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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/10/police_14
0_park.html

Police: 123 parking meters found in Cambridge apartment


By Brian R. Ballou and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff 

CAMBRIDGE -- Police allege that the stolen parking meters had almost
overtaken Thomas Gannon's Plymouth Street apartment: stuffed into a closet,
hidden under a blanket, and sitting in plain view in the living room. 

Officers said that when they knocked on Gannon's door Monday night to serve
an unrelated arrest warrant, they couldn't help but see parking meters piled
in his second-floor apartment. In all, police said they carried out 123
meters that had been cut off poles in Cambridge and Somerville over the last
year. The find left police shaking their heads.

"This does seem to be odd," Officer Frank Pasquarello, a spokesman for the
Cambridge Police Department, said at a press conference this morning. 

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