No Sticker Art At All
- In another bad turn for a 2012-2013 city sticker design contest for Chicago students that last week became mired in controversy over gang symbols, the artwork of the runner-up winner will also not be used, City Clerk Susana Mendoza announced Saturday.
The “Chicago Heroes” design by Caitlin Henehan, a senior at Resurrection High School, was chosen after Mendoza nixed the previous winner’s entry because of questions posed by former police superintendent Jody Weiss and others about perceived gang signs incorporated into that 15-year-old boy’s drawing.
But because of “unwanted media and public scrutiny and criticism of her artwork,” Henehan’s family “has now requested that their child’s artwork not be used,” Mendoza said in a statement released with the family.
We figured that next year they were going to cancel the contest.
Good call by the parents of Ms. Henehan to quell this before it started getting really stupid. It was a lose/lose for their daughter no matter how it played out.
Good call by the parents of Ms. Henehan to quell this before it started getting really stupid. It was a lose/lose for their daughter no matter how it played out.
Labels: un-fucking-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
86 Comments:
Anonymous said...
(OT) Susie changes her mind AGAIN! Hey susie just make a generic sticker thats it!You and your office are entirely responsible for this bullshit...
2/11/2012 06:20:00 PM
HEY DIPSHIT!
Read the damn story. If you had, you'd know that the runner up is being harassed by the media and others who aren't happy about her design and her family is upset with all of the unwanted attention they're getting.
Her family no longer wants her art to be on the city stickers.
Don't blame the Clerk, asshat. She's been solid throughout. You want to criticize someone, go after Mayor Scared-to-take-a-side!
Why not just make the sticker that says "Congrats! you just got fucked by the city of Chicago for $78.00 See you next year."
Good! That's how it should be
How about we get rid of the stupid stickers all together! It's a waste of my money that goes into the city politicians pockets... Chicago's broke? But they nickel & dime their citizens every chance they get! Can't wait untill I retire, I'm freakn outta this dump! I yeah get ready for speed cameras to "protect students".
Rahm works fast.
I guess Little Gangsta Herbie will have to go back to defacing garage doors and posting his Thug bullshit on facebook. Can't wait for his next arrest and him blaming everyone but himself for his troubles. Won't be long folks. Herbie is the gift that keeps on giving. And how long before he can cash in that savings bond?
The media caused this by not give all the facts. I gave up on watching the news after this. There was no fair and balanced reporting. The news made the kid the victim who was turning his life around. Well time will tell on that. For the kid who never does nothing wrong and follows all the rules, watch out, and I hope you are never victimized by these offenders who hide behind that statement.
Agreed!
"Good call by the parents of Ms. Henehan to quell this before it started getting really stupid. It was a lose/lose for their daughter no matter how it played out."
And there, plain as the nose on your face, is the difference...
PARENTS THAT ACTUALLY "PARENT".
I've never met the Henehan family, but I'll bet everything I own that Dad Henehan isn't littered with gang tattoos, nor has he supplied cocaine in bulk.
Similarly, I'm confident that Mom Henehan doesn't "chillax" around the house all day smoking blunts, watching movies and self-lubricating to sexual fantasies with dead rap 'musicians'.
Understandably shunning the media attention associated with this nonsense, the Henehan's are the people who actually need to be recognized and congratulated... praised for raising a child that, from all appearances, is respectful, talented, articulate, smart and well-grounded.
But only in this ass-backwards society, and in particular this city, will instead a piece of shit family like the Pulgars be rewarded for being assholes who should've been sterilized before they ever had a chance to procreate. Once again, they're being coddled courtesy of the Democratic Nanny State - another 'point of interest' on the "Cradle-To-The-Grave-Entitlement-Road Map" visited - all while represented pro-bono by a soulless attorney who will be the mouthpiece of a charade we've seen way too many times.
Being rewarded for ignorance and mediocrity, dismissing absentee parents as 'the norm' and championing the gang lifestyle as acceptable is disgusting when advocated by everyday apathetic dolts. But add some of the media, politicians and clergy into this equation as vocal supporters of this abomination and you can see why this city and state are just about past the Point Of No Return.
A tip of my hat and a firm handshake to the Henehan parents -another invaluable life-lesson instilled in an impressionable mind. Way to go, Mom & Dad!
God bless you both.
I have decided to design a new sticker for the city ill send the Pic to SCC later...or you can use the other Pic o sent ...2012. Gang conference
just cancel this idiotic contest.now that the city has made itself a even bigger laughingstock.it's just done to sugarcoat the fact that we have outrageously priced city stickers...most places they cost 1/10th of what they cost here.
212am, some of your best stuff yet. Hit it out of the ballpark with this one, plus this parsgraph had me crying-
"Similarly, I'm confident that Mom Henehan doesn't "chillax" around the house all day smoking blunts, watching movies and self-lubricating to sexual fantasies with dead rap 'musicians'.
You did the Henehan Family a solid with this post. nice job.
Anonymous said...
"How about we get rid of the stupid stickers all together!..."
2/12/2012 12:38:00 AM
1.2 million stickers.
Over $100,000,000.00 in revenue for the city?
YEAH RIGHT!
Mayor 9.5 ain't cutting that out of HIS budget. That helps pay for a lot of his pet projects, like helping to fund the Dream Act or his Sanctuary City of illegal Democratic voters that keeps the Dems in office because the Republicans want to cut off all their free checks and send them back home!
No DREAM Act?
Dream on!
The news made the kid the victim who was turning his life around. Well time will tell on that.
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Time doesn't need to tell. Still living a life of crime, at least since the start of the new year. He *has* been arrested recently. And not just for petty shit. But don't look it up - you'll be tracked and wind up in trouble.
ITN
Hey, SCC... If you didn't see it yet, the blog of the staff of Chicago Magazine (called The 312) has picked up the City Sticker story and linked 4 of your posts AND Shaved. The link to Shaved, though, brings you to his "new" blog that started yesterday. As you know, his blog and it's ENTIRE archives has been hacked or deleted or otherwise has simply "disappeared".
Anyway, they will allow comments but you must register to do so and they screen them. So far, they have nothing more than the rest of the msm...
The 312:
"...If you're a grownup, you can read the post here. It got picked up by the widely read Second City Cop blog, which has posted several times on it (1,2,3,4). And now it's a mainstream media story..."
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine
/The-312/February-2012/Gang-Signs-in-the-Chicago-City-Sticker-A-Rorschach-Test/
It is a shame that the Henehan's were harassed in this backward commie city. Mr. Pulgar cannot fool the "thinking" public that he is an innocent young man as social media has exposed him. We are fast becoming a "mad max" type of society.
We don't need no stinkin "art" on our city vehicle licenses. How about a picture of Racoon Eyes smiling his evil grin holding a fistfull of money !!!!!!!!
O.T.
WTF
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-police-union-sues-burge-attorneys-over-fees-20120210,0,5975878.story
Rockford did something interesting. The band Cheap Trick did an album called Rockford and they used the album cover for their city sticker one year.
Here's an idea....yellow, red, blue, purple, orange, green, white, black. Keep rotating the colors. That would be of assistance to us, just like the license tags. One glance and you can see what it is.
You know, I understand all the comments about Herbie being a thug--but this kid never stood a chance. Born to a crack whore, basically, and look at his dad. He truly is a victim of his environment.
Go ahead and slam me, but from birth, this kid's path and future were already pretty much written.
Just make the sticker like those on city vehicles. Change the color every year. Simple.
How about somebody drawing a picture of Jesse Jackson and the Rahmster in a passionate kiss.
This crap just keeps getting better. How many pills you poppin a day now Rahmmy?
I am littered with tatoos and Im a cop. They aren't gang tatts but does that make me bad?
just cancel this idiotic contest.now that the city has made itself a even bigger laughingstock.it's just done to sugarcoat the fact that we have outrageously priced city stickers...most places they cost 1/10th of what they cost here.
2/12/2012 03:50:00 AM
I dunno about that--in NC, you have to pay a yearly fee just to drive a car. My sister-in-law has to pay $800 per year, and she drives a 2000 Toyota Camry. I guess the price you have to pay is based on the value of your vehicle--which is insane, for a 2000 Camry????
Why not just put Herbie's dad's Interpol warrant picture on the sticker?
That would be like 1.3 million moving "Wanted Posters" that would put the post office lobbies to shame.
P.S. Good call by the Henehan "PARENTS"
Since we can't agree I say we just dont have one this year and not have to buy one.
Understandably shunning the media attention associated with this nonsense, the Henehan's are the people who actually need to be recognized and congratulated... praised for raising a child that, from all appearances, is respectful, talented, articulate, smart and well-grounded.
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I second that. Caitlin was at work when she was informed about the disqualification of the winner. So this talented, articulate, beautiful young woman is gainfully employed too.
The Henehans have raised a very talented young daughter. She isn't "turning her life around" she got it right the first time.
Herbie Pulgars parents are a train wreck and a disgrace. No wonder their kid is one screw up away from the reformatory.
Instead of wasting time and prize money, why don't we put the advertisement space on the sticker out there to the highest bidder and god forbid (lower the cost of the damn thing) for hard working taxpayers. Also, increase fines and actually go after those that don't buy one. Makes sense.
Anonymous said...
just cancel this idiotic contest.now that the city has made itself a even bigger laughingstock.it's just done to sugarcoat the fact that we have outrageously priced city stickers...most places they cost 1/10th of what they cost here.
2/12/2012 03:50:00 AM
Chicago has the greediest politicians in the United States ! They want it All !!!!
Chicago, laughing stock of the country. Chicago politician Obama, laughing stock of th world.
I think the contest was a good idea, it did give some kids the ability to express some of their artistic talents, and the $1000 wasn't too shabby....UNFORTUNATELY it was the adults that fail, someone, somewhere should have caught this glitch before it became a political ping pong
The contest is a good one! What could be better than giving talented kids recognition? For some reason it was hijacked this year by ineptitude and political squabbling. Any concerns about gang signs or flesh colored hoses should have been addressed far earlier in the process and questionable pictures scrubbed or resubmitted. Unless Mendoza personally ok'd the final pool of submissions, seems to be getting a lot of unwarranted flack. She did right by offering Herb a consolation prize and giving the runner up the honor.
How can we expect our "Leaders" to solve the real problems in this City, State, and Country, when they cannot even figure this out ? This is a time for strong leadership. Someone who is willing to take the political heat for making the right decisions. Even if we had a strong leader, the media, would pick him or her apart. The media has the backing of the subsidized masses. The mentally challenged liberals. The "Race Baiters". Face It. We are in Big Trouble.
Off topic DOA police is getting a swat team
I had never even HEARD of city stickers until I moved to this shithole. What a sad state of affairs. Idiots here accept this blatant money grab as a norm now. Meanwhile my home state still doesn't have any toll roads, speed cameras, or city stickers and still manages to have a surplus. Accepting a position here was the WORST mistake I have ever made. (fart noise)
Years ago one of the now retired guys asked the then clerk to make a sticker that changed shape every year and also had the years numbered so you could read it thru the back. This would make it much easier for the officer on a traffic stop.
Yea, you can guess where that good suggestion went.
A nice picture of the Chicago skyline would do just fine.
Can we please give this stupid city sticker a rest.?This shit is getting old and who get the benefits of this stupid topic?! The fucking media!! I mean really, who gives a flying fuck about this sticker?
Time to let this one go and move the fuck on. Shall we?
Be safe, stay warm, and please back each other up no matter how much you dislike the PO sitting next to you in roll call room.
When Cardinal George passes on to his just reward I want to be the first to nominate Father Flavor as our new Socialist Cardinal. Imagine...Cardinal Flavor. Has a nice sound doesn't it. Then the radical priest/cardinal can chase the rest of the Catholics away from the church in Chicagoland. I often wonder what makes this guy hate White people so much. We may never know.
cancel this stupid contest and sell the rights to the sticker like everything else in the city..This city sticker brought to by VISA
Did the Clerk buy a $1,000 bond for the second contest winner too ?
Leave it to the greedy gangbangers, their generations of democratic entitlement families and their lawyers to screw something so simple as this up.
Anonymous READING IS AN ARTFORM said...
Anonymous said...
(OT) Susie changes her mind AGAIN! Hey susie just make a generic sticker thats it!You and your office are entirely responsible for this bullshit...
2/11/2012 06:20:00 PM
HEY DIPSHIT!
Read the damn story. If you had, you'd know that the runner up is being harassed by the media and others who aren't happy about her design and her family is upset with all of the unwanted attention they're getting.
Her family no longer wants her art to be on the city stickers.
Don't blame the Clerk, asshat. She's been solid throughout. You want to criticize someone, go after Mayor Scared-to-take-a-side!
2/12/2012 12:05:00 AM
Apparently susies driver responds!
(OT) Someone on here said some detectives are being accused of "double dipping," they were caught on tape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3w4cS2MvM
Back in the early 90s, the city stickers were small, generic with just a number and city seal and they were a different color every year. Time to go back.
Get rid of this stupid, politically correct City Sticker Contest altogether. Give the TAXPAYERS a break already, make the stickers black and white, printing only, with date of validity , year, and seriel number only. Cheaper to produce than the multi-colored, cartoonish stickers that I'm so tired of seeing on my cars windshield year after year. This should knock the sticker's cost to taxpayers down about $10 bucks a sticker, maybe a little less, but the Democrrat Politicians will steal it anyway. Everybody should sacrafice, except the Politicians, right ????
This whole contest is stupid and should be scrapped forever!
Da Pelon
Will anyone even comment about the cop suing another cop making accusations about his family being gang members and selling drugs? Reading these comments you would think anyone associated with gangs are less than human. What does that say about a cop whose family has gang ties?
"Don't blame the Clerk...She's been solid throughout."
--2/12/2012 12:05:00 AM
Yeah, solid all the way from swooning over Herb Dilla at the start to giving him her own money at the end.
"The issues with the design — which Mendoza publicly praised just a week prior and called Pulgar a “rock star” — arose when a popular police blog pointed out that the sticker seemed to feature elements paying tribute to a street gang called the Maniac Latin Disciples..."
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/10/chicago-city-clerk-scraps-boys-winning-sticker-for-supposed-gang-symbols/
Mendoza came into the room like Weis did -- the last one to know anything.
What kinda "rock" was that?
Since I am retiring this year, this is very likely the very last city sticker I will ever buy.
It isn't like the old days when someone always had a box of city stickers for sale.
"UNFORTUNATELY it was the adults that fail..."
--2/12/2012 09:27:00 AM
Yeah, a guy hiding in a foreign country fighting extradition on drug charges doesn't make much of a Dad....and then there's Mom.
Why do people frantically point everywhere but where the blame belongs?
4: 00 am, no it doesnt make you bad, you just look unprofessional. Those played out tribal tatts, on the bíceps, praying hands on the forearms, tattooed rosary around the neck and wrist and your kids names, up and down your neck, give the public, especially, those over 50, the perception that you're no different from the corner street thug. Once had an older citizen, tell my partner, who loved to roll up his shirts, not wear a turtleneck or tie, if it wasnt that she can see he came out of a squad car, she would have called 911 a second time, because he might have been a police impersonator, with all those tattoo's. She told him, please dont get those awful bullrings to his nose or eyebrows, since having those tattoos would just lead to more deviancy and it just did not look professional. my partner promised to not get the bullring and we had a good laugh after.
just put the city flag or the american flag or maybe pics of our fallen chicago hero's on the sticker. ditch the artwork project all together.
Don't you see the city sticker for what it really is ? The receipt indicating
that you have paid the
Chicago " Wheel Tax " for
the privilege of driving on
these pot-holed and crumbling Chicago streets.
Ditto for Jesse White's
Ninety-Nine dollar state
wheel tax/state plate sticker.
A symbol of an Ankh... Sanctuary City.
Maybe a rainbow too for good measure.
And a Jesus fish.
Or a kitty.
Only in a town run by bozos.
@8:04am Most states have plates priced on the value of the car,,,,If you have a new Bentley in California you're paying about 5K in plates....if you have a POS '88 Honda, you pay about 50 bucks.
In AZ the plates are tied to the value of the car at the time of original sale without depreciation,,,,that is truly a ripoff.....
Let's hope the IL legislature and Quinn don't get the idea of tying the plates to the value of the car.
Anonymous said...
I had never even HEARD of city stickers until I moved to this shithole. What a sad state of affairs. Idiots here accept this blatant money grab as a norm now...
2/12/2012 10:17:00 AM
I've lived here my whole life, 50+ yrs. There has NEVER been a time, that I recall, when we did NOT have to purchase a city sticker. I guess we're not just ACCEPTING it as the norm... IT IS THE NORM.
Just take a preemptive mug shot of the TINY DANCER and put in on the sticker.
Mount it on the rear view mirror so you know who's hand is in your pocket while he's corn holeing you.
Try this :
Put the owners picture on it and they can brag they are zero tolerance on auto theft?
"Still living a life of crime, at least since the start of the new year. He *has* been arrested recently. And not just for petty shit."
--2/12/2012 06:01:00 AM
Gee, the new year started, what, a whole 5 1/2 weeks ago.
"It's all stupid stuff he did in his past."
Yuh.
I wonder -- will Hypothetical here be "tried as an adult" before he reaches 18?
Why not just make the sticker that says "Congrats! you just got fucked by the city of Chicago for $78.00 See you next year."
2/12/2012 12:07:00 AM
$78.00??? My pick-up sticker is effin $200.00
Hey, Mendoza troll, why don't you post another 40 more times?
Here's an idea....yellow, red, blue, purple, orange, green, white, black. Keep rotating the colors. That would be of assistance to us, just like the license tags. One glance and you can see what it is
$$$$ AMEN AMEN The year Old man Daley died the next years stickers still had his signature on them
Only in Shitcago
Anonymous said...
I am littered with tatoos and Im a cop. They aren't gang tatts but does that make me bad?
2/12/2012 08:04:00 AM
It doesn't make you bad. It just makes you a goof.
Anonymous said...
I had never even HEARD of city stickers until I moved to this shithole. What a sad state of affairs. Idiots here accept this blatant money grab as a norm now. Meanwhile my home state still doesn't have any toll roads, speed cameras, or city stickers and still manages to have a surplus. Accepting a position here was the WORST mistake I have ever made. (fart noise)
2/12/2012 10:17:00 AM
Where were you from? I'm going to be retiring in the next few years and am planning to get out of here for certain.
Anonymous said...
Rockford did something interesting. The band Cheap Trick did an album called Rockford and they used the album cover for their city sticker one year.
2/12/2012 07:28:00 AM
They could use the band Chicago's logo. At least they're one good thing that came out of this city.
I hope Li'l Herbie sues someone, anyone. Then the little rats criminal history can come out.
New sticker should be a "goatse" design.
You know, I understand all the comments about Herbie being a thug--but this kid never stood a chance. Born to a crack whore, basically, and look at his dad. He truly is a victim of his environment.
Go ahead and slam me, but from birth, this kid's path and future Were already pretty much written.
2/12/2012 07:44:00 AM
I won't slam you, but I gotta say I know of at least 2 coppers that were in my district that grew up in the 'jets, so....You don't necessarily have to be a victim of your environment.
How about having a different felon-alderman/politician on the City Sticker every year? One year one convicted alderman, the next year maybe one of the Caruthers family, jeez, we'd have a 30 or 40 year supply at lease, more if you include convicted judges, City Clerks, building inspectors and the like.
And as for license plates, we can have the George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich Commemorative Felony license plates.
The Blagojevich plate would be a better deal, good for 14 years, minus 20% for good behaviour.
Felons make the plates, why not put felons on the plate?
From someone not a cop and who disagrees with a lot of you guys all the time --
I love the honesty of this blog. Don't read "shaved," to me that's the most stupid name he could possibly come up with for a blog, and once when a post there was relevant to my work, I tried to click on it and our system blocked it. "Shaved Longcock" -- come on, be serious.
But I love the honesty of this blog. And one thing you guys are so right about is how reporters and editors were suckered in by this kid and his mom. I say him crying his eyes out for channel 9 and then later again on channel 7. What a bunch of phony baloney. It was sad how they just bought the whole thing. For what it's worth to you, I think many of us non-cops figured this out for the BS it was. But a lot of credit ought to go to you guys for educating us on what the symbols and images meant because that's your world and the rest of us have no idea.
Poor little Herbie Pulgar -- what a load of crap.
Be safe out there and thank you.
"The legislation, pushed by House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) and Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego), passed the House Personnel and Pensions Committee on a 6-2 vote with one member voting present."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/5611930-418/house-panel-oks-changing-pension-system-for-current-public-workers.html
And the new winner of the city sticker art contest is little Mary VANECKO!
Don't blame the Clerk, asshat. She's been solid throughout.
Off your Knees!! She's apolitician
Your the PO PO???? Ha
Whaddya wanna bet that the Maniac Disciple arseholes or whatever their name is, directly or indirectly threatened the family of the runner-up?
Sticker: I like the Bozo suggestion, and he can show 9.5 fingers.
Anonymous said...
I had never even HEARD of city stickers until I moved to this shithole. What a sad state of affairs. Idiots here accept this blatant money grab as a norm now...
2/12/2012 10:17:00 AM
I've lived here my whole life, 50+ yrs. There has NEVER been a time, that I recall, when we did NOT have to purchase a city sticker. I guess we're not just ACCEPTING it as the norm... IT IS THE NORM.
You have lived in this shithole your whole life? Feel sorry for you. This place sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls.
Someone put together a fund for Ms. Henehan.. she had a great design and it didn't include gang signs. I'd donate $100 to that fund.
What a joke this city has become. The democrat city that doesn't work
Why not just make the sticker that says "Congrats! you just got fucked by the city of Chicago for $78.00 See you next year."
2/12/2012 12:07:00 AM
$78.00??? My pick-up sticker is effin $200.00
___________________________________
Yours should be twice as big then...
Here's an idea....yellow, red, blue, purple, orange, green, white, black. Keep rotating the colors. That would be of assistance to us, just like the license tags. One glance and you can see what it is.
I agree with you 100%
Yours should be twice as big then...
2/13/2012 08:38:00 AM
that kind of talk will get you everywhere.
This place sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls.
2/13/2012 12:46:00 AM
stay thirsty, mt friends.
why not sell advertising space on the sticker and lower the price of the sticker
"I am littered with tatoos and Im a cop. They aren't gang tatts but does that make me bad?"
What does the fact that you described yourself as "littered" tell you? You're supposed to be a cop. You will be perceived as a guest arrestee on "Cops".
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