Everywhere!

The media has discovered car jacking - suburban:

• A mom and her two young children were carjacked and taken more than 20 miles away against their will after someone jumped inside their vehicle as they sat outside a suburban Walgreens Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.
  
  The vehicle and family were later found on Chicago's Northwest Side in the 4700 block of West Belmont -- roughly 22 miles from where they had been taken, police said. The mom and children were not harmed, but the woman's cell phone was stolen in the process.

Broad daylight:

• About 3:33 p.m., a man left his white Jeep Cherokee running in the 600 block of North St. Clair while he loaded the trunk, according to Chicago Police.
  
  While the vehicle owner was placing items in his trunk, a man walked up, got into the Jeep and drove off, police said. The man was described as a black man in his mid 20s with dreadlocks.

That one will be downgraded to a theft.

Twilight:

• A SUV was hijacked from a gas station Monday afternoon on the Near North Side.
  
  A male was pumping gas just before 4 p.m. in the 1200 block of Halsted when a teenage boy got into the Ford Edge SUV and sped off, according to Chicago Police.

Another theft.

A whole weekend of stolen rides:

• Three overnight armed carjackings, which occurred in a four-hour period, have all been linked to the same men, who appeared to go back and forth between Cicero and the city's West and Northwest sides overnight, alternately relieving people of their vehicles and then using those stolen cars to commit other crimes.

What could possibly have emboldened the criminals to commit so dastardly a deed?

Channel 2 - See B.S. News is even running a spot on how to avoid being carjacked. We can think of one way to avoid being carjacked twice.