DISASTER!!!!
Marathon called off at 13 miles. They ran out of water, Gatorade, and ambulances. An unmitigated disaster. Links to follow eventually.
UPDATE: Fire Department opening hydrants to cool runners. Squad cars being utilized to transport the ill. If you wanted to know what a terrorist attack would look like in Chicago, this is a prime demonstration of how unprepared this city is.
UPDATE: Channel 2, Channel 5, Channel 7, Sun Times, Tribune coverage
If this was a CPD event, the papers would read "Police Kill One, Hospitalize 300" We certainly hope the headlines tomorrow read "LaSalle Murders Runner, 300 Wounded."
UPDATE: Fire Department opening hydrants to cool runners. Squad cars being utilized to transport the ill. If you wanted to know what a terrorist attack would look like in Chicago, this is a prime demonstration of how unprepared this city is.
UPDATE: Channel 2, Channel 5, Channel 7, Sun Times, Tribune coverage
If this was a CPD event, the papers would read "Police Kill One, Hospitalize 300" We certainly hope the headlines tomorrow read "LaSalle Murders Runner, 300 Wounded."
Labels: sports, we got nothing
posted by SCC at 12:03 PM
195 Comments:
It's because of lax planning by the Police Dept. that these actions occur. Too busy eating donuts or reading newspapers.
And the Olympics are coming here? Give me a break! Weather is always an unknown factor, ghetto rats shooting up the place and lack of emergency equipment even to handle a marathon.
This just set us back from 4th place to NOT EVEN ON THE LIST for the Olympics.
I HOPE THE OLYMPIC COMMITEE IS WATCHING!
Let them drop like flies. Your foolish enough to run in this weather, you deserve what you get.
Hey at least the suburbs are able to help out...To the tune of about 20 ambo-lances.
What a prediction SCC. You were on the money with that one.
DATELINE CHICAGO -- Four youths were hospitalized with stab wounds and three people were in custody Friday night after a melee involving as many as 40 people in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
Relatives identified the four wounded juveniles as Christian King, 12; her brother Theron Johnson, 15; Cortez Reynolds, 16, and his brother Darrius Reynolds, 12. The four friends were on one side of the dispute, relatives and friends said.
Police said one remained in serious condition late Friday, while the other three were in "stable" condition.
After the melee, blood was left splattered all over sidewalks on the block. Family members said an adult woman stabbed the youths during an ongoing dispute between several families and others that boiled over outside homes in the 1000 block of West Marquette Road.
YOU HAVE TO HAND IT TO THEM, THEY SURE KNOW HOW TO MAKE CHICAGO LOOK GOOD!
Is there anything Daley does that ISN'T a disaster? If it isn't hundred of millions of dollars in overcost for projects to poor responses to emergecy disasters.
I am sure the International Oylmpic Committee is watching this closely. I am sure this is the final nail in the coffin for us. Which I am so happy for.
If the City can't have enough water on hand for a pre-planned event, what makes anybody think we are going to handle a major terrorist incident that can happen in a blink of the eye. But I am sure the mumbling, stuttering, can't put a sentence together Mayor will come up with something to say on the TV news.
THIS MAKES THE WHOLE CITY LOOK LIKE FOOLS!
The company line will be,
LaSalle bank marathon officials
did not properly prepare for this weather event.
How can you blame the city, that's just silly.
Bring on the Olympics.
WHAT HAPPEN SSC , I WORKED IT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WHEN I WAS OFF FOR THE OT AND EVERYTHING WENT SMOOTHLY, DID STARKS SCREW THIS ONE, INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW,
for all those who never saw one....that is what a clusterfuck looks like.
you have got to be kidding me!!! and this dump of a city wants to have the olympics?? i understand that it's hot out there. but running out of water, etc. is completely unacceptable. running out of ambulances on the other hand is no big surprise. just check out the daily abuses of 911 calls. ambulance runs for "taxpayers" with stubbed toes at high noon after drunkenly walking into the employment office who "needs a ride to county" happen more than you can imagine. ok i know the employment office thing was a little far fetched. hope your local ambulance is close when you have an emergency. most likely it's shipped out somewhere in shitsville to handle NON-EMERGENCY bullshit. hopefully chicago falls farther and farther down the list of olympic hopeful cities. just wait til chicago gets bounced off the list---watch and see how all the regentrification comes to a screeching halt! you heard it here. then will come the big apology from city hall--'sorry we tore down all the projects to make huge real estate profits for all my friends and fucked up all the surrounding suburbs! our bad!' my kind of town--shitcago. and for those of you living here that aren't from here: as in smallville, podunk, or whitepicketfenceville, GET A CLUE!
WE ARE SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
None of the exempt knew what the hell was going on. A great preview of things to come.
My friend ran today. Reports of running out of water/ first aid station's poorly staffed. Let alone the newbie runners who didn't prepare properly... I hear it was a zoo.
But hey! How many police cameras assisted the runners?
Disaster is Chicago's middle name, nothing new.
The marathon was cut short, big deal. In the last 4 days about a dozen Chicago citizens were whacked and another three dozen shot up and lived. Many due to the Mayor dropping all the CHA project people in different neighborhoods so his buddys and family can make millions off redeveloping the land the projects once stood on. But the short marathon will be a bigger news story than sll these people killed and shot up.
Funny thing is that Daley's old man built these projects to keep the "rip raff" in one area and now his son and his buddies are raking in MILLION$$$$$$$$$ by dumping the crap that lived there next to good hard working people.
Dumbass speaks again.
Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said that the department is reviewing the footage and that some officers may face retraining or discipline, particularly in the case of the man being strip-searched. Bond said officers should have taken him to a more private location.
Let me try to understand this. The drunk brother man peeing in the alley is A.N.O.V. by the hair gel TRU kids but downtown runners are pissing and shiiting in public and the City wants to sponser such a thing? Am I missing something? And I bet you 100 bucks, if you check the records, the City paid for 500,000 bottles of water from some connected water firm but only had 100,000 bottles of water on hand.
Sounds liek the Feds should charge these guys not only for theft but for any person(s) that ended up dying or sick from the lack of water on hand for a known event.
As usual we are the joke of the international news. Any chance we just moved up on the Oylmpic list?
My buddy works on the Mayoral Detail. He was with Daley when the Chicago Marathon fell to pieces and the screw ups that surrounded it. He said Daley went ballistic. Even using the FU%K word on the phone with high ranking people. Looks like some major heads will roll from this, some of them being gold star CPD folks.
Public Notice:
Will all coppers who took cases of water home last night from the street side supply, please return these cases ASAP. Our poor marathon runners are vomiting, pooping and peeing all over our downtown streets in search for some refreshing cool clean water. Also glad to see that the City had about 5 port-a-pottys available. Wonder if anybody from special events actually knows how to plan a large event. If Alderman Bert N. was still in office, he would of sponsored a ordinance that made the runners wear diapers just like the carriage horses.
If running a marathon is so healthy why are all these people dropping like flies on sticky paper?
The best thing I saw was the brother man selling bottles of water. He originally was selling them for $1.00 then as demand went up, he was getting over 10 bucks a bottle. Better than selling 10 dollar rocks I guess.
At 1600 hrs, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that ONE RUNNER is DEAD and 302 RUNNERS ARE IN HOSPITALS. Wow, what a way to clog up out hospitals. And how many of these outg of country citizens are going to leave these hospitals stuck with the bills? They can afford to fly around the world to run but will stiff the docs I bet!
Hey Mayor Daley how is that Olympic Bid looking now ASSHOLE!!!!
You can't even run a marathon, which you have every year, on a hot day and be prepared.
Worked the marathon and it was a disaster....why do people who are obese find it neccessary to compete in a physical event that most fit people cannot accomplish??? Chicago needs a qualifying system for this marathon. Speedy recovery to those who can recover.......
I worked the marathon today and it was a lot of standing around as usual. I was shocked to see the complete melt down when we ran out of water and people started droping like flies. How could they not have enough water??? I smell law suits.
Wow! The marathon was a complete cluster fuck. We had too many cops on corners that didnt need it. We didnt have enough ambulances and we had to many bosses and no good ideas.
I WORKED THE MARATHON TODAY AND ALL I CAN SAY IS.................GOD FORBID IF WE HAVE A REAL EMERGENCY IN CHICAGO!!! WE ARE DOOMED!!
Mayor Daley just announced that all marathons must be ran in the first week of December only, in Chicago. The Mayor stated that he would have more than enough hot chocolate for all runners due to a great deal with Stroger Hot Chocolate Company, Inc. A mere $57.00 a cup plus a $6.00 per cup warming fee.
I bet you that the City of Chicago is going to waive all amublance fees for these dump fuck runners who fell out. If I was the Mayor, LaSalle National Bank would be getting a large damn bill for all these headaches this bullshit marathon is costing the City. What the hell were they thinking? Lets have a 26 mile marathon when the weather is upper 80's and humidty is worse than a damn steam room? I really think Daley is on the crackpipe.
This was worse than a disaster! People were dropping left and right. On my way home from working the marathon I heard on the radio that over 250 runners were sent to area hospitals... a number sure to climb. The radio was full of non-stop calls of emergencies... coppers and the dipatcher fighting to get air time and cutting each other off on City Wide 6. It was ridiculous. The whole thing turned into a mass casualty situation. I saw ambulances from the suburbs helping in the chaos.
Chicago is NOT prepared for any terrorist attack folks. This was bad.
Due to the millions it is costing to have this marathon, the police will only get a .0000000000000001% raise over the next four years.
But now if the Mayor taxed each bottle of water at the marathon 25 cents, we all could of got a 50% raise each year.
Betcha DA MARE is crying big time tonight - there goes our chance of the Olympics!!! Even the marathon couldn't happen here and we want the Olympics?? I think NOT!!!
stop putting people in charge that have no clue.
Olympics? not here.
400 runners in the hospital E.R. rooms.
$3,436,345.00
100's of amubulance runs.
$1,254,394.00
100's of extra personnel and overtime.
$$1,534,928.00
1000's of over priced bottles of water sold to the City.
$2,3432,456.00
Sidewalks and Streets stained with urine and human waste.
$?,???,???.??
A City Marathon in hot as hell weather and bad pollution.
PRICELESS
This proves to Peter, we are Oylmpic ready, doesn't it? Please bump up us in the list!
All we can say is that we really screwed up. No more comments at this time.
Resumes for key City positions can be sent to Mayor Daley. Openings very soon.
i just saw the jesse jackass video..i am a very hard working police officer with several commendations...you could bet i will never ever ever go into or respond to the animals in the projects again...fuck you and your dope dealing people..kill each other...i will bid out and protect the real working citizens of the city....1-mover and 2-parkers a day will keep me happy and the white shirts..thanks for the memories i will carry into retirement in 3-yrs...
Hundreds of CTA cooling buses called in. Hate to see what the overtime bill is going to be for the already strapped CTA budget. You know maybe we wouldn't have these budget shortfalls if we didn't give in to every stupid request for some unwanted event. Well I am sure Springfield will understand when we ask for anothe extra million due to a Chicago Marathon.
I say the city of chicago give each runner a Fitness Check, like we get, just for running. Hell, all I did was like 26 sit ups in a air condition building.
AND DALEY THINKS WE CAN HANDLE THE OLYMPICS...THAT JUST WENT OUT THE WINDOW WITH TODAYS FIASCO
it was truly unbelievable. cw-6 was overloaded with traffic as p/o's called in persons down stepping all over each other.
at one point the overwhelmed dispatcher told a p/o calling in an emergency "everybody has an emergency....stand by".
what if, as it became appearent that medical emergencies would dominate the event, cw-5 was staffed and designated the freq. for such calls freeing up cw-6 for operational communications. public safety and officer safety was compromised today because command staff was unable to roll with the punches and rapidly reassign resources to meet the challenge.
this city was not ready for the foot race, is nowhere near ready for the olypics and would be totally devistated by a large disaster of any origin.
was there from 430am to 4 pm
what a cluster, water ran out around 1030, thay called it at 1230,
every other word on the cw6 was emergency I have
The Chicago Marathon is going to be renamed the Chicago Bears Marathon, since neither one can cross the goal/finish line.
Streets and Sans Services/ Fire+Paramedic Serices / Police Services / CTA Services / Emergency Romm Services / Police Helicopter / Traffic Control Aides = Millions, I said MILLIONS in weekend overtime rates.
If I ever hear that short fat bastard Mayor Daley say we are broke again... I'll just laugh may ass off at that asswipe!
News Radio 780am reported that the city ambulances and affected hospital are waiving all fees for the runners who either die or became ill in the marathon. To encourage all feeling ill to seek medical attention. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm But try getting the City to pay your last I.O.D. medical bill.
How many marathon runners does it take to change a light bulb? Depends on how many of them you have to stack on top of each other to reach the light bulb socket.
Word is the runners all became sick after drinking the bottled water from the "Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal Bottle Water Company."
Why are there 127 body chalk outlines on the streets of downtown Chicago?
oh no, heads will roll said...
My buddy works on the Mayoral Detail. He was with Daley when the Chicago Marathon fell to pieces and the screw ups that surrounded it. He said Daley went ballistic. Even using the FU%K word on the phone with high ranking people. Looks like some major heads will roll from this, some of them being gold star CPD folks.
10/07/2007 03:57:00 PM
i thought the bitch doesn't come out on sunday for anything " sunday is my family day."
Ok...this is what I heard..
bright and early Tuesday morning,a plethora of doctors,nurses,lawyers,and advertising execs are to be called to city hall in order to take care of the dead and wounded after the meeting with his Honor.
To 10/07/2007 at 12:38pm...You are a MORON!! we,as the police have NOTHING to do with the race coordination...our sole purpose is to keep the runners safe from vehicle traffic and to lend a hand to citizens living in / around the race course..As far as the donut crack...pretty lame...and no we didn't get time to read our newspapers...we were on our feet from 0600hrs...that's 6:00am for you civilian. and we ALL did not get released to go home to our families until 1600hrs...once again ...that's 4:00PM civilian...so I worked on my feet without a lunch and sadly...no donut...for 12 hours...So...lax planning by the police department has nothing to do with what happened...nothing whatsoever...It was very lax planning by the race coordinators who under ordered water by 10,000 gallons and also gatorade...as was told to me by a coordinator...b/c they wasted so much last year...So take your ignorant comment and keep it to your uneducated self rat.
oh no, heads will roll said...
My buddy works on the Mayoral Detail. He was with Daley when the Chicago Marathon fell to pieces and the screw ups that surrounded it. He said Daley went ballistic. Even using the FU%K word on the phone with high ranking people. Looks like some major heads will roll from this, some of them being gold star CPD folks.
Maybe the mayors detail should of put water in daleys city paid fleet of vehicles and handed bottles out! FUCK OLYMPICS ARE GONE! SEE YA RICHIE! ANOTHER FUCK UP THANKS TO YOUR IDIOTS IN CHARGE CLOUT=NO BRAINS+ DEAD PEOPLE!
Ok, would now be a good time to ask what our "emergency plan for the city is?"
Let's see, I can check the 10 day forcast by hitting a button on my computer. Hmmmm...was this so hard to plan for? And the city is prepared for a disaster?...ok,,stop it now..my sides can't take anymore laughter.
You think this was bad,I predict a total disaster tonight at the Packer game. Cubs lose,Marathon a disaster,Bears?????? what a winning town.
I WANT DALEY TO RESIGN NOW.
1. IPEE FREELY
I worked the marathon today and THE REAL STORY is that the city has nothing to do with the marathon...it is sponsored by LaSalle Bank and there are donations etc...the city of Chicago has no liability here...there were problems with the beverages...they ran out by mile 6 ...yes 6th mile had no water shortly after the runners were at that point. There were so many calls for emergencies that you wouldn't believe it!!! They called in ambulances from other municipalities...the farthest one I saw was Mundelin!!! That's far!! Hundreds in hospitals....CTA didn't send "hundreds" of busses as previously stated to be cooling busses...they had 12...
You can lay the blame for the lack of water and the lack of medical personnel directly on the sponsor, LaSalle Bank. It is their responsibility for both.
The city did respond properly by calling in for help from the CTA and other fire departments.
The only thing you can blame the city for is the lack of communication. CW6 was overwhelmed. No one made the adjustment to use other frequencies. A lot of us went to CW1 on our own to get messages through.
Bad scene. LaSalle knew it was going to be hot. The city knew over 500 policemen would be using one frequency.
This morining was horrid, just awful. I got a headache listening to citywide 6. Noone knew what the fuck was going on, just what I expected. We ran out of that overpriced water before 11,
Why are there 127 body chalk outlines on the streets of downtown Chicago?
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LMAO
It's because of lax planning by the Police Dept. that these actions occur. Too busy eating donuts or reading newspapers.
10/07/2007 12:38:00 PM
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I didn't know that it was the responsibility of the Chicago Police Dept. to hand out water, care for the ill drink the ambo-lances!!! HAHAHAHA
DUMB YUPPY
Im sure the Olypic Committee would have been impressed.
Did anyone get a picture of the sgt at the marathon?
Person who died was an off-duty Michigan P.O.
All, any city planner had to do was go to Sam's club or Cosco at 11am on Friday afternoon (when the weather was predicted to be in the high 80's)and buy out the cases of water, place the water in a city truck. Then upon sunday morning drop off these extra bottles to each station. That simple.
Is it that hard to think?
This marathon was poorly planned. They started running out of water at certain locations very early on. There were ambulances from Niles, Mundelin, Rosemont, Elk Grove Village that had to come and help out. People were collapsing on the street & we couldn't get through on the radio to get ambulances because they were babbling about other things. There should be one zone for traffic and one zone for emergencies. There should have been a water table, misting tent & medic every other block. One person collapsed and a p.o ran a block to get to a medic & then had to run back a block and the ambulance still wasn't there. While the ambulance was there, another person fell out. Not enough PO's to watch the runners in case they collapsed. They had 2 on every corner but nobody down the rest of the block. Street barricades were removed by Streets & San too early and then they had to be re-closed for clean up.
The fire truck came with the misting fan AFTER they had already canceled the race. The Olympics will never come here. This marathon was a disaster. If there's a terrorist attack, pack your shit & head home because we're F*ed!!!!!
It was awesome. Look at at us world!!!! We don't deserve the Olympics!!!! You're athletes will not be safe!!!
This is what happens in a city and department run by retarded clout babies. I saw this coming 3 days ago, as did anyone else with access to the weather channel.
Good job by yhe rank and file on secne, however. Once again proving that the lowly P.O.s and sergeants are the real backbone of this department.
I bet the Exempts were lining up to be involved in this ass kissing event BEFORE THE FACT, trying to impress the 5th. floor troll. Eat it, you house mouse jagoffs.
true event on zone9 today.
"the complainant states there is a green helicopter circling above". The zone, had to send a car. The beat car appropriately responded,"ok squad I'lll just shoot it down" great stuff...shootings,killings,robberies, and were sending a car to look up at a helicopter.
I think it's Bush's fault.
OPEN COMMENT TO THE PRESS AND MAYOR DALEY;
While we're on how messed up this department is.....FACT- From an insider, there are two orders on the upcoming pre olympic boxing event to be held at UIC. One by special events and one under patrol. Starks sponsoring one, Williams the other. HEY MR. MAYOR, YOU BETTER APPOINT A SUPERINTENDENT SOON,THEY ARE ABOUT TO FUCK UP ANOTHER EVENT THAT IS GOING TO OFFICIALY PUT YOUR OLYMPIC PLANS ON DOA! THERE IS NO ONE IN CHARGE OF THIS DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW AND THE SHIP IS SINKING FAST.
To The Following Two Posters:
Check your Municipal Code Violations, it is an offense in numerous distircts including the 008th Dist for these street vendors to operate.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
I hear ya. Start taxing or at checking on the licensing of those illegal street vendors....Richie, oh Richie....ch-ching, cha-ching. Oh wait, the latino aldertheives will have a melt-down if that happens.
10/02/2007 09:57:00 PM
I can remember corliss and schinker not well liked but they locked up street vendors and took their carts! Whats wrong with daley? mayor spineless! all over illegals are selling garbage out of dirty carts and nothing happens why? simple actually daley is scared of the hispanice vote even though they cannot vote "Vote daley the village idiot"!
10/03/2007 07:31:00 AM
Squad can I have an event number for total chaos?
Ok, so like we don't have enough ambulances or water on hand for a "planned" event with 40,000 runners. But we'll be prepared for a citywide emergency,with 3 million panic stricken citizens, who have additional medical problems and then there are the traffic problems that will probably occur? God help us.
City of chicago, office of special events said...
All we can say is that we really screwed up. No more comments at this time.
10/07/2007 04:45:00 PM
I think they should of said,"we really,really,really,screwed up"
yep citizens,keep believing all about us being prepared for a disaster.
Anonymous said...
Worked the marathon and it was a disaster....why do people who are obese find it neccessary to compete in a physical event that most fit people cannot accomplish???
Hey, stop talking about the inside officers who worked the detail.
Daley is a jackass. The only thing he does know is that the Feds have his days numbered and they got a spot for him in the pokie. Look at him he looks like shit. (the piece of shit he is)
oh no, heads will roll said...
My buddy works on the Mayoral Detail. He was with Daley when the Chicago Marathon fell to pieces and the screw ups that surrounded it. He said Daley went ballistic. Even using the FU%K word on the phone with high ranking people. Looks like some major heads will roll from this, some of them being gold star CPD folks.
10/07/2007 03:57:00 PM
I predict nothing will happen. The media will say it was a wonderful family event like they say about the Bud Biliken parade and (the Beverly version)the Southside Irish parade. All great city events.
The Mayor was very upset with Starks
An informational picket line is beingt organized to protest the Mayor at the hotel where the Olympic committee is stayin for the International Boxing events in late Oct.
Issues??? NO CONTRACT, AND WE ARE OPRERATING UNDER A SUPT WHO NEVER PASSED AN EXAM AND COULDN'T FINISH HIGH SCHOOL
It's because of lax planning by the Police Dept. that these actions occur. Too busy eating donuts or reading newspapers.
10/07/2007 12:38:00 PM
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Actually, no. That was poor planning by the LaSalle Bank Marathon officials. The Police department has no part of how much water or gatoraide should be given out. You should sue God for the hot weather you f*cking tool. I didn't see the police chasing peole down the street with their guns at the runners backs to force them to run. Did you??
Cannot confirm this but it came a beat-up looking Paramedic. CFD pulled in all ambulances in the city.(Leaving no coverage in the neighborhoods) Then OEMC pulled a MABAS (Mutual Assistance Box Alarm System) that brought in over 40 suburban ambulances. True or False? All I know is I saw Mt Prospect, Skokie, Summit and several other Ambulances responding to calls. They staged a 22nd & Wabash.
It's simple if you can't run 26.2 miles in a minimum of 3 hours then you should never attempt it..I don't care what you need to prove to yourself.....Ride a bike!
If the is pissed off it will be interesting to see who gets blamed. Lets see... It cant be the police since they are under direct control of the Aldermens and Reverends (based on past events)However the mayor can't fire them. The office of Emergency Management and Communications would probably be a logical first stop for blame game since that sounds like pretty much all their job is. (Like FEMA) Well thats what happens when you put political hacks in jobs.
By the way who gets the water bill since I have a water meter and they happen to be turning on hydrants all over the place for this.
I say the mayor Q & A goes like this tomorrow morning. "its the weather, u cant blame anyone the weather is unpredicible, no there is plenty of water, we have lake Michigan, the river, the fountain, it was all in bottles, same as always, where are their parents? Plenty of runners finished maybe they should all prepared better. We have no control on who sings up to race. We would not allow those non finishing people to sign up, I mean common we will have the oplympics here those are all good athletes who are prepared"
LaSalle Bank (soon to be Bank of America) is a heavy weight advertiser in the Tribune and Sun Times, not to mention all the local TV stations.
So don't expect them to play up Daley's folly bigtime.
They will only report that some got sick and that there was apparently a lack of water for the yuppies but they will TOTALLY AVOID pointing out the inept moronic planning by our lil King Richard.
I was there at the marathon as a spectator today..TONS of bottled water cases-stacked on pallets, shrinkwrapped sitting at the finish line....how come they went passes out DURING the race??? I betcha water was LEFT OVER from that supply...
What exactly is the function of the CPD in an event like todays Marathon?
1) Pedestrial & Vehicular control ie Direct traffic
2) Saftey of Citizens.
HMMMM...TMAs were directing traffic, and a less than stellar job from what I saw.
Laws that were suspended? Drinking on the public way, Public indeceincy- peeing & crapping in the alleys etc. Tomorrow back to normal activities. ANOVs to the drinkers, pissers and smokers on the CTA platforms!
What I wonder who paid for all the OT accrued by the CPD & State of Chicago? I saw lots of intellegent coppers standing out of the way of the masses of people walking around.
JUST THINK THIS EVENT WAS A "WELL PLANNED", CITY SANCTIONED SENARIO. NOW THINK FOR A SECOND IF THIS WERE A TERRORIST GROUP ON A DAY WHEN WE (POLICE AND FIRE) HAD NO WARNING. I HAVE SAID THIS SINCE MY RETURN FROM OVERSEAS, THAT THIS CITY IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING PREPARED. THE LACK OF MORALE ALONE AMONG POLICE OFFICERS IS SO LOW THAT I CANNOT EVEN SEE PO'S SHOWING UP FOR WORK IN THE EVENT OF A REAL DISASTER. LETS FACE IT NAME ME ONE POLICE OFFICER WHO WOULD NOT TAKE TIME DUE IF WE WERE HIT AND A REAL LIFE SHIT STORM HIT. WHO IS GOING TO RUN TO SAVE THE SHIT HOLES OF THIS CITY FROM PEOPLE BURNING THEIR HOMES AND LOOTING THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. THE SAME GOES FOR THE ELITE WHO LOOK DOWN ON POLICE AND FIRE FROM THEIR IVORY TOWERS. THIS DEPARTMENT HAS GONE DOWN THE TUBES! WE CANNOT BLAME THE CURRENT SUPE, HE HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE 8 WEEKS AND WHEN HE WAS FIRST DEPUTY, CLINE DID ALL HE COULD TO STRIP HIM OF THAT. I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE OLYMPIC COMMITY WATCHING! I AM MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE REAL BAD PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD.... THEY WANT TO DIE IN BATTLE, AND LEFT TO THE POWERS THAT BE WE WILL HAVE NO FIGHT LEFT IN US BY THE TIME THEY ARE DONE WITH US. THE POLICE ARE HAVING THEIR NUTS CUT OFF MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY!!!!
Maybe the Police can make up a new job for Cronin for next year's marathon, lets see "Director of Marathon Wiretaps and Weather Planning" at $100,000 more per year. Make his buddy Schmidt the Asst. Director. They can stick a bug up some Kenyan runner"s ass to see what he knows about drug sales on the West Side.
I was there. It was such a joke. Exposed everything wrong with the department. bad communications infrastructure. bad dispatchers. coppers with bad radio disapline. clueless bosses. absent bosses, one such disaster intersection there was 8 sgts trying to keep the world spinning, but NOT a single Gold Star to be seen. There are more gold stars in this department than ever. but where is the leadership? Why are they draining my pension fund for 6 figures, but could not direct a train down a set of railroad tracks? bosses sending groups of coppers to check on areas that were already covered, all they had to do was contact the sgt down there off the radio to find out what they need to know. no organization, no LEADERSHIP. CPD and the city got an "F" today.
to 4:04 guess you have never ran more than 1.5 miles ,probably under the gun. These runner's are athletes. How Dare you Question their training! Hit the street's: You 're probably the guy with all his fitness awards! If you're the police get to me/you need a talkin' to.
The person that died in the marathon was a brother police officer with a family who came here from Michigan to run in the marathon.
bone head political hacks strike again, DOPES!
I was at the marathon, and they had plenty of water...AT THE FINISH LINE!!! The water was there but not distributed properly along the route. The race officials should have planned better!
Even though they said they ran out of water, that's not actually true. I was there helping out with clearing out the park when the race was over and the last few people were still walking around. To my surprise, along columbus I saw hundreds of cases of bottled water just sitting there on the crates they were shipped in on. Why weren't those used? Hmmm
THE CITIZENS OF CHICAGO NEEDS THE MAYOR'S RESIGNATION NOW
Hey Daley , U got lot splaining to do. This is the ice on the cake. You just lost the Olympics you stupid fuck . Now take your TAX hike and stick it up your IRISH ass. Da Mayor is really pissed at this one . Look for heads to roll.also Fuck you to Monique . Your just as dumb as he is.
RE: ambulabce use. Last year I got sick at home, we thought it might be heart related. Wife calls ambo, and all I can think of its going to be a fire truck with a ems trained guy with that bag that they carry. No offense crosstrained firefighters, but we were very happy to see a ALS ambo pull up. I was very sure that the ambo would be east of me transporting a headcold to LCMH. They gave me great service, and it was appreciated.
Stay Safe!
why does running make you take a crap?
come on, we are prepared! We have cameras!!!
Once again the Stroger Bottled Water Co. (cousin to Todd) overcharged the city for thousands of bottles of Lake Michigan tap.
Who in their right fuckin mind would run a 26 mile marathon in this damn weather? Why didn't they call this run off or notify the runners that the marathon wouldn't run under such and such conditions, i.e hot as hell.
I would bet that 3/4 of the runners are out of shape and/or not conditioned to run in this type of weather.
All bills should be sent to LaSalle Bank and their numbnuts honchos....oh, now Bank of America.
Time for Daley to RESIGN now. Save our city!
Anonymous said...
Word is the runners all became sick after drinking the bottled water from the "Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal Bottle Water Company."
10/07/2007 05:30:00 PM
NOW THAT IS SOME FUNNY STUFF!
ROFLMAO! PERIOD!
Hey, how many cameras caught the runners dropping like flies? Now can I have some water please? ooops sorry, water be all gone.
All you suckers who bought overpriced property on the southside in the hopes for big bucks when the Olympics roll in. Just file Bankruptcy now.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
You big SUCKERS!
Daley sold you the LONDON BRIDGE!
"As the mayor of chicago, I want to assure all of the interested parties that today's cancellation of the chicago marathon was planned. We were aware of the high temperatures and foresaw the critical shortage of water, restroom facilities, and manpower to transport all of the ill participants. Just as we have yet to show anyone our super-secret evacuation plan for the city, we have kept today's pre-planned mass casualty disaster drill a secret, even from ourselves, I mean the participants and rescue personnel. We had planned for the possibility of a death occurring also, allocating each of the alderman's discretionary accounts(no, scratch that, 2 percent of the future police raise) as a guarantee against any lawsuits stemming from this pre-planned drill. In addition, I will put all of you on notice that whenever anything such as this occurs, it will be pre-planned. We will have a plan for everything. It is better to have a plan in effect instead of responding appropriately to an unforeseen situation."
richard m. daley
KING of chicago
If Daley would of just put a 25¢ meter on all the water fountains, like they did to the bathrooms in the 1970's, well, our tax shortfall would of been closed. Now there was some lax of planning!
I wonder what out-of-the-country meetings the Mayor will be at tomorrow to avoid local reporters and their questions.
I am going to beat a dead horse here, but since non police citizens have been reading this blog, it bears repeating.
Dear Mr. Citizen and/or media member (with a nose for investigating)
Please take a look at what happened today. Please pay attention to the bloggers who were working the marathon today. When the shit hit the fan, there was a breakdown in radio communications. There is an instance here where an officer was told by the dispatcher "everyone has an emergency". Do you want the affected person to be you or one of your loved ones? And please do not interpret this as a slam to the police or the dispatchers. All of us are doing the best that we can with what we have. Our communication system is a joke. In the event of a REAL disaster (terrorist attack, natural disaster) we will not be able to communicate clearly. This same type of problem was found to have happened on 9-11. Either not enough repeaters, antennas, channels or whatever. Any regular readers of this site will hear about batteries that don't last 8 hours. If an disaster strikes at 2:30 pm, and everybody has to stay in the field, I guaranfuckintee that those radios issued at the beginning of the tour will be dead in short order. To any citizens who read this site, or to any media who can still do a bit of investigative reporting, please, for the sake of everyone who lives in this city, ask some questions, make a stink. The police have complained to no avail. The higherups will not listen to us. Maybe they will listen when the citizens start asking questions.
And don't get me started about the cars and our computers
This all could of been avoided if they had a 26.2 mile swim marathon instead! Lake Michigan is a nice 69 degrees. Free floatation devices for all wheel chair entrees.
The only person who's heart beat was pacing faster then the marathon runners was Mayor Munchin Daley's! Word is that paramedics had to put the blood pressure cuff on the old Mayor to make sure he wasn't going to stroke out. Would be awful to have the Mayor and John Stroger in hospital beds next together on life support. But as much as both these parasites have sucked from all of us, they should be full of everything they need.
Did all these runners pay the higher price bus fares to use our CTA buses for cooling shelters and transportation? I think the tax payers just got butt phucked again!
Why was Dana Starks sweating like a roasted pig when he wasn't even running in the marathon? I bet daley will be in his office tomorrow on the holiday holding a little chat with many top officials.
Phil Cline, Jimmy Molloy and Jimmy Carroll all fainted from heat exhaustion just walking to the start line of the marathon. Donnie did a great job with 3 way mouth to mouth.
WE WERE IN CONTENTION FOR THE OLYMPICS.
I KNOW THE MAYOR DID NT KNOW RUNNERS NEEDED WATER ON A HOT AND HUMID DAY.
LUCKY DANA WAS THERE.
IT SEEMED LIKE THE QUICKY MARTS STEPPED IN AND HELPED OUT TO SELL THERE OVER PRICED DRINKS.
WELL IM GONNA HAVE A COOL ONE AND TURN THE AIR UP WHILE I WATCH THE BEARS.
i heard the runner who died was a copper from michigan. very sad- young guy with 3 kids.
my thoughts and prayers are with his family...
Ran out of water??? Why didn't they just crack the hydrants on every other corner. They're open all summer long and nothing gets done about it.
Chicago *** take note! YOU ARE NOT THE GREAT CITY YOU THINK YOU ARE!! Too many fingers in the pie. Instead of wasting money on a stupid marathon and the Olympics, use the money to clean up the GHETTOS and feed the hungry...maybe to HIRE a Mayor who isn't burned out.
"Too busy eating donuts or reading newspapers.
10/07/2007 12:38:00 PM'
ABSOLUTELY, ON BEHALF OF EVERY GOLD STAR ON THIS DEPARTMENT, PLACE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS!!
"The best thing I saw was the brother man selling bottles of water. He originally was selling them for $1.00 then as demand went up, he was getting over 10 bucks a bottle. Better than selling 10 dollar rocks I guess.
10/07/2007 04:05:00 PM"
IT'S THE FREE MARKET CAPTIALIST SYSTEM @ ITS FINEST, SUPPLY& DEMAND BABY!! HOPE HE MADE 500BUCKS TODAY. HE DESERVES IT!!
NBC just reported that the man that died was a Michigan Police Officer.
RIP to the Midland PO that died. Prayers to his family.
The one that died was a bicycle cop, and Officer of the Year in Michigan.
Although a lot of people are kidding around about the marathon today and the events that followed, the person who died is a police officer from Michigan and MORE importantly a father. KEEP THAT IN MIND.
CRASH!!!
911 Center CAD systen down for over 3 hours Sunday night and this after the cluster of a marathon. What will it take before this city stops with all the bullshit like "We need more libraries" and puts some dough into the 14 year old system at 911, the pdt's in police cars and finally hires more people to work on both side of the radio. Olympics!! ha ha ha ha
Disaster!! ha ha ha Thanks Mayor Dick.
Can anyone imagine how much worse it would have been had the Cubs made it to game 4 and the crowds were pouring into Wrigley Field.
I bet Daley is peeved royally and that some heads will end up on the chopping block.
If running a marathon is so healthy why are all these people dropping like flies on sticky paper?
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You must have slept through biology class.
Anonymous said...
The best thing I saw was the brother man selling bottles of water. He originally was selling them for $1.00 then as demand went up, he was getting over 10 bucks a bottle. Better than selling 10 dollar rocks I guess.
10/07/2007 04:05:00 PM
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esp. when the water is "bought" with tax funded LINK cards!!!
COMMANDER OF SPECIAL EVENTS AND DIRECTORY OF CITY OF CHICAGO MAYOR'S OFFICE OF SPECIAL EVENTS SHOULD BE REASSIGNED!!!!
POOR PLANNING AND RISK ASSESSMENT WITH LASALLE BANK PLANNERS WAS HORRIBLE!
Get rid of all the DumbAsses at the CPD Special Events! Oh! Wait-they can't, cause they're all fucking clout babies!
As for the "Officer in Charge" of this event/Police Detail? Shame on you! You should be demoted!!!!!
To think it would've made more sense to be a Fireman. At least there's no Accountability there when they fuck up.
thanks to the guy who posted that the bears were going to win! I made 500 mucho dinero off the bet! way to go!
You got to love it. All those politically connected people screwed up. Go figure. Can't even plan a race when you know in advance the weather conditions.
Again, bearing the fruit of highering connected incompetent people.
The media will let city hall slide and hammer us.
The guy that died was a copper from MI.
RIP Brother...
To: 3:57...heads will roll and it will be your friend for repeating stuff to you. Only two people in the vehicle with the mayor other than family. Let's see, that would be the driver and the Commander. Who would be stupid to repeat that to you to post on this site? Hmmmmmmm?
Screw the runners. Their was no water available for P.O.'s who were out in the sun without any breaks. No places to eat.
LaSalle Bank and the City of Chgo events planning people are to blame for this:
They knew how many registered runners there were.
And they knew what the weather was going to be like!!
How could they not prepare in advance and have ENOUGH WATER ON HAND!!??? For pete's sake, turn on the damn news on Friday and they tell you what the weekend outlook is. Guess what folks- it's going to be in the 80's on Saturday AND Sunday, and also VERY HUMID! That is the MAIN reason there were so many ill people. Had there been enough water, and also from what I hear, enough people on hand at the water stations, then this wouldn't have happened. At least, not to this degree. The CPD and CFD are not to blame. They did the best they could with limited resources.
If Chicago gets the Olympics, I am retiring early, and moving out of state.
sad to say but nothing will happen to richie and the boys as usual. the story will just get buried unless of course it had something to do with the police. but its the city and upper management, they get a free pass.. it just goes to show how unprepared we are. to much time worrying about planter boxes, condos, black fences, and bullshit camears making money for crime inc., sorry i mean the city. the police dept is on its last leg .. should have been putting money where it belongs not giant fucking beans!!!! thanks richie and God help us all.
DANA STARKS - PHILLY NEEDS A NEW POLICE CHIEF. LEAVE ALREADY WILL YA!
This is all bullshit, you can't blame the police for this, This is Chicago, and there's only 2 reasons to run for anything: an elective office, or from the police...Great preview for the olympics (hope we don't get it.) The funny thing is, nothing gets done in this town unless Daley says so.....and his friens are amking $$$$$..............Crook County is worse..Toddler....got in on the DEAD signature of his father......ITS LIKE THE MOVIE "DAVE", John Sr. is in the basement of the county on life support....while his dolt of a son holds the line on crooked politics.......
Chicago *** take note! YOU ARE NOT THE GREAT CITY YOU THINK YOU ARE!! Too many fingers in the pie. Instead of wasting money on a stupid marathon and the Olympics, use the money to clean up the GHETTOS and feed the hungry...maybe to HIRE a Mayor who isn't burned out.
Fuck the people who are hungry. Tell them to get a job. I'm so sick of supporting these wastes of air by feeding, and housing, and "educating" them, only to waste my time arresting them, and then paying to house them and feed them in jail. Survival of the fittest let them all wither away and die.
i finished first and walked the whole thing!
Hey Risley.. where were you terrorism expert? how come none of our "emergency plans" were put into effect? Cline's gone, and you have no one to tell you what to do?
What a legacy you've left us with Phil. No one able to make a decision, or for that matter spell the word.
Coddle Finnegan, coddle and promote incompetents. All your blo boys promoted, and not one capable of stepping into fill the job of Superintendant. Your legacy will be one of incompetence, corruption, and nepotism. Absolutely no leadership, foresight, or morale, you've done a great job.
But what do you care, now you're at the Memorial Trough. When are Risley and Cronin joining you there? As soon as they can learn to spell Memorial?
If Jimmy and Donny would have been in charge there would have been enough to drink.
Anonymous said...
Cannot confirm this but it came a beat-up looking Paramedic. CFD pulled in all ambulances in the city.(Leaving no coverage in the neighborhoods) Then OEMC pulled a MABAS (Mutual Assistance Box Alarm System) that brought in over 40 suburban ambulances. True or False? All I know is I saw Mt Prospect, Skokie, Summit and several other Ambulances responding to calls. They staged a 22nd & Wabash.
10/07/2007 08:17:00 PM
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Had a family member involved in the Mutual Aid....60 ambulances from Chicago, 40 from MedEx who had the contract for the Marathon and 40 suburbs each sent one ambulance. We stripped the suburbs of their service, stripped Chicago of their services. Wouldn't you think that these runners should KNOW their bodies and understand when it is time to stop? But no..they needed someone to tell them, you are going to DIE if you continue running. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
I worked the marathon today and THE REAL STORY is that the city has nothing to do with the marathon
There were so many calls for emergencies that you wouldn't believe it!!!
Ok, so then who is responsible for emergencies??? This has to be an exempt
Lasalle is out of business by the end of the year you will see bank of AMERICA signs on all the old lasalle buildings! what a way to go out with lasalle and daley both failing! oh wait a minute lasalle went under is the city next? CLOUT RULES RIGHT MAYOR, MAYBE GIVE YOUR CROOKED NEPHEW MORE OF OUR PENSION MONIES TO LOSE ASSHOLE!
Anonymous said...
To: 3:57...heads will roll and it will be your friend for repeating stuff to you. Only two people in the vehicle with the mayor other than family. Let's see, that would be the driver and the Commander. Who would be stupid to repeat that to you to post on this site? Hmmmmmmm?
10/08/2007 12:53:00 AM
Looks like another opening on the mayors detail, think maybe it was the kid with 6 years talking? WAIT A DAM MINUTE DALEY NEVER WORKS ON SUNDAYS WITNESS ALL THE ST. JUDE PARADES WHERE DALEY NEVER REARS HIS HEAD, BUT YET LAST YEAR PATRICK FITZGERALD CAME AND HONORED OUR FALLEN! MAYBE FITZGERALD WILL FINALLY GET DALEY OUT OF THE OFFICE AND GIVE HIM A NICE CELL!
12:35
The "Bronze"...Now that is a cool blogging name. It represents the fictional name used for the Mad Max movies of Mel Gibson. Mel played a dedicated police officer in post-civilization time. The unity of the "Bronze" was at an all time high. They were professional highwaymen. You chose a name that embodies how a REAL police dept should be....unified officers...good bosses....dedicated servants, etc.
If only the CPD could be like the "Bronze" of Mad Max.....
May God Bless the officer's family.
"No water for the P.O.s in the sun either..."
Very true. Most of us carried ice, water, and coolers in our squad cars, knowing how this shit can go.
By the way, 023 has a good friend in the store owner on Briar just west of Lake Shore Drive. Here we are, not from the district and he doesn't know us from Adam. He came out and made sure we had everything we needed. Good guy.
The Keesing Bandit says...
"Hire a mayor????
Methinks young knucklehead slept through government class.
Now, kees me you fool!!!
"The P.O.s and the Sergeants are the backbones of this department..."
Yesterday I felt like I was a few inches lower.
I am getting tired of all these events planned through the busiest part of our City. God forbid had the CUBS won on Saturday, there would have been a clust f--k with the Marathon and CUBS traffic!! I know the City makes money on these events but please have something like a 26 mile marathon go run down 55th and State.
This city reminds me of New Orleans before Katrina hit. How incompetent and corrupt everything was. You can bet that anything bad happens here all city workers including the police WILL head for the hills.
This was NOT the fault of the city or the police department, it lies with the planners of the marathon, the Lassalle bank people, the police and fire department did a great job considering the circumstances. It has NEVER been this hot for a Marathon, NEVER.
No space or hyphen please.
"CLUSTERFUCK" is one word.
None of this would have happened if Hubberman was in charge. ha.
To da mare who "can't make a decision on our top cop"
We need leadership now.
Also, why don't you consider pulling the plug, your honor, we also are in desperate need of new city leadership.
so...time for all of to make sure our families have emergency plans, med kits and water/food supplies, out of town contact person (because local phone service won't work), etc...
Anonymous said...
An informational picket line is beingt organized to protest the Mayor at the hotel where the Olympic committee is stayin for the International Boxing events in late Oct.
Issues??? NO CONTRACT, AND WE ARE OPRERATING UNDER A SUPT WHO NEVER PASSED AN EXAM AND COULDN'T FINISH HIGH SCHOOL
10/07/2007 08:10:00 PM
Let me know when and where?
Why would we want the olympics here? All it would do is attract pickpockets, robbers and other social scavengers. I think most importantly it could possibly attract a terrorist situation. I'm not knocking the mayor or the bosses on the job. We are NOT prepared for an event of this size. If we were prepared, why in the world would we want something like that here? So we could be more efficient in removing the bodies. Put the Olympics out in the Arizona desert. Why risk Chicago citizens and emergency workers. One policemans life is worth more than the prestige that a succesful olympics would bring to Chicago. Just my opinion.
why does running make you take a crap?
10/07/2007 09:33:00 PM
That's why as I started getting older, I don't chase these fucking ghetto rats anymore, although a nice shit in your pants once a year keeps everything in perspective...
Police's Fault. Bosses should have had more of the magic EVENT#'s pulled. That would have saved the day. When they have thier defbriefing meeting and all the W/C's and D/C's are at 35th ST they better pray that the have those event#s, and POD missions of the area that covered the Marathon.
The people running should take responsibility for them selfs. They knew it was gonna be 87 degrees and they run all the time so wheres the common sense. It's the same mentality blame everyone else!!!!! get a life .im surprised that they even let 45,000 people even run together. oh im sorry thats 2500.00 per person to run times 45,000 people, hummmm wheres that money!!! maybe they can give some of that to the law suits
Ran out of water??? Why didn't they just crack the hydrants on every other corner. They're open all summer long and nothing gets done about it.
10/07/2007 10:39:00 PM
Thats only allowed in the Ghetto!
This city looks more like New Orleans after Katrina hit. God forbid when something happens. Hey Richie time for you to retire and take all your cronies with you. That way you will have a few years in peace before you and your boys have rooms at Club Fed.
It's because of lax planning by the Police Dept. that these actions occur. Too busy eating donuts or reading newspapers.
10/07/2007 12:38:00 PM
There again its the police departments fault for not knowing millions of peoples own body limits. YOUR A GOOF! If your not in shape.....DON'T fuckin run! its simple!
The administers of The Chicago Marathon have never required it's runners to qualify, because the Chicago course is, for the most part, flat. The fact that it is so flat overall make it an "easy" marathon, or one in which novice marathoners can complete within the max. time allowed or less. However, a field of 45,000 runners is, in the simplest terms, an accident waiting to happen. You simply can't have a record sized field of entrants, and only provide/plan for last year's or the average year's numbers. Those responsible for staging the marathon should take an example from other big-city, large-field marathons(Boston, New York, London) and institute qualifying times. It would pare down the entrants, as well as, ensure that their fitness level would not become a burden.
I thought I seen mayor daley running in the marathon
somebody turned a fan on for a minute and blew the smoke away from the mirror just long enough to show the public how fucked up and unprepared this city and dept really is.
everybody quick to point fingers and blame but am I mistaken or was this not a volunteer no gun to the head marathon?
I WORKED THE MARATHON, AND IT WAS A CLUSTERFUCK, BUT I CAN SAY THIS THE POLICE OFFICERS AND THE SERGEANTS DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB. DID NOT SEE ANY EXEMPTS AND THE BLAME SHOULD FALL FAIRLY ON STARKS. BUT ON A COMIC NOTE I ASKED MY SERGEANT IF MARIA MAHER WAS COMING ON TO THE SCENE AND HE YELLED "GOD FORBID." CAN ANYBODY VERIFY IF SHE WAS THERE, SHE IS THE MOST USELESS BOSS IN THE CPD.
CHICAGO SUNTIMES TUESDAY MORNING:
"Chicago Police Officers were observed at the marathon yelling, 'Go, Go, Go, You can do it!!!!!!' to marathoners who were running without any water."
"Many plan to sue."
I want to know why coppers, who did not want to go, were assigned to McCormick Place to sell T-shirts for the Marathon, when they should have been in the district working. WTF?
Cary Pinkowski is quoted as saying that they didn't run out of water, they had a "distribution" problem.
What a jagoff.
i know that cline,molloy, & carroll were well pepared due to the fact donny had in his possession a white castle crave case, 7-11 super size nachos with extra cheese whiz,& a large bag of weiners from fat johnny's.donny was also in charge of oral support duing the race.
and who picks up the tab for all the plastic bottles, empty cups, vomit, misc litter, etc. Streets and San I'm sure gets lots of OT for this. Does LaSalle Bank pay the city for the clean-up (or now Bank of America?)
Who holds the $$bag$$ for this mess? And oh yea, we don't have a conract yet and probably will see a few more LaSalle Bank (Bank of America) marathons before we get a contract.
None of this would have happened if Hubberman was in charge. ha.
10/08/2007 08:56:00 AM
Could not be worse under current leaders. We need change and Huberman is the future. He is organized and understands management. He can fix the communications problems.
I was handling a job up at st Francis Hospital in Evanston. I asked a couple of CFD paramedicas on a run there if they had to go downtown for the marathon emergency. They replied they had been on regular duty up north all day long.
I'd lke to see a real marathon. Start in 011 - finish in 007. Anyone still alive wins!!
Anonymous said...
An informational picket line is beingt organized to protest the Mayor at the hotel where the Olympic committee is stayin for the International Boxing events in late Oct.
Issues??? NO CONTRACT, AND WE ARE OPRERATING UNDER A SUPT WHO NEVER PASSED AN EXAM AND COULDN'T FINISH HIGH SCHOOL
10/07/2007 08:10:00 PM
WHEN AND WHERE?
10/07/2007 12:38 . Civi this marathon was not the responsibility of the police. We had nothing to do with it. All we are there to do is to make sure the runners are safe from vehicular traffic. Eating donuts comment - DUMB. Maybe you are eating to many donuts. Get your facts straight you dumb dumb.
How much is it to run in the marathon ?
Bank of America gives loans to illegals.
"Could not be worse under current leaders. We need change and Huberman is the future. He is organized and understands management. He can fix the communications problems.
10/08/2007 08:08:00 PM"
ABSOLUTELY, ONE NEED LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE STATE OF THE ART CLEAR SYSTEM& THE POD CAMERAS, WAIT, WAS THAT A GUNSHOT DETECTED @ FOSTER& PULASKI? IF IT WAS IT'S PROABABLY SOMEONE POACHING DEER IN LA BAUGH WOODS
YEAH HUBIE IS OUR SAVIOR ALL BOW TOHIS GREATNESS!!
To everyone who says 'the city had nothing to do with the marathon, it's LaSalle bank's [soon to be Bank of America]'s job!' You've really bought into the Daley PR machine. Don't you realize, NOTHING happens in this city that he don't approve of. Like the old saying goes, it's his city, we just live in it.
Remember the heat wave of 1995 anyone? how did daley deal with that? that's right, by doing nothing, then steering the blame towards the poor fucks unlucky enough to die. and he was successful in that, too! he's a rat bastard, but a genius rat bastard.
Anonymous said...
To everyone who says 'the city had nothing to do with the marathon, it's LaSalle bank's [soon to be Bank of America]'s job!' You've really bought into the Daley PR machine. Don't you realize, NOTHING happens in this city that he don't approve of. Like the old saying goes, it's his city, we just live in it.
Remember the heat wave of 1995 anyone? how did daley deal with that? that's right, by doing nothing, then steering the blame towards the poor fucks unlucky enough to die. and he was successful in that, too! he's a rat bastard, but a genius rat bastard.
10/09/2007 12:20:00 AM
ON 01OCT07 LASALLE IS GONE YES THE SIGNS ARE STILL IN PLACE BUT BANK OF AMERICA TOOK FULL CONTROL, MANY BRANCHES WILL CLOSE, AND HOPEFULLY THE MARATHON IS GONE AFTER THIS DALEY DISASTER! LASALLE BANK COULD CARELESS THEY HAVE NO MORE LOYALTY THE BIG PAID EXECS SOLD OUT JUST LIKE DALEY DOES WITH THE CITY AND "OUR" MONEY! THE HEAT WAVE DALEY BLAMED ALL THE OLD FOLKS AND THEIR FAMILIES,THIS HE WILL BLAME LASALLE,THE COOK COUNTY BUILDING FIRE ON WEST WASHINGTON HE BLAMED THE PEOPLE, BUT THEN HIS FRIEND ELZIE HIGGLEBOTTOM MAKES MILLIONS FROM MANAGING THAT BUILDING ALONG WITH BEING A FRIEND (READ PAYSOFF) MAGGIE TO HAVE MANY O'HARE CONTRACTS FOR THE FOOD AREAS AND BOOKSTORES, AT MIDWAY DALEYS GUY RAND (BLACK IN COLOR ONLY) HAS 13 RESTAURANTS I THOUGHT MINORITY OWNERSHIP MEANS THAT EVERYONE GETS A PIECE OF THE PIE? SORRY IT IS CHICAGO AND WE CAN REMEMBER DALEYS FRIENDS AGAIN THE DUFFS WHO GOT OVER 100 MILLION FROM "US" IN FAKE MINORITY CONTRACTS BUT THEY WENT TO PRISON! LETS HOPE PATRICK FITZGERALD GETS DALEY NEXT!
To: 10/07/2007 12:38:00 PM
>>It's because of lax planning by the Police Dept. that these actions occur. Too busy eating donuts or reading newspapers.<<
Hold on for a second while I put my donut down so I could turn to the next page....Okay now,
FUCK YOU!!!
God, I love doughnuts!!!!!
ultimate culpability rests with the city! they are responsible to respond to "emeergency situations", and as we all know they again were unprepared! will daley be finally held responsible? of course not the media is afraid to confront the babbler as they are scared to death to deal with "the all powerful oz daley"! The media chumps though will look at cpd only the working blue shirts always but as usual exempts and wjite shirts get the free ride on everything! we can only hope the U.S attorney gets the higher ups!
How much is it to run in the marathon ? 10/08/2007 10:40:00 PM
The race fee was $110 this year, increased from $90 in 2006.
"Those responsible for staging the marathon should take an example from other big-city, large-field marathons(Boston, New York, London) and institute qualifying times." 10/08/2007 02:17:00 PM
Boston has qualifying times, but New York and London are by lottery.
Anonymous said...
"Those responsible for staging the marathon should take an example from other big-city, large-field marathons(Boston, New York, London) and institute qualifying times." 10/08/2007 02:17:00 PM
Boston has qualifying times, but New York and London are by lottery.
10/10/2007 11:35:00 PM
Yes but in Chicago.
They (LaSalle/Bank of America)
they have to pay off all the "people" in politics so they need all the $$$ and runners they can get..
How much is it to run in the marathon ? 10/08/2007 10:40:00 PM
The race fee was $110 this year, increased from $90 in 2006.
10/10/2007 11:27:00 PM
well 45,000 runners times 110 = 4,950,000.00
by law do they have to show where all the monies go to ??
well 45,000 runners times 110 = 4,950,000.00
by law do they have to show where all the monies go to ??
10/11/2007 01:36:00 PM
And in 2006, it was 40k runners x $90 for a total of $3.6 million, so 2007 receipts increased 37.5% over '06.
A poster on the CARA (Chicago Area Runners Assoc) message boards reported earlier this year that he has dealings with LaSalle Bank in his professional life, and that "they [LaSalle Bank] are proud to say that they almost have the marathon running as a profit center".
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