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Don't run out of gas overnight in Hammond:
Hammond, Indiana, will require gas stations within its city limits to close overnight because of violent crime. (Fox Chicago / Fox News)
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott voiced his support of the ordinance after a murder that occurred at a gas station after 2 a.m. in July.
"A lot of the crime taking place in our city happens after hours at gas stations. We've talked about this for a number of years," he said at the time. "It was time to put my foot down and say this is enough."
So...punish the law-abiding because the government can't/won't do anything about crime. This is also why Walgreens and other retail establishments have decided the only successful business model is the Service Merchandise method:
- everything is upstairs in a secured warehouse facility;
- you order what you want at the kiosk downstairs;
- you pay and get a redeemable ticket;
- everything comes down on a conveyor belt.
Just for reference, Service Merchandise went out of business in 2002.
You want food deserts and gas deserts? Because this is how you get food deserts and gas deserts.
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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It's Hammond.
Been a shithole packed full of shit for decades.
Think the west or south sides, excep it's the entire city.
Being Indiana, the Hammond murder rate is impressively low, with all the potential there.....
Stock tip:
Start investing heavily in Plexiglas®
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste." ~ Rahm (9.5) EMANUEL
Hammond I really punishing Chicago residents. I know that mayor has a hands on approach to crime. Police are allowed to be the police there.
Many years ago, when I was a little guy, my mother would take me shopping with her around Christmas time. The big stores had Santa stations and you could get gifts for 1-2 dollars, maybe less, I can't remember. The person in charge would yell to someone out of sight that there was a little girl/boy 6 years old and a package would slide down a chute.
Just think of all the crime they stopped back them.
Walmarts currently operating in China…..365. Walmarts currently operating on the south and west sides of Chicago…..0. What would Tu Pac say about this?
New business model - Doom Loop Bus Tours
Start downtown at midnight and drive a bus full of tourists through Garfield Park, Lawndale, then Englewood.
Kinda like a hay ride!
It's all part of the big plan. Soon all physical stores will slowly disappear, small business will be completely destroyed and only the mega corporations will run the show. Then when told to, they can shut down or limit the supply, and the people will be fucked. As they once said: "You will own nothing and you will be happy". It's best to test it in small towns/cities and this is a perfect example.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/ukrainian-village-residents-scared-frustrated-crime/
This community meeting looked like something out of an action movie where the police couldn’t handle the problem. Unfortunately there is no action hero we can send in to handle the problem. The problem on the Chicago Police Department is bad leadership. Just watch the news story and see two over promoted Gold Stars of the Command Staff. How would any sane person expect anyone to follow them.
Good members of the public are going to move away when crime is allowed to be unchecked by incompetent bosses. So sad!
So much for crime being down!
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-crime-wave-continues-major-crimes-up-34-this-year-after-33-increase-last-year-wirepoints/
You can thank the capones
The area over there has gone to crap. A guy I know lives a little south of there, 4 or 5 years ago he was talking about car jackings happening. Watch who you vote sheriff and judge is all I can say. The only deterrents are arrests and harsh sentencing. The state needs to take that city over, change out the governance of it and fast.
What are the demographics of Hammond IN?
Hmmm?
OMG! A crisis is about to unfold. How are the ghettoettes going to do their grocery shopping at the Kwik Stop gas, food and lottery outlet at 3am while dragging 3 toddlers under the age of 4 around? This is an outrage.
Liberal Braindead Madison WI Lawyer Ann Althouse, "It's amazing that stores — the kind you can physically enter and shop in — still exist."
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/08/in-recent-study-team-of-marketing.html
"You want food deserts and gas deserts? Because this is how you get food deserts and gas deserts." ---THIS!!!
An alternative would be to change the laws to make shoplifting a real felony level crime. rather than the law enforcement joke it is today,
AND Allow the Use of Force, INCLUDING Deadly Force by individuals to Prevent Theft of Personal Property.
People start getting serious time, and shoplifting goes way, way down. If no other reason than chronic shoplifters are locked up in prison. What was the statistic? 1/3 of NYC Shoplifting crimes were committed by 200 people?
Shoplifters steals the store merchandise owned by the store from the store. Or you can order it from Amazon, and the porch pirate steals YOUR purchases, AFTER you paid for it.
I worked at Service Merchandise as a kid! hahaha!
Bring back service merchandise! Loved that place back in the day!
I buy all my gas there.
Decades ago when I was in Germany in the Army, all gas stations were unattended after 6 PM. You were able to gas up with a credit card, no attendant on duty. I have told my family for years never to stop at a gas station after dark, in any town, but especially in Chicago. The criminal justice system has failed us.
Hammond has struggled for decades; demographics are mixed White/Latino/Black, but many at poverty level (take a look at NeighborhoodScout.com by city name). Money is moving out; hospital closed after promising Mayor McDermott to stay as a mini-ER (unworkable plan from the start). Oddly enough unemployment isn't driving the poverty; I did demographics thinking of moving out of IL to IN. South Shore extension is being built, other downtown redevelopment in progress, but when you still see homeless pushing shopping carts right past the Fed courthouse, it's not a good look. Hammond all but died during the '70's steel mill shutdowns; even joining Calumet City to tear down most of the "Strip" during the '90's along the border where hookers roamed in daylight didn't fix things. HPD is a fairly big PD compared to other towns its size, but the crime stats aren't good. There's worse places to live in Indiana (Gary, East Chicago) but it seems Hammond is just hanging on.
But I sure miss Service Merchandise. I liked looking at their catalogue when i was a kid
Are they going to Lower the business’ taxes, since can’t make the revenue.😂
Anonymous Anonymous said...
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/ukrainian-village-residents-scared-frustrated-crime/
This community meeting looked like something out of an action movie where the police couldn’t handle the problem. Unfortunately there is no action hero we can send in to handle the problem. The problem on the Chicago Police Department is bad leadership. Just watch the news story and see two over promoted Gold Stars of the Command Staff. How would any sane person expect anyone to follow them.
Good members of the public are going to move away when crime is allowed to be unchecked by incompetent bosses. So sad!
8/17/2023 02:28:00 AM
That video is telling! Talk about another overpaid scared coward that commander should be forced to resign, Snelling you want respect get rid of this cowardly pos what a waste of a huge salary/pension! Scared media would be there, get her some warm milk, put on her barbie PJ and back down to mommies basement! She will get zero respect!
Pencils make mistakes, spoons make governors fat, guns kill people (and folks), and now gas stations commit crime in the wee hours of the morning.
It’s people who order their Popeyes thru bulletproof glass, eat in restaurants without seats, drink 40 ounces of beer. It’s what they want, now they want it for you.
Biden calls white supremacy the greatest terrorism threat as 2024 race heats up,The reason people are not going downtown is because of Musuals doing what they do.
It’s well known the Hammond mayor supports and backs the police dept; however, holding down half the dept on a robbery or some bs at a gas station is a waste of resources and not fair to the citizens. Go get your your gas during the day like normal people.
I liked service merchandise and mcdades. That old school business is needed more.
America
Bring back McDaids
Silent SAM was great at Service Merchandise. Anyone remember when they would sell a brick of 22 LR for $6.99 limit 3.
Whelp you know what the radical democrats say "we ain't gonna fix this problem overnight cuz the problem did not happen overnight" So Hammond gas station will close at midnight but wait businesses need to close from 9 to 9 they say...so that's a start lmao. The camel nose under the tent, the frog in the slowly increased temp pot of boiling water as the sayings go until we reach the total control point of who the hell gave you permission to go outside, who?
The Marxist are determined to restrict law abiding citizens and businesses movements way beyond the planned covid plannned-emic times while keeping the flow of human trafficking and drugs and crime moving. Ten percent for the big guy.
By the way if you think crime is bad at transitional spaces at gas stations in chicago wait until the chicago mobs discover the dimly lit no security no security cameras no attendant electric vehicle charging stations with those near six figure cars. Now that's a rich opportunity environment those scholars have been searching for. You know those people have big $$$
Slowly law enforcement is being reformed into social workers. No more military like rank titles Sargent, Lieutenants, Captain, etc... Everyone was told not long ago the plan was 'the 21st century ruff and tumble image of cops is over" Police are being transformed slowly into therapist, and counsellors and gas lighters for the party.
How's that CIT psych brainwashing going? You get a gun stuck in your face ask the offender how they are feeling, did they hate their father? Defend yourself and face the kangaroo COPA show trial court at your own risk;
What do we need squad cars for if pursuits are forbidden? So what if four carjackers jump out of a car at least one with a long gun three others with full auto Glocks with switches, extended magazines the fat ass governor is protecting the people putting on a Hollywood style show signing new laws that the states attorney will not enforce,
Food, Gas, retail stores and business deserts but we have fentanyl oasis's, human trafficking sanctuary's, and zones of impunity tho A Marxist run utopia
Clearly nobody has anyone backbone whatsoever.
Instead people act like sheep complying and accepting this type of behaviors.....
"nonymous said...
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/ukrainian-village-residents-scared-frustrated-crime/
This community meeting looked like something out of an action movie where the police couldn’t handle the problem. Unfortunately there is no action hero we can send in to handle the problem. The problem on the Chicago Police Department is bad leadership. Just watch the news story and see two over promoted Gold Stars of the Command Staff. How would any sane person expect anyone to follow them.
Good members of the public are going to move away when crime is allowed to be unchecked by incompetent bosses. So sad!
8/17/2023 02:28:00 AM"
"Good members of the public are going to move away when crime is allowed to be unchecked by incompetent bosses. So sad!"
Now you're catching on!
Anonymous said...
Decades ago when I was in Germany in the Army, all gas stations were unattended after 6 PM. You were able to gas up with a credit card, no attendant on duty. I have told my family for years never to stop at a gas station after dark, in any town, but especially in Chicago. The criminal justice system has failed us.
8/17/2023 08:15:00 AM
You know what the rest of us call the the troops stationed in Germany, right?
Illinois will provide (Illinois taxpayer funds ) burial for migrant toddler who died in Marion county Illinois on the bus, at a located five hours and 300 miles away in Warsaw Indiana. Warsaw is in central Indiana half way between Indianapolis and South Bend
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois will provide for Thursday's funeral and burial for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas, officials said.
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Rachel Otwell, spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Human Services, confirmed the girl's name and said the Illinois Welcoming Center, a partially state-funded program, will cover burial costs for Jismary.
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The funeral service for the girl is scheduled for Thursday at a church in Warsaw, Indiana.
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Otwell declined to identify which of the 36 welcoming center locations would provide the service. Nor would she say from what country Jismary's family had emigrated.
"Given the sensitivity of this tragic event, and the way migrancy has been unfortunately politicized, (the department) does not believe it is appropriate to share certain details, such as the exact center that has supported the family," Otwell said.
Jismary died Thursday while the bus traveled Interstate 57 through Marion County, in southern Illinois, about 90 miles east of St. Louis. (and 300 miles away from warsaw IN.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrant-crisis-jismary-alejandra-barboza-gonzlez-migrants-texas/13662576/
Anyone calling attention to Illinois taxpayer money being spent out of state for illegal immigrant funerals must be sent on a guilt trip accused of politicising the migrants and called a racist xenophobe. You keep doing what works till it doesn't work any more. The gall off taxpayers wanting transparency on where their money is being spent who the hel do you think you people are?
"It was time I put my foot down and say this is enough"...
But you put your foot down and fucked over regular, normal, tax paying citizens.
Thanks a lot, asshole.
You couldn't put your foot down and stop crime?
Gas just over the Wisconsin border is $1/gal cheaper AND Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlet Mall has most all your name brand designer clothes with a lower state sales tax rate.Maximum sales tax in Racine co Wis. is 5.5%. Do the math
BTW you know that marion co. coroner in charge of the 4 y/o illegal immigrant death on the bus from texas...Move along nothing to see here...
MARION COUNTY CORONER SUED FOR FAILURE TO HONOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
https://www.x95radio.com/2020/10/09/marion-county-coroner-sued-for-failure-to-honor-freedom-of-information-act-request/
OT...
Caught on camera lying and claiming racism against the Police.
https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/step-out-of-the-car-videos-released-in-2020-grpd-traffic-stop-civil-rights-complaint-dismissed
Business Models
Jismary Alejandra Barboza Gonzalez the 3 y/o girl on the migrant bus that died of mysterious unknown causes in Salem Illinois will be transferred 300 miles out of state to Warsaw Indiana to the Our Lady of Guadeloupe and Titus funeral home funded by IDHS state-affiliated Illinois Welcoming Center.
Our Lady of Guadeloupe in Chicago 250 miles away is not good enough? We have no funeral homes or grave sites in Illinois? What is going on with this wasteful transfer of Illinois taxpayer money out of state. WHAT IS GOING ON? We've seen many innocent children from poor families die in Chicago and IDHS is not popping for out of state or in state funeral expenses. Equity? migrants are put on a pedestal Why?
Q; since the toxicology reports are still pending and should anyone GOD forbid need to exhume the body, is Illinois off the hook if the girl is buried in Indiana conspiracy theorist might ask.
You know what the rest of us call the the troops stationed in Germany, right?
8/17/2023 01:39:00 PM
Na und? Heroes, Role Models, the Few(er), amirite? Myself, I claim the title 'Fountain of Useless Current Knowledge'.
@ 10:32 AM: By the way if you think crime is bad at transitional spaces at gas stations in chicago wait until the chicago mobs discover the dimly lit no security no security cameras no attendant electric vehicle charging stations with those near six figure cars. Now that's a rich opportunity environment those scholars have been searching for. You know those people have big $$$
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Spot on! Gas stations now are nothing more than pit stops for criminals. A frequent site for crime scene tape. Just think you are at a gas station for 3-8 minutes at the most...and still it's the frequent scene of 911 calls, robberies and car jackings...or just plain dread (kinda like Brandon Johnson at a spelling-bee). Now picture an electric car charging station anywhere near Chicago or Hammond. Sitting vulnerable in a $65,000 and over vehicle for 30-45 minutes?! LOL...not a good plan Democrats.
17/2023 02:28:00 AM
That video is telling! Talk about another overpaid scared coward that commander should be forced to resign, Snelling you want respect get rid of this cowardly pos what a waste of a huge salary/pension! Scared media would be there, get her some warm milk, put on her barbie PJ and back down to mommies basement! She will get zero respect!
8/17/2023 09:00:00 AM
All you have to do is take a look at those two useless women promoted due to affirmative action and see they haven't a clue. Won't go in the meeting without help from that grossly overweight, over promoted, cow ass white shirt. Quick get them to a safe space. What a world. And these two dog asses win big in the pension lotto. So many reasons no one smart wants the job anymore. People crying about crime, I wonder who they voted for.
Rumors rumors…
Johnson is pulling for Ursetti to be first deputy which means it will happen. How the hell is a clueless wonder like Ursetti going to run the day to day of this department?? She’s an incredibly nice person but not what we need. Inspectors are coming back in a big way. McKenzie is in charge of them and uniforms and job response time are the first priority. Marxist and gang investigations to get beefed back up with about 75-100 going back to each unit. City wants to add spots of 40 sgts, 32 Lts and 119 detectives to the budget and is going to attempt to keep 100-125 recruits going through the academy each month in 2024. Squad policing prob going to the wayside finally in 2024. City is going to float 10 or 12 hour days in these renewed negotiations with the Fop. Interesting info…
You know what the rest of us call the the troops stationed in Germany, right?
Lucky.
(Blogger Patrick said...
Silent SAM was great at Service Merchandise. Anyone remember when they would sell a brick of 22 LR for $6.99 limit 3.
8/17/2023 10:28:00 AM)
Shit, I Bought a Mossberg 12ga. shotgun at Service Merch in Berwyn in 1985.
8/17/2023 07:19:00 PM
People crying about crime voted for the current asshole we have now and biden. So sit back, point, laugh and drive away. Fuck them, they deserve nothing but contempt. Cry me a river democRATS
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Liberal Braindead Madison WI Lawyer Ann Althouse, "It's amazing that stores — the kind you can physically enter and shop in — still exist."
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/08/in-recent-study-team-of-marketing.html
8/17/2023 06:57:00 AM
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Yes, sometimes Althouse is genuinely clueless. Other times she seems to be trolling her readers for additional comments/activity at her website. Her husband, Meade, seems to be the voice of reason in the household. Her blog attracts a lot of insightful commentators, such as Tina Trent, who advocates for crime victims.
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