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Is this a good thing?
By Martin Callaghan on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 10:29am
Is this a good thing? - Boston Dawna, celebrated crime stopper, is bringing her act home
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Can you be too Boston for your own good?
That brash, tough-as-nails shtik might work in Venice Beach, where nobody else is like that, but what happens when she comes back to a city where everybody's like that?
The Globe story kind of buries it, but it does note two instances where it might not work: First a cop at Downtown Crossing tells her to get lost, then she screams at the cops to do something about some kid performing at Quincy Market - as his father watches:
Great, so she's bullying some guy who doesn't seem to have done anything wrong. That's not going to play real well in the big city.
And that right there sums up
And that right there sums up her narcissism.
If she really wanted to do something about crime, why is she hanging around Quincy Market rather than patrolling the death triangle? Hint: it isn't about stopping crime.
First performance didn't go so well
She seemed to feel the need to do something, anything, because the reporter was with her. Hopefully she'll be a little more discriminating in picking her battles without the media presence.
When I heard she was coming
When I heard she was coming back to Boston I thought after all these years I thought 2 things:
1) I bet she won't be walking thru Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester trying to stop crime.
2) She is going ot get her a$$ kicked - this isn't CA.
She's obnoxious.
Not to mention, she's a smoker!
Isn't that a felony in Boston these days?
The suburbs love this storyline
Loudmouth vigilante "cleans up" city. It fulfills their fantasy of returning to the neighborhood they abandoned and openly confronting the people of a certain background that they feel "drove them" from said neighborhood. Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa was so wrapped up in that narrative in the early 1980s that he falsified reports of "rescuing" subway riders from crimes. Of course, his beat was the mean couple of blocks of Restaurant Row in Midtown, and you know how the patrons of 21 get when the crowd from Elaine's comes downtown and gives them some literati lip.
Our town's Morton Downey Jr. will eventually yap herself tired.
Donna Chaet's going to end up dead
Hasn't been in Boston since she was 19, and now she's 40, and she thinks she can run acting like that?
Anyone want to place bets on how long it is before she pisses off some mob, triad, or gang members and ends up face-down in a pool of blood? Or in jail after a patrol officer decides her "Boston Police" Tshirt is "impersonating a police officer"?
Also, did anyone else find it funny how she didn't realize why LAPD threw her a party?
40?
The article says she is 59
"Boston" Dawna
Never mind getting whacked by an actual criminal, she's been living in CALIFORNIA for the majority of her life. She was 19 when she left. So she kept her accent. Dropping your r's, swearing like a sailor, chain smoking and generally being obnoxious doesn't make you a Bostonian, living in Boston does. Dealing with on-street parking in the winter does. Putting up with the Big Dig for years does. Agonizing over the BPS does. (Used to be able to say that having your heart crushed by the local sports teams does, but I thinks we've gone way too corporate and successful on that -- maybe being a Bruins fan still qualifies though.)
Being the only r-dropping, obnoxious, chain-smoking potty-mouth on Venice beach might get you some notoriety in sunny Plastifornia, but here you're just another ugly face in the crowd. Welcome home. Now fuck off.