What's wrong with Winthrop?
By adamg - 3/2/12 - 12:00 pm
Last fall, a columnist for the local paper was charged with trying to run down the Town Council president and his kids. Now, Channel 4 reports, a Winthrop parent was booted from a high-school hockey game for aiming a laser pointer into the eyes of an opposing goalie.
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Loser Parent
My thoughts:
1. If criminal charges apply, they should be used against this idiot.
2. The good folks of Winthrop should decry his idiocy from the rooftops.
3. The game should definitely be replayed -- it is a hard slog through a long season to make it to the States and to be eliminated under such questionable circumstances (like the NFL, it's one loss and you're out), is just wrong.
one (or two) bad apples
adamg - Do you ask "what's wrong with Boston" every time some idiot does something that warrants attention (or commits far more serious crimes than laser pointing - e.g., rape or murder)? No?, then why default to a headline asking "what's wrong with Winthrop" because of a couple newsworthy incidents?
I don't know...
...I've visited Winthrop a few times, and sometimes seems like it's populated by "laid back country folk."
And neither incident a homicide
If these were the worst things to happen in Winthrop in the last 365 days, they're actually doing pretty well.
You expect a certain level of mayhem from a big city
But Winthrop is the kind of place you normally don't hear much about (and, hey, I live in a Boston neighborhood like that, and we like it that way), so the fact that there is anything noteworthy coming out of it like that is interesting (and yeah, let's not forget the guy charged with stabbing somebody and stashing his body under the porch).
Still, you're right, we shouldn't blame all of Winthrop for this stuff.
Don't forget...
...last year's "deceased homeless man stashed under the porch" extravaganza. There just might be something in the water!
Growing up in Beachmont
We always called Winthrop the town that time forgot. It was like the 50's never ended.
Sounds pretty normal
I grew up in Foxboro, and this just sounds like what I grew up around. Maybe it just never made it to the press back then. Parents were crazy about sports and terrible to opposing town's kinds, some cops were into some weird stuff, and journalists got threatened for saying that a football team might not go all the way. Life in suburban MA...