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When snow makes parking all the more difficult on South Boston streets, residents who shovel employ a variety of techniques to preserve their hard-earned spaces. Among the devices spotted yesterday, two days after the weekend blizzard, were (clockwise, from top left) a propane tank on a ladder, a dining room chair, crates, cones, and a half-keg of beer.

In shovels' wake: cones, cans, and fists

Saving spaces is serious on roads in South Boston

By Cristina Silva
Globe Staff / February 15, 2006

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An odd assortment of knickknacks lay strewn next to piles of two-day-old snow throughout South Boston yesterday afternoon. (Full article: 520 words)

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