A Good Story for Streets & San
In the right place at the right time:
Good job, Ms. Baggett.
- Two Streets and Sanitation workers rescued a little boy who was being followed by a man who tried to grab him on his way to school Thursday morning in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Police arrested a 57-year-old man, who is due in bond court today on charges related to the incident in the 7100 block of South Morgan Street.
“I’m very glad I could help him,’’ said City Dept. of Streets and Sanitation staffer Mary Baggett, who said she was working this morning when she and a co-worker saw the little boy in trouble.
“If I could do it again, I would,’’ Baggett said.
The victim, a 10-year-old boy, told police had just left his home and was on his way the Hinton Elementary School at 644 W. 71 St. when he stopped to tie his shoe while in an alley about 9 a.m., according to a police report.
The boy spotted a man behind him walking quickly toward him so he began to run away but the man began running too, and reaching for him with his hand, the report said.
When the victim scampered in between two abandoned buildings to get away, Baggett and a woman she was working with saw him and asked him if was OK, according to the report.
“No, he’s chasing me,’’ the boy told the women, who saw the man he was talking about emerge from the alley, the report stated.
The workers took action and placed the boy in their car while they called police. They drove the boy to his friend’s house nearby and he contacted his father from the school, police said.
Good job, Ms. Baggett.
posted by SCC at 12:09 AM
12 Comments:
And Rahm is thinking he choose poorly this morn. Shoulda picked streets n san instead of Cfd to line the streets on the school reorg plan.
Job Well Done by the two Streets and San employees!
Don't give the tiny dancer any ideas.
He'll have the garbage men walking the little niblets to school!
Sometimes God puts you exactly where you need to be. Good job.
Glad the boy is safe at home. Had CPS clsosed the school the boy was walking to, this would not have happened. Blame the school not the parents. The incident happened around 9am. The boy was obviously not late at all. Both parents work so they couldn't walk him. We need people walking kids to school for safety reasons. Let's call them walkers.
Nicely done.
Have I missed all those new jibjabs here?
Job well done by these employees, helping out this young boy in his time of distress.
Throw the book at the offender for terrorizing this child.
Thanks guys, we need citizens like you that everywhere.
Take care of your S&S crews. I always try to meet with some chilled bottles of water. If there is an extra load or at Christmas I have some restaurant gift cards for them.
P.S. Also take care of your Letter Carrier.
Glad the boy is safe at home. Had CPS clsosed the school the boy was walking to, this would not have happened. Blame the school not the parents. The incident happened around 9am. The boy was obviously not late at all. Both parents work so they couldn't walk him. We need people walking kids to school for safety reasons. Let's call them walkers.
You're an idiot. The people we need walking the kids to school for safety reasons are called "Parents". As in the two people who created the kid.
Quit making excuses for shitty parenting and proposing yet another reason for people to skirt the responsibilities associated with being a normal part of society.
"Blame the school not the parents" you say. That ranks right up there with blaming guns, not the assholes pulling the triggers. 10 year kids aren't supposed to be walking to school by themselves damn near ANYWHERE, especially ghetto land Chicago.
Get your head out of your ass and quit relying on a nanny state to raise you and your family - it's slowly killing us taxpayers.
Good job. Bet the dad(?) was pissed because the kid woke him.
Now the Streets & San workers will get disciplined for transporting a non city employee in a city vehicle.
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