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Im sure there will be more similar crimes in this area tonight due the post-parade revelers and also the Montrose Rocks fest for black people.
ReplyDeleteTONS of blacks.
Yes Police Supt McCarthy termed this "hijinx and shenanigans" on the news tonight.
ReplyDeleteThats all weve been having - shenanigans by hooligans.
Seriously Chicago, WTF is your obsession with these cell phones? Are you all that oppressed?!
ReplyDeleteThe poor people where I'm from are stealing cars and jewels. If somebody wanted my stupid "smart phone" at gunpoint, I'd be more than happy to hand it to them. Within 6 months they're functionally obsolete anyway.
At about 4 pm, I saw a middle-aged woman driving her car on the lakefront bike path by the Belmont dog beach. People yelled at her to stop but she kept driving south.
ReplyDelete^ The car on the bike path thing is at least a weekly occurence. Usually it's the cab drivers.
ReplyDeleteWhy does everyone walk around with their iPhones and smart phones showing. Is it a status symbol.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you need to use a phone on the street other than emergency.
Keep your phones hidden and be aware of you surroundings
Someone should invent an iPhone clone that shots pepper spray when turned on. It would be fun to "accidentally" leave these on train seats and watch the fun.
ReplyDelete@11:43 PM: I have often wondered the same thing. It's as if the iPhone is the ultimate status symbol in Chicago. It is so freaking pathetic.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel they project it as a "status symbol". I don't have an iphone but there are many, many useful things on an iphone that the average hooligan probably a) couldn't figure out or b) has no use for.
ReplyDeleteCase in point: how many loud obnoxious White people do you encounter on the CTA jabberjawing loudly with they (sic) baby dad, cussing and carrying on for all to hear? None. They're texting.
Don't blame the victim. Next it will be "she shouldn't have been riding her bike out there when it was stolen, she should have been on a $29 pogo stick or walking".
Every time a smartphone is stolen in Chicago, the media calls it an iPhone, even if it is Android-based phone or some other non-Apple brand.
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