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Suburban woman charged with stealing car in Dorchester
By adamg on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 1:14pm
Boston Police report arresting Lynette Franciose, 41, of Natick, on charges she broke into a Dodge Caravan around 2 a.m. on Sunday and tried to drive away.
In addition to being charged with breaking into the mini-van at Greenwich and Duncan streets around 2 a.m., Franciose also faces a charge of driving with a suspended license, police say.
In August, Franciose was arrested by Natick Police after she allegedly tried to get around a traffic jam by driving on the sidewalk. She was also charged with kicking a responding police officer.
In 2007, she allegedly responded to being kicked by her boyfriend in an argument by attempting to run him over with her car.
Innocent, etc.
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she sounds so sweet
"Natick man was run over by his girlfriend Monday, minutes after police said he kicked her after an argument.
Donald J. Rigoli, 28, and Lynette Franciose, 37, were both arrested at 3:08 p.m. at their 302 Eliot St. home after the fight, Lt. Nick Mabardy said"- Jan 03, 2007
A Dodge Caravan hu?
I am no expert but I would assume that if you are going to steal a car, try to make it a little sporty.
I used to own one
They are fairly easy to hot wire.
They can also haul a crew of whom ever and a buttload of whatever you want. Who would think that a 41 year old woman in a minivan was up to, say, drug hauling or transporting a break-in crew?
Good Points
She would blend in...
A commercial property manager?
That's what this page says she is.
Will there be a listing of
Will there be a listing of all the crimes committed by city residents out in the scary, racist-sexist-homophobic suburbs?
Huh?
Anonymous coward*, old chap, this perpetrator has a rather, um, entertaining pattern of criminality going back years. Making her eminently newsworthy.
If you can find a inner-burb or Boston resident with that kind of resumé doin' their deeds out in Boxborough, do please let us all know.
* Slashdot roots.
AdamG
This won't pass moderation, but adam, you need to get off your fucking high-horse about the "burbs." There are plenty of assholes out there both in the city and in the burbs, in the country, in farms, on mountains, under the sea and living in the clouds. Your smarmy little blog posts aren't going to change this.
Nice try, though
As long as some suburbanites and Herald readers keep thinking only Bostonians commit crimes, I'll keep noting that at least some of my property-tax dollars (granted, that's not much) go to clean up after them.
Yeah, it's my smarmy little attempt to set the record straight.
hey now...!
we just had an out-and-out manhunt in boxborough last weekend! dogs, choppers, state police -- the whole nine yards! it just wasn't terribly interesting and didn't make the globe. we also just had a former elementary teacher plead guilty to child porn charges last week. scandal! crime! criminals!
boxborough might be tiny & cute, but it still has some crimes ;)
Adam does seem to have a bug
Adam does seem to have a bug up his ass about suburbanites. A fun exercise would be to go to a near suburb's Wicked Local page and review the police blotter over a few months. My first try, using Dedham as one example, showed that roughly half of the arrests involved people from Boston.
Precedent?
This is anecdotal, but it seems to me that there's far more loud/publicized urban-bashing than suburban-bashing with regards to crime. Dover didn't want commuter rail because people from Boston would go there and commit crimes, Arlington didn't want the red line because people from Boston would go there and commit crimes, Milton doesn't want a bike trail because...you know.
I'm trying to be objective here, but I haven't heard anything, well, anywhere about Boston trying to keep suburbanites out of town because of the crimes they commit.
I have no stats. . .
. . . or facts or figures and can't comment on anything but my own little slice of Boston- the waterfront. but my perception is that a good deal of the "disturbances" I see on any given typical Thursday thru Saturday night around here are from packs of suburban 20 thru 40 somethings coming into town, always in little "posses"- and they drink too much and do stupid and even criminal stuff.
I think that's exactly it
I can't speak for Adam, but my impression of his somewhat snarky jibes at suburbanites committing crime was that they're a rather insightful commentary on how suburbanites DO come into Boston and commit crimes, and in no small numbers. Yet you don't see Boston residents drawing up petitions to demand that we've paid our taxes and our city landscapes will only be for Boston residents, dammit!
However, you do see the suburbs putting up resident-only signs in parks and people actually flat-out saying that transit or bike trails or whatever will bring Boston residents into their suburbs to commit crimes.
There has always been something to this
Even years ago, the most violent crimes that affected anyone that I knew were when people were attacked randomly (with witnesses) by suburban thugs who had come into the city from the suburbs with the attitude of "this is where you get in fights". Broken jaws, concussions to the point of unconsciousness. These jerks thought the city was a place to go wild.
Otherwise, in five years in Kenmore Square from '84 -'89, I knew of no one who was attacked by anyone other than idiots who thought the city was the place to go to drink heavily and commit mayhem.
We also had a lot of loud party cars parking out front, mouthing off to people who had to work the next day, and getting busted by the cops for drinking out of the car and underage violations. I also had friends whose cars had the windows smashed "for fun", again by drunken suburbanites.
There have been several articles in the Globe and Herald about suburban and exurban kids from wealthy communities who think that Roxbury and Dorchester are their "art" canvas.
Given some of the "concern" that I get from overprotective and underinformed parents when I let my kids take the T to Harvard Square or to meet me at work for lunch at Downtown Crossing, I think what Adam is doing is simply setting the record straight. Plenty of urban people are involved in urban crimes, and plenty of suburban losers victimize their own communities ... and yet the most traveling seems to be done by those who commute to the city to do their business.
Rowdies
Of course this is all assuming that these same morons aren't doing the same thing at home? I suspect that they're as big assholes in the burbs as in the city, it just doesn't make the Globe.
The issue might be that staggering out of a bar in Billerica (not to pick on 'Rica or anything) shitfaced and belligerent, you will have less of an easy time finding another bar just a few staggering steps away or a group of random passerby's to start yelling at and getting into a donnybrook with. Chances are the passerby's will be in a car. (Chances are you will get in a car yourself and have a: 1/ DUI arrest, 2/ tragic incident or 3/ guardian angel that sees you home safely... this time.)
Also, do you really think Boston would maintain all the fine amenities we've got without the dollars these drunken fuck-wits represent? If they really represented a net loss to the city I'm sure our sterling city councilors would behave more like their suburban counterparts.
Drunken belligerent morons from the burbs, drunken belligerent townies, drunken belligerent folks from the 'hood, or from the business district after work -- I think the issue might be people who can't hold their alcohol and/or are just assholes.
To be honest . . .
. . . When I didn't live in Boston and would come home for a visit or holiday from the time I was 20 to 30 - and would get together with my home town friends- we didn't drink in our town or anywhere near it. We came to Boston- usually between 5 to 10 of us- sometimes with girlfriends or we'd meet a bunch somewhere. And yeah- we acted like jackasses over the years a few times. We never would have gotten into the things we did hanging out at the one or two restaurant bars then in town or the local Inn bar when it was still around.
We traveled in little wolf packs to Boston, not quite looking for trouble I would say, but ready for it if the merest opportunity presented itself- and when you add in alcohol such "opportunities" presented themselves often.
So I can't say I'm an innocent here. But I will note that, and again, this is my perception, that these suburban "posses" are getting older - with guys well into their 30's, and more bold in their conduct than we were in my day.
Addendum: Now that I think about it- maybe a lot would be solved if the surroundings suburbs of Boston updated their drinking/bar codes to reality and stopped pretending this were 1875. Maybe if we had had a drinking establishment in my town that didn't stop serving at 10PM we would not have come into Boston nearly as often as we did.
"Of course this is all
"Of course this is all assuming that these same morons aren't doing the same thing at home? I suspect that they're as big assholes in the burbs as in the city, it just doesn't make the Globe."
Not necessarily. The suburb I grew up in consisted mostly of low-density residential areas. It also has very little foot traffic, so teens walking around or hanging out are immediately noticed by all the moms driving by in their minivans. There were literally no places in town where you could hang out in private outside the home. If you did anything that looked suspicious, the under-worked police would be on to you in 3 minutes flat.
So instead, my buddies and I used to hop on the bus and subway and head to cool spots in Boston and Cambridge, where could hang out and goof off among anonymous crowds.
Bad seed
I guess my view is a bit uhm ... more ... suburbghetto? I grew up in Saugus and there was no lack of places to go drinking on the North Shore. Going "into town" to drink was a phase you go through after you turn 21 (or have a decent fake id) but eventually you think "why push your luck" in regards to DUI and find local watering holes. Hell, we even went through a "let's go to Salem" phase (you think we got it bad in Boston in terms of out-of-towners getting rowdy on your turf...try Salem).
Could be our sample on Universal Hub might not be representative of the population ... or am I just an outlier?
Phases.
Yeah- we had a Watertown phase and a Framingham phase as well.
Basically - as our "crew" got older and married and after one or two of us got clipped for DUI's or some other unfunny trouble- we just sorta stopped coming into Boston. Nowadays- I find myself doing the traveling to the burbs to visit friends- and if we "go out" it is to eat at a local place. And if they come into town now- it is with their kids. My place is the after the aquarium pit stop to change diapers.