Deadly stabbing at convenience store in Lynn

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by massnative71

This is fast turning into a banana republic. Elitist towns like Marblehead (often increasingly full of super wealthy foreigners) side by side with 3rd world hellholes like Lynn. And increasingly less and less in between. Throw in a corrupt/inept government with very little civic participation from the non-connected.

Yep. I remember back in the early 2000s someone was explaining Mexico and Haiti and they said people that live there are either rich or poor and nothing in between. That seems to be what has happened in the greater Boston area.

[PureBoston]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Yep. I remember back in the early 2000s someone was explaining Mexico and Haiti and they said people that live there are either rich or poor and nothing in between. That seems to be what has happened in the greater Boston area.

In my opinion, taking from the working middle class to fund the foolishly utopian dream of "equity" serves paradoxically to exacerbate socioeconomic stratification. We've strayed too far from the notion that our goverment was never intended to protect its citizenry from every conceivable peril. There'll always be have-nots in a capitalist democracy and no amount of free stuff given away will change this fact.

[BostonMike7]

One of my favorite Lynn stories....

About 20 years ago. Driving home from a friend's house and cruising down the Lynnway headed south. It's 1AM maybe. Nobody is on the road. I come to the stretch where the car dealerships are and see about 10-15 cars or so just stopped in the road. Not like there was traffic, but like they all saw something and then tried to pull to the side of the road. It's 3 lanes, and no breakdown lane to stop in.

As i get closer, i see a crowd of people out of the cars on the sidewalk, in the dealership parking lot and standing on some of the dealership cars just brawling. All fairly well dressed in suits and nice clothes straight out of John Wick. Nobody else around but these 20-25 dudes just pounding on each other in 3-peice suits.

I scoot around to the left, and manage to get thru the cars and get my ass out of there.