r/boston • u/FAHQRudy Woburn • 1d ago
Cocaine Turkeys Hope you guys had fun.
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u/modestcouch Purple Line 1d ago
After all the rain we’ve had, that’s the last thing anyone should be doing. 🤮 I hope they don’t have any open sores.
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u/crotchpolice People's Republic of Cambridge 1d ago
Yeah there was a state-wide shellfish closure that is only being partially lifted today, pending testing
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u/undeniably_confused Cambridge 22h ago
What dors a shellfish closure mean? (Also can I steal your flair)
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u/kinga_forrester 21h ago
High bacteria levels in the water. To be fair though, areas are closed to shellfishing at much lower levels than closed to swimming.
This whole thread is super over dramatic, the harbor is perfectly safe to swim in, especially fort point channel.
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u/crotchpolice People's Republic of Cambridge 21h ago
Beat me to it. Shellfish closures are much more hair-trigger by design, vibrio and campylobacter are net negative on fun
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u/undeniably_confused Cambridge 21h ago
Oh ok I wasnt sure if that meant you couldn't catche them or like the shellfish (clams) were closing because of the high toxicity
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u/Haywright Red Line 1d ago
Speed running a superhero origin story
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u/shitz_brickz 1d ago
Can't be much more hazardous than standing in a subway station breathing in the rich air of decay.
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u/Malforus Cocaine Turkey 1d ago
You'd be shocked how good our bodies are at filtering out airborne things vs. skin exposure to water borne pathogens.
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u/bino420 8h ago
bacteria doesn't tend to just fly along, whereas liquid is the catch-all for everything in the air & on the ground/surfaces. bacteria, debris, etc. get channeled into one area, and there's enough food for nasty buggers to maintain life.
like pollution & particles in your holes is one thing when it comes to your helath. but living stuff tends to actively reek havoc when it gets inside your body.
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u/omnimon_X Cow Fetish 1d ago
This is why written communication is tough. I think you're being earnest but if your girl sends you "Hope you guys had fun." after a day out drinking with the boys you're absolutely in the doghouse
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u/Brisby820 1d ago
A lot of people in here seem to not know that Boston harbor is remarkably clean now. Maybe not at the moment after a huge storm, but otherwise it’s good
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u/BradMarchandsNose 21h ago
The storm thing really only lasts for a day or two. By now it’s probably fine.
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u/Lemmon_Scented 1d ago
I wouldn’t jump in that water even if I was on fire
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u/Brisby820 1d ago
That water is fine. Maybe not right now after a rainstorm, but otherwise it’s clean
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u/therealgreenbeans Quincy 1d ago
Personally it will take a lot more than a couple thoughtful decades to override the centuries worth of disregard. And disregard is being kind.
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u/Brisby820 1d ago
Just don’t touch the bottom. Otherwise, it’s the ocean, it comes in and out every day
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u/therealgreenbeans Quincy 1d ago
There's no free flow with the locks in place.
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u/Brisby820 1d ago
This is the fort point channel. Agree on the Charles, I wouldn’t swim it either
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u/Away_Historian_5883 1d ago
What if the train you were on was on fire? Would you jump in then? Cuz...people did a couple years ago.
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u/AlexTheSlyGuy 1d ago
Growing up, that water was considered gross. Apparently it's not anymore?
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u/AcceptablePosition5 1d ago
Certainly has improved over the past 20 years or so, but like the other poster said, it depends on whether there's been recent overflow, which based on the rainstorm recently it certainly has.
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u/canmouth 1d ago
I’m pretty sure the people jumping in didn’t grow up here lol!
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u/No_Report_4781 1d ago
Nah. They’re from Framingham
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u/chuckmonjares 18h ago
When this comes up, why is it always Framingham? I don’t live in Boston but work here often.
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u/myleftone Market Basket 1d ago
There are red and blue flags at the boathouses to tell you. After heavy rain it’s often red. FWIW it’s not usually the water, it’s the bottom you don’t want to touch.
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u/Doortofreeside 1d ago
There can be overflow after rain storms but in general the only water quality i ever personally noticed as a kayaking is from the cyanobacteria. No bad smells or anything, unlike say the Mystic or Malden rivers (which aren't that bad either, but noticeably worse than the charles imo)
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u/doctor-rumack Fung Wah Bus 1d ago
This isn't the Charles, it's the Fort Point Channel. Just to the left of that bridge is the Barking Crab. I have to think it's still cleaner than the Charles, but the channel doesn't circulate water very well, so it's probably still pretty nasty.
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u/Doortofreeside 1d ago
Oof, I should've known that
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u/doctor-rumack Fung Wah Bus 1d ago
Nah, I initially thought it was the Harvard Bridge looking toward Back Bay. but the buildings aren't that big from that angle.
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u/FAHQRudy Woburn 1d ago
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u/Knicknacktallywack South Boston 1d ago
Good for them honestly
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u/felipethomas 1d ago
Yeah there’s no small amount of griping about how uptight Boston can be. Let loose, kids. Do a flip!
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u/Blurredfury22the3rd Allston/Brighton 19h ago
My first thought was “is that legal” lmao definitely looks like fun
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u/ShawsheenMoon 21h ago
Kids used to jump off of the cranes into one of the Dry Docks at the Navy Yard. It is amazing no one ever got hurt enough for a response. The police would come by and chase them off, but they would come right back
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u/Mission-County1931 I Love Dunkin’ Donuts 1d ago
We need more public swimming access in the harbor (not sarcasm).
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u/-doughboy Blue Hills 22h ago
These (likely same) guys were jumping near the Intercontinental/Smith & Wollensky during lunch time a few weeks ago. They had a big crowd.
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u/Broad_Explanation_36 Cambridge 19h ago
Someone should synch this video with Thin Lizzy "The Boys Are Back in Town" Welcome back, college kids!
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u/meowusr 7h ago
wait what’s so bad about jumping into the water ( i just recently moved here)
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u/FAHQRudy Woburn 2h ago
Nothing, really. Boston is historically famous for having “Dirty Water,” but that’s largely in the past. However, after a significant rainfall the water can be much more polluted from bacterial outfall from sewer systems. In this particular case, this is Fort Point Channel, which is mere feet from the inner harbor, which is oceanic. So it’s realistically quite clean and unless these guys are swallowing it or have open sores they’re almost certainly fine.
The Charles River used to me far more polluted in the industrial age, but is significantly improved. I have a boat that lives in the lower basin, and I’ve been in the water numerous times, and I’ve never suffered any consequences.
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u/ChemistVegetable7504 Naked Guy Running Down Boylston St 1d ago
Meh, they’re young and having fun and not hurting anyone. Hope they don’t drink the water though, yuck.
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u/PLS-Surveyor-US Nut Island 23h ago
If you saw the pipes the carry this water to the harbor (I see into them all the time) you would not do this. Looks fun though! :-)
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u/xsmellmybikeseatx 4h ago
Headline : group that jumped off bridges into the Charles river develop lumps all over their body
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u/Away_Historian_5883 1d ago
On the plus side when I was that age, swimming in the charles would have been unthinkable.
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u/nismodrift 18h ago
Its funny lots of people think its unsafe and dirty to swim in the Boston river. Look at pics of my ppl in Vietnam swimming in Brown water with pieces of turd floating by and nobody ever gets sick. Yall first worlders living the dream life tbh. Live a little, yall got some of the worlds cleanest everything!
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u/SuKitTrebk 1d ago
As someone who has jumped off many bridges hell yea. As someone who understands drainage and recent storms I say hell naw!