Define "Tourist"
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Sunday that the city has reached a goal of attracting 55 million yearly visitors two years ahead of schedule.
The number of visitors to the city was up by 1.5 million in 2017, a 2.5 percent increase over 2016, according to a statement from the mayor’s office. Last year, 55.2 million people visited the City in a Garden.
“Tourism in Chicago means jobs throughout Chicago,” Emanuel said in the statement. “By continuing to set new tourism records and bring millions more people to Chicago every year, we are generating economic opportunities that reach every Chicago neighborhood.”
Averaged over a year, this is 150,000 daily visitors. Granted, weekdays are going to be lower, winter months are going to be lower, non-convention weekends might be lower still. Holidays and big events might be larger.
There are only a certain (limited) number of locations that tourists would frequent, probably less than 25% of the actual square mileage of the city - maybe as low as 15%? In other words, it's going to be more crowded in these areas - noticeably more crowded than usual. And we haven't seen it or heard about it.
We're not claiming ghost towns, but we aren't believing Rahm's numbers for even a minute. And given Chicago's propensity to exaggerate numbers for every event in the city, the media shouldn't be believing it either.
There are only a certain (limited) number of locations that tourists would frequent, probably less than 25% of the actual square mileage of the city - maybe as low as 15%? In other words, it's going to be more crowded in these areas - noticeably more crowded than usual. And we haven't seen it or heard about it.
We're not claiming ghost towns, but we aren't believing Rahm's numbers for even a minute. And given Chicago's propensity to exaggerate numbers for every event in the city, the media shouldn't be believing it either.
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You expect tax revenue on tourists to bolster
city of finances? Dream on.
WTF are these city mayors smoking? Tourism,
bike lanes, bullshit snow removal, crime.
It should be the Cemetery in the Garden.
I'll call it like this. .....bullshit! They must have counted every hotel room in Chicago then multiplied by the magical democratic number. It's all fairy dust and unicorn horn.
Liars figure and figures lie.
Even the crime numbers are exaggerated. Forgive me, I mean depreciated.
Come on SCC, give credit where credit is due. The west side is huge attraction for some suburban and neighboring out of State tourists. Easy access VIA 290 money is being redistributed to hard working minority's. Sometimes I even see the out of towners bringing the kids along.
Plane lands at the airport. People change planes and take off.. visiting tourists? People from niles drive to super dawg = tourists? Traffic flows into the city from suburbs=tourists? 55 million visitors? Maybe he s counting the people seeking “ sanctuary “ here?🤔
Maybe we could get some armored buses, and take tourists on tours of the more colorful parts of the City? Run flat tires are a must!
That’s why Rahm was at U of M today trying to recruit kids to come here after graduating. He also got heckled and blood. I’m on the hecklers side, because more people are standing up to him and it’s starting to show. His armour is showing chinks. He’s very beatable
How many were killed, shot, and robbed. Sorry 9 1/2 for raining on your parade.
Don't forget that Rahm counts every person landing at OHare and Midway as "tourists" no matter if they are connecting or returning from a trip.
Rahm must be smoking Crack when he's crunching those numbers...
Perhaps he calls them “tourists” when they first get here, then they conveniently become “immigrants” when they decide to stay. It’s all legit, I’m sure...
SCC, ever see those semi-trucks traveling through the city on the expressway? In #RahmsWorld, they are classified as "Tourists". Now you know why the high number of tourists. By the way, don't forget about the average motorist driving through the city... that's right, tourist, too.
A couple of people who once lived in the city, who come to the city to eat at a restaurant nearby where they once lived- then leave back to the suburbs- are considered tourist. I would not count suburbanites are tourist there 9.5
The Price is Right gave away a vacation to Chicago the other day, the look on the contestants face was WTF.
If the Wilmette Wuss calculated these numbers by counting on his hands, I've got some bad news for his cheerleaders.
So many people are leaving Chicago that when they come back to visit family the 9 digit midget is calling them tourists, and that isn't funny because it's probably true.
Crazy! If that many people actually came we wouldn't have any issues at all with money.
Rahm is a habitual liar.
Don’t believe him.
Can we get stats on how many tourists were robbed, shot, killed, beaten, raped, carjacked or ripped off, well that would be everyone downtown. But these stats I'd like to see.
Chicago has the best rocks and blows this side of the Mississippi.
Anonymous said...
Come on SCC, give credit where credit is due. The west side is huge attraction for some suburban and neighboring out of State tourists. Easy access VIA 290 money is being redistributed to hard working minority's. Sometimes I even see the out of towners bringing the kids along.
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So true, I seen so many out of state plates viewing the west side and with the kids looking out the windows. I guess someone could make a Killing" selling and hawking Tee Shirts saying "I rode the west side and survived !! " or "I survived Mayor-Murder Rahms Chicago." After Bulls and Hawks games the burb people that had too much juice at the games usually tour the area, they want to be seeing a crime scene or hear the shots fired.
Great Idea selling these on the off ramps of the Ike. Fucking out of state fools will buy them. Having kids sizes too is a plus. Is that Nation of Islam J.O at the off - Homan Ramp still hawking his garbage ? He used to leave late afternoon, the spot is open then for the tourist in the evening. .
There is money to be made from all the crime waves do to Rahm and Eddie fucking up.
Cheap ass screened tee' cost $1.50 and after the second washing turn to rags, sell for
$ 20.00. Also, set up a guided tour bus stand. Free parking Garfield Park. One can guarantee at least one crime scene viewing during the tour. The bus can stop at Rothschild's Liquor finer liquors on Roosevelt Road for refreshments and the tourist can mingle with the good people outside.
If you live in Robbins and you take the Red Line downtown to rape and pillage like the Vikings, are you technically a tourist?
The Mayor must be using these visitors' Facebook friends and Twitter followers to pad the stats.
They got to go to Englewood for the eats and the world best hotel The mayor is right
BULLSHIT....Just plain old BULLSHIT. If this was true, then SCHITCAGO would not be in as much of a financial crisis as we are....FUCK YOU RAHM......
According to 9.5, not one asshole is getting shot for asshole-ary. Police are the problem in minority neighborhoods, justification for unmanned Poleec department. Criminal behavior is at a low since Dart ain't housing them, problems done exist. Kidney bean got a transplant, so he gets the credit. And Kennedy does not deserve a response for that gentrification lie... wow, and this place is not a shithole because he says so
Rahm is including in his figures all the young amish kids coming from the red line.
Are snowflakes considered tourist? They always act like new to Chicago , "Oh I can't believe it happened in my neighborhood. Its just so shocking, its not supposed to happen here...."
Illegals are considered tourists by the city
Are they consider a tourist if they have a connecting flight at one of the cities airports?
He counts every person who comes in via the airports even if they are just changing planes. They were caught doing this before.
LOL People on layovers at the airports used to ask me if it was safe to leave the airport grounds. Tourists right?
I call b.s.
Just don't buy it.
Fund our pensions Romocide!!!
What is Rahmacide’s definition of “tourist”?
The way I see it:
NOT a tourist if you have a stop over at O’Hare or Midway, never leave the airport and continue on to another destination
NOT a tourist if you “relocated” from Puerto Rico
NOT a tourist if you came here from another country and didn’t use your passport
That’s why Rahm was at U of M today trying to recruit kids to come here after graduating. He also got heckled and blood. I’m on the hecklers side, because more people are standing up to him and it’s starting to show. His armour is showing chinks. He’s very beatable
Hey, dumbshit - it was BLM and they were beefing about building a new academy. Still on their side, you ignorant ass?
If two tourists visit three museums then then they become six tourists.
If they then go to three shows they then become...
Kind of like the way Democrats count votes.
I've been on a number of different websites and the comments concerning statements from democrats indicates people are just not buying their bullshit anymore.
Minority support of President Trump is going up. People are no longer supporting the democrats communist agenda. Obama didn't do the democrats any favors.
J.J.
They are counting when a passenger at O'Hare has layover that is longer than 4 hours, and they might buy a cup of coffee at the terminal... magic of math
Anonymous said...
Can we get stats on how many tourists were robbed, shot, killed, beaten, raped, carjacked or ripped off, well that would be everyone downtown. But these stats I'd like to see.
1/20/2018 03:25:00 AM
A relative who lives in Florida told me that they met a couple who traveled to our tourist attracting city to attend a bears game. When the game was over, they decided to take a walk around the stadium area. As they were walking they noticed a group of people coming their way.
They tried to avoid them but were overtaken and robbed. There was a couple in a car who saw the whole thing and was trying to help them
after it happened. The Floridians didn’t trust them but accepted $40.00 from them to help get home? They didn’t make a Police report and said that they would come back for another game? Go figure!!!
Lyin Chicago democrat ..Rhambo must counting passengers connecting in Chicago...
Paul Vallas moving back to Chicago might have 9.5 rahmacide , trying to head off Paul for next mayor election.
.more lies ..bike paths to come from a useless Chicago mayor rahmmy
Fake news
Tourists include suburbanites
INFORMATION: Washington DC published that their "record high" visitor volume for 2017 = app. "23 Million." Chicago (9.5) claims "55 Million" annual visitors
CALCULATION: Chicago has app. 82% more tourist visitors annually than Washington DC
STIPULATION: People would rather travel to Chicago to see murder and mayhem than to DC to see monuments and museums.
REALIZATION: Bullshit
>>>>> The city also saw growth in the number of visitors attending conventions in the city. Of the 40 largest conventions held at McCormick Place, 21 saw an increase in attendance over 2016 and seven broke records selling exhibit space,...
First off I don't believe Rahm's numbers, period, end, stop.
Secondly, that first sentence is sort of contradicted by what follows, to wit: If 21 out of 40 (52.5%), conventions saw an increase in attendance, that means 19 (47.5%) Conventions saw a DECREASE in attendance. And the last part about seven conventions renting more space than previously means zero as to attendance, or tourism.
Also, what's not mentioned by Rahm or Chicago's intrepid reporters are all the Conventions that Chicago has LOST over the years due to the insane work rules at McCormick Place that Exhibitors have to put up with. Like HAVING TO call an Electrician to plug in a f--king Extension Cord! Or the outrageous prices Exhibitors have to pay for things like a Case of Coca-Cola. As I recall MANY Conventions that were a Chicago staple for decades have fled for Las Vegas.
So Rahm can take these fake numbers and stick them up his skinny little ass.
Why yes, yes I'll believe that number of 55 million annual visitors coming to Chicago...
As soon as they can account for the average revenue they indicate that they spend here
rahm is simply an effen liar who must be defeated in the next election if this city is to survive.
9 n 1/2 is dogged everywhere he goes, fuk him
https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesResponseTeam/videos/935394663283415/
He must be counting the urban yutes who have been carjacking everyone. Now the numbers make sense.
It’s all lies. It’s well known in political circles that Bruce dold and Rahm text daily to get Rahm’s message out. If Rahm wins again, blame the media.
Fuzzy Rahm math again.
For the record, Ohare boasts it takes in 77 million passenger arrivals annually.
So who are the other 22 million?
Refugees, protestors, welfare seeking freeloaders or business and general travelers?
Fake News Rahm is just trying to keep up appearances and maintaining a bloated office of tourism budget.
Diverse, welcoming, inclusive, green, happy Shithole Chicago.
Did you hear the one about the crazed maniac who splashed a northside gal with a flammable liquid on the Red Line, igniting her backpack?
No, but there there’s millions of tourists taking the CTA.
Wonder what the daily intake was and will be the day before another Primary Election.
they are most likely counting the business and convention crowd as well as vacationers. I am guessing they are using hotel occupancy rates for this
Might be counting transfers at Greyhound and/or Amtrak stations.
A liar is a liar is a liar is a liar. Period. If he's lied about everything else, why tell the truth now?
SCC - Do not let up. He's against you.
NOT ILLINOIS. NOT LAW.
A quick internet search turned up a Libune article saying that there are around 44,000 hotel rooms in Chicago. So are we to believe that all the hotels are fully booked every day with 3-4 occupants? Something tells me that Rahm is engaging in some of that creative accounting by defining tourism as any money spent in Chicago by someone without a Chicago address, e.g. commuters eating lunch.
For comparison, here in Minneapolis they're expecting around 150,000 visitors for the Super Bowl (plus another million locals who are only attending that NFL Experience thing at the convention center to inflate the stats and associated pols' egos). Every hotel room in the metro area is booked and many residents have rented out their houses for thousands of dollars a night. Roads are closed. Cops everywhere. Uninterested locals fleeing town for the weekend--I'm on the very edge of the TC metro area, not even in Hennepin County, but thinking I may go up to Duluth for a day or two to escape the mayhem. Granted it's a smaller market than Chicago, but not *that* much smaller, and this is what 150,000 real tourists looks like.
Tourist = dude who Jack's a car and tours the city.
His numbers are correct.
Bummer. We only had 10.1 million visitors at our "Big 5" national parks here in Utah. We are jealous. We must be doing something wrong. I am not aware of a single carjacking, robbery, or murder of our tourists. We did have quite a few fall to their deaths, die of heat stroke, and get eaten by bears. Looks like we need to start using Rahm's Chicago Values to get our tourist numbers up.
Everything about Chicago coming from the current Leadership is a Lie. It's an unsafe, communist-run Hellhole.
Should Tolls and hotels REVENUE numbers according to the state a fed govs PROVE or DISPROVE this fairly easily?
To wheel of fortune....
THAT IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER!!
He's counting all the white hypes coming in from the suburbs and surrounding states. These "tourist" make their journey to the drug mecca "Chicago" at least 4 x's a week. So the mayor maybe close on the numbers.
Could it be.... 2016 the Chicago Cubs won the World Championship... which means that in 2017 we had millions of people (fanatics) coming
from all over the world to see a Cubs game & to take a picture with the trophy? Hmmm ...
Liar liar pants on fire.
Record tourism, Lollapalooza, The 606, Millennium Park, Navy Pier, NFL & NHL Drafts, new buildings going up downtown, etc. ..... all supposedly bringing in big bucks. And yet, our taxes keep going up?
This guy is so full of shit it doesnt pay to even listen. He needs to be gone.
He is using statistics provided by the tourist bureau, hotels, conventions, etc and comparing them to previous years statistics. So if you believed the stats for the last 10 or 20 years that the city provided, why not believe them now?
First off, what in the hell is in Chicago that people want to see. Even other liberal cities have some real attractions. Convention business has cratered. I'm sure there are a few hicks that come in that never saw a robbery, car jacking, or assault. They can drift over to Navy Pier and co-mingle with the "natives". Or best of all (and I've seen it many times), allow an "entrepreneur" to shine their shoes only to be told afterwords its $20 per shoe.
There isn't a libtard alive that doesn't lie, pander, and make up their own facts and figures.
"The Price is Right gave away a vacation to Chicago the other day, the look on the contestants face was WTF."
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Saw the same thing on Wheel of Fortune. Winner's told she gets an all expense paid trip---not to Hawaii, not to a Caribbean island, not to a European capital, not to anyplace people would like to go but---to (drum roll...) Chicago. Give her credit, she tried hard but couldn't quite avoid looking like she just sucked a lemon. LMAO. Made me wonder if after the show there's an opportunity for contestants to take cash instead of a booby prize.
Can't imagine what it would feel like having to pay capital gains tax for winning a free trip to Chitcago.
Is he counting all of the illegal parasites living and passing through Chicago fleeing to somewhere elsewhere? After all Chicago is a Sanctuary Sh*thole. Raccoon Eyes putting lipstick on a pig. Still a greasy pig.
with numbers like that, our taxes should be ZERO!!
but guess what? they are the highest in the nation.........
Are they counting everyone who is returning from shopping outside the city limits? How about returning home after working outside the city?
Only a moron would believe any statistic that eminates from City hall.
UNBELIEVABLE He Pulls MONEY out of his ASS when only he wants something done , When the City says they don't have any , and Pulls Numbers Out of Ass too now .
OT.
One of Amazon's HQ2 candidates looks like a clear front-runner. [And, It Ain't Chicago!]
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/one-amazons-hq2-candidates-looks-like-clear-frontrunner-150150989.html
In the article, the 20 finalists named the other day are boiled down to 12. Three of the 12 locations are in the metro Washington, D.C. area and are named as the clear front-runners. Chicago did not even merit a mention either positively or negatively. It seems Chicago ranks from 13 to 20, inclusively. Suck it 9.5!
MeetingSource.com, which is a resource for company's to find the best meeting/convention locations in the U.S. just came out with the top 25 recommended cities to book in 2018. That's 25 cities. Chitcago is NOT one of them. I guess crime wasn't one of their criteria. Damn!
Illegals are considered tourists by the city.
1/20/2018 07:16:00 AM
And, if they bed-down in the city, but work in a suburb, they are counted as a returning tourist each time they leave work and return to their abode. That is an average of 250 tourist visits each year per one illegal!
Probably counting people at ORD or MDW on layovers
"Hey, dumbshit - it was BLM and they were beefing about building a new academy. Still on their side, you ignorant ass?"
Hey, Dipshit, it wasn't BLM, but if you'd like to keep allowing Rahm to divide us along the lines of YOUR IGNORANCE, feel free, he's obviously doing a great job of keeping you and your family safe in your neighborhood. Dickhole.
Oh, wait, you're on his detail. How was Ann Arbor? Did you get a picture with Rahm in front of the Big House?
Douchebag.
Anonymous said...
Come on SCC, give credit where credit is due. The west side is huge attraction for some suburban and neighboring out of State tourists. Easy access VIA 290 money is being redistributed to hard working minority's. Sometimes I even see the out of towners bringing the kids along.
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So true, I seen so many out of state plates viewing the west side and with the kids looking out the windows. I guess someone could make a Killing" selling and hawking Tee Shirts saying "I rode the west side and survived !! " or "I survived Mayor-Murder Rahms Chicago." After Bulls and Hawks games the burb people that had too much juice at the games usually tour the area, they want to be seeing a crime scene or hear the shots fired.
Great Idea selling these on the off ramps of the Ike. Fucking out of state fools will buy them. Having kids sizes too is a plus. Is that Nation of Islam J.O at the off - Homan Ramp still hawking his garbage ? He used to leave late afternoon, the spot is open then for the tourist in the evening. .
There is money to be made from all the crime waves do to Rahm and Eddie fucking up.
Cheap ass screened tee' cost $1.50 and after the second washing turn to rags, sell for
$ 20.00. Also, set up a guided tour bus stand. Free parking Garfield Park. One can guarantee at least one crime scene viewing during the tour. The bus can stop at Rothschild's Liquor finer liquors on Roosevelt Road for refreshments and the tourist can mingle with the good people outside.
1/20/2018 05:16:00 AM
Wow. You are special!
They buy Crack and Heroine in the West Side, goofball.
OT
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I believe these tourist numbers are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% TRUE.
Thanks for your response. I love reading about what's really going on up in Chicago instead of no news at all from the larger media. We have a problem in Little Rock as well, but nowhere near Chicago's problems considering the population difference. It isn't Heaven here in Little Rock, just certain portions, and those are the ones I frequent. Have you ever been told to "Stay out of the wrong side of town." when you were growing up? I was and I did that.
Hey 1/20/2018 07:06:00 PM. I am a goofball you GIMP, No shit, I meant it to be funny . You probably stop all the white trash junkies on the W/S and pinched them for their 1/10 G of heroin and stay down the whole tour. Or chase a hood rat that runs for you and yelling to the zone of your b,s foot chase. I threw more b.s dope down a sewer in 6 months in the ghetto then you will recover in 20 years. I can see you drive home paranoid thinking the hood rats are following you. You probably live alone and sleep with a Winchester 12 gauge on the side next to you with a night light on ! Get a life bucko. Spend your days off at you family's home in Wilmette or Burr Ridge !
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There is money to be made from all the crime waves do to Rahm and Eddie fucking up.
Cheap ass screened tee' cost $1.50 and after the second washing turn to rags, sell for
$ 20.00. Also, set up a guided tour bus stand. Free parking Garfield Park. One can guarantee at least one crime scene viewing during the tour. The bus can stop at Rothschild's Liquor finer liquors on Roosevelt Road for refreshments and the tourist can mingle with the good people outside.
1/20/2018 05:16:00 AM
Wow. You are special!
They buy Crack and Heroine in the West Side, goofball
1/20/2018 05:16:00 AM
Wow. You are special!
They buy Crack and Heroine in the West Side, goofball
1/20/2018 11:08:00 PM
Goofball? I don’t think I’ve heard that since grammar school.
Saw the same thing on Wheel of Fortune. Winner's told she gets an all expense paid trip---not to Hawaii, not to a Caribbean island, not to a European capital, not to anyplace people would like to go but---to (drum roll...) Chicago. Give her credit, she tried hard but couldn't quite avoid looking like she just sucked a lemon. LMAO. Made me wonder if after the show there's an opportunity for contestants to take cash instead of a booby prize.
Can't imagine what it would feel like having to pay capital gains tax for winning a free trip to Chitcago.
That’s not capital gains tax. It’s considered income, just as it you won the lottery. A lot of times the contestants don’t take the gifts because of the taxes. Let’s say you win a high end China cabinet worth $10,000. Why take it if you are going to have to pay 2500 in taxes on something you may not want, need or have a place for. Those shows inflate the suggested retail price to make it seem the gifts are worth more. Paying taxes on a trip to Chicago I bet would be one of those situations
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Record tourism, Lollapalooza, The 606, Millennium Park, Navy Pier, NFL & NHL Drafts, new buildings going up downtown, etc. ..... all supposedly bringing in big bucks. And yet, our taxes keep going up?
1/20/2018 11:47:00 AM
I see someone gets it. Things we take for granted anrent taken that way around the country and world. I see foreign tourist downtown looking at the Bean and taking pics like it one of the wonders of the world.
Here’s a novel approach. Be happy with the number of tourists visiting Chicago and hope the numbers are correct and will continue to rise
Do you have any idea how much revenue that brings in. Hotel and restaurant taxes aren’t cheap, not to mention all the other money spent by tourists. Without that money, the city would be in a lot worse shape
If you live in Robbins and you take the Red Line downtown to rape and pillage like the Vikings, are you technically a tourist?
1/20/2018 05:42:00 AM
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Pillage, maybe. But it would take a motivated person from Robbins to make it all the way downtown (and they’d take the Metra on139th, the red line is nowhere near them and they’re definitely too lazy to transfer). Robbins scum will just drive a hoopty to Orland.
As for raping, they are better off doing that in their own town, where the test kits won’t be tested. Actually, I don’t think their department of people fired from other departments even knows how to do a rape kit. They need to bring back the deputy chief who got hired by submitting joe Friday from Dragnet’s badge (a photocopy of it) as his credentials.
>>>Anonymous said...
"The Price is Right gave away a vacation to Chicago the other day, the look on the contestants face was WTF."
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Saw the same thing on Wheel of Fortune. Winner's told she gets an all expense paid trip---not to Hawaii, not to a Caribbean island, not to a European capital, not to anyplace people would like to go but---to (drum roll...) Chicago. Give her credit, she tried hard but couldn't quite avoid looking like she just sucked a lemon. LMAO. Made me wonder if after the show there's an opportunity for contestants to take cash instead of a booby prize.
Can't imagine what it would feel like having to pay capital gains tax for winning a free trip to Chitcago.
1/20/2018 01:01:00 PM<<<
Second prize was a two week vacation in Chicago.
Wheel of Fortune did a week of shows from Chicago last year. The ChicagoLocations manager did a great job showing off the best scenes. The Bean, LSD, Mag Mile, Lincoln Park and such. The police detail also did a great job sanitizing the areas for the camera.
Victim that's a tourist.
"That’s not capital gains tax."
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Yup. You're absolutely right. Temporary brain malfunction probably due to paying to many taxes.
See Mr. Gimp, People lighten up here and laugh too !!
Now take your uniform check and buy a new Tactical 12 gauge S/G to sleep next to your old Winchester 870 12 gauge.
Check your bumper for tracking devises too, heard COPA are placing 100 a week on coppers pers. vehicles.
Signed,
Goofball.
Anonymous said...
>>>See Mr. Gimp, People lighten up here and laugh too !!
Now take your uniform check and buy a new Tactical 12 gauge S/G to sleep next to your old Winchester 870 12 gauge.
Check your bumper for tracking devises too, heard COPA are placing 100 a week on coppers pers. vehicles.
Signed,
Goofball.
1/21/2018 08:00:00 PM<<<
OK I detect sarcasm here. But if they want to track cops locations why spend money on tracking devices which have to be bought, placed, risk discovery and need to be retrieved. Probably much easier to track the cell phone locations.
Rahm lies and the crooked scum times and tribune media help him do it. He has bought off the media and the ghettobrats and must be defeated by any means.
Have you seen the numbers of people fleeing Illinois for other states who are more fiscally responsible? There is your increase in "tourism" numbers. Those are all former residents coming back for the holidays, to see family, for weddings and funerals and to get their deep dish pizza and beef sandwich fixes. I know that's why I go.
COPA should check tracking device on Merit Sgt. Cars while at work , some do not leave the station unless going to eat , visit a friend .
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