It's Not Just Toilets Anymore: Someone Ponies Up $300,000 for a Back Bay Parking Spot

As if that $300,000 toilet (and that whole Big Dig thing) weren't enough evidence of the ridiculous expenses associated with living in Boston, someone's gone and paid $300,000 for a Back Bay parking spot. We realize that the Back Bay is a pretty rad area, and that parking can be hard to come by there. Still, $300,000? For an outdoor, uncovered space? In Harvard endowment terms, that's not much—but it could still buy you:

• Two parking spots! (See above. Note, however, that the offer is from 2005 so may not still stand.)
• Admission to the Scooper Bowl for 37,500 people
• 100,000 slices of Penguin pizza (that's a slice a day for 273 years)
• 600,000 Grillo's pickles (that's a pickle a day for 1644 years)
• 60,000 beers at the Brattle (assuming they charge $5/beer)
• 1.5 percent of the $20 million the Globe needs to save
• 14 innings of Alex Rodriguez's services.
• And, of course, 3000 $100 ham sammies

So, money well spent? We're skeptical.

Michael Femia contributed to this post.
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