diff --git a/src/AlleleParser.cpp b/src/AlleleParser.cpp
index ca5d67e4..8e47a6aa 100644
--- a/src/AlleleParser.cpp
+++ b/src/AlleleParser.cpp
@@ -1266,19 +1266,16 @@ Allele AlleleParser::makeAllele(RegisteredAlignment& ra,
         // a dangerous game
         int start = pos - currentSequenceStart;
         double minEntropy = parameters.minRepeatEntropy;
-        // check first that' wer'e actually ina repeat... TODO
-        //cerr << "entropy of " << entropy(currentSequence.substr(start, repeatRightBoundary - pos)) << " is too low, " << endl;
         while (minEntropy > 0 && // ignore if turned off
-               repeatRightBoundary - currentSequenceStart < currentSequence.size() && //guard
+               // don't run off the end of the current sequence
+               repeatRightBoundary - currentSequenceStart < currentSequence.size() &&
+               // there is no point in going past the alignment end
+               // because we won't make a haplotype call unless we have a covering observation from a read
+               repeatRightBoundary < alignment.ENDPOSITION &&
                entropy(currentSequence.substr(start, repeatRightBoundary - pos)) < minEntropy) {
-            //cerr << "entropy of " << entropy(currentSequence.substr(start, repeatRightBoundary - pos)) << " is too low, ";
-            //cerr << "increasing rought boundary to ";
             ++repeatRightBoundary;
-            //cerr << repeatRightBoundary << endl;
         }
 
-        // now we
-        //cachedRepeatCounts[pos] = repeatCounts(pos - currentSequenceStart, currentSequence, 12);
         // edge case, the indel is an insertion and matches the reference to the right
         // this means there is a repeat structure in the read, but not the ref
         if (currentSequence.substr(pos - currentSequenceStart, length) == readSequence) {
@@ -2050,7 +2047,7 @@ void AlleleParser::updateAlignmentQueue(long int position,
                 //cerr << "parameters capcoverage " << parameters.capCoverage << " " << rq.size() << endl;
                 if (considerAlignment) {
                     // and insert the registered alignment into that deque
-                    rq.push_front(RegisteredAlignment(currentAlignment, parameters));
+                    rq.push_front(RegisteredAlignment(currentAlignment));
                     RegisteredAlignment& ra = rq.front();
                     registerAlignment(currentAlignment, ra, sampleName, sequencingTech);
                     // backtracking if we have too many mismatches
@@ -2084,7 +2081,7 @@ void AlleleParser::removeRegisteredAlignmentsOverlappingPosition(long unsigned i
     set<Allele*> allelesToErase;
     while (f != registeredAlignments.end()) {
         for (deque<RegisteredAlignment>::iterator d = f->second.begin(); d != f->second.end(); ++d) {
-            if (d->start >= pos && d->end > pos) {
+            if (d->start <= pos && d->end > pos) {
                 alignmentsToErase[f->first].insert(d);
                 for (vector<Allele>::iterator a = d->alleles.begin(); a != d->alleles.end(); ++a) {
                     allelesToErase.insert(&*a);
diff --git a/src/AlleleParser.h b/src/AlleleParser.h
index 9e700710..89663aff 100644
--- a/src/AlleleParser.h
+++ b/src/AlleleParser.h
@@ -57,10 +57,8 @@ class RegisteredAlignment {
     int snpCount;
     int indelCount;
     int alleleTypes;
-    Parameters parameters;
 
-    RegisteredAlignment(BAMALIGN& alignment, Parameters parameters)
-        //: alignment(alignment)
+    RegisteredAlignment(BAMALIGN& alignment)
         : start(alignment.POSITION)
         , end(alignment.ENDPOSITION)
         , refid(alignment.REFID)
@@ -69,7 +67,6 @@ class RegisteredAlignment {
         , snpCount(0)
         , indelCount(0)
         , alleleTypes(0)
-        , parameters(parameters)
     {
       FILLREADGROUP(readgroup, alignment);
     }
diff --git a/test/t/01_call_variants.t b/test/t/01_call_variants.t
index 40cb02cb..0756b51a 100755
--- a/test/t/01_call_variants.t
+++ b/test/t/01_call_variants.t
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@ samtools view -h tiny/NA12878.chr22.tiny.bam | sed s/NA12878D_HiSeqX_R1.fastq.gz
 is $(freebayes -f tiny/q.fa -F 0.2 tiny/NA12878.chr22.tiny.bam x.sam -A <(echo 1 8; echo 2 13) | grep 'AN=21' | wc -l) 19 "the CNV map may be used to specify per-sample copy numbers"
 rm -f x.sam
 
-is $(freebayes -f tiny/q.fa --skip-coverage 30 tiny/NA12878.chr22.tiny.bam | grep -v '^#' | wc -l) 27 "freebayes makes the expected number of calls when capping coverage"
-is $(freebayes -f tiny/q.fa -g 30 tiny/NA12878.chr22.tiny.bam | vcfkeepinfo - DP | vcf2tsv | cut -f 8 | tail -n+2 | awk '$1 <= 30 { print }' | wc -l) 27 "all coverage capped calls are below the coverage threshold"
+is $(freebayes -f tiny/q.fa --skip-coverage 30 tiny/NA12878.chr22.tiny.bam | grep -v '^#' | wc -l) 22 "freebayes makes the expected number of calls when capping coverage"
+is $(freebayes -f tiny/q.fa -g 30 tiny/NA12878.chr22.tiny.bam | vcfkeepinfo - DP | vcf2tsv | cut -f 8 | tail -n+2 | awk '$1 <= 30 { print }' | wc -l) 22 "all coverage capped calls are below the coverage threshold"