Everything Old is New
- Downtown’s ubiquitous flyer boys—the young men who aggressively distributed handbills for supposed charities and sports teams—are once again stealing cellphones and other electronics from occupied cars that are stuck in downtown traffic.
CWBChicago first reported on the phenomenon in February. At least three drivers lost their phones to flyer boys in the Loop and Near North this past weekend.
Ride-hailing drivers are frequently targeted because they often mount their phones on the windshield within easy reach of someone standing outside of the vehicle.
One of this weekend’s cases involved an Uber driver who told police that a flyer boy approached her car at Michigan and Randolph around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. After pretending to hand the woman a flyer, the thief suddenly displayed a handgun and took the woman’s phone, mount, and base from the car, police said.
This reminds us of the smash-and-grabs that go in and out of style every few years. Or the snatchings around the old project buildings - when someone was at a light, criminals ran out of the breezeways and took anything they could reach in stopped cars. It's a story older than the assholes doing the crime.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
40 Comments:
Or how about when someone is hit by a car or pinned in a car when the piranhas surround them taking cell phone videos and stealing everything they can.
And this is why it is so bloody wrong to claim firearms must be unloaded and enclosed in a case!
Arms must be right there reasy to use when flyer boys come trying to market their wares.
Every cop arresting someone for carrying arms ought to think real hard about that...and who they benefit by doing so!
One more reason to avoid the city like the plague
These people don't keep their windows rolled up and doors locked? Stupid not to.
And I should bring my family to visit Chicago this Summer, Why?
Vehicular Invasion.
Boys will be boys, even if they're "35 to 50 years old, as the latest description of the pushboys.
I wish they’d try that in my car. They would be quickly be introduced to 3” of .410 shotshell in their face coming from the barrel of my Taurus Judge.
Anonymous said...
One more reason to avoid the city like the plague
6/06/2018 01:50:00 AM
No truer words . . . .
Those BE armed robbery!
Get rid of contact card special ED!
Dead beats need to be frisked and often.
Paul kersey we need you!
Downtown Chicago should be called Tombstone. ♠️
Just our way of giving back to the descriptionless, disadvantaged, underserved youths of the future..
Anonymous said...
These people don't keep their windows rolled up and doors locked? Stupid not to.
6/06/2018 02:15:00 AM
Sure nice summer day cannot open the windows, maybe we should get some of these to bring people downtown in the "warzone."
http://www.exarmyvehicles.com/offer/wheeled-vehicles/armoured-vehicles/armoured-personnel-carrier-ot-64-skot
It can even go in the water perfect to bring tourists to view the once safe beaches!
Then whats this again? Facebook what is wrong with coppers today? he was not even a young copper, for your own good stay off of facebook:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-cop-retires-facebook-posts-20180604-story.html
If you need a hobby,get a hobby,work more stop this stupidity!
I have a dream....youz gonna meet your maker.
We remember on a few occasions that the
assholes in the former 340 S. Western building
used to derive great sport from climbing the
light poles and cocking the traffic signals...
>KA-BLOOEY!<
Swarming around the wadded up cars to rob
the dead, dying and injured...
...How can you NOT nurse any grief and
hatred at a "subculture" where this kind
of shit is condoned and the perpetrators
are hidden behind the "community wall
of silence?"
"Stop axin' us questions an' shit...
Ain't it Y'ALL JOB to figure out
whodunnit?"
Dealing with dead-end, throw-away m/fers
like these is guaranteed to take years off
your life.
And we put those antics on our scale and weigh
them against the nasty shit-talk by Mr./Ms. "Public"
in retaliation for Policemen getting smart and going
fetal in the face of the ugly down at ground level.
Police Like You Have No Friends.
Why is this happening this statement says it all:
Gunshots around the corner as police investigate West Side homicide: 'These kids ain’t scared of nothing'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-violence-shootings-20180605-story.html
Did the boss Ryan inform the flyer boys that crime will not be tolerated downtown and they would be arrested? rahm has put in so many extremely expensive cameras, gee they don't prevent crime to well do they mayor? How about 3 watches of police in academy 7 days a week pump them out! A "cop on every block." Just got back from New York times square area cops everywhere, very friendly, but the scum know better they will definitely be caught,then rode the trains there coppers everywhere, as make do with what maybe 80 transit cops on 3 watches working? Worked CTA special other day was told the CTA was running out of money already to pay for us! Great planning as the animals attack we are out of cash? As the mayor was able to spend billions on bike lanes,a stadium for a losing team,has billions in his hidden TIF piggy bank,gives illegals millions in free ID cards (have to buy that illegal vote)!
Hertz. A testing out armored car rentals in city in July. Want to keep Rahms millions of tourists safe from the feral community citizens.
I just love the people who live downtown (mag mile area) and REFUSE to admit it's not safe. They tell me it's just pocketed areas that are bad. Or that it's just bad at night. And since I don't live there (mag mile area) anymore, I love listening to tourists tell me how they just got back from a trip to Chicago and walked the mag mile and it was so beautiful and safe. Is it just me, or are they ALL EFFING INSANE???
Got off a plane yesterday and took the Blue line downtown for the first time in a year. Saw what I expected a ghost town with dirt and closed stores. Tourists walking huddled together constantly looking over their shoulders. teams of young blacks acting goofy one called me a bitch and I responded "Yo mama" and looked him in the eye he turned his head and kept walking plenty of police around but all looking straight ahead like the ACLU and liberals want them to do. No one except me and the touristas noticed two piss bums sleeping on the Northside of Monroe and another sleeping in the doorway on State St. Chicago is gone.
Thanks Rham! Thanks liberal dummycrates.
Piranhas...well said.
Can’t say I’ve traveled Mich Ave #151 anytime since working VSP in the 90’s. Does Michigan Ave have foot posts anymore, last I recall Joe ‘the boss’ Griffin ended that position sometime in ‘99.
At any rate, there’s just too many annoying feral urchins to contain or chase to another block.
Whether banging plastic buckets or scamming with candy and flyers.
The crafty garden variety feral urchin knows how to spot a mark, especially the out-of-tower that is most likely not going to be back for any court appearance, should that rare occurrence ever happen.
Folks now need the left hand on the wheel and a .38 in the right or a Doberman in the back seat w/the window down.
But more importantly, wasn’t Rahm’s Stolen Cellphone Database ordinance suppose to be the end of cellaphone robbery?
Tagging the shop owner with a $1000-2000 fine.
Who’s checking on them? Where’s all that revenue the brain trust 48 Aldermen proposed?
We all know by now there’s no point in arresting anyone with a hope to get a felony approval (just DC activity points) and subsequent conviction with some jail time, even OEMC was instructed to defer the 9-1-1 call to 3-1-1 Callback for a report, which they hardly ever callback and thus the crime is killed.
The provider requires a case report for thefts, but the City makes it difficult to get one, so it keeps stats down.
To the public:
CookCo policy is a “property is replaceable” jurisdiction, just pay your deductible (again) or finance another $1000 phone over 2 years.
Any violence during or afterwards is the fault of the victims action and the intruder is not criminally liable.
Remember just keep your windows rolled up (or Dobie) and enough space in front to make a getaway.
Be polite and accepting.
Carry on.
Every cop arresting someone for carrying arms ought to think real hard about that...and who they benefit by doing so!
***
Please post your number so we can call you so you can determine who is carrying a gun illegally is a do-gooder or a bad guy. We’ll risk our jobs and let the good guy go for carrying weapon(s) illegally if you give us the word.
Just kidding, I don’t do proactive police work at all. You have the logic of a child.
Windows up and doors locked?
Really?
Blame the victim much?
Not every car has air conditioning that works.
The problem is the criminal scumbags,it is not innocent people who dare to travel with windows rolled down!
Out of Control Chicago Crime .....unless you sit in City Hall
We lost the city downtown fuck 9.5 fingers
Don’t they know Kevin Ryan is mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore?
He said downtown is safe and there will be consequences if you come downtown to wreak havoc.
Um... like what kind of consequences Kevin? Is Kimmie Foxx and her “restorative justice” onboard with you??
Anonymous Anonymous said...
And I should bring my family to visit Chicago this Summer, Why?
6/06/2018 02:40:00 AM
Pose that question to Rahm and his puppet FatHeadEd.
They’ll tell you everything is fine and safe and that you should come on down!
Please post your number so we can call you so you can determine who is carrying a gun illegally is a do-gooder or a bad guy. We’ll risk our jobs and let the good guy go for carrying weapon(s) illegally if you give us the word.
Just kidding, I don’t do proactive police work at all. You have the logic of a child.
6/06/2018 11:05:00 AM
Don't bother doing any "police work", you have no logic.
What Fagins field these flyer-boy crews? Exploiting "white guilt."
"Please sir if we get new football shoes we won't become dangerous criminals."
Yeah, right.
.......Is it just me, or are they ALL EFFING INSANE???
6/06/2018 10:01:00 AM
Some people have to be hit in the head with the brick, before they believe that a brick exists.
Some people have to be hit in the head with the brick, before they believe a brick hitting them in the head really hurts.
Some people have to be hit the head with the brick, before they believe that a brick will ever hit them in their head.
These are the some people who regularly get hit in their heads with bricks.
Does that mean these are the people who are insane, or just fucking stupid?
These are alleged flyer people. We don’t call them boys.
And the crimes they are alleged to have committed are fake crimes.
My people tell me downtown is perfectly safe during the weekends.
I would be downtown myself but I’m out of town from Friday afternoon until Monday afternoon every weekend.
R.E.
Different schemes...
Same old ghetto animals preying on Rahm's sheeple...
Next!!!!!
Tried to go to the Chicago Theatre today. I was turned away for having my off duty on me.
"Tried to go to the Chicago Theatre today. I was turned away for having my off duty on me."
How did they know you were armed?
Do they have medal detectors?
Or...
Did you ask for a police discount and tell them you have a gun???
Power Line Blog --
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/the-high-price-of-stale-grievances.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29
Is this a conversation that Eric Holder is afraid to have?
"And, to sum up, this question:
Progressives ought not dodge the question: Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?"
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/the-high-price-of-stale-grievances.php
...corrected URL for the Power Line post...
Seriously, roll up your windows and lock your doors. WTF.
Seriously, roll up your windows and lock your doors. WTF.
6/07/2018 10:03:00 AM
And zip up your trousers, ya bum!!!!!
Progressives ought not dodge the question: Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?"
6/06/2018 11:53:00 PM
Because many fall for the scam?
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