Does anyone know what a cop gets paid (per hour) for overtime?

That the Mayor thinks he can conjure up $millions of restitution just by demanding it, just shows how completely out of touch he is with the real world, and how puffed-up his sense of his persona is. Next he'll look to the sky and tell the sun to stop in place...make it sunny forever here in Boston? Now that would be looking out for his constituents. What a dumb bunny Menino is.

I see one of the bloggers asking how much a Boston Police Officer makes on overtime - probably around $40/hour depending on rank, which is substantially less than NStar's greedy CEO and executives make. But of course, Nstar will continue to afford the multimillion dollar salary of its CEO and its Board of Directors. If there is an honest assessment of why this happened, it will determine that Nstar tried to be cheap on maintenance - God forbid they pay their workers to perform maintenance on their facilities. Now that the spam has hit the fan, they will go into turtle mode. I hope Menino kicks their greedy keesters.

I think you have to make demands if you intend to get anything in life. You might have to follow the demands with legal action, but you make the demands first. You can't just sit on your hands and take whatever others dish out. Is that what you do? Are you going to come back here and say you were wrong when the city gets compensation?

Welcome to our world, Mr. Mayor. Five minutes of research will tell you that NStar NEVER, EVER makes restitution for ANYTHING. A mistake by one of their linemen burned our entire front yard. Their response was immediate and immovable--it was a windy day and therefore an act of god, not their fault. We got nowhere. Remember how long it took for them to do anything about the dogs being electrocuted? And it was a platry response at best. Here you have it people. A monopoly with no regulation. NStar doesn't have to do anything it doesn't want to.