or on the tracks is an incredible danger. To quote jere7my:

If something catches fire on the track, power will be cut to the whole line, the station will be evacuated, and everybody's commute will get a whole lot worse.

Your assumed missed-connection person would've missed a LOT more if they'd left the bunny there and something went wrong.

By: Kate Hagerty

Kate Hagerty — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:06:00 +0000

While I enjoy your conjuring up one of my favorite Bugs Bunny moments, its just a nickname her parents call her by.

By: lillyd

lillyd — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:58:00 +0000

She’s bound to be onto us already. In fact, I was thinking that Bun-bun #2 went rogue just after I told her a story about how Bun-bun had a twin named Bon-bon. Surely she’s noticed that #1 looks like he’s spent a week in a rock tumbler (the stress of being a toddler’s best friend) while Rogue looks like he’s been at ClubMed.

By: Rob Butler

Rob Butler — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:35:00 +0000

I’m surprised they didn’t charge the kid with creating a bomb hoax.

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:58:00 +0000

haha, did it really do that? That would presumably be a DISQUS feature.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Someone mentioned Green St, whichI mistakenly thought is a green line stop not an orange line stop. And anyway, I was just funnin’. IN all seriousness I prefer T operators stop and investigate strange objects on the tracks instead of just motoring over them.

Maybe you need to relax?

I’d also highly recommend NOT picking up stuff off the trolley tracks when there’s a train on the way.

By: Ari B.

Ari B. — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:29:00 +0000

This was the orange line which is a one route subway, not the green line, which is a four route trolley. If the kid had dropped the thing on the green line, her parent could have just walked over to it and picked it up.

Relax, friend.

By: Ari B.

Ari B. — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:22:00 +0000

What I really like about the story is that the coverage on boston.com barely even touch on the fact that Roozle has two mommies. Aside from the quote:

“Casey Carey-Brown, 33, wrote about the ordeal on her blog ‘Life with Roozle,’ which chronicles the lives of herself, her wife Michelle, 38, and – the star of the website – their daughter Riley, whose nickname is Roozle.”

It’s nice that it’s a non-issue, IMO.

By: Ari B.

Ari B. — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:00 +0000

When I took the Orange Line regularly for work, I was working third shift, and going the opposite direction of rush hour traffic. The Orange Line was *awful* in that respect. That said, I always got a seat, and occasionally got a whole car to myself.

By: Shawn H Corey

Shawn H Corey — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:14:00 +0000

I don’t see what the story is. Anything on the tracks is caused to stop a train. They don’t take chances; nothing proceeds until the tracks are clear.

By: Ari B.

Ari B. — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:13:00 +0000

I take the T to work every day, and I grinned like a loon when I read this yesterday.

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:37:00 +0000

we love kittens and hate children.

Just for the record, I hate kittens too.

By: jere7my

jere7my — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:23:00 +0000

Barry has it right. Anything flammable that lands on the tracks — a plastic bag, a stuffed bunny — needs to get cleared before it catches fire. The MBTA ran PSA announcements about exactly that for a while last year. If something catches fire on the track, power will be cut to the whole line, the station will be evacuated, and everybody’s commute will get a whole lot worse.

Clearing the bunny was the right call.

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:52:00 +0000

And thank you, BB, for thoughtfully closing the sniffs and waahs that I thoughtlessly left open. *sigh*

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:51:00 +0000

20 years from now your daughter is going to be reading a collection of antique BoingBoing posts and be devastated. You know that, right? “I wonder what else mom _lied_ to me about…? “ The cost of those therapy sessions is coming straight out of your assisted living payments…

By: LaylaSV

LaylaSV — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:21:00 +0000

I wouldn’t go that far. It’s a stuffed bunny. No one is suggesting that the train shouldn’t be stopped if an actual child were on the tracks. But neither should the ephemeral wants of a three year old grind a whole subway line to a halt.

By: Michael Ellis Day

Michael Ellis Day — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:39:00 +0000

Which also happened in Boston today.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061137427

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:32:00 +0000

Exactly my thought… they stopped the train for the stuffed bunny, but they stopped it on a little black boy.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:36:00 +0000

Yeah, but Charlie’s furious that the little girl got preferential treatment.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:35:00 +0000

Yeah, this would have been confusing for the driver because it was smaller than a passed-out drunk, the usual object on the tracks.

By: lillyd

lillyd — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Nummy? That’s not Nummy. That’s my daughter’s Bun-bun! How’d that little girl get Bun-bun? Bun-bun #2 (the back-up Bun-bun) did go rogue two weeks ago…somebody call this little girl in for questioning!

But keep it on the down low. I can’t let my find out daughter about this.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:36:00 +0000

That’s good news. I used to take it to/ from Back Bay station a number of years ago and it seemed like I would stand there for a fairly long period of time (longer than the red line) and they you’d get 2 or 3 trains in a row coming through.

By: chris jimson

chris jimson — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:31:00 +0000

There are those of us in the neighborhood that refer to JP as “Jamaica Paradise.”

By: catacoma

catacoma — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Directed at a few commenters above, I hope I never become so bitter and jaded about my life and commute that I forget what it was like to be a child whose best friend was a stuffed animal.
Snowbear meant the world to me when I was three years old.

By: chenille

chenille — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:28:00 +0000

After all, not only did the child hold up the train and make important people late, but she started creating a scene. It’s really the parents’ fault; until the girl learns how to behave on transit, she really shouldn’t go anywhere near it. I’m sure there’s never a good reason why you would want to take a three year old out in public.

I think some people had one too many of their own bunnies torn apart.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Weird, I’ve never had to wait more than 10 minutes for an orange line train and never experienced any significant delays taking the orange line. I’ve long thought of it as the most dependable subway line in Boston.

By: Mike Guerrero

Mike Guerrero — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:17:00 +0000

“Roozle?”

“Roozle.”

“Roo-zle”

“Roozle?”

a la Bugs Bunny dealing with Hansel’s name from “Bewitched Bunny”.