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Looks like there'll be traffic in the Sumner Tunnel. #Criminal #BigDig

A small tricolor mutt, and a fawn chug, digging a hole in a yard. They appear to be having a lovely time.

Boston’s Big Dig was meant to be a miracle—an underground highway that would solve traffic problems, reconnect neighborhoods, and modernize the city. But what started as a $2.8 billion project turned into America’s most expensive highway disaster, costing over $24 billion. Delays, leaks, lawsuits, corruption, and even a deadly accident plagued the project. In this video, we uncover the chaos, mistakes, and human stories behind the Big Dig, exploring whether it was a bold success or a costly failure that changed Boston forever.

Boston’s Big Dig was meant to be a miracle—an underground highway that would solve traffic problems, reconnect neighborhoods, and modernize the city.

No bad energy in Chinatown allowed. This is what Foo dogs “do.” Thats their job; keeping bad spirits out and guarding prosperity and success. Their use dates back over 2000 years, and for max good luck you need one boy Foo (who will have a ball), and one girl foo (who will have a puppy). I love how Boston’s boy Foo also has a sneaky ball hidden in his mouth. I think that right now, with APII violence on the rise nationally, the job of #Boston’s four Foo are more important than ever. These two Foo are the infamous “Missing Foo” of Boston. That’s why they are much crisper and well-kept than their twins over at the #Chinatown Gate. To protect the two Foo from construction chaos, they were hidden away during Boston’s “#BigDig” project, where miles and miles of 60+ mph traffic was rerouted UNDERGROUND – while the highway was kept open! In the 1990s, some rich, self-entitled (white) jerk from #Lexington (a semi-posh suburb of Boston) decided the two Foo would look fancy on his stone garden patio. You see, the Dig was prolonged and objects being protected were being shifted all around. So this biscuit DECICED they were abandoned and up for grabs as home decor. DOUCHEBAG. Worst part is he refused at first to give them back, and wouldn’t release until we threatened to sue him. Yeah, when I say “Eat The Rich,” it’s because of behavior like this. The Foo were originally given to Boston as a gift from #Taiwan in 1982. In 1982, Boston erected the famous #pagoda arched gateway on Beech Street at Surface Road. The four Foo stood proud until the two here were removed to protect them. The two missing Foo didn’t find their way back out onto the street until recently. Now they sit at the “back end” of Chinatown, as they city tries to bring dignity can culture to the traditionally sour side of the neighborhood that the city typically treated poorly. There is a lot of reparations our city needs to make with this district and it’s people.

Maybe the Missing Foo will help diminish some of Boston’s nasty spirits towards this vital neighborhood once and for all. ▫️ #truecrime #Chinatown #Bostonia #BostonHistory #CombatZone #downtowncrossing #secretboston #akaXN #TheRealXN (at Chinatown) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM0KYegjNSv/?igshid=ymlwfdoo7x35