Giant Walking Puppets
No, not the City Council - these are imported!
- Chicago has come up with a really big idea to boost tourism: giant puppets roaming the city's streets for days in an elaborate theatrical presentation.
A multimillion-dollar deal is in the works to make Chicago the stage for Royal de Luxe, a French street theater company featuring marionettes as tall as 50 feet, during the summer of 2016, according to sources.
Chicago would be the first foray into the U.S. for Royal de Luxe, and officials confirmed Friday that talks are underway to bring the giant puppets to town.
We suppose part of the allure is that while you watch the show, Rahm will come by and pick tourists' pockets. Seriously, where do they come up with this crap?
Labels: dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
74 Comments:
Hey Rahm, how about you stop wasting money and fulfill your lawful obligation to fund the pensions. With over a BILLION in your TIF fund you should have no problem catching up...
They do not care about the crime. Floating puppets my ass.
'Stop the world I want to get off'....is this fricken administration nuts or what...who does Rahm think he is??...fix the crime, fix the streets, fix the education, fix the economy, fix the pensions, fix the shallow ways of this crime ridden city, fix the judges, fix the 'L', fix the schools. How in the hell does Rahm think he will progress if he ain't on the side of 'good'. Puppets from France be damned...is Rahm stupid or what...and the 'folks' at the Hall go along with him?? Stop the madness!!!! Investigate Rahm's spending to other states on the Taxpayer..he belongs at city hall, not out of state, throwing extravagant parties in $1,800.00 hotel rooms per night....and he ain't even funny...actually, Rahm is BORING!!! I know cause I've been in his company....BORING!!!! Rahm Emanuel is BORING!!!! Why do folks even donate to him?? He is a dork.
Do these giant puppets come with their own armed security? They will need it. Seriously, street theater is great, just not in Chicago. I tried a gig as a street minstrel once. I gave up after the third time I was assaulted and robbed. And this was after I paid protection.
Finally, the newspaper is looking at the 56 out of state trips Rahm has made in his 2 1/2 years as a Mayor of Chicago....many at Taxpayer expense....all not note-worthy. Extravagant, YES...entertaining while in a room costing $1,800.00 per night while Seniors Pensions are being cut. What a Bull.... city this is...and we all believed the democrat alderman, senators and reps in the districts...hogwash...we've been had..we've been pimped. Get rid of the democrats if you have any nerve or any balls left in you.
Wait til the roaming packs of wilding youth come rumbling through. That'll be interesting.
How stupid.
Yes, Chicago is going to be the first location to try it. Translation: Chicago is the only city in this country that was stupid enough to bite.
AREN'T WE BROKE?
March them through 011 or 007 when they get here and see how many come out pregnant, high or with a CB number written on their hand.
And until these ginormous marionettes arrive, Rahm's defacto puppets - those working VRI - will have to suffice.
French? Isn't that where we got the CTA bus shelters from? The ones with the benches you can't sit on.
Another STUPID idea.
Come to Chicago and while you're taking a picture of a giant walking puppet with your iPhone, you will be immediately targeted by Chicago's street criminals to steal your phone.
Great idea.
Need to upgrade Chicago's image? Crack down on crime - HARD.
Save the puppets and clean up N. Michigan Avenue.
- Proud to have not come to downtown for the last 3 years to spend any money on shopping, entertainment and restaurants.
(multiply me by 1,000+)
Predictable headlines in Chiraq:
"What? The puppet got stolen?"
"What? The puppet got tagged by a graffiti artist?"
"What? Someone shot at the puppet?"
"What? Someone shot at the puppeteer?"
"What? Someone threw a road flare at the puppet and it's on fire?"
"What? Someone crashed into the puppet with their ?"
"What? Someone crashed up on the sidewalk because they were driving while intoxicated and were freeked out by the puppet?"
"What? A dog pissed on the puppet?"
"What? The puppet got a parking ticket?"
"What? Tickets didn't sell, and now Chiraq has to make up the difference because that's what they promised?" followed by the ever-predictable "What? Now we're in arbitration because they're just blowing off the contract terms?"
What a fucking waste of time and money... Anything not to FOCUS on the problems of crime, underfunded (awwww, hell, who am I kidding - bankrupt) pensions, lack of manpower in the Police and Fire forces, crappy schools, high taxes, high fees, fleeing businesses, and rats.
Rahm's Easter JibJab: "Jump, Jive and Wail"
http://www.jibjab.com/view/6Ze_-jUrQQesoiymQF1Beg?mt=1
No thanks. We don't need, or want, any stupid frogs or any more stupid ideas to attract more tourists to this death trap of a city. Until the City of Chicago is ready, willing, and able to properly staff CPD, citizens and tourists alike are at serious risk, especially in the downtown area. Who the hell is supposed to keep crime down on the Mag Mile, while all those extra tourists are looking around, gawking at the Bean or skyscrapers? I can see it again- a bunch of out of towners getting jacked while admiring a Picasso or some architecture downtown. Maybe the Rahm-hole can have some large, 5-story hot air balloon dressed in CPD garb, to make it look like the police can really see all and be everywhere ("omnipresence"), or even another marionette, 'sans' officer, But the sad reality is that blue light cameras, speed zone cameras, (hey what the hell is up, with that speed scam-camera set up N/B Central around Belle Plaine? No signs, no warning, WTF???), red light cameras, etc. Sure, the City has enough scams in place to pickpocket $$$ from these tourists (did I mention the expensive City parking?), but we can't even pretend we're keeping them safe while they're here? There just aren't enough coppers on the street to keep the residents safe, let alone some camera-toting visitors.
Maybe they'll make a group of puppets that are in their late teens/early 20's in white t-shirts airbrushed with the likeness of a murdered cousin to spice up the Gold Coast. The marionettes can have their strings pulled to simulate the theft of an iPhone or purse. Or better yet, have them simulating a wilding episode while sitting on top of one of the left over decorative cows that were so popular.
Will the puppets have concealed carry permits to defend themselves from feral Chicago youth?
City council chambers is filled with "giant walking puppets" and they're already being paid. Why do we need any more?
And yet the city makes no effort to save and prepare for next years pension payment. The city calls all of us greedy and evil for expecting what we were promised.
Great, so now we will bigger targets for the savages when they go on their wildings.
It would seem that, as with Mayor Daley, so too with Mayor Emanuel.
Both are CLINICALLY INSANE.
"A multimillion-dollar deal is in the works to make Chicago the stage for Royal de Luxe, a French street theater company featuring marionettes as tall as 50 feet, during the summer of 2016..."
...during which summer the Red Line flashmobs will make vast sport of toppling the teetering Frenchmen over into traffic...
"WHOO!"
(cackling, high-fiving, knee-slapping)
Can we have the fiberglass "street cows" back, too?
"Giant Walking Puppets - No, not the City Council - these are imported!" - SCC
Yow!
What can one say but -- "Touche!"
I think it's a great idea but only if the people inside of them are armed with machine guns.
People actually pay to see that shit?
Not new at all. Was done a 100 years ago.Now where is our pension $, equipment, and manpower?
From France? What would you expect from people who revere Jerry Lewis?
Thank you! I just read about this. I'm incredulous. This guy thinks he's the Wizard of Oz.
I've been in Rahm's company also. Was he wearing a towel when he was in your company? I can guarantee you that if he was, you would not have found him so boring.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Hell use everybody on the 5th floor.
and we all believed the democrat alderman, senators and reps in the districts...hogwash...we've been had..we've been pimped. Get rid of the democrats if you have any nerve or any balls left in you.
4/19/2014 12:36:00 AM
Another of the braindead sheep finally coming to life. Maybe YOU believed the democrats, moron, but I never did, and unlike most of the PO's, I vote in EVERY election. Just before every election I hard dimwits like you saying, "Yeah, you just gotta hold yer nose and pull the lever for da Democrats. Duh!" How your tune has changed! You got what you deserved, idiot. Wallow in it.
I can't wait until the 50 footer walks right into a wilding on Michigan ave....oh the wonder...the joy!
And on a serious note...wtf more millions for bullshit and no help for our pensions. I where the hell is the FOP on the pension? Where are our ads talking about Dailey and Rahm stealing TIF money for pet projects? I'm tired of only hearing about how f**ked up these two are on here. Why haven't we the people(including fire) began to descend on city hall like the rest of the unions. Do we not deserve to make sure the mass public know who is at fault for the pension woes? Does the public not need to know the city isn't really broke? Why do we sit back and watch Rahm and the media tarnish our name and retirements with threats of raising property taxes to pay for pensions? When the city already has the money to pay the balloon payments already! I'm tired of typing away my frustrations, when is it our turn to put the heat on the politicians?
Bread and Circuses for the Masses, as in Rome before the empire fell to the Barbarians. And remember, since we were spared the Holocaust in World War II, we have no shortage of Lawyers who will sue the City when one of those puppets falls on an Honor Student who is trying to steal it. But, not to worry, we are Demorats and we control the Government so we just keep printing money.
The best place to let tourists know of the wilding, I-phone robberies, senseless beatings and lack of police protection in downtown Chicago is Trip Advisor. Set up an account for free and let the world know.
Go read some of the comments on trip-advisor about michigan avenue - the word is leaking out - the city is no longer a safe place to visit.
We already have Puppets, they come in the form of Politicians and judges in cook county.
We already have a giant headed puppet. He's called McCarthy.
I can't wait to see the French Gary McCarthy puppet...wee....wee!
'Giant Puppets from France'...oh yeeeeeaaaahhh!...I really really wanna see that ----
'Hey Ma, where do you want to go on vacation this year, Hawaii? Or maybe we go see the Grand Canyon, whatta ya think? Heck no Pa, lets go to Chicago, they have Giant French Puppets!'
rotflmao....damn, you can't make this shit up!
>> on the upside, some city ijit hasn't mentioned Mimes, not yet anyway <<
--- there should be a Bounty on all mimes :-) ---
The FOP has announced a new City of Chicago activity-based overtime initiative for giant walking puppets.
Highlights include allowing mannequins to work at a time-and-a-half pay rate for a guaranteed reduction in pension benefits and manpower.
Tourists will see the wilding rats knock the puppets over and give them a beat down. They will think it is part of the show. While they are distracted, another rat will pick their pockets. Forward at the half step!
Politicians are trying to break the system. Never let a crisis go to waste comes to mind. Stock up.
We already have a giant, goofy, mustached puppet.
Garry McCarthy
Will they be the giant grotesque Mardi Gras kind?
Will at least a half a dozen be former and current CPD exempts?
No clowns, just puppets right? Because in my opinion, giant clowns would be a waste of money.
*** Re-Elect Rahm Emanual - 2015 ***
Rahm actually thinks this will scare the Wilding Mobs off Michigan Ave because they are afraid of ghosts and shit.
A fifty foot puppet holding a cell phone. We can sit back and watch the flash mobs attacking and snatching the visiting puppets.
This city is a circus anyway. Walking puppets, now added to the clowns and animals.
Why dont we assign some of the tact guys and place them inside the puppets to do surveillance?
I would like see giant inflatable puppets re-enacting street crimes to encourage tourists to maintain vigilance during their visit.
They should put fancy painted coffins on every corner like they did with the cows.
Look mama, can you take my picture in the coffin! Maybe i'll be the next person killed in Chicago!
Did they take an oath to uphold the constitution or to rig the constitution for personal benefit?
Violation of your sworn oath should be cause for immediate termination for cause resulting in a loss of all benefits.
The Next Shoe Just Dropped: Court Denies Attorney-Client Privilege
In the Land of the Free, people grow up hearing a lot of things about their freedom.
You're told that you live in the freest country on the planet. You're told that other nations 'hate you' for your freedom.
read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-19/next-shoe-just-dropped-court-denies-attorney-client-privelege
And you're told that you have the most open and fair justice system in the world.
This justice system is supposedly founded on bedrock principles-- things like a defendant being presumed innocent until proven guilty. The right to due process and an impartial hearing. The right to counsel and attorney-client privilege.
Yet each of these core pillars has been systematically dismantled over the years:
1. So that it can operate with impunity outside of the law, the federal government has set up its own secret FISA courts to rubber stamp NSA surveillance.
According to data obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, of the nearly 34,000 surveillance requests made to FISA courts in the last 35-years, only ELEVEN have been rejected.
Unsurprising given that FISA courts only hear the case from the government's perspective. It is literally a one-sided argument in FISA courts. Hardly an impartial hearing, no?
2. The concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' may officially exist in courts, but administratively it was thrown out long ago.
These days there are hundreds of local, state, and federal agencies that can confiscate your assets, levy your bank account, and freeze you out of your life's savings. None of this requires a court order.
By the time a case goes to court, you have been deprived of the resources you need to defend yourself. You might technically be presumed innocent, but you have been treated and punished like a criminal from day one.
3. Attorney-Client privilege is a long-standing legal concept which ensures that communication between an attorney and his/her client is completely private.
In Upjohn vs. the United States, the Supreme Court itself upheld attorney-client privilege as necessary "to encourage full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients and thereby promote broader public interests in the observance of law. . ."
It doesn't matter what you're accused of-- theft. treason. triple homicide. With very limited exceptions, an attorney cannot be compelled to testify against a client, nor can their communications be subpoenaed for evidence.
Yet in a United States Tax Court decision announced on Wednesday, the court dismissed attorney client privilege, stating that:
"When a person puts into issue his subjective intent in deciding how to comply with the law, he may forfeit the privilege afforded attorney-client communications."
In other words, if a person works with legal counsel within the confines of the tax code to legitimately minimize the amount of taxes owed, that communication is no longer protected by attorney-client privilege.
Furthermore, the ruling states that if the individuals do not submit attorney-client documentation as required, then the court would prohibit them from introducing any evidence to demonstrate their innocence.
No puppet will ever compare to the giant puppet that was hired to run this police department.
Mabel and Gomer are making travel plans to the big city just to see the giant puppets. Yea, yea...that's the ticket.
"The Next Shoe Just Dropped: Court Denies Attorney-Client Privilege"
4/19/2014 12:19:00 PM
...and yet another shoe. Presence Health Care, who bought out Resurrection (and may close OLR even though they're promising not to), has added wording on some forms that you "waive doctor-patient confidentiality."
That's a real confidence-builder. Tell the doc what's really bothering you, and he might be able to help. Best to keep quiet and just moan or something.
...and the same people then hand you a pamphlet about "your responsibility to be more proactive in your own care."
*
...and on top of that we have Rahm's brother, Ezekiel Emanuel, all hot and bothered that the Hippocratic Oath causes inefficiency and "overuse of medical care."
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676
Oh -- Resurrection has got hold of a pile of those "No Guns" stickers, and they are going up on every door of every place they control. Like, overnight.
Maybe they should have one for father faker, JJ, sharp ton and the other storefront ministers so they can walk snow the streets of the ghettos in a perpetual "gun violence" walk. This way the real puppets don't have to waste time from their real jobs: race baiting and money grabbing.
Giant puppets may be a really neat way to go undercover. Who would expect a giant puppet to really be an undercover copper?
Let em walk through Englewood, they'll wind up missing their Iphones and with std's
Dey gonna play knockout-game "Puppet Edition".
Visible strings the exempts have invisible strings but now we can watch them with the "puppet master"!
We already have 50 Giant Puppets roaming the streets,
It's called The City Council
Don't we already have 50 puppets in city council?
Sure, sure, come on downtown and watch Rahm's clowns.
You the fool.
Far South Side man accused of robbing student in Loop
5:01 p.m. CDT, April 19, 2014
"A Roseland man suspected of robbing a School of the Art Institute of Chicago student early Friday in the Loop was ordered held Saturday on $125,000 bail.
"The 22-year-old woman was walking in the 0-100 block of West Washington Street at around 3:30 a.m. Friday when a man, identified...as Stephen W. Perkins, came up behind her with what looked like a gun... "I want everything," the man told the student, who offered her credit card but said she had no cash.
"Perkins, 19, also demanded her cell phone. Perkins...ran to another person waiting across the street and then fled...responding officers arrested Perkins and another male nearby in the 0-100 block of West Wacker Drive. Police found a replica handgun in his coat pocket...
"Perkins, of the 9400 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, faces a felony charge of aggravated robbery and a city violation for having a replica firearm..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-crime-loop-robbery-20140419,0,6471971.story
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It would seem that, as with Mayor Daley, so too with Mayor Emanuel.
Both are CLINICALLY INSANE.
"A multimillion-dollar deal is in the works to make Chicago the stage for Royal de Luxe, a French street theater company featuring marionettes as tall as 50 feet, during the summer of 2016..."
...during which summer the Red Line flashmobs will make vast sport of toppling the teetering Frenchmen over into traffic...
"WHOO!"
(cackling, high-fiving, knee-slapping)
Can we have the fiberglass "street cows" back, too?
4/19/2014 06:58:00 AMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0PoWfPzmI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RwP5OaqQ0w
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Thank you! I just read about this. I'm incredulous. This guy thinks he's the Wizard of Oz.
4/19/2014 08:02:00 AM
He is! Just a smalltime huckster hiding behind the curtain, pretending he's really all that.
Just WOW! Stupid is a bottomless pit. Only a dumb ass could come up with this idea. How about building factories or shit that will create real jobs. Oh, and before I forget, stop throwing money at rats and baby making machines called illegal immigrants, south and west side cockroaches.
P.S.
Fuck you Raham n McAsshole.
They should put fancy painted coffins on every corner like they did with the cows.
Look mama, can you take my picture in the coffin! Maybe i'll be the next person killed in Chicago!--------------------------------------------------------
You folks are funny. They just shut my electric off cause my cooling the bodies bill exceeded my budget. Call you state Senator and tell them us undertakers are taking bath and need more planting $$.
Everyone one is bringing bosies with holes in them. The kin fols want Caddy boxes and think I can do the job for 2
$255.00 in piss soaked dollar bills.
Me. LEEK
closed Sun/Mon.
When I used to have a part time job peddling cars an old salesman told me there was an ass for every seat. That fits more than cars. We have two big asses here. One running city hall. And one making up crime numbers.
Except in the summertimes we stay opens
Just A Citizen: Are they serious? What? How much for these hideous, evil looking things that will be shot at within moments? What the fuck is wrong with that hellhole of a city?
The last city that had these puppets spent around 3 million to get them. It brought in 20 million tourism dollars. I don't know it doesn't seem that dumb.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The last city that had these puppets spent around 3 million to get them. It brought in 20 million tourism dollars. I don't know it doesn't seem that dumb.
4/20/2014 10:53:00 AM
It's on the internet, so it must be true!! LOL
City spent 3 million to get them, brought in 20 million tourism dollars
Uh huh, and PRECISELY how does one quantify the exact amount of dollars brought in by tourism as a result of something?
Did total revenues go up $20M? What other confounding factors were in play? Weather? Other events? Reduced taxes? Holiday weekend?
There's a lot of 'fungibility' that goes on with these numbers, so unless you have these bullshit things in a stadium, and sold $20M worth of tickets, I'm not buying the claim...
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The last city that had these puppets spent around 3 million to get them. It brought in 20 million tourism dollars. I don't know it doesn't seem that dumb.
4/20/2014 10:53:00 AM
It's on the internet, so it must be true!! LOL
Wait isn't this blog on the internet?!! So this all must be true... Heard IT HERE FIRST!!!!
"Will the puppets have concealed carry permits to defend themselves from feral Chicago youth?"
Maybe the puppets will know kung-fu and are actually being deployed as attack puppets. Oh, right - they're French. My bad.
OT:
I called for an officer today & Caparali was there, but he is on the sheets in in financial crimes? WTF?
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