'Stop this nonsense': Boston mayor tells residents not to jump from windows into snow

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

'Stop this nonsense': Boston mayor tells residents not to jump from windows into snow

The Massachusetts city has received seven and a half feet of snow since late
January, and with little else to do, snowbound residents are taking advantage

Nicky Woolf in New York
Thursday 19 February 2015 08.50 GMT

“This isn’t Loon Mountain. This is the city of Boston.”

That was the message from Boston mayor Marty Walsh on Monday, at a press conference in which he warned residents against jumping out of windows to land in the snow.

Boston residents, so far, have paid little heed. Using the hashtag #BostonBlizzardChallenge, they have been sharing videos of themselves diving, sometimes from first floor windows, into the huge banks of snow that have accumulated in the streets below.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/boston-snow-jumping-windows-mayor

[leftofcool]

1. "Come on down, honey, the snow's fine!"

[Xipe Totec]

2. Honey came down and got stuck in the snow.

Check out the third video.

[rock]

3. "First floor windows"

Is the author of that line British and thus means "second floor", to us Americans?

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Sounds like Marty just advertised the practice. nt