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Chicago thieves adopt 'crash-and-grab' tactics
apnews.myway ^
| Dec. 15, 2014
| DON BABWIN
Posted on 12/15/2014 5:36:35 PM PST by PROCON
CHICAGO (AP) All the burglars use the same audacious tactics: A vehicle crashes through a storefront in the wee hours and up to six people in dark clothing and ski masks pour out, grabbing whatever they can with the speed of a NASCAR pit crew.
Then the thieves dash out over the broken glass to a waiting getaway car.
Since September, at least a dozen "crash-and-grab" burglaries have been reported at retail businesses in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Some targeted high-end businesses, including a Neiman Marcus store on the famed Magnificent Mile. Others struck less affluent locations such as a pawn shop on the South Side and clothing stores on the far West Side.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: chicago; illinois; robbery
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To: Fungi
Knowing Chicago and Liberal Courts, Judges, Prosecutors, the one’s that got tear gassed while committing a robbery would file a lawsuit against the store and win.
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:24:45 PM PST
by
Engedi
To: PROCON
It’s a flash mob and rob with a car!
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:25:07 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: lee martell
Most of the big stores in Colorado (when I used to live there) and California have decorative solid posts placed strategically in front of doorways and large windows.
I'm thinking they're not just there for decoration.
To: PROCON
It is becoming standard design to put vehicle barriers in front of store doorways.
To: PROCON
Moats
with piranhas
... let’s see da homies cross that
To: PROCON
In a few months, this area will be a “food desert”.
Wonder why?/s
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:37:21 PM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
To: G Larry
be more precise.
replace folks with violent thugs
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:40:05 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Fungi
walter white m60 defense.
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:43:48 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: PROCON
Shoot the glass!
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:45:38 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: PROCON
It’s Chicago so there is no “legal” way to defend your property. Any defensive effort will be met with a boot on your neck while they legally empty your pockets.
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:50:50 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
To: doug from upland
LOL, the 1st “Diehard” was Willis’s best and what’s-his-name played a great, evil villain!
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:55:55 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
To: Vince Ferrer
Sad sign of the times, Vince.
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posted on
12/15/2014 6:58:33 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
To: proxy_user
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posted on
12/15/2014 7:59:11 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: PROCON
Alan Rickman....and he is a real libtard ....so his acting wasn’t a big stretch.
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posted on
12/15/2014 8:05:51 PM PST
by
xp38
To: proxy_user
I was thinking big nasty dogs attacking as they exit the vehicle.
To: PROCON
This kind of crap wouldn’t have happened during Al Capone’s day.
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posted on
12/16/2014 4:35:01 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
To: gaijin
whatever they can with the speed of a NASCAR pit crew.
These were obviously white crackers......
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posted on
12/16/2014 4:38:10 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”)
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